However, other attempts to change things up are a bit more of a stretch and don’t work as well. The few jokes where Dog discovers Siri are amusing enough, especially the one where he tried to text using voice control and the Skype conversations between BatDog and CatCat are also a novel touch and provide additional humour and the pictures and the “Wanted” poster are good fun, too.
Some of these changes work quite nicely, such as Dog’s use of the reminder functions on his new phone. In an attempt to not make this book a copy of the first one, they’ve changed things up a little. However, as a dog’s interests are limited to eating everything they can, peeing on anything they find, breaking and burying things and, apparently, feeling ambivalent towards his owner, depending on the circumstances and hating his owner’s girlfriend and postman, the subject matter is a little limited. The basic idea remains very good, consisting of the texts a dog and an owner might exchange should the latter teach the former to text. Textier.” doesn’t inspire confidence that this will be any better put together than usual. Sadly, such sequels aren’t always well thought out and the tag-line “Bigger. Whilst the original “Texts From Dog” book might not have been entirely successful in terms of how the idea translated into the format, any humour book that has sufficient source material and performs well enough in sales terms is always likely to spawn a sequel.
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