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Title: I was looking for photographs of mixed breeds...
Review: A somewhat interesting book if you do not know anything about mixed breed dogs. I do, and was looking for a book which had more photographs of mixed breed dogs, identified by their "parentage." I also know about animal cruelty, and was shocked to find on page 102, in the sidebar, a story about a Confederate soldier who was due to be executed and whose last request to Union soldiers -- that he be allowed to say goodbye to his dog -- was not only denied, but as the Confederate soldier was led away, his dog was beaten to death by the Union soldiers "with their rifle butts." I did not expect to find this sort of material in such a book, and wish I had never read it. The story is supposed to illustrate how the soldier was saved by "seeing" the dog's ghost, but it left me wishing I hadn't known about it.
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