If You Like Movies with Dogs Then Add These To Your TBR!

Who doesn’t love a good story about dogs? If you’re a dog lover like Maude Garrett, then anything to do with dogs will warm your heart. The new film Strays is out this weekend and it has a new spin on what goes on in the mind of a dog.

Moreover, it focuses on owners who take their dogs for granted or treat them horribly. The dogs in the film get revenge on one owner to get some justice and live how they want. It is an R-rated comedy, but has the most accurate depiction of what dogs would do in their spare time.

 

An Abandoned dog teams up with other strays to get revenge on his former owner. On their journey, they find adventure and some friends along the way. They discover that there is so much more than being a pet and they find their calling.


If you plan on watching Strays or need a good book to pick up centring on a dog, then here are the five books we recommend!

The Pack by Les Turner

In the small farming town of Brereton in the Australian Snowy River Mountains, something is killing the livestock in the dead of the night.

Sydney journalist, Beth Margraves, is at a turning point in her career when she is asked to cover the Brereton mystery for the newspaper.

Beth is reluctant to return to a small town she left soon after high school leaving behind her widowed Father, and an unanswered marriage proposal from her boyfriend.

Is the town really being terrorized by a pack of dogs hiding in the national park that surrounds it or something far worse?


Outside a peaceful town in central Maine, a monster is waiting. Cujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, the best friend Brett Camber ever had. One day, Cujo chases a rabbit into a cave inhabited by sick bats and emerges as something new altogether.

Meanwhile, Vic and Donna Trenton, and their young son Tad, move to Maine. They are seeking peace and quiet, but life in a small town is not what it seems.

As Tad tries to fend off the terror that comes to him at night from his bedroom closet, and as Vic and donna face their own nightmare of a marriage on the rocks, there is no way they can know that a monster, infinitely sinister, waits in the daylight.


Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

Set in the rough wilderness of early frontier Texas, Old Yeller is the timeless tale of a boy left in charge of his family’s farm, and the big yellow dog who helps him with his many responsibilities.


Watchers by Dean Koontz

They escape from a secret government: two mutant creatures, both changed utterly from the animals they once were. And no one who encounters them will ever be the same again:

A lonely widower; a ruthless assassin; a beautiful woman; a government agent.

Drawn together in a deadly hunt, all four ae inexorably propelled towards a confrontation with an evil beyond human imagining.


The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.

When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanting dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dan traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and bu the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building.

 

Have you read any of the books listed above? If you have, let us know which one is your favourite! If you have any recommendations drop them in the comments below.

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