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Little Dogs Pee Higher
Annie Moore Martin
is trying to hold it together, keeping up with a 60-hour+ work week in a solo veterinary practice, on-call 24/7, cooking, cleaning for her family, and attending all soccer practices, piano lessons, gymnastic meets, and school plays. Almost at the end of her frazzled leash, she hears God calling her to Ethiopia. Is it God, or is she hallucinating from exhaustion? Annie leaves the U.S., assuming she will treat large animals in the African bush.
Through a series of events, her family becomes missionaries in Kenya. In this often humorous memoir, she soon learns that her training as a small animal veterinarian does not prepare her for the actual need she is about to face.
Through a series of events, her family becomes missionaries in Kenya. In this often humorous memoir, she soon learns that her training as a small animal veterinarian does not prepare her for the actual need she is about to face.
220 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 13, 2024
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October 8, 2024
This is a very honest book, and that is tougher for a missionary memoir to pull off. Many missionaries have to raise their own support, and it’s tempting to always try to look good to not risk alienating supporters.
Dr. Martin doesn’t play that game. She is honest to a fault about deciding to go to Africa, and what happens when the plans for her to be a missionary vet don’t come through.
What usually happens to most missionaries who can’t execute their plans is they leave the field. Part of the reason this is a remarkable story is Dr Martin can pivot. She ends doing something entirely different, and as amazing as the stories she tells and the lives she touches, the most impactful part is watching her heart turned toward the poorest of the poor. It’s so moving to see her fall in love the hardest cases.
She is also consistently hilarious but manages to make a case that if you are open to being used by God, amazing things can happen. Her life is a testimony to that.
I’m so glad to recommend this book.
Dr. Martin doesn’t play that game. She is honest to a fault about deciding to go to Africa, and what happens when the plans for her to be a missionary vet don’t come through.
What usually happens to most missionaries who can’t execute their plans is they leave the field. Part of the reason this is a remarkable story is Dr Martin can pivot. She ends doing something entirely different, and as amazing as the stories she tells and the lives she touches, the most impactful part is watching her heart turned toward the poorest of the poor. It’s so moving to see her fall in love the hardest cases.
She is also consistently hilarious but manages to make a case that if you are open to being used by God, amazing things can happen. Her life is a testimony to that.
I’m so glad to recommend this book.
May 20, 2024
amazing stories, from a heart, full missionary of Gods love
Annie is quite the storyteller. With or without a Christian based philosophy, you will enjoy the openheartedness of Annie and her husband to help those beings were in need on the continent that has been most ignored. She got the call and she threw her faith leg it to the highest degree. May you be inspired by her testimonies. I bet you will.
Annie is quite the storyteller. With or without a Christian based philosophy, you will enjoy the openheartedness of Annie and her husband to help those beings were in need on the continent that has been most ignored. She got the call and she threw her faith leg it to the highest degree. May you be inspired by her testimonies. I bet you will.
October 14, 2024
Love this book for so many reasons!!! If you are at all interested in Kenya, it’s people and bring Jesus to them this book is for you. Granted this is one ladies story of her trials and tribulations from 25 years ago, but it’s accurate. Oh so accurate.
My three years teaching in Kenya over lapped with their first term. During the first half of the book I related to all too well that I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Thank you Annie 😊
My three years teaching in Kenya over lapped with their first term. During the first half of the book I related to all too well that I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Thank you Annie 😊
April 23, 2024
Great story
Outstanding! One minute this story is humorous and then it slams you in the feels. Annie Moore Martin's adventures in the mission field are riveting, inspiring, and absolutely a testament to our good God who still delights in using the smallest of His creations (Annie's only 4'11") to do the mightiest works. I highly recommend reading this book.
Outstanding! One minute this story is humorous and then it slams you in the feels. Annie Moore Martin's adventures in the mission field are riveting, inspiring, and absolutely a testament to our good God who still delights in using the smallest of His creations (Annie's only 4'11") to do the mightiest works. I highly recommend reading this book.
July 12, 2024
A cute, sometimes tear-jerking memoir of a missionary in Kenya, Africa. Excellently written tale of the life of an American veterinarian in Nairobi.
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