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Book: We Give Our Hearts to Dogs to Tear (hardcover)
This is the story of a family and their animal companions for thirty years. It is at one level about the Jack Russell Terriers — Ifrit, and Bungee (and their own friends), as well as the people who nominally owned them and other dogs as well. The author, Alston Chase, tells of his search for the immortality of dogs, what makes them special, and why we willingly give them our hearts knowing that someday they'll die and leave us bereft. The answer he finds, does not come through attempting to produce exact replicas of them through inbreeding, as professional breeders often do and which he sees as a form of genetic death, but in their embodiment of spirit over mortality. It is through the window of their brief lives that we glimpse eternity. This book is an eloquent tribute to the dogs we love, and a reflection on mortality, the limitations of life, and the final triumph of the spirit.
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