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| Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish | 
 enlarge | Author: Mark R. Levin
Publisher: Pocket Books
Category: Book
List Price: $22.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  352 reviews
Sales Rank: 937
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 1416559132
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.70929
EAN: 9781416559139
ASIN: 1416559132
Publication Date: November 6, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 I had to write I too am a rescuer November 7, 2007
17 out of 23 found this review helpful
I have not read the book yet, but from the interviews with Mark I know I can relate.
Faithful Friend
God summoned a beast from the field and he said......
I endow you with the instincts uncommon to other beasts:
faithfulness, devotion and understanding surpassing those of man himself.
Lest it impair your understanding you are denied the power of words...
Speak to your master only with your mind and through honest eyes.
So be silent, and a friend to man...
This shall be your destiny and your immortality."
So spake the Lord
And the dog heard and was content.
Beautiful, Heartwarming, and Heartbreaking November 7, 2007
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
My wife read this book in one evening; she went through a box or so of tissues in the process. I found it a little harder to get through, my dog died in my arms a number of years ago and this story brings back memories good and bad. This is a beautiful story of what these lovely creatures mean to us, I highly recommend it to anyone who loves dogs or is thinking about bringing a dog into their life.
Animals Steal Our Hearts November 7, 2007
27 out of 33 found this review helpful
I loved this wonderful book. The writing is so genuine, that I had to put the book down a few times because it reduced me to tears. It captures the pure joy that animals bring into our lives and the helplessness that we feel at their passing. I loved the American Indian lore recounted in an email from Mark Dean. I paraphrase, once man and animals communicated as equals. A crack appeared in the earth separating animals from men. The crack continued to grow and just before it became too wide the dog alone jumped so the he could stay with man, that, says it all!
Tough to read, but a must read for animal lovers November 6, 2007
26 out of 31 found this review helpful
I received Mark Levin's book, "Rescuing Sprite" this evening. I didn't put it down until I finished it at 9PM.
I'm a big fan of Levin's radio show and I enjoyed his first book "Men in Black", but this book is in no way about politics. As an animal lover who's lost one cat and currently has another, I can certainly appreciate Levin's emotions at the process of losing his dog "Sprite".
I highly recommend the book.
I wanted to buy this book because I am a rescuer and dog lover November 6, 2007
26 out of 41 found this review helpful
I have not yet read the book, but I purchased it today. I have had many dogs and many losses in my life. My grandmother gave me a mix breed dog when I was only one. My first word became her name - Jet. Our family had three others during my childhood - Sissy, a beagle, Lady, a Belgium shepard and Baron, a German shepard. When I married, my husband introduced me to my first samoyed - Bear. Bear has been the only one that had a long life. He lived to be 15 and had a heart attack. His mate, Bjelkier, died in our arms of a heart condition at 8. Bear's daughter Loko and her son Glacier both passed away at 9 and 7 respectively - 10 days apart in 1994, a month before Bear. I was devestated. Then my husband found me a 5 month old blue merle collie Arrow. And we found our samoyed, Nimbus.
Arrow was a wonderful dog. She, unfortunately, had a liver ailment that took her at the age of 6 in 2000. We had to put her down and she died in my arms. Our samoyed, Nimbus, had a massive stroke in 2005. Another terrible loss. He was 11. And this August I lost my precious Shadow, a blue merle collie who was only 7. She passed away in my husband's arms due to an auto-immune problem. She was bit by a tick and the auto-immune problem destroyed her red blood cells. She did not act sick until the day before she died. We still have her brother, Mac, and our samoyed, Cirrus.
It sounds like we have our share of sorrow. But we also have so much love. They were all wonderful dogs and I would never change what I have exprienced. I joined a local collie rescue group before I lost Shadow. They had a female blue merle collie on their list. My husband said, "When one door closes, another opens. There is another soul who needs our love". So now we have our sweet Spirit. I am now also a foster mom for a wonderful male sable collie. He is now waiting for his forever home.
I know so many people who suffer the loss of a pet and say they won't ever get one again. They are not just depriving themselves of the joy of having that little soul in their life, they are depriving many wonderful pets of a of a good life. I tell them they can't experience the joy if they are so afraid of the sorrow. It goes hand in hand. Get out there and adopt! They are waiting for their forever homes.
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