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Cold Noses and Warm Hearts: Beloved Dog Stories by Great Authors

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This is the perfect gift to give that hard-to-buy-for someone in your life. All the stories in this book give you a lump in the throat, heart-warming feeling all over.

The two stories by Corey Ford, first and last stories in the book, are wonderful as are all of his writings. They alone make the book a worthwhile purchase. The other stories in between, most by talented and well known writers, don't measure up. The revised edition of this book replaces better stories that were in the original edition.

I bought "Cold Noses and Warm Hearts" a few years ago at Restoration Hardware, thinking it would at least make a good book to read to the kids at "storytime" before bed. It is mostly great for that (I think I had to skip one story as mildly inappropriate for young children) but even more, it is a book of great writing about a great subject. This book will make you laugh, cry, or sometimes both at the same time. It's also a great reminder that God gives us dogs to both remind us how rotten fallen humanity is, and to offer an example of what real unwavering faith and loyalty look like. The writing is almost always excellent, and I personally think this book is perhaps one of the best anthologies of short stories I've run across - it's certainly my favorite. Cold Noses and Warm Hearts is great in a way that few books are anymore, and I highly recommend it.

I thought that this was a great read and it was very touching especially for dog owners. The only problem I had with this book is that some of the stories are very old and outdated, and some are not really stories, they are more like short essays. Overall it was a good book, and I would recommend it to anyone who loves dogs.