A Very Dog Interview

My dog Ruthie talks to Peter, the dog behind Kelly Conaboy’s delightful, funny, and sweet “The Particulars Of Peter.”

When I saw that Kelly Conaboy, the genius behind classics like Do Men Enter Bathtubs on Hands and Knees So Their Balls Hit the Water Last? and The Vast Bay Leaf Conspiracy, had completed a book about dogs, I was very excited. She has a way of being funny that’s just not like anyone else, I would describe it but you should just read “The Particulars of Peter” and see for yourself. I asked Ruthie if she would like to interview Conaboy’s dog Peter to get an inside look. Ruthie said yes, because she is a good dog.

Ruthie: Welcome, Peter. My mom loved this book. She chortled a lot while reading.

Peter: I am happy about that.

Ruthie: Now, I wonder, do you think of Kelly Conaboy as being your mom? I realize some people find naming the relationship between dog and person as mom/child annoying and I certainly respect that. I don’t think that my mom (Sarah, the author of this blog) was Merle’s mom, the dog she had before me and for a little while at the same time as me. They were more like pals. But my mom is my mom. Anyway how do you think of Kelly Conaboy author of a whole book about you that my mom read in one day, alternately laughing out loud…