Katt Loves Dogg is a Children's novel by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein. It's the sequel to Katt vs. Dogg.
Oscar and Molly still remain the closest of friends after their time in the woods together, and now put on regular shows at the welcome centre of Western Frontier Park meant to promote unity between their two species. Sadly, the rest of their species hasn't followed their lead. If anything, they're actually kind of fed up with it. As a result, much of their families leave and the Park ranger is forced to cancel all their future shows, much to the two's disappointment. Their families, on the other hand, couldn't be gladder to be done with it, and with each other, especially since, of all the katts and doggs in the world, no two families of the two species hate each other more than the Montahughs (Oscar's family) and the Hissletons (Molly's family).
Since more katts and doggs are now camping at the Eastern Wilderness Reserve, which actively segregates all species into their own sectors, Oscar's and Molly's families are going camping there too... on the same week, no less. The Montahughs will be getting back to their dogg roots, and the Hissleton's are subjecting Molly's cousin Violet to a week of roughing it in the hopes of getting her over her crush on some Tom Katt she apparently met.
Actually, that last bit isn't true, and it's complicated things plenty for Oscar and Molly.
That "Tom Katt" Violet's crushing on, it's actually Oscar's cousin Romaldo, who's fallen head-over-heels in love with Violet. Romaldo told Oscar in hopes of getting him to deliver a love note that he wrote, which he decided to do himself when Oscar refused. As a result, now he's lost in the reserve somewhere, and Violet is probably with him due to being missing from her family's sector as well. One could only imagine the fallout of their family's finding them together.
So, while the two families start their hunt, Oscar and Molly decide they need to team up again to find them before any of their relatives do and learn of their secret.
The book was published on December 13th, 2021.
Katt Loves Dogg contains examples of:
- Ascended Extra: A Polar Bear named Momsy, who made a small appearance in the last book, returns with a bigger role in this book.
- Dance Party Ending: The epilogue of the book takes place at the All Animals Ball, where a lot of interspecies couples are seen dancing, except for Oscar and Molly, who simply watch from their thrones (they were crowned king and queen of the ball).
- "Eureka!" Moment: Oscar has one regarding Romaldo's love poem to Violet. He realizes the first letter of each line spells the secret message "Meet Me At The Giant Stones".
- Feuding Families: It's revealed in this book that, as much as katts and doggs hate each other, the hate shared between the Montahughs (Oscar's family) and the Hissletons (Molly's family) is the strongest of it all.
- Game Show Host: The ferret reporter from the first book, now named Francine, returns as the host of a popular game show called “Furry Family Feud.”
- Grumpy Old Man: Oscar's Grandpa Max, who always complains and never smiles. Oscar's cousin Buster tells him that he heard from a distant relative named Chomper that Grandpa Max had his heart broken several years ago. It turns out the one to break his heart was Molly’s Grandmother.
- Hidden Depths: Oscar and Molly end up learning that their cousins aren't the airheads they thought they were.
- Romaldo wants to become an architect, and knows quite a bit about building design, which proves invaluable when constructing a dam to stop a tidal wave from flooding the Eastern Wilderness Reserve. The acting thing? Well, he apparently hears tell that architects are arty.
- Violet wants to become a doctor, despite the air-headed behaviour she puts on. Molly learns Violet's as knowledgeable about medicine as Molly's mother, a nurse, is.
- Inevitable Waterfall: When Oscar finds himself being dragged along the rapids of the river between the katt and dogg sectors, he nearly gets dropped over a waterfall. Molly manages to save him before he does, though.
- Meaningful Name: Molly's grandmother wants Violet to marry Kattsburg's most eligible bachelor Phineas Fat, who is indeed very fat himself.
- Rhino Rampage: Oscar and Molly end up being chased by a rhinoceros, which tips them off that they're not in their territory.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend: Both Oscar and Molly deny being a couple when anyone insinuates that they are.
- Signs of Disrepair: When the Hissletons reach the Eastern Nature Reserve, they see the sign is so old that many of the letters have fallen off, so it now reads "Eat Wild Erve"
- Smelly Skunk: In chapter 27, Oscar and Molly cross over into the skunk zone, and get sprayed at on all sides by annoyed skunks who want them gone.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Despite Oscar and Molly becoming friends over their shared experience of being lost in the woods, the rest of their kind utterly refuses to follow suit. Two people from opposite sides of a feud becoming friends, and the whole thing becoming a media hit, won't undo generations of unbigoted hatred.
- Whole-Plot Reference: The entire plot of this book is a complete retelling of Romeo and Juliet.
