Marley

I couldn't believe the amount of posters on here that had read Marley and Me. Not to say its a bad book, but because I didn't realise how popular the book actually was. I was just in Wal-Mart one day, and saw the cover. Before moving out with my wife two years ago, I lived at home, and our dog was a yellow lab. Kira is the total opposite of Marley, and when I read in the book that there are two different types of labs, I couldn't believe it. Now I know why Kira is smaller, and more squat in stature than the usual yellow labs that I see. Her tail is more bristlier like a husky, and her nature has always been calm and subdued, even as a puppy. Now I know why. She's an English Labrador Retriever. I love reading Marley and Me, and I've got about eighty pages to go. I've been laughing at the antics of this dog, because my obsessively neurotic Weimaraner 2 year old dog, Tucker seems to be just the same. Mind you he never destroyed anything as a puppy, but his rambunctious behaviour, jumping up, slobering his water from the bowl, jumping into our shower, tracking mud in the house, chasing our year old siamese around until she freaks out on him, banging on doors if we leave him out of our room/bathroom/basement/outside etc. Its such a hillarious book, and I for one wouldn't want to see it made into a movie. There is just no dog who could fill in for Marley, no matter how good it was a being goofy. Those pictures in the book's front and rear are all the images that I need to think of Marley.

I just finished the book! So touching, I read some to my boyfriend, he got very teary, he used to have a lab like marley named Gemma, but his mum was forced to give her away when she remarried.

I have a 14 year old french pappion, he's very old now also has lost control of his bladder and eyesight.

We also had a 13 year old long haired chihuaha (sp?) But he sadly passed away about a week ago due to illness

Wow, i never realised how popular the book was, even more so to the point where it's made this direct to video film highly sought after on ebay and everywhere else, lol.

For the record my dad gave me Marley And Me after finishing it and said i should try it, i read it all in one sitting over the course of about 4 or 5 hours, i couldn't put it down at all and had to see what marley did next. I was laughing my head off at the mishaps and mischief he caused (him dragging a table across a restaurant smashing everything as it went was priceless)

Brilliant book and although i don't usually get sad at films or books the ending chapters of Marley And Me drew quite a few tears from me, mostly because it reminded me of my dog which i lost recently.

His name was Cal (short for Calvin), he was a border collie who amazingly went on to be close to 19 years old, i'd had him since i was about 2 or 3 and loved him to bits, he eventually became too weak due to old age to stand up, in his last few months we had to help him get to his feet to go outside to the toilet but it got to the point where his body had just almost come to a halt so we had to take him to the vets and let him go. I cried my eyes out for days after losing him.

To add salt to the wound as such i lost my other border collie called kizzie (herself about 14 years old) about two weeks later due to a cancer on her liver, so she again had to be put to sleep. Again i was devastated for days afterwards, it was such a shock to lose her so quickly.

Reading Marley And Me made me realise that i'm not the only one who loved his dog(s) like family, so do a lot of you by the sounds of it too. Right now i've got a west highland terrier called Belle and another Border Collie called Henry who fits Marleys personality pretty well, he's crazy as hell (but also one of the most intelligent dogs i've ever seen in my life)

My story's a lot like yours. I have a REALLY dumb lab mix, but he's soo adorable. My dad saw the cover in the book store the second day we had our dog and little Marley looked so much like our Comet we had to buy it! So now it's a family favorite, and I had to research this movie!