THE BOOK OF BARKLEY: No Tricks Just Treats

Saturday, October 27, 2018

No Tricks Just Treats

Today we join our friends Artey, Rosy, and Jakey from

Living, Loving, and Barking in our Backyard

for the No Tricks Just Treats for Shelters blog Hop this weekend. They are donating $1 for every blog hop entry(Blog Hop is Open Until Sunday at 11:59pm) and 50 cents for every comment received today, tomorrow and Sunday (thru 11:59pm).

To join the Hop, publish a Halloween post (between now and Sunday 11:59PM) letting us know how you help your local shelter through the year and join the fun!! This is a Blog Hop!

As everyone knows because Mom is a big blabbermouth and has to tell everyone :-) she is an author and has written 3 best selling books and a best selling novella (part of a political thriller anthology) and as you know if you've read her blog, she donates all of the sales to animal rescue non profits.

But she also sometimes is a "Not So Secret Santa" and pays the adoption fee to some shelters who have a good candidate that Mom knows through social media that want to adopt a dog - families that have funds for ongoing pet care but don't have the sometimes several hundred dollar adoption fee on hand when they find that special pet. She is now "Auntie LB" to a number of dogs she helped get adopted and seeing them with their happy families is great fun.

This is Flynn - a half Basset half Bloodhound who was found with his parents and puppy siblings just dumped in a field. He is now in a wonderful large home with two gentle Great Dane rescues and a little girl to play with in the huge fenced yard. He hasn't quite grown into his paws but Mom was happy to pay his adoption fee so he had the perfect home with the family that first fostered him.

Abby T. Lab

4 comments:

♥♥ The OP Pack ♥♥October 27, 2018 at 8:17 PM
Now there's another idea we hadn't thought about - we bet we could get Mom to do that for some pup to have a better life. Kudos to you for ALL that you do for the less fortunate.

Woos - Lightning, Misty, and Timber
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Idaho PugRanchOctober 27, 2018 at 9:43 PM
It is wonderful all you do to help!
hugs
hazel & Mabel
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Tails Around the RanchOctober 28, 2018 at 2:01 PM
Kudos to you for pawticipating in this most worthwhile campaign.
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Matilda the BoxerOctober 29, 2018 at 10:47 AM
Aww, what a grreat way for your momma to help. She can be my Auntie LB if she wants, even without paying anything!
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FIVE STARS

No one who has ever had a dog as a companion will be able to read The Book of Barkley: Love and Life through the Eyes of a Labrador Retriever by L. B. Johnson with dry eyes.

Johnson tells the story of her life, from childhood to adulthood, from the perspective of her relationship with Barkley, a Lab that she got when he was just a stubborn ball of fur who ‘selected’ her when she viewed the litter of which he was a part. Her descriptions of adjusting to Barkley’s presence in her life, and how this helped her come to terms with and understand her past and learn to take life a day at a time on her own terms will resonate profoundly with anyone who has fallen in love with a dog and had to learn to live with its loss.

This is a story of unconditional love and acceptance, the kind that asks nothing but love in return. As Johnson and Barkley forge bonds of trust and understanding, she also strengthens her human relationships.

This is much more than a mere memoir – it is a story of life and how to live it, and how we humans can learn to live our lives better if we’d only learn to live it like a dog does. The author uses language well, with descriptions of animals, people, and places so vivid you feel that you can feel the textures, smell the odors (pleasant and otherwise) and hear the whining of a puppy needing to go out to do its business. Life can be sad or happy, and the author takes us through it all – a trip that you won’t regret taking. A five-star book that definitely merits the Awesome Indies Seal of Excellence

About Barkley and His Mom

My Mom started this blog due to requests from friends who wanted a place to go for stories of her furry friend Barkley that weren't in the book and stories of my rescue and new life in my furever home. She donates all of the proceeds from her writing to animal rescue and groups that train search and rescue and service dogs but that's OK, as she still gives me lots of dog treats and toys.

The Book of Barkley is Mom's first memoir. She used to be a jet pilot for somebody's Uncle but now has a Ph.D. in something involving science and forensics which is like TV but without expensive suits or cleavage. Additional mayhem is provided by my Dad and our 100-year-old "fixer upper" Mission Bungalow.

Her second memoir "Saving Grace - A Story of Adoption" was published in April of 2015". Her Third Book - "Small Town Roads", her first Fiction Novel was published October of 2016 and was an NPR selected "2017 must read" and 2017 Readers Favorite International Book Award GOLD for "Fiction - Religious Theme". Her 4th book, "Calexit, The Anthology", a Novella with other authors, was published in October of 2017 and was on the Amazon Best Seller's list two days later. Her fifth book "True Course - Lessons from Life Aloft" was a #1 best seller at Amazon 24 hours after publishing so I think she has been bribing you all with treats.

Abby - Mom's Lab Assistant