creature who teaches his owners that, despite their trying to teach him how to be the dog they want, he is the one to lay out the terms of being the dog he needs to be. This insight would change their lives forever. When Charmaine and her husband adopted Toby, a Chesapeake Bay retriever, they figured he might need some adjusting time, but they certainly didn't think he'd be a holy terror beset by anxiety and destructive behavior that would take a miracle to curb. Turns out, Toby routinely opened and emptied closets, turned on water taps, pulled things from the bookshelves and sat in the sink. Oddest of all was his penchant for locking himself in the bathroom, and push the lid of the toilet tank, smashing it to pieces. After a particularly disastrous encounter with the knife-block in the kitchen—and when the couple discovered Toby's blood and paw prints on the phone—they decided the dog needed professional help. Little did they know what they would discover about this dog. "Simply a beautiful book about life, love, and purpose." —Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Soul series