FROM HONEY WITH LOVE
My Life as a Second Chance Dog
An uplifting book for anyone who loves dogs and people. What a wonderful book! I enjoyed every page because of Honey’s charming dialect. This sure to become a classic —and soon!
Norm Gomlak, Deputy Metro Editor, The Baltimore Banner.
Tales of the Second-Chance Dog:
Only a stone cold heart would scorn the sparkling brown eyes and big-eared warmth of a young swamp dog named Honey. Only the cruelest of the cruel would want to shoot her. And only the stoutest of hearts could thwart that evil deed. “From Honey with Love” tells the pulse-pounding story of a close brush with death that leads to the deepest of human-canine bonds and, ultimately, to the pinnacle of canine sport.
A trapper’s gun points straight at Honey’s head when Miss Jane pulls up in front his remote cabin, after a day of searching nearby swamps for a kind of dog she rescues - American Dingo. As she gets out, he hides the gun but can’t hide the young dog at his feet with a bloody gash on her foreleg.
“You trapped her, didn’t you?” Miss Jane asks in stunned disbelief. “So what if I did?” he hotly replies. “Can’t get rid of these coyotes soon enough.”
Miss Jane eyes the skins drying on his cabin wall and shakes her head knowingly. “Haven’t been doing this very long, have you?
“Long enough, I reckon.”
“Then you ought to know this pup’s a American Dingo—not a coyote.”
“Don’t matter—I still git fifty dollars for every one of their hides.”
“I’ll give you fifty and take the dog, bad leg and all.”
The trapper points palms up at the pooch. “Then take her; she’s all yours.”
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Inspired by our loving and loyal pack-mate, Honey
(December, 2004 - October 2021)
Book Illustrations by Amira Kotze