. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.
Certain people are not going to connect with a book about the effect a dog has on a family. But every one of us has parents and has either said goodbye to those parents or knows that someday they will.
There's millions of people who clearly understand that a pet is a pet and yet still find themselves really falling in love with these animals. I think I gave voice to that phenomenon.