“The face of a golden retriever feels like home.” In hot, sleepy August we all want to vacation and get away from petty schedules. We need to find a place that feels more like home than our mundane routines. In author David Rosenfelt’s view, that sense of home could be adopted, soft-eyed, warm, covered with golden fur, pushing you off the bed, and taking up your recliner while you try not to disturb its loud, snoring slumbers. His nonfiction book Dogtripping: 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers and 3 RVs on Our Canine Cross-Country Adventure and detective novel Hounded display not only comic and lighthearted writing, but also a heartfelt dedication to canine comfort and well-being in a world that can treat them as a disposable piece of trash. Rosenfelt and his wife Debbie Myers fell in love with a golden retriever named Tara, who died in their arms when they had to put her down. In her honor, they started a California rescue organization called the Tara Foundation in the 1990s, which rescued lots of older, bigger dogs from overloaded California shelters. While it gave an automatic priority to any golden mixes in honor of the beloved Tara, it took all sorts of dogs that shelters considered automatic euthanasia prospects. Rosenfelt and Myers began to accumulate a humorously huge collection of older dogs that they refused to leave in high-kill shelters. In Dogtripping, Rosenfelt, a refugee from a Hollywood marketing and TV writing career, pens a memoir of the dogs they placed in homes and kept for themselves. This personal narrative of the dogs they have loved intertwines with an account of The Trip, their monumental decision to transport their family of 25 California dogs to a home in Maine, where the dogs would have a lake and lots of…