Three Men in a Boat Boat" is how undated it appears to modern readers – the jokes have been praised as fresh and witty. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator Jerome K. Jerome) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior manager at Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom Jerome often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog". The trip is
Who Gets the Dog? would be placed. The experts were Dr. Dean Graulich, a veterinarian; Tamar Geller, a professional dog behaviorist; and Merrill Markoe, a humorist/ dog lover. Who Gets the Dog? Who Gets the Dog? is a television show on Animal Planet in which three couples would compete for a chance to adopt a dog, rescued by the producers of the show from a shelter. Toward that end, each couple would take the dog home for a night and their experiences would be made into a video. The show was hosted by Dorothea Coelho who was joined by a panel of three "experts"