His early encounters with a variety of animals – and their equally diverse owners – provide a series of hugely entertaining snapshots of pet ownership and care in the UK. Denis tells it like it was – the ups and the downs, the successes and the failures, the straightforward assignments and the bizarre, the pleasure and, on occasions, the pain of caring for other people's much-loved pets. Humour binds it all together. The book is illustrated throughout in full colour with the delightful cartoon images of Dave Ball