#134 When We Lose A Young Animal Companion

Join family therapists and authors Ken Dolan-Del Vecchio and Nancy Saxton-Lopez as we celebrate the publication of Grant Hayter-Menzies' newly released book, Freddie: The Rescue Dog Who Rescued Me. Grant will read excerpts from his beautifully written biography of this special little dog. To purchase Freddie: The Rescue Dog Who Rescued Me on Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Freddie-Rescue-Dog-Who-Rescued/dp/1772034614/ref=sr_1_1?crid=FZ7P9NKF2QLP&keywords=freddie+the+rescue+dog&qid=1696528337&sprefix=freddie+the+rescue+dog+%2Caps%2C80&sr=8-1 Grant's brief bio: After a decade of writing biographies of extraordinary but unsung women active in the arts, diplomacy and politics, Grant Hayter-Menzies turned to writing about the lives of extraordinary but unsung animals: Rags, mascot and dispatch dog of the American First Division in WWI France; the thousands of elderly, neglected former war horses abandoned in Egypt by British forces at the termination of WWI and saved by Englishwoman Dorothy Brooke; Woo, the Javanese monkey companion of Canadian artist and writer Emily Carr; and Muggins, fundraising dog of WWI Victoria, BC. His memoir of his rescue dog, Freddie (ca 2009-2021), who inspired him to write about animals, has recently been published in Canada. Grant is literary executor of playwright William Luce (1931-2019), the award-winning author of Broadway classic The Belle of Amherst. Grant lives in Sidney, British Columbia, with his partner Rudi and rescue dog Niko. Learn more at https://grantmenzies.wixsite.com/author.

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