The Animal Companion Guide — Reading, Honoring and Saying Goodbye

For the animals who walk with you: a dog at the door, a cat on the sill, a bird by the window, a horse in the field.

The Animal Companion Guide is a companion to Before the Fire Goes Out, by Takoda. It is for the ordinary mornings, when you wonder what your animal is telling you, and for the hardest day of all.

Inside:

• Part One, Reading Your Animal: what its gaze, its habits and where it chooses to stand may be saying.

• Part Two, The Old Promise: the bond between you and your animal, and how to keep it.

• Part Three, When They Grow Old: how to honor them in their last seasons.

• Part Four, When They Cross Over: how to say goodbye, and what comes after.