Whistle and I'll Come

Reluctantly Sally's father agrees to her having one dog but when she visits the dogs' home she first finds an inseparable pair of young dogs and the old and abandoned Beth. Sally manages to break into Beth's apparent lethargy and then discover the story of her past and the reasons for her routines. It is a lovely late flowering of life for Beth before she finally sinks into old age. Sally has to face the difficulties of dealing first with the decision about whether to put Beth down and then its aftermath. A gentle story, easily read, a paean for dog owning and the needs of the abandoned dogs.