Von Kindern und jungen Hunden

A collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The work blends gentle satire and affection to observe human foibles through vignettes of animals—especially dogs—and the quirky adults around them, with a particular eye for the art world and petty bourgeois manners. The opening of the book tells the tale of Flocki, a pug–poodle cross whose cunning appetite and perpetual grubbiness