Valentine’s Book rec; Love for animals 🐾

As we all know, there’s so much more type of love than the one usually celebrated on Valentine’s Day. One of my favorite, is the link we have with different species of animals, which reciprocate an undying love for their owners in return.

As many of you know, my only daughter (she’s a dog btw) have a mitral valve disease; which creates a heart murmur and thus enlarge a part of her heart. We just got Xrays of her heart done to see if she’s evolved into cardiac insufficiency- meaning there’d be “water” pooling in her lungs. We hopefully gotten the results back as you’re reading this; knowing if her heart medication need to be adjusted or if they’re working as they should. All this to say that I would absolutely give her a bit of my years alive so she can stay with me as long as possible; the love I got for my dachshunds & cat is stronger than anything possible.

I’ve also shared on the love in a mother-daughter relationship, especially my experience I’ve had of being the carer of my own mother at a younger age (2020), aswell as a book recs on the power of strong friendships (2022).

When portraying animals in books, especially pets, I like them to have the “main character” vibes. I don’t like when the pet is treated as an object that’s written in & out of the story like it isn’t a major part of the characters story… as they are. I’ve read too many books like that and it really drives me nuts- the pets have as much room in the story than the parents or friends you keep on with throughout the book! (Hell my three are a constant in my own dreams.. as so is my mother!)

💜 No Judgements, Meg Cabot ;
Our MC literally put her life in danger staying behind in a hurricane to keep other people’s pet stay alive while their owner had evacuated! Bonus for the Border Collie being saved from her drunk & abusive owner.

💜 The other family doctor, Karen Fine ;
Throwing a memoir from a veterinarian here, as there’s so much beautiful stories of pets-owner relationships.. aswell as a few things they teach us about death.

💜 The dachshund wears prada, Stefanie London;
What first started as a love-hate relationship with the tiny dachshund she has to care for, turns out into a loving relationship.. winning her owner in the end aswell! Bonus for a lovely sister relationship with her young sister.

What other books of the like would you recommend me?