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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
A fine, literate presentation, 23 Jun 1999
By A Customer
This book makes you think and feel deeply. It is full of love and existential considerations and requires careful reading. Unfortunately, some of us are not ready for this, during the early stages of bereavement. Indeed, there are always some who will never be open to these straightforward, humanistically presented facts of life and death. At times the style is profound, as well as poetic. The insight and compassion in these pages were drawn from a lifetime of professional and private care for animals. The author expands on grief as a natural part of the healing process, and with a keen understanding, expounds on the normal stages of bereavement. A few of the chapters share with us some very moving personal experiences with her pets, and their eventual deaths. An important discourse and analysis is also given of the much too-little understood phenomenon of pets bereaving other pets. Kaetheryn Walker holds a masters degree in veterinary homeopathy, and places a great deal of trust in this non-traditional remedy for healing nearly everything from the physical to the psychic. Many still disparage this approach, but we must bear in mind that history has recorded the same prejudicial sentiment toward numerous innovative and nontraditional approaches to healing and medicine. The last few chapters of this book are dedicated to enumerating specific homeopathic cures and remedies. In an early chapter, some readers may not agree with the author's unquestioning appreciation of psychic animal communicators. But overall, Walker presents us with a very sensitive and wise book, offering us a fresh and constructive outlook on bonding and then dealing with the loss of a pet. The Heart that Is Loved Never Forgets offers bereaving pet owners wisdom and hope, stating, "What remains for us to do now is claim our new lives. We are changed, stronger and very different people than when we began this journey." This is a fine book, and we recommend it. But we regret that because of the publication date, it does not list the APLB as one of the few valuable resources available to bereaving pet owners. It is presumed that this will be corrected in a future edition.
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