All the Dogs I've Loved Before is a well-illustrated memoire of the author's experiences with a variety of dogs over the course of her long life. Each dog's unique personality and winning or frustrating ways is presented with love, humor, and sometimes sadness and regret. Chows, Norwegian elkhounds, mixed breeds, a Weimaraner, a Chihuahua, a Scottish terrier, a white German shepherd, Maltese, a Pekinese, blue tick hounds, cocker spaniels, an English springer spaniel, a basset hound, a boxer, an Italian greyhound, and a corgi-blue heeler mix bound across the pages of this book. The account of life with the dogs is brutally honest. The reader can expect to be touched with love, laughter, sadness, and even outrage.