Brenda Ayres

What Dog Lovers Know About God Brenda Ayres

What have dog lovers learned or can learn about God through their relationships with canines? Plenty, especially when the Lord is the trainer. What Dog Lovers Know About God consists of an easy-to-read, entertaining narrative about experiences with dogs that are full of spiritual lessons sure to benefit the individual reader and/or a Bible study group. Through stories about losing a pet and about rehabilitating rescued dogs, this book explains how to: cope with death and loss, have a relationship with God, be confident in ones salvation, be freed from those things that bind us, learn to trust God, study the Bible, do spiritual warfare, identify our true enemy, become more like Jesus, hear God, know His will, appreciate fellowship, endure and understand suffering and trials, embrace our own rehabilitation, have patience through training, love the leash, live in dog-wagging joy, and best of all, know Gods unconditional love.




Dr. Brenda Ayres is a full professor of nineteenth-century English literature and has taught in universities for over 40 years. To date her published scholarship includes over 300 articles and 64 books with these released in 2021: The Theological Dickens (Routledge), A Vindication of the Redhead: The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts (Palgrave), Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures (Palgrave), and Victorian Scandals (Routledge). She is also the Series Editor for women's literature for Routledge. A member of Bethlehem UMC in Red Lion, Pennsylvania, she sings on its choir and often teaches a Bible Study. Annie and Libby are her two cocker spaniels, both having been rescues.