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This is a story about Bea, a beagle who is rescued from a laboratory that does research on animals. When Bea was found, she was riddled with anxiety and depression. This story explains how Bea was rescued and becomes a normal dog. Bea overcomes her fears and builds a relationship with her owners that end up learning more from her than she learns from them. One of the most important things Bea teaches Kristin is that goodness can be found in the most desolate places, and we can always recover from a setback.

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"And that question is: What is the meaning of life? Wise little Buddha that Bea was, she snuggled up and reminded me by  her own behavior that lies in loving all we can and giving what we have to help others"

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Jan finally got to our house. With great kindness, she placed Bea on her pillow and gave her an injection. As our tears plopped down on the denim around her, Bea seemed to sink into herself. Then, in the last moment before her heart stopped beating, she raised her head. Though she'd been completely silent for a year, she let out a final, amazing, joyful "arrooo" Bea had met death, just as she'd met life, with a good bark.

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Kristin Von Kreisler learned from Bea that if she was going to be successful she needed to find something that she cared for which was animals. She now writes about animals for a living.

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Kristin von Kreisler was born on October 4, the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi. All her life she has loved and rescued animals. She has written bestselling books about them and has spoken about their welfare on Coast to Coast to 560 U.S. cities and on the Voice of America to 123 million people.

Her most recent novels are Earnest, about a couple in conflict over custody of their beloved Labrador retriever, and An Unexpected Grace, about a woman and a golden retriever helping each other recover from violence and abuse. A memoir, For Bea, tells the story of Kristin's beagle, who came from a medical lab and influenced her to become an animal writer. Her books have been translated into ten languages.

Before writing books, Kristin free-lanced for magazines and newspapers. To get her stories, she followed a grizzly bear for a week, went hang gliding to see how an eagle felt soaring through the sky, and watched in awe as millions of bats emerged from a cave at dusk like clouds of smoke. Kristin's articles have appeared in anthologies and textbooks and in the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, Woman's Day, Family Circle, Ladies' Home Journal, and Reader's Digest, where she was a staff writer. She has taught English at the University of Hawaii and journalism at California State University at San Jose.
Kristin lives on an island in Washington with her husband, John, and their German Shepherd, Bridget. Kristin says she'd rather work in her garden than breathe. Her kale grows to looming giants, and her lavender and catmint are sirens calling bees. From her desk she watches ospreys and seals, and every hour a ferry passes by. She and John have just renovated a historic Victorian farmhouse, where the island's first postmistress and sheriff once lived with their seven children.

Listen to a podcast of Kristin, talking about her life and work with Anna McClain on Bainbridge Community Broadcasting, March 2014.

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Kristin von Kreisler was born on October 4, the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi. All her life she has loved and rescued animals. She has written bestselling books about them and has spoken about their welfare on Coast to Coast to 560 U.S.

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Bea's owner, Kristin, does lots of research about how to train dogs when she first finds Bea.

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DoggyPedia: All You Need to Know About Dogs, Audiobook Trailer

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Visit Pet Bounce Official Site: http://www.lnk123.com/SHaak ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DoggyPedia: All You Need to Know About Dogs, Audiobook Trailer Amy Morford understands dogs in the same way that Bill Gates understands computers. She's trained them for more than twenty years and can help you train yours.

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But mostly, Bea had taught us about love. Sometimes I thought of her as a fur-wrapped, special-delivery package, sent from the cosmos solely to wake John and me up to love's extraordinary power -- which, we now know, could come most magnificently even from a small dog. Bea had given us so much more than we ever gave her, and she had loved us with such intensity and fervor.

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Other beagles like Bea are given a second chance and are being freed from laboratories.

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Dogs Tested On In Labs Get A Second Chance | The Dodo