Ned is an overweight Corgi (Welsh Pembroke, that is) who lives at the top of a fifth-floor walk-up in Manhattan’s East Village. His family includes Carol and Richard and their eleven-year-old daughter, Katie. Ned is a philosophic canine whose thoughts often reflect upon human folly. He encounters humans and animals on travels around the Village (on the end of a leash to be sure). He interacts with his family and animals in the building: a black cat on the first floor, a dog on the fourth floor and a mouse in his apartment (number nine). Ned also has a country life when he goes with his family to their old farmhouse in northern Connecticut. There he encounters neighbors, farm animals and “nature in the raw”. Ned is generous-spirited. He is a very sympathetic character who appeals to a reader’s intellect, emotions and sense of humor.

Ned’s “boss”, a good-hearted somewhat naïve man with a beard.

    Carol

A no nonsense woman who has reservations about and possible allergic reactions to Ned coupled with occasional irresistible impulses of affection.

Ned

Richard

The spirited, smart, eleven year old daughter of Carol and Richard.

Katie