First published in Great Britain 2019
by Egmont UK Ltd, The Yellow Building,
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Text and illustration copyright © Jim Smith 2019
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First e-book edition 2019
ISBN 978 1 4052 9248 1
Ebook ISBN 978 1 7803 1800 4
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Contents
What Nancy’s trainer was doing
Sausage dog o’clock
The idea of a dog
Battle of the badgerers
Best badger ever
Granny & Hodge
Badgering grannies
Half an hour later
Three milli-seconds later
Gladys Foo
Give a dog a name
Enter Mr Loser
Our little secret
Tutting Snoggles
The Adventure Playground
Nigel & Snoggy
Gooseberry Bush Cafe
Not the end of that
See through poo bag
Mr Gooseberry
Evening poo
Barry Loser’s lonely Sunday
Mogden Cinema
Disaster Strikes!
Actual real life disaster strikes
Lost dog
Lost Dog posters
Weirdo question
Mogden Home for Old Grannies and Grandads
The OAP disco
Mr Mildew’s terrible idea
Chatting up a granny
Dancing with a granny
The Doggy Walk Wiggle
About the author and drawer
As far back as I can remember, I’ve always wanted a sausage dog. They’re like two of my favourite things squidged together - a sausage and a dog!
Here are some other pets I’ve always wanted:
I don’t think any of those exist though. If I did get a sausage dog I’d teach it some amazekeel tricks:
But first I’ve got to badger my mum about it non-stop until she buys me one. Which is what this story is about.
It all started a couple of weeks ago when I saw a poster stuck to a lamp post on Mogden High Street. The poster said:
‘Look, Mum!’ I said, pointing at the poster. We were walking home from school, which is something I usually do with my best friends Bunky and Nancy, except this time my mum had dragged me into Mogden Town to do some boring old shopping instead.
She stopped pushing the buggy, which had my little