Spirit Dogs: Heroes In Heaven

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Summary: A meaningful and memorable story.
Review: Susan paints a picture of the bravery and loyalty of man's best friend with love and understanding. She makes a heartwarming statment about the strength of the connection between man and dog, offering a helpful lesson to those who have suffered a loss about how to allow their pet to live on even after his or her life has ended. I recommend it to anyone who deeply loves their animal.

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Summary: This is a book of warm and wise consolation with great art.
Review: To read Spirit Dogs is to talk with your best friend at one of the worst times in your life: I lost both my cat and dog within the last six months--accident and wandering away--and the comfort I got from this book helped me through those rough times. You hear this person talking to you. Susan Kelleher has a way of writing that is so clear and straightforward that it seems she is sitting in a chair in the living room and helping you deal with the fact that your best friend has left you, but that the love is still there, the love that you got from your pet and the love you still feel. And it is alright to have those feelings What really helped me, too, were the drawings in the book. I had never seen any of Lawrence's work before, but I would like to get a hold of some. The pictures are real. They look like dogs I've had and ones I've seen in the neighborhood. What counted for me, though, was when I read the book and got to one of the drawings, it just made me feel how real the book is and how much it seemed as though Kelleher knew what it was that I was going through.