What is it that canine have performed to earn the name of “man’s most sensible friend”? And extra extensively, how have all of our bushy, feathered, and four-legged brethren controlled to counterpoint our lives? Why will we love them? What will we examine from them? And why is it so tricky to claim goodbye? subscribe to B.J. Hollars as he makes an attempt to discover out—beginning with an historic puppy cemetery in Ashkelon, Israel, and relocating to the current day.

Hollars’s firsthand studies recount a number tales: the laborious lifestyles of a defend officer, a woman’s relentless try to discovered a senior-dog adoption facility, a family’s fight to create a one of a kind orthotic for its bulldog, and the actual bond among a blind lady and her Seeing Eye puppy. The e-book culminates with Hollars’s personal cross-country trip to Hartsdale puppy Cemetery—the country’s greatest and oldest puppy cemetery—to commence the long-overdue strategy of laying his personal formative years puppy to rest.

Through those tales, Hollars finds a lot approximately our pets yet much more concerning the people who percentage their lives, offering a much-needed reminder that the area will be a greater position if we took a number of cues from man’s top friends.