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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Weekends with Daisy

Weekends with Daisy

Luttrell, Sharron Kahn

Paperback

Biographies GeneralPets: DogsSelf-Help

ISBN10: 1451686250
ISBN13: 9781451686258
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: Feb 1 2018
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
She was supposed to teach Daisy how to be a good dog...but Daisy taught her to be a better person.When Sharron Luttrell joins a weekend Prison PUP program for a service dog organization, she knew it was just what she needed to help her move on from the death of her own beloved dog. The position seemed ideal; pick up a puppy on Friday, return it on Sunday night, work with a new puppy each year, no strings attached. Well, it turns out there were strings--and they tugged at her every time she had to return her dog to its weekday caregiver. This memoir chronicles Sharron's year co-parenting Daisy, a sweet Lab puppy, with Keith, the inmate who is Daisy's other trainer. As Sharron and Keith develop a relationship she likens to divorced parents handing over the kids, she becomes curious about Keith's life story. When Sharron uncovers the tragic event that set Keith on his path, she realizes she must take a lesson from Daisy and think like a dog--react to circumstances in the present, not the past. Sharron applies this way of thinking at home, too, using the lessons she learned from Daisy to mend her rocky relationship with her teenage daughter. Where once a dramatic eye roll from her daughter would have sparked a battle, Sharron has learned to employ the patience and understanding she practices with Daisy to become a better mom. As Sharron and Keith work tirelessly to ensure Daisy passes her service dog test, she is taught priceless lessons in empathy, compassion, and affection. In the end, Sharron's weekends with Daisy have taught her more than she could ever have imagined.

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