Posted on 12/17/2007 2:53:44 PM PST by pissant
(CNSNews.com) - "Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish," by best-selling author and talk-radio host Mark Levin, tells the joyful and painful story of a dog, Sprite, who is adopted from an animal shelter into the Levin family, becomes a loving and happy member of that family, and then succumbs to illness and has to be put down. It is a touching story that has affected countless people.
In an exclusive video-taped interview with Cybercast News Service Editor-in-Chief Terry Jeffrey, Levin talks about his book, his dog Sprite, and why this "dog lover's story" is really a book about humanity because, as Levin says, "In the end, we humans are the lucky ones."
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I am not questioning his sentiments about dogs — I have really missed a few departed dogs in my life — but when I hear him talking about the devastation of a loss of a dog, I feel for the listeners who have lost human children, and suspect they might take slight offense.
I'm sure Mark doesn't miss you--but I'd guestimate that most of his listeners are pet lovers, and have lived through the experience.
We are dog lovers who just put down our 13-year-old Yorkie last year. So we are attuned to his message. It’s an ok book-—but all dog books are the same: the pet dies in the end.
I just lost my cat last several months ago. My daughter loved that cat so much. We told her he went to Kitty Heaven, buried him in the back yard and told her we’d get a new one soon. That’s about the extent of my sentimentality towards pets.
Mark’s book is definitely not boring. But I suppose if you’re not a pet lover you might find it —and discussion about it— so. Your loss.
Pets are dandy. I just don’t put some greater significance to dogs over parrots, turtles, cats or pot bellied pigs. If the book was about one of those instead of a dog, it would sell about 6 copies.
You posted this just to take a shot pissant?
It’s been irratating me on the radio, then I ran across the article looking up Terry jeffrey. I can’t escape it. LOL
It’s unfortunate that you have obviously never experienced the profound and completely unfettered love of a dog, else you would be less judgemental and more accepting of the genuine grief that dog lovers experience after 10-15 years of receipt of that love.
That said, I think these folks who waste their resources on doggy therapists, pet funerals, beauty parlors, etc. are WAY over the top in their misplaced affections. To write a book about their adventures is fine, I can choose not to read it. I love my dogs, and my cat, but to belabor the rest of the world with my loss when one dies is unnecessary and wholly selfish.
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