““When told the news, a young friend who was a regular victim of Chester's lunging love-bombs said mournfully, 'He was the sweetest creature I ever saw. He's the only dog I ever saw kiss a cat.' Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a dog. I think not. After all, it is perfectly normal--indeed, deeply human--to be moved when nature presents us with a vision of great beauty. Should we not be moved when it produces a vision--a creature--of the purest sweetness?””
