My Dog Tulip An absolutely essential thing to say about this memoir before I talk about it is that JR Ackerley is an older British man living in a society that has a different set of values about dogs than we do now. Two points: they didn’t pick up their dogs’ poop. The didn’t really ever get their dogs fixed. Both of these come up in detail. He absolutely describes his dog going into heat with some specific and physical detail and it is off-putting. […]