What the books have meant to people who lived with them.

This is an exceptional book. Please, if you have lost your best friend, get this book. George, your understanding and the way you write is amazing. You just know the right things to say.

This book is amazing! If you've suffered a loss like this, this book is such a comfort.

I cried reading this. You always put words to how I felt about my Charlie. I joined an online pet-loss grief group, and I've shared your book, your understanding and your kindness with them all. I also share it with my Facebook grief group when I notice someone is overwhelmed with their pain. It has helped me many times, and I know it will help others too. I've even recommended it to cat people, because losing an animal you love—cat, dog or horse—is still loss. I just wish everyone grieving this type of loss could find your book. It has pulled me out of many dark days.

Charlie was my once-in-a-lifetime dog, and I will miss her for the rest of my days on this earth. Thank you for writing your book and helping me find my way through understanding this loss. I hope somewhere up there Charlie and Wilson have met.

‘Love remembers before thought does.’ It took me a long time to read this. I would read, stop, cry and continue. That is why your book matters so much to me. You understand how great the loss is because you are living it. I still have so many feelings I've yet to put into words or even sort out.

I will forever be grateful to have found your book. It helped me not feel so alone in my sadness. It helped explain why I still have this awful ache deep in my soul. Charlie will always be a part of who I am because of the love we shared and the things she taught me. There is comfort in knowing that. Thank you for helping me have a better understanding of exactly what I lost. I know I would do it all again, even knowing how it would end.

His name is George Dewiliby, his boy was called Wilson, and between the two of them they have made this heartbreaking time a little more bearable. For those who need it now, it is truly heartfelt and warming; for those who may need it in the future, it will be there waiting for you.

I don't know how I came across you on Facebook. I am only so thankful that I did, and that because of you and your words, things become a little easier to understand, good memories come back, and your words carry so much healing.

Wilson may not be present in this actual life, but he is always present in you, how you write and how you help people. Wilson's legacy and your writing continue to help so many people around the world, and for that I thank you both from the bottom of mine and Gizmo's hearts.

Did I like Learning to Heal Through the Dogs That Loved Us? I like to think reading a book 5 times and parts of it more than that in the first three or four months since publication would indicate that rather than my lack of ability to absorb prose.

While I only knew one doggie personally, very personally, each one I now feel like I knew, especially Wilson, whose perspective from where he is up there with Hazel makes him even closer. That was brilliant, George.

As I told you, the book is always on my nightstand, where some people keep their Bibles.

Pierce and I continue to talk about the book to everyone we know who loves doggies, which is most of the people we want to know. No one has read your inscriptions to us and had a dry eye. The reports from those we have either gifted the book to and those who have ordered directly from you have been unanimous in their respect for your having written a book not like any other.

George, you probably do not know that I have a three-generation (including my additions to it) collection of First Editions. Whether Dickens or Dumas or Joyce or Steinbeck or Clemens, I can tell you that there is no book in my library (or nightstand) that means more to me than yours. Thank you for writing it.

I carry this book with me throughout my day. Having lost my White Knight in Shining Armor on June 3, 2026, I have been able to find comfort in some parts. On page 50, ‘the world was not where Ranger lived. You were.’ I can honestly say now that I believe that I was Eli's world. And that is completely comforting because he was/is my world. I highly recommend this book if you have lost a very important pet.