A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue And The Meaning Of Life (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
Interesting book when the author is talking about their dogs and the rescue facility they opened in New Mexico but he spends most of his time delving into the philosophy of life and the way philosophers over the ages have come to their conclusions as to the relationship between men and animals. There were some educational segments and I now know that Descartes was an idiot - I don't care if he is known as the father of modern philosophy. Seems he didn't think animals had souls thus they had no feelings or pain - so he did some rather unthinkable things to prove this.Anyway - an ok book but I found myself skimming over a lot of the mumbo jumbo as the book went along. This book was a lovely surprise. Often times a book about dogs may veer, sometimes just slightly, into cheesy territory with no substance. I didn't know what to expect from this one and to be fair you rarely do know until you start reading such a book. I expected the memoir part of this book, of course, and found that thread to be interesting, honest, and insightful. What I didn't expect was to see the author's experiences alongside different insights, usually of a scientific nature. There I found some things I hadn't thought of before, like the idea that while dogs were evolving with us for so many thousands of years, at the same time we were evolving with them, i.e. we evolved together with dogs. This book was filled with asides like that, references to works that the author had read and how some of those insights illuminated, or were illuminated by, what was happening in the lives of him, his girlfriend/wife, and the dozen or two dogs they were rescuing at any given time. All in all I thought the book was a delightful combination of personal and educational. Well worth my time!
What do You think about A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue And The Meaning Of Life (2010)?
I enjoyed this book and the authors journey into becoming a dog lover through rescue work.
—sabs123
Waiting for it to arrive at the Library so I can start Reading!
—chavante
made me laugh, made me think, made me appreciate....
—Sami
Wonderful. Learned a lot from this little book.
—pam
