*Dog Lover's Trivia* by Mike Darton is a quirky dive into the world of canine curiosities. The book covers a broad spectrum of dog-related facts, from the origins of dog names to the intriguing history of Lassie and Rin Tin Tin. It offers a blend of the essential, the trivial, and the downright bizarre—like the story of dogs on the Titanic.

However, the charm is diminished by a few dated elements, such as statistics from 2007 and the absence of photographs in favor of illustrations. Despite this, the book remains a fun and easy read, filled with interesting tidbits that will surely spark conversations and curiosity.

Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for the opportunity to review a temporary digital ARC in exchange for an unbiased review.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I learned some facts that I didn't already know! This is great for a trivia night with friends too!

I thought this would be a fun read and geared towards kids, but it is written more for adults in an Encyclopedia type format, which affected my enjoyment of it.

It includes a lot of random facts including the history of Lassie and Rin Tin Tin, Aesop's fables, statistics on dog bites, dog diseases, breeds that have gone extinct, dogs on the Titanic and in the Bible, and so much more. If "dog" is in the name, you will most likely see it mentioned in this book.

Dog Lover's Trivia is just as the title describes, lots of trivia about dogs. In no apparent order it covers many things like: average pups per breed, several Aesop's Fables featuring dogs, why the poodle haircut, and origins or work of specific breeds. This is a fun and easy read but some of the information is dated. I don't know why I would want to know the most common dog names in 2005 or most popular breeds in 2006. This book was originally released in 2009 and a few of those type of categories could easily be updated or eliminated. I think most disappointing for me is there are no photos of dogs in the book. With the cute dog on the cover I thought there would be photos and not drawings in the book. (I know it adds to the cost of printing.) Thank you to the NetGalley and Quarto Publishing for a temporary ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Back in the day charity shop shelves in the UK were stuffed with copies of Schott's Miscellany and all the thousands of offshoot volumes. I loved them, but they were hardly the kind of thing to leave on your shelves until the non-existent day you re-read them, and found them out of date. But the series lacked specific volumes concerning the other members of the household, and hence there were a "Sock's Feline Miscellany" and a "Spott's Canine" variant – both made by someone else, and both of which now retitled and brought to us afresh. That's as "afresh" as something containing 2006 doggy ownership data could be...

The pair of volumes at hand certainly keep the aesthetic and ethics of the originals, in that they are quite densely typeset, serious forms of trivia book. Nothing is over a full side, if that, and the gallimaufry of content comes at you with no structure – the subjects changing twice a page on average in very random fashion. One spread here covers the anatomy of the dog (complete with the etymology of a croupier, quite marvellously), the Iditarod race, Rin Tin Tin's origins as a knitted billet-doux, and more.

That more includes a couple of cut and pastes, or reversals, of the data as featured in the cat volume, but we can forgive that in a book this rich and fun to read. It may well be the case that the entity most edified by this is the dog-lover's bathroom windowsill, but I can't really object to my time spent perusing either of these volumes.

I just love this dog lover’s trivia book. It has so many different types of dog facts that I was very impressed with it. It kept me entertained for a long while, enjoying all of the things I’d never seen or known about before. Being a total dog lover, it was the perfect thing for me to dive into. Very informative, but I don’t think I’ll be able to memorize it all if I ever get into a match of trivia on dogs one day. Besides, some of the information is out of date by many years. It could use a good updating. Advance electronic review copy was provided by NetGalley, author Mike Darton, and the publisher.

This was a fun easy read and gave some interesting trivia facts about dogs which I would never have thought of.

I was given an advance copy by the publishers and netgalley but the review is entirely my own

I'm a dog lover and that's why this book caught my eye. This book is a quick read and is full of very random trivia about dogs. I found most of it interesting.

The book was originally published in 2009 and some of the stats, like popular dog names, are from 2007. It would have been nice if they had updated these stats to current times rather than 14 year old information as it's probably no longer relevant. In addition, there are no sources for the stats so who knows if the information is true (the couple of things I Googled were correct) and how dated it is.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this book in exchange for an honest review.
As a dog lover, this book immediately caught my attention. Who can resist a cover with an adorable, smiling dog.
This book is a bit dated in its statistics and would've been more interesting if it had up-to-date information. Despite that, there are some fun and interesting bits of trivia.