Just wanted to say This Friday Morning I will have to say goodbye to our long life family pet. Chaplin Spencer. Just a few years ago we had to put his brother down. I wanted to say thank you for a wonderful book as i think this will help this time around. last time I just could not do much of anything. I hope this time it will be better. Chaplin has been fighting for the last year and half and he has been with us 14 wonderful years. We are all so sad, and feel helpless.Your book Mr Levin is helping our family.I would like to ask for your prayers and say thank you for all you do and have done.

Gil from PA

A year or so after my stroke in 2000, Bill Buckley and I exchanged a few emails.

In one of them, I told him that my wife had named our cat’ William F. Buckley’, in his honor. His reply was as follows:

So! Your cat, is my name sake……. That’s an honor?……I suppose. Bill

John from MD

In early October of 2007, after a lengthy day of community volunteering in Miami,my younger, first year in college, daughter phoned me. She was frantically concerned about a lost dog roaming in her dorm. (She was a cat lover, so I knew her concern was serious.)The dog had no leash, collar or tags. She had asked others, if they were the dog’s owner.Unfortunately, he had no visible master. Nor, were there any missing posters for the dog near her university in Coral Gables.She immediately picked the playful, small, thin,skeletal dog up: it weighed about as much as an empty, discarded large cereal box. Unfortunately, the dog was of no identifiable or familiar breed to her.Sadly, this scraggly, long-haired moppet had been on the streets, too long- an oppressive and punitive injustice…My younger daughter anxiously asked, for advice; I quickly mentioned to contact the local Animal Control. She did.They didn’t show; quickly, hours were passing, and evening would come shortly.I called various television stations, asking if someone was searching for a dog. No one reported a lost animal. (more…)

My best friend passed away Jan. 11, 2008 a 12.5 year Jack Russell I called The fox, he was born deaf so his name was for me. I am lost without my buddy and at 67 years young I cried for three days . A friend of mine sent me your book , I must find the strength to read it.

Thank You

Mike from CT

Dear Mark; I was in a local B.J’s. this afternoon and my eyes fell on your “Sprite” book. I had a feeling I knew how the story would end and probably should NOT have picked it up. But, dog lover (and all animal lover) that I am, I did. I skimmed through your heart raising and heart rending biography of your best friend. The reason I felt I shouldn’t pick it up was that 3 years and 5 days ago, I had to do one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do; I had to have my beloved Suzi euthanized.
I had had her since she was just a wee bit of white fluffy fur in my hands. She was (I was told) a combination Husky and Retriever….NOT!!!! I had had a divorce and wanted a large dog..to help make me feel safer at living alone. I knew, without a doubt, that whatever kind of dog-or any pet that I’ve ever had or ever will have-it would be totally spoiled rotten. She was, at most, a combination Jack Russell, Wire-haired terrier, and w…a…y back in her background, some Golden Lab. Height wise she never got to my knees in the nearly 8 years she was MY Best Friend. I still am unable to think of her without crying from the empty spot in my heart. In my life, I’ve always had pets and in the backyard of my current home are at least 15 small grave-sites; I’ve lived in this house for almost 32 years. Does it really ever get easier to think of, dream about, see pictures of, be suddenly struck with a memory of..such a one as this?? (more…)

I just said farewell to my German Shepherd Branden, 12-1/2 years old, last Saturday. My grown sons Nick and Dan were with me at the vet’s. That is the first time I’ve had to had a pet euthanized. It was painful, but it was the right thing to do. Branden had his “people” with him at the end, and was surrounded with love and attention. It’s been a relief knowing he’s no longer suffering. Thank you for sharing your story in “Rescuing Sprite” and creating a forum for your listeners and fellow dog lovers to share their joys and sorrows as pet lovers.

Sue from NV