ON BOOKS: Dog lover writes a book to be taken lightly
(WorldNews Entertainment)

All dogs go to heaven, according to the 1989 animated fantasy of the same name featuring the voice of Burt Reynolds. Martin Luther believed that; Billy Graham thought that if one`s perfect happiness required one`s dog to be present, then one`s dog would be present in heaven. C.S. Lewis once wrote that he believed `certain animals may have immortality, not in themselves, but in the immortality of their masters.` You could read Lewis` statement as suggesting that our dogs are largely the product of our projections; it`s true that we manufacture our pets` fictive personalities and ascribe to them motives that they mightn`t necessarily hold. Why does Paris follow my wife into the kitchen?...