There is a bad boy in the neighborhood named Todd whom Bailey discovers setting fire to Ethan's house. In the summer Ethan visits his grandparents in the country.There is a girl named Hannah who lives down the road and Ethan falls in love with her. He loves Ethan, the boy he lives with, deeply.

In the second reincarnation, the hero is a Golden Retriever named Bailey. He finally has to be put down because he is wounded in a fight. A kind woman with long, white hair names the hero, Toby. The mother dog trains them to fear humans but they are all caught and put in a large fenced-in yard with many other dogs. In each of his incarnations, the dog learns something more about what a dog's purpose is and by the end of the book, he feels he has fulfilled his purpose.įour puppies are born to a feral dog who keeps them hidden in a den scooped out underneath the black roots of a tree. Ethan used to have a sweetheart and Buddy as Bailey brings the two of them together by smell. In this incarnation, Ethan has become an old man.

In this last reincarnation, he meets up with his beloved owner Ethan whom he had known when Ethan was a boy and young man. In his first incarnation, he is a mutt named Toby in his second reincarnation, he is a Golden Retriever named Bailey in his third reincarnation, he is a female dog with the name of Ellie and in the last reincarnation, he is a Black Lab and his name is Buddy. He is seeking 'a dog's purpose in life' in his different reincarnations. The main plot of the book, 'A Dog's Purpose' is the story of a dog who goes through four reincarnations as different dogs.

When does a dogs purpose come out