A Dogged Romance

A poodle's bite brings romance that grows into love that survives all.A nice young woman takes her mean standard poodle for a walk in the park, and the dog bites a wealthy young man.She's still struggling to keep her Broadway dream alive with occasional local theater roles. He's struggling to get over the loss of his parents by partying a lot. She won't move in with him, but she moves into his guesthouse. He comments on the dog being a jerk and says he's one too, but she knows better.They go down South for her youngest sister's wedding, and he convinces her to marry him when her sister is jilted. Her sister moves into the guesthouse and she shares his luxury home with him and her dog, who still doesn't like him. He finds her a job as theater director while he gives her younger sister a job.They have a girl, and the poodle makes him do his share of late-night parenting. They buy a second home down South, and she teases him about buying a home with the dog's needs in mind.They go to a pet-friendly bistro where a Maine coon cat bullies the bullying poodle. She and her daughter perform with the pet-friendly lady who runs the place.Their precocious daughter gives the poodle a home haircut and they go to a fancy pet salon to get it fixed. They meet a man who suggests they show her pedigree poodle.They return to her hometown to have their daughter's birthday party. The wind whips up on the bouncy playhouse and he and the dog hang by a rope until they get the playhouse filled with children down. He brags on the dog and jokes when he gets his second bite.After he's injured in a car accident, the mean dog gives him tough love to get him to walk again.He sees how sad the dog is and they decide to get a poodle wife for their standard poodle.She gets weak but doesn't want that to spoil a rare date-night. He gets his third bite from her dog. They get to the hospital and get bad news. About her.The dog gets her family through the hard times. The pet-friendly bistro owner helps her family out too.The woman gives him the hard talks the others can't. She tells him he needs to find the balance when he throws himself into work too hard. When he goes the other way, and becomes a helicoptering parent.When the poodle passes, the woman with the big cat helps him get a proper monument to the dog he pretended not to love. She does more than that. She helps him move on after his wife passed on.The next wedding lets guests bring their pets. There's singing from the daughter who got her mother's talent. There's the raucous and humorous behaviors you'd expect from a party for people and pets. There's also a promise that's fulfilled. In the dark of the new couple's first dance, there's an unlikely pair seeing that all is right with the world before they leave.

• | Author: David Matheny
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: Mar 15, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 66 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1090540000
• | ISBN-13: 9781090540003