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THE BRINDLE BEAUTY OF BRANDO
September 18th, 2007 under dogs, The Enthusiast, BOOKS

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This soulful creature is Brando, Ken Foster’s dog. I’m dying to read this book!

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Comment from mickey kramer  September 28, 2007, 2:31 pm

Cathleen,

We (Tilly and I) met you at the reading in Central Park. Hope all’s well…

I’m so glad I checked your website because I saw Ken Foster read his other book a bit over a year ago (bought 3 copies) on the Lower East Side, and am excited to see/read his new one. And saw on his blog that he’ll be at B & N Astor Place in a month… He’s great champion of the pit bull…

Comment from Cathleen Schine  September 28, 2007, 10:21 pm

Hello Mickey! All is well here. I haven’t read Ken’s earlier book yet. But doesn’t Brando have a compelling face? You sent me a picture of Tilly, didn’t you? Can you send it again? I want to post it. I met a very charming young pit bull the other evening when I was walking Hector. But then the next night I saw a friend who has a cairn, like Hector, and she was very upset because a young pit bull in the dog run took her dog in its mouth and started shaking him. She panicked and hit the pit with her cell phone until he dropped her dog. Then the owner got mad at her for hitting his dog. I found myself saying Well, pit bulls have a bad reputation and people freak out when they’re just playing etc.,.. But I know how scary it is when a big dog goes after your little dog, and you feel like a pit bull could accidently chomp your dog in half… so I was also very sympathetic to her. I hate dog-run disputes. It’s worse than when your kid bites another kid in the sandbox…

Comment from mickey kramer  October 4, 2007, 8:53 am

I’d love to re-send Tilly’s picture; I don’t know how to do it here, and can’t find your email address, so please email me (m.d.kramer@elsevier.com) and I’ll reply w/ her pic(s)…

There are so many pit mixes in my UES neighborhood- 4-5 on my block and they are all sweeties and all but one rescued frmo various shelters…

Comment from Cathleen Schine  October 4, 2007, 5:30 pm

There are a lot of sweetheart pit mixes on this side of town, too. I’m very, very fond of them, as you can tell from the book. It’s weird how different breeds get different reputations in different periods. When I was growing up, there was Rin Tin Tin, but German Shepherds were also considered the really scary, vicious dogs of the time. I love German Shepherds, too. During the first world war, the English and Americans called them Alsatians.

Comment from mickey kramer  October 30, 2007, 10:22 am

I went to Ken Foster’s reading last week… bought the book, and they handed out great 5 x 7 cards with a photo of the book cvoer and a separate picture of Brando, and the saying about the pics, read, “A dog can change a person’s life” very sweet- have it here at work…

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