POODLE PHILOSOPHY

On the Loss of a Best Friend

De: Tom McBride

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

This book is a memoir about life with a four-legged friend, and a lamentation for her premature passing. It is a tale of interlocking dramas: a dog owner’s devotion, but rooted in foolish denial; a scientific objectivity, but under attack by nagging grief; a recognition that a wonderful friend is now “at peace,” but angered by the glib way in which that very word is used; grateful for a great canine’s gifts—Christmas every day—but stunned by their fragility against the sudden ravages of time; certain that no mere dog’s death can be a tragedy but unable to shake the feeling that it must be. Here is traced all the paradoxes—of gall and gladness, thankfulness and trauma—that accompany the permanent loss of any loved one. It is a riveting story written by one left behind, with the heart in conflict with the head, and with itself.