Dogs. Stand up to them and you might get your head ripped off. Keep running away and you might as well be dead. Two teenage boys and their fathers; united by a dog - divided by a dog. Love and hate. There's no middle ground here. Dogs goes for the jugular. 'Dogs is knockdown, get up. It's about growing up male - the hurts, the hates. It's about accepting the otherness of the other. Not since Kes has a novel got it right so succinctly. Mr Condon, I am jealous.' - Glyn Parry.