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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Tika and her longtime mate, Kobuk, had raised eight litters of puppies together and were enjoying their retirement years in the home of my friend, Anne. I wondered what in the world he’d brought back and discovered the wet ball of fur was a very young bunny. As we all know, dogs are “man’s best friend.”

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Swan Lake performed by Rascal

4 The Love Of Animals

Barth is also writing a second book: Covered in Fur: Lessons Learned Living With Six Dogs. Rascal mouthed the puppies from the last litter here. Surprisingly, it is also a funny–no, a hilarious–story of readjusting to single life after 25 years in a relationship. What a perfect name for such a cherub of a dog. She’s gentle.

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