Reviews for Parting Words/Parting Ways: Saying Good-Bye to Your Pet

The average rating for Parting Words/Parting Ways: Saying Good-Bye to Your Pet based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-07-10 00:00:00 Taborsis Bland This book is really just a compilation of letters from owners to their deceased pets. I didn't find that it helped me to see that others were in my situation, so I didn't read the whole book.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-10-17 00:00:00 Steven Lucas Delightful (and scrupulously researched) essays about wildlife, written by a hermit who lived in New York City. Most were originally published in The Saturday Evening Post and The New Yorker. "Baby Pelicans are simply awful. The female Pelican feeds them on predigested fish served in her pouch. When they become too greedy and noisy and generally unbearable, she closes her bill and hits them on the head with it, so that baby Pelicans are always staggering about in a dazed condition, squalling for more fish and getting whammed on the head again. As the force of such blows is hard to judge, little accidents occur from time to time. That's a risk you have to take. Moral: It's a great life, if you like fish." I got a lot of weird looks while reading this on the El.