of "blogging dogs", each with a radically different personality. Do you have a favorite character in Things Your Dog Doesn't Want You to Know? Who and why? I think writers, being naturally lazy, love characters that are easy to write.  From that viewpoint, Axelrod and Tinkerbell are total favorites.  With Axelrod, we got to write a lot of dumb dog jokes.  And Tinkerbell turned out to be the snottiest, most superior animal on the planet, which somehow came easy to us, too. When we wanted to get sentimental and take the long view about what dogs and humans mean to each other, we turned to Sophie, our old soul.  Gabby was a late addition to the pack, when we found we were missing the young voice of a self-obsessed girl. Our biggest challenge was getting the tone right.  We wanted something funny but a little edgy.  Emotional now and then, but not too sentimental.  And then each dog has a different style and a different comprehension of the world.  Orson, our fat bulldog, thinks of everything as it relates to food.  Axelrod barely knows his own name, while Moonbeam, our rescue mutt, knows enough of pop culture to make fun of her human. Is anything in your book based on real life experiences or purely all imagination? We got a lot of our ideas from observing how people interact with their dogs.  For example, Jeff was in an upscale boutique in Manhattan and saw a woman shopping for handbags.  She