A Coyote in the House, by Elmore Leonard

I read this on the recommendation of my son, who thought it was good.

It's a YA book that has a coyote moving into the house of a movie star, a dog. The owners of the dog think he's a stray. They also have a show dog who has won loads of awards.

The premise is pretty much that one shouldn't judge others by what one thinks one knows about "other people." Not all coyotes are the same, and neither are all show dogs or "hero dogs." A subtext is that people are remarkably stupid about animals.

A nice story, took me about 2 hours to read it. The illustrations are nice, too.