Category: Pets/Pet Care Publisher: Rebecca Stroud
ISBN-10: B004M191IA
Type: Fiction
Pages: 10
Copyright: February 2011
Three short dog tales that will make you cry...then make you smile.
Gabriel is a story of love lost and love found; Priorities is a story of rebirth; Eyes Wide Shut is a story of redemption. All three stories revolve around dogs...and all three stories have magical endings.
Excerpt
EXCERPT (from Gabriel):
"Ya know, John, I've been thinking. Maybe you should get a dog."
Christ. A dog. Just what I need. Another perfect soul that I can get attached to, love more than life itself, then have it die on me, too.
"No, thanks, Bud. I'm doing okay. Just going to take some time."
Unfortunately, I have to pay for my meager nutrients so I find myself face-to-face with him while he rings up my bill.
"Really, John. Just listen for a minute. Please." Bud's entire demeanor changes in a heartbeat as he relates the story of a dog that saved his family from perishing in a house-fire. A dog, who shortly thereafter, was relinquished to the local shelter because his owners were getting divorced. A dog whose repayment for giving life was most likely going to be death as he was already nine-years-old.
So, as Bud recounted this sad tale, I did. Listen that is. Because something in the telling struck a familiar chord. Tugging at me, I think it was the fact that the dog and I were a lot alike. Through no fault of my own, I had lost the light of my life. Ditto for the dog. Then came the clincher...
I’ve encountered many non-human creatures on my life’s journey.
I have found each and every one of these animals to be a unique and wondrous being.
Animals have truly brought fullness to my life. Some of them have also brought de
