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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:  351 reviews
Sales Rank: 951
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:
 Why Did He Write This? November 15, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love dogs and I love books about dogs, but this one stinks. Sorry.
 Read this if you ever loved and lost a dog November 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The dogs I have grieved most intensely over, I realize, have been the ones I who were in my life the shortest amount of time. Perhaps it is the deep wish that more time could have been granted to me with these dogs. So it was I think with Mark, who had only two short years with Sprite, and whose detailed expression of grief was more pure and honest and heart-wrenching than any I could ever imagine. This man has given us a gift of his love and devotion, and his book is a tribute not only to Sprite but to all of us who have ever felt what he did. The reviewers who didn't read the book all the way through missed the most valuable part of it -- it wasn't about the dog himself, with all kinds of amazing and enjoyable cute "stories", but about Mark's FEELINGS about this dog, expressed so incredibly well as Sprite's days came to an end. I think this will be a catharsis for many readers who have gone through the same thing fighting the pain all the way. The only way to deal with it is to let yourself feel it. This will help, I know it will. It helped me.
Great read for animal lovers November 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this book. It made me laugh and cry, and I couldn't put it down until I finished it.
Not received yet November 2, 2008
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have not received this book as of yet so cannot give it a review
Get some perspective about life October 20, 2008
1 out of 13 found this review helpful
I'm a pet lover, but really, is putting a dog to sleep the worst tragedy that's ever happened in the author's life?
He devotes about two paragraphs to his aging parents with health problems whom he rarely visits, while agonizing about whether he should have gotten the dog an MRI. Go visit your parents and ask how they are doing!
And are we supposed to be sympathetic that the family just couldn't enjoy their trip to the Bahamas because they were worried about the sick dog? Cry me a river.
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