Just wanted to drop you a line and let you know how much I think we a pet owners are as you said “the lucky ones”. Today is Thursday the 28th of Feb and I will have to put my dog PJ down with in the nest few day. He has lung cancer and we will not let him suffer. I did not think that this would be so hard. My wife and I are in our 50’s and PJ was the first pet that we have ever had. We got him when he was 6 weeks old and he is now 12 years old. This is the by far the hardest thing we have ever had to do. Pray for us. Mark i listen to you ever day on XM on my way home. God bless you and the USA….

Jeff from TX

Read your book and it made me relive the loss of my dog louie. i could read only in segments because i couldn’t stop crying. Louie’s ashes will be buried with me and we will be together until the end of time. another thing to check out is the poem housedog’s grave. we have blade the prison rescue dog now but i still miss my louie. may sprite’s memory be eternal

Linda from CO

Just started reading your book, Rescuing Sprite. I am really enjoying it.

Just a quick note to let you know that I have my own Pepsi and her sister, Tiki. They are both Parson Jack Russell Terriers and they are the livliest dogs I have ever had! They are the reason that I continue the struggle as they bring me such joy and laughter! I had a good laugh when I read the passage in your book about Pepsi becoming the “devil” dog, as my Pepsi does the same exact thing.

I think that all animals are precious but dogs REALLY, REALLY rule! I know that I will be in tears by the end of your book but I just want to say: GOOD SHOW! Love to all of your pets – I know I will be hugging and kissing mine when I get home tonite!

Maria from NY

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. Read the rest of this entry »