We have 3 Soctties, one purchased from a Scottie breeder, Maggie,14, one bought from a puppie mill owner, Mollie, 12, and her son, Murphy, 10. We devote ourselves to these guys daily. I bought my wife a copy of your book at B&N for Christmas. She loved it. And I will be reading it myself soon.

One more thing: Joseph Goebbels wrote in the 30s, “It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion”.
This is what the Libs are trying to do in reintroducing the “Fairness Doctrine”, in my opinion.

Bill from WA

Dear Mr. Levin,

First, thank you & your staff for posting in December my picture and the note I wrote to you. Second, as you can see from the attached picture I am currently reading your book, Rescuing Sprite. It is a very interesting book. Finally, I am truly grateful to you, Great One, for sharing your knowledge on very important subjects.

Respectfully yours,
Reilly the Beagle from AZ

My husband bought me your book on Sprite for Christmas. I just read it last weekend. I enjoyed listening to you when traveling through NY or listening to Rush here in Boston. I am a 57 year old accountant and a conservative. I never believed in Spirit communication. But in 1999 I lost my precious friend Larry; Lawrence Boo Boo Bear using his Sunday name. He was a 17 year old Irish Wolfhound. His passing changed my life. I became obsessed with learning about Spirit Communication and visited several well known mediums; taking classes to learn how to become a medium as well as seeking messages from the Spirit World to tell me that Larry yet survived the change called death. What I discovered was that dogs and cats and all our furry friends are energy, formed energy here and they do cross over to the world of Spirit, just as we do….as Sir Isaac Newton taught us, energy is neither created nor destroyed…it all makes sense to me now.

One morning after Larry passed, my husband heard his bark while in the shower. And then during a sitting I had with well known medium Robert Brown in a hotel in NY where dogs were not permitted I heard Larry speak from the ‘Other side’ and it was recorded on tape. Robert Brown wrote about it in his book ‘We Are Eternal’. Larry is in seven published books so far.

I have since written four books on Spirit Communication; proving the validity of the details through academic research. My website is: www.skybear.com and it tells my story…how the love I shared with my beloved friend Larry prompted me to discover my life’s true path…unconventional and challenging. I invested over $700K of my own money in the research project that followed; proving that mediumship is real.

But my most memorable moment was and always will be when Larry came to me in the early hours of the morning to tell me he was OK…I could see, hear, feel him…and yes even smell his paws…it was what I have come to recognize as a ‘visit’ from Spirit.

God bless you for writing your book on Sprite; his love for you has changed your life…just as Larry and his silly ways changed mine.

Dr. Deborah from MA

(the photo is of Larry, or ‘Skybear’ as we call Larry now…at Skydome Stadium watching a CFL football game)

I just finished reading rescuing sprite and i thought it was great my very special dog eddie is getting old now. Attached is his picture.

Ryan from CO

Dear Mark,

Thank you so much for writing your book and sharing your heartfelt feelings and experiences with your dogs Sprite and Pepsi. I recently had to put our family pet down on December 6, 2007. He was a beautiful black pug. I had other dogs in the past but I was busy raising my small children so I never got attached to a dog as much as I did with Sammy. He was my baby and we had a very special bond. He would come with us to our daughters softball tournaments and loved to go for rides in the car. He would lay on my lap and I would bring his food and water and wrap him in a blanket when it was cold outside. He was the teams mascot. He loved to cuddle and would sometimes lay across my neck or at bedtime he would find a spot behind my knees. I would carry him to bed like a baby and tuck him in between my husband and I. He would lay there just like a human with the blanket on and we would just laugh in amazement at this dog! I always knew what Sammy needed – he would bark to get my attention and show me what he needed like a lost toy, or more food! We had a family portrait taken this past May in our backyard for my sons 8th grade graduation and Sammy jumped right in. I look at that picture every day sitting on our mantle.

Sammy was only 2 years old and started developing kidney stones. Before Thanksgiving we had the stones removed because he was having problems going to the bathroom. The vet told me his liver enzymes were high and that it was due to a shunt which did not close when he was born – very common. (more…)

I picked up Mark’s book in hopes of getting inspired to write my own “dog story” in the near future. Although my story is tragic, it is a story that needs to be told. It is about a yellow lab named Bodie and about the dark side of dog breeders.

Like others drawn to Mark’s book and this web page, I have always been a dog lover. Growing up, I didn’t know what life was like without a dog. We always had one and our dogs were a part of the family.

When I went away to college I started counting down the days (and years!) until I could have my own dog.

Even though year after year I desperately wanted to purchase a pooch, I knew the responsible thing to do was wait until I lived in a house with a yard, and had the time to devote to a loving 4-legged creature.

The day finally came when I no longer lived in an apartment that wouldn’t allow pets, and felt that I had the time and money it took to have a dog.

Soon after my husband and I bought a house, we decided to get a dog. We wanted a yellow lab and my first idea (since I was going to be the primary caretaker and pooper scooper) was to adopt a dog from our local branch of “Guide Dogs For The Blind”. I soon discovered that the dogs up for adoption there – the ones who are not quite suitable to become sight dogs for anything from allergies to training difficulties – are extremely hard to come by. I then looked into “Golden Gate Labrador Retriever Rescue, Inc.” which is a great organization, but I suddenly realized I wanted a PUPPY… a cute little puppy of my own, from scratch.

After a few more weeks of research I finally found what I thought was a reputable Lab breeder, and we brought an 8-week-old yellow lab puppy home on December 9th, 2006.

He was euthanized on October 22, 2007 – 5 days after his first birthday.

His name was Bodie.
He was a “good” puppy… a really good puppy, but he was also a lot of work, as most puppies are. A quiet house and sleeping more than 6 hours in any given night were things of the past for us, but he quickly became best part of every day! That little creature could touch places in our hearts we never knew where there. We loved this dog. (more…)