When a book grabs you without you really knowing why...
Tuesday mornings are usually pretty hectic for us. We busily check in new books, get them labeled and ready to go on to the counter so Candace can take pictures and post them on social media. Most of the new book ordering is done 3-6 months in advance. I go through the digital catalog online and then usually have a conference call with my publisher rep. The catalogs will have markups with notes from the rep and, if I'm lucky, a picture of the cover and perhaps another picture or two.
One of the books we received grabbed my eye, so I stopped and looked through it. It is called "Perfect Imperfection: Dog portraits of resilience and love" by Alex Cearns. ABC Books. It's easy to see why I ordered it. 1. It's pictures of dogs. Books about dogs and cats do really well for us. 2. It is full of dogs, big and small, each of them having a unique characteristic: missing limbs, missing eyes, wearing wheels to help them get around. Each picture is accompanied by a story about the dog. How they came to be member of his or her family, what trauma he or she may have gone through, how each of them have overcome obstacles and now thrive!
After I looked at the book. I went back to see when I ordered it. September of last year. So, why am I so attached to this book all of a sudden? I mean obviously something struck me and I thought we needed it for our store. That is my job, I buy the new books. I now have an actual emotional attachment to this book. Why?
Meet Maggie. We adopted her the day after she had to have one of her hind legs amputated. She needed a new home. We were not looking for another dog. We had just had to make the hard choice to put our old 14 and half beloved dog Duke down a week and a half before. He had let us know it was time to say goodbye. We were all heartbroken. He had been a rescue who came to us 4 years before. So when we heard from our vet that he had a dog that really needed a home. I was like nope-not happening. Not ready. He sent pictures. Her eyes, oh her eyes. So I drove down to meet her. She was a bit timid but looked up at me and leaned against me. That's all it took.
We had to keep her calm for three weeks before her stitches got taken out. The day she got her stitches out, she was spayed. So two more weeks of not running around too much. She is now fully healed and oh my goodness, hard to keep up with. She's only 4 years old, it's been a while since we have had such a young dog. She has adapted to having three legs so well, that sometimes it is easy to forget that she is missing one leg. She runs and jumps and dives after balls. She is an absolute sweetheart and so trusting. I am not sure how she can be after everything she went through. She's not quite as cuddly as our velcro dog was, but still happy to see us at all times.
We have had her since the end of February of this year. I ordered that book 6 months before I had an actual real life experience with a tripawd dog. Sometimes those connections are there without even knowing it!
Tuesday mornings are usually pretty hectic for us. We busily check in new books, get them labeled and ready to go on to the counter so Candace can take pictures and post them on social media. Most of the new book ordering is done 3-6 months in advance. I go through the digital catalog online and then usually have a conference call with my publisher rep. The catalogs will have markups with notes from the rep and, if I'm lucky, a picture of the cover and perhaps another picture or two.
One of the books we received grabbed my eye, so I stopped and looked through it. It is called "Perfect Imperfection: Dog portraits of resilience and love" by Alex Cearns. ABC Books. It's easy to see why I ordered it. 1. It's pictures of dogs. Books about dogs and cats do really well for us. 2. It is full of dogs, big and small, each of them having a unique characteristic: missing limbs, missing eyes, wearing wheels to help them get around. Each picture is accompanied by a story about the dog. How they came to be member of his or her family, what trauma he or she may have gone through, how each of them have overcome obstacles and now thrive!
After I looked at the book. I went back to see when I ordered it. September of last year. So, why am I so attached to this book all of a sudden? I mean obviously something struck me and I thought we needed it for our store. That is my job, I buy the new books. I now have an actual emotional attachment to this book. Why?
Meet Maggie. We adopted her the day after she had to have one of her hind legs amputated. She needed a new home. We were not looking for another dog. We had just had to make the hard choice to put our old 14 and half beloved dog Duke down a week and a half before. He had let us know it was time to say goodbye. We were all heartbroken. He had been a rescue who came to us 4 years before. So when we heard from our vet that he had a dog that really needed a home. I was like nope-not happening. Not ready. He sent pictures. Her eyes, oh her eyes. So I drove down to meet her. She was a bit timid but looked up at me and leaned against me. That's all it took.
We had to keep her calm for three weeks before her stitches got taken out. The day she got her stitches out, she was spayed. So two more weeks of not running around too much. She is now fully healed and oh my goodness, hard to keep up with. She's only 4 years old, it's been a while since we have had such a young dog. She has adapted to having three legs so well, that sometimes it is easy to forget that she is missing one leg. She runs and jumps and dives after balls. She is an absolute sweetheart and so trusting. I am not sure how she can be after everything she went through. She's not quite as cuddly as our velcro dog was, but still happy to see us at all times.
We have had her since the end of February of this year. I ordered that book 6 months before I had an actual real life experience with a tripawd dog. Sometimes those connections are there without even knowing it!
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