When Jessica Butler of Berkley/NAL, Penguin, Random House, asked me if I wanted to review There Are No Sad Dogs, I couldn’t refuse.  I love dogs and I am interested in mediums.

Book Description:

Our pets are part of the family. For many they’re as close as children; for some they may be our only children. And while most of us can expect that our children will outlive us, sadly, our pets almost never do.

Losing a pet can be as difficult as losing any other family member; we grieve, we miss them, and, mostly, we want closure, to know that our furry, feathered, or scaled friends are okay, wherever they are.

For years, animal communicator Sonya Fitzpatrick has helped pet owners cope with the loss of their beloved companions. Many of them ask the same questions: Is my pet happy? Why did this happen? Is it okay to get another pet? Using her personal experiences as well as the stories of the families she’s worked with, Sonya sheds some light on the questions that every grieving pet owner has, and assures the reader that there are, in fact, no sad dogs (or cats or birds or turtles or horses or cows) in heaven.

My Thoughts:

Sonya Fitzpatrick gives comfort to many people who have experienced the loss of a pet.  Loosing one’s pet can be just as difficult as loosing a human loved one.  To most of us, pets are just as loved as the humans in our families.  I know that is the case with my family.  The unfortunate fact, is we tend to lose pets more often than we loose our humans in our families. Humans have a much longer lifespan than most other animal species.

I had a love/hate relationship with this book.  I am glad that their are people out there who find comfort from Ms. Fitzpatrick however, I found some of the things she talked about in the book contradictory.   The biggest issue I had is that she claims that when a pet decides s/he will come back from the spirit world, all the pet parent needs to do it to adopt a different pet and the old one will appear in the new pet’s body.  She wrote of several instance when this has happened, in the case of dogs, some came back as a puppy, some as a adult dog.  So what happens to the dog that was in the dogs’ body already?  Please explain that one to me!  There was one dog who wouldn’t reincarnate into a puppy until after the puppy was potty trained.  If the puppy is able to be trained, isn’t s/he an individual already?  What happens to h/er when the previous dog takes possession?

Other than that issue, I enjoyed the book.  It’s too bad it came up so frequently.  Does reincarnation happen?  I’m certainly open to the idea but I can’t believe it happens the way it is explained in this book.  I was on an air-plane when I was reading the last chapter.  There was a woman sitting next to me who asked me about the book, so I gave it to her.  I hope she doesn’t get as frustrated with parts of it like I did.
I do recommend it to people who love animals and have some interest in mediums.  It is a easy read and each chapter stands alone from the rest of the book so it would be good when you only have short time periods to read in, like in the bathroom.  LOL!

3/5

I received this book for my honest opinion.

About Sonya Fitzpatrick:

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