Andy: Twenty-Four Years of Foul Play with a Talking Crow

By Whitney J. Dough

Andy Dough is always getting into trouble. Andy is consistently given to gluttony and jealousy, and he's always back-talking Mother Dough and his brothers. In Andy: Twenty-four Years of Fowl Play with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1577360400
• ISBN13: 9781577360407
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Providence House Publishers
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

As Told To A Bird

Whitney Dough is a cool writer and his book, The Hymn Writers, is *the* reference book if you're ever interested in looking up the bare facts about the lives and works of the male and female writers of your favorite church hymns. They were a varied lot and quite talented, with more quirks than you'd expect! ANDY is even more upfront about its eccentricity. In the Bible there are not very many crows, whereas there are ravens galore, perhaps because the weather conditions of the Middle East prevented crows from thriving whereas it was good for ravens? Most of the time you find "crow" in the Bible, it's as a verb: for example, "Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The `rooster' shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice." Whitney Dough is a religious man and the story of his life with Andy is an amusing one, for all its sadness. There's something about living with a bird that makes you seem kooky to others, but those of us who have had this experience from the inside know that there's something sacred about it. Not for nothing is the Holy Father continually compared to a pet owner, nor we the sinners a flock of birds. Remember Bede's story of human life as a bird darting into one window of a lighted house, on a dark night, then flying back out again into the darkness? I don't know why the other reviewer gave this book only a few stars; maybe because it was too personal and revealing, and not enough ornithology. But there are many books about crow life, and hardly any about spending two decades of one's life with one, and so this is a cherishable book in which you will find tools and tips for appreciating your own pet in (and finding your spiritual side as well).