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Now faith is
the substance of things hoped for, the evidence
of things not seen. - Hebrews 11:1
Pet Bully
Lessons Learned from a Pit Bull
by Dory Davis
ISBN - 0-9779889-0-2
A book for all ages.
When a stray pit bull puppy shows
up one summer morning, Dory and Bryan Davis could
not have known, at the time, how their lives would
change–their faith, their perspective, their
heightened level of spiritual understanding–as
the pup develops and grows under their devoted
love and discipline.
After Pit Bull dies accidentally,
Davis writes down the story so that she can have
not only a written recorded memory of the pet
who taught his masters so much, even as he was
learning, but also to share those fundamental
lessons of faith, trust, obedience and self-restraint
with others.
Pit Bull died Saturday, March 18, 2006.
How difficult it is for me to remember that
day in order to record it for you.
Easier it has been to tell of his arrival
as a puppy. To tell of mishaps with ingesting
Vaseline and of wrestling matches with Doggie
and races through the house. Let me tell of his
baby-chicken flop poses on cool floors in the
summer, of scrub baths in the tub and of tricks
like catching popcorn on the fly. A hundred pages
I’ve filled and barely glimpsed the story
of his life. Now at the end the final pages await
the story of his death and my pen refuses the
paper, my memories shut and beg to stay that way.
But I remember that someone asked me to write
it. I remember how I told the story of his death,
and one person responded by saying she needed
to hear it. I only wish I could make a recording
of that phone conversation, so I wouldn’t
have to remember.
I suppose, though, that there is more than
one person who needs to hear it. If others find
hope in the story, too, it bears re-telling. In
truth, I suppose I am the one who really needs
to hear it told again.
In bravery he lived; bravely he died.
“Precious in the eyes of Jehovah is the
death of his saints.” – Psalm 116:15
Pet Bully
Lessons Learned from a Pit Bull
by Dory Davis
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$9.95
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