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Russ Ryan

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http://www.ItsJustADogBook.com

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Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Dogs

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January 2012

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Russ Ryan has written screenplays with the producers of American Pie, Fireflies in the Garden -- and was a writer on the teen comedy, National Lampoon's Replikate, starring Eugene Levy. In addition, he created the vintage movie poster blog, Meansheets. It's Just A Dog is his first novel.

"A funny and touching story if you've ever loved a dog." - Bernadette Peters

"For dog lovers and lovers of dog stories, it's a winner!" - Dorri Olds, Petside.com

"A witty, but heartfelt story about an artist coming to terms with the passing of his beloved dog." - LifeWithDogs.TV

"An hilariously wacky sad dog story!" - Grady Harp (Amazon Top 100 Hall of Fame Reviewer)

“If you read just one dead dog book this year, make this the one!” – Old Yeller

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How Losing A Pet Can Make You Stronger

“…We both know from experience that the love and laughter a pet brings into our lives are worth it.”

Nice piece by Kerry Hannon in the NYT this past weekend about dog grief.

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Russ’s Quotes

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
― Will Rogers

tags: afterlife, death, dogs, heaven

1872 likes

“Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

tags: anthromorphism, dogs, pets

523 likes

“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
― Mark Twain

tags: animals, dogs, heaven

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“I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now
Run with you in the evenings along the shore,
Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment,
You see me there.”
― Robinson Jeffers

tags: death, dogs, dream, memory, passage, time

100 likes

“They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.”
― Willie Morris, My Dog Skip

tags: dogs, memoir, mississippi

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