I've just started reading a book called "The Dog Who Spoke with Gods". It's VERY good so far.

If anyone's interested, this is the little "introduction" that tells you a bit about it first.

"When Elizabeth, a young premed student, happens upon Damien, a dog being used in laboratory research on her campus, she has no way of knowing how drastically her life--and her beliefs--will be changed. Without meaning to, she slowly becomes drawn into the dog's fate and is soon torn between the love and respect she has come to feel for Damien and the sence of loyalty and obligation she feels for the medical profession as well as her father and grandfather, both cardiac surgeons."

Damien by the way, is a Pit Bull.