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Scraton, Peter

 
9781919059778: The Witness at Our Feet: A book about dogs as moral witnesses
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ISBN 10 : 1919059776 ISBN 13 : 9781919059778
Editeur : Authorssolution.co.uk, 2026

Synopsis

Your dog sees the person you become when no one else is watching. What does that witness reveal?

A dog does not care about your title, your reputation, or the story you tell the world. It knows the temperature of your voice, the weight of your hand, the reliability of your return. It lives close to the evidence of your character. And in doing so, it asks the quietest, most demanding question a life can pose: Can this creature rely on you?

The Witness at Our Feet is a collection of seventeen meditations on what it means to share a home, a routine, a language, and ultimately a grief with a dog. Drawing on more than forty years of professional leadership and a lifetime lived alongside dogs, Peter Scraton examines the ordinary architecture of a shared life and finds in it something extraordinary: a mirror held up to human patience, gentleness, responsibility, and love.

Inside, you will discover:

    • Why a dog is not merely a companion but a moral claim upon your character
    • What routine, waiting, and the first walk reveal about trust and presence
    • How grief with a pulse can anchor a person when the world collapses
    • The discipline of gentleness and why power without control is not strength
    • The last walk, the hard duty of mercy, and what the empty bowl leaves behind
    • How dogs keep memory, teach forgiveness, and walk us back into the world

This is not a training guide. It is not a memoir dressed in sentimentality. It is a serious, tender, and unsentimental examination of what happens when another creature's world is placed, in large part, in your hands.

Whether you are living with a dog right now, mourning one you have lost, or simply wondering why these animals leave such deep marks on our lives, this book was written for you.

Turn the page. The witness is waiting.

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Éditeur
Authorssolution.co.uk
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1919059776
ISBN 13 
9781919059778
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
56
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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