Jacob's Gems: Or Hints for Kids and Other Humans Adopting a Stray Dog
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Book Description
This book was written to help humans understand how important it is to bring lonely and homeless pets into their homes. Walk through any animal shelter and look at those dogs who are pleading for you to choose them. They are aware that they are not going to live if they are not helped.
This little story is about one dog that looked as if he had just given up, but a woman walked by his cage. He didn't jump up and beg to be taken home, like all the others were doing. With very sad brown eyes peering at the woman, he just lay there with a hopeless look. Probably many people had stopped and looked before, but he was big, and so skinny he almost didn't look well. Chances are no one wanted him. He also looked like a breed that some people fear...The German Shepherd Dog!
He was in luck. The woman wanted him. She thought to herself that if he were sick, who better to take care of him. She had taken care of sick German Shepherds for the past 14 years. So she paid the fee, signed the adoption papers, and made all the arrangements to pick him up the next day after he had been neutered.
As she was leaving, the man who was handling the dog thanked her and told her that the dog was going to be euthanized that night. She burst into tears. Her last beautiful German Shepherd Dog had died only six weeks before.
And so Jacob's story began. He wasn't sick, just a con artist. He wants everyone to know how to communicate with, love and care for, and laugh with a furry stranger.
Those things will bring more than happiness...and not to just the dog!
About the Author
Jacob is a smart-aleck canine-- German Shepherd mix. An adoptee from a local Humane Shelter, he is somewhere between two and three years of age. He has con-artist abilities that make humans fall under his spell. Jacob wishes people to know that many animals need help. And he is asking the public to help. Please adopt.
Being that he is a canine, his little book, Jacob's Gems, is written in hopes that more dogs will be adopted, and children will learn just how wonderful it is to have a dog to care for, play with, and have a very special best friend. He loves children and other people. Jacob draws people to him so easily. Neighbors come to visit him, and just stand outside the screen door talking to him. He usually lets his Mom know that there is a friend or two outside so she can let them in. But they truly didn't come to visit her. Only to see him and watch him run, grab a toy, and bring it to them at the door.
He has his own email. But he claims it is unlisted. Real smart-aleck!
Jacob's Gems: Or Hints for Kids and Other Humans Adopting a Stray Dog,Jacob Prince,Not Avail,1412005973,Dogs - General,Pets
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