I have a theory that you get the right dog, the dog you need, for a particular stage in your life.
Dog Crazy: A Novel of Love Lost and Found. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst DogDogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog