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A Memoir of Spirit, Smarts, and Love
出版High Drive Press, 2025-05-05
主題Biography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsPets / GeneralReligion / Spirituality
ISBN9798998706004
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bA1b0QEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋One Sunday when she was a child, Elisabeth Rose asked her pastor why animals don't go to heaven. He said, "They don't have souls." She challenged him, "How do you know?" He said, "Because they can't reason." "Does that mean," she asked, "that severely brain-damaged people don't have souls either?" "Of course they do!" he said, and turned his back. This pivotal confrontation launched Rose on a lifelong quest to explore the inner lives of the animals she loved. Did they really think, feel, and behave in ways that add up to a consciousness similar to her own or was that just wishful thinking? Did they have what some would call souls? Long before the parrot Alex, the border collie Chaser, and the sheepadoodle Bunny wowed the world with their smarts, Elisabeth Rose was talking with animals. Originally published under the title For the Love of a Dog in 2001, Soul Dog tells the story of a woman who sets out to prove her pastor wrong. As she plunges into conversations with dogs, birds, and horses, Rose's journey unfolds with humor and riveting emotional intensity. Drawn to a timid border collie puppy named Kierney, Rose brings her home and loves her like a child. Although she racks up a stunning vocabulary, Kierney also suffers pathological fears and terrifying lapses of sanity. Is Rose's beloved Kierney, as vets and trainers claim, really crazy, criminal, irredeemable? When Rose learns she's pregnant with her first child, the clock starts ticking, and she must fight to save Kierney's life. "An absorbing blend of tension and passion, firmly tethered to reality," writes journalist and AKC writer, Ranny Green. "It's must reading for anyone who has ever been owned by a dog." Soul Dog is a "stunning memoir . . . highly recommended," writes Library Journal. It's a love song to the worth and dignity of all animal life. Drawn with passion, insight, and reckless love, the characters of Soul Dog gallop off the page and into the reader's heart. Will Kierney be saved from her demons in time-and if so, then what?