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    My Lucky Dog
    My Lucky Dog
    My Lucky Dog
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    My Lucky Dog

    By Mellon Tytell

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    Hunter, my majestic eighty-six-pound mutt, was the love of my life for thirteen years. I was addicted to looking at him—every twitch of his ear was fascinating to me. I've taken thousands of photographs of him, dozens even in the same position. He was "my lucky dog."

    I adopted Hunter when he was two. He came with that name, his former owner a fan of Hunter S. Thompson. I noticed Hunter's photo in the window of a pet store in Vermont and brought him home.

    If I was the lucky break in his life, he was the transforming experience in mine. Before, I was a little wild. As a photographer, I traveled around the world, picking up and leaving on a dime. Life was exciting: photo shoots in Paris, Haiti, the Himalayas, the Andes, and even the Amazon.

    Hunter tamed me. I couldn't be away from him for more than five hours at a time. I had no children of my own; Hunter taught me about responsibility, love, and devotion in a way that was inaccessible to me with "people."

    —Mellon
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 22, 2011
    ISBN9780062043962
    My Lucky Dog
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    Mellon Tytell

    Mellon Tytell is a photographer whose fashion, editorial, and fine art photography has appeared in publications internationally and has been exhibited in galleries around the world. She lives in New York City's West Village and the Green Mountains of Vermont with her husband, the writer John Tytell, and their dog Frank.

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      After several months of reading this book every time I went to the book store, I put it at the top of my Christmas wish list and have never gotten a gift I've enjoyed more. The photos of Hunter, a beautiful brindle hound mix with a white chest, are wonderful, and the accompanying text succinct and heart warming. Every dog lover should own this book to read over and over about Hunter and his owners, who "In the thirteen years we had him...never had to say B-A-D D-O-G."

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