I made a decision when I started the second book, which was Jumanji, that as long as I kept on doing books I would provide the dog a cameo appearance. He unfortunately passed away - he had an accident, so he didn’t live that long. I told him, “Gee, that’s such an ordinary dog, you should get something a little more interesting, a little more exotic.” And he said, “Like what?” And I said, “You should get a bull terrier.” I sold him on the idea, and I used the dog that he had acquired as my model for the dog in The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. My brother-in-law was visiting around that time, and he told me that he was about to acquire a golden retriever. I found them peculiar looking and charming in an idiosyncratic sort of way, but did not have access to one. When I wrote my first book, I had in mind that the story would include a dog, and the dog I had in mind was a bull terrier. Why did you put that bull terrier in all of your books? Well, that’s a bull terrier, and that’s probably more dog than I can handle at my age. So not like the one that you have in all of your books.
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