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W. Bruce Cameron

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I’ve always loved dogs, which puts me in a unique category along with what, maybe two or three billion people?

What’s not to love about an animal who will sit in your living room all day long, waiting for you to get home, and even if you need to work late and then stop for a stress-relieving beverage on your way home, when you unlock that front door, is absolutely overjoyed to see you? How could you not adore an animal who senses when your day is not going well and tries to cheer you up by dumping a sodden tennis ball in your lap?

I was probably 8 years old, playing in the back yard of our house in Prairie Village, KS, when my dad opened the gate and in rushed a 9-week-old Labrador puppy. I fell to my knees and spread my arms and that dog lea...more I’ve always loved dogs, which puts me in a unique category along with what, maybe two or three billion people?

What’s not to love about an animal who will sit in your living room all day long, waiting for you to get home, and even if you need to work late and then stop for a stress-relieving beverage on your way home, when you unlock that front door, is absolutely overjoyed to see you? How could you not adore an animal who senses when your day is not going well and tries to cheer you up by dumping a sodden tennis ball in your lap?

I was probably 8 years old, playing in the back yard of our house in Prairie Village, KS, when my dad opened the gate and in rushed a 9-week-old Labrador puppy. I fell to my knees and spread my arms and that dog leaped into them as if we had loved each other our whole lives. It’s a scene that shows up in A Dog’s Purpose—a puppy and a boy meeting each other the very first time, both of them full of unrestrained joy.

We named the dog Cammie. She arrived in my life when I was just beginning to connect some of the dots in my memory to make a picture of who I was, forming my identity as a child. I remember every skinned knee and bicycle ride in the context of Cammie, who was always there for me. And I lost her just as I was starting to leave childhood behind, passing on after I’d spent a year in college. That’s Cammie, the dog of my childhood.

Years later I was riding my bicycle in the mountains outside of Pine, CO. A chance decision to bounce down a dirt road led me past a few scattered ranches and one small house near a creek, set back from the road at least 50 yards. A single “woof” from a dog caught my attention, and I braked and stood in the dry, clear air, regarding the dog who had called out to me.

She was on a chain by the house, and a fence stood between us, so I remained on the road even though I could see that the dog, a black lab mix with a crazily active tail, was clearly friendly. I gazed at her and the dog sat, attentive, staring into my eyes exactly the way my first dog, Cammie, used to look at me, really seeing into me.

And that’s when the thought hit me. What if this wonderful dog was Cammie? What if dogs live over and over again, and always remember us?

I dismissed the thought, waved at the dog, and rode away, but days later the idea came back to me. What if?

I’ve been a writer my whole life, but never have I ever written anything as important as A Dog’s Purpose.

I can’t promise you that A Dog’s Purpose will make you love your dog more—how could it do that? But I’ll tell you what a lot of people have told me: after reading A Dog’s Purpose, you’ll never look at your dog the same way again.(less)

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Average rating: 4.30 · 10,884 ratings · 2,755 reviews · 11 distinct works

	A Dog's Purpose 4.31 avg rating — 9,960 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Emory's Gift 4.12 avg rating — 431 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	My rating:
	A Dog's Journey 4.57 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	My rating:
	8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter: And Other Tips from a Beleaguered Father (Not That Any of Them Work) 4.05 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	My rating:
	How to Remodel a Man: Tips and Techniques on Accomplishing Something You Know Is Impossible but Want to Try Anyway 3.93 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	My rating:
	8 Simple Rules for Marrying My Daughter: And Other Reasonable Advice from the Father of the Bride (Not that Anyone is Paying Attention) 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Ich Gehöre Zu Dir Roman by W. Bruce Cameron (Goodreads Author), Nicole Hölsken (Herausgeber), Edith Beleites (Übersetzer) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	Dansei Kaizō Purojiekuto: Anata No Aisuru Dansei O Motto Suteki Ni Suru Hōhō 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006	My rating:
	Emory's Gift [With Earbuds] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Mountain Between Us / Dragons / A Dog's Purpose / This Time Together (Reader's Digest Select Editions Volume 6, 2010 by Charles Martin (Goodreads Author), Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author), W. Bruce Cameron (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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“Because failure isn't an option if success if just a matter of more effort.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Purpose

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“Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Purpose

tags: cats , pets

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“My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn’t want to cause any unhappiness now—in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn’t here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Purpose

tags: dogs , dogs-loyalty , love , love-from-a-dog , loyal , sad , sadness , sorrow

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