When a thin black and white Collie, lying quietly in her cage at the Rescue Centre, caught the eye of a family looking for a companion for their own dog, Life as they had known it was irrevocably changed.
Charting the first eighteen months of Life with a confused dog, Learning to Listen also celebrates and reflects on other beloved dogs, is lightly laced with literary references and the textures of daily Life but above all illustrates how a seemingly insurmountable problem can reveal itself as an unexpected invitation into a deeper understanding..
Overturning all their accumulated wisdom of how to live with dogs, Sally, who had been found running scared on a city street, stretches the tolerance of her new owners to the limit.
When a thin black and white Collie, lying quietly in her cage at the Rescue Centre, caught the eye of a family looking for a companion for their own dog, Life as they had known it was irrevocably changed