No Greater Love: A Tribute to True Friendship

Do pets know more than we typically give them credit for? Do we pick them, or do they choose us? Do they have the capacity for self-determination -- or even self-sacrifice? And when they're gone, can we realistically hope to ever see them again?

These are only a few of the questions inherent in this bittersweet account of the author's strange, amusing and ofttimes inexplicable experiences with a "rescued" German Shepherd named Duffy. Along the way, he recalls pets and other creatures …