Shel’s Reviews > The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality > Status Update

"While stories can provide information and help us remember, they can also help us heal. Of course, animals cannot write their own stories, but we can write the stories of our lives with them."

"Our animals' lives are intertwined with our own, physically, emotionally, even spiritually — as they should be, because, unless something goes wrong, our is the only home they'll ever know. We thus have a responsibility to them that is different from our responsibility to children, yet no less sacred."