In this heartwarming and illuminating collection of twenty-five original stories of personal experience, Neil Plakcy and Sharon Sakson celebrate the joy, growth, and healing offered to all of us by the dogs in our lives. Touching, powerful, and often humorous, Paws and Reflect explores and celebrates the special bond between gay men and their dogs, yet the universal appeal of unconditional love from man's best friend makes Paws and Reflect a must-read for dog lovers regardless of gender or sexual orientation.

Playwright and filmmaker Craig Lucas has written, "A guy I dated didn't like my Dachshund. One of them is gone, and it isn't the Dachshund. As it happens there are two terrific Dachshund essays in this book. Both made me cry and one of them has the best punchline I've come across in a long time. Drink in these real-life stories of dog lovers and devotion."

Interviewees include Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee, Academy Award-nominated writer Ron Nyswaner, director Jonathan Caouette, actor and playwright Charles Busch, and Animal Planet's David Mizejewski, with contributions from Jay Quinn, Hal Campbell, Russ Overton, Lev Raphael, and sixteen others.

This book is published by Neil S. Plakcy and Sharon Sakson and distributed by Untreed Reads Publishing.