Heart Dog

Opening to Love, Healing & Everyday Magic

Andrea Montgomery & Monty

With a curated collection of love letters to heart animals from around the globe

Heart Dog

Heart Dog: Opening to Love, Healing & Everyday Magic is a profound and deeply personal love story that explores the mysteries of love, loss, connection and what it means to live with an open heart.When Andrea brings home Monty, a four-month-old rescue puppy, she has no idea how profoundly their lives will become entwined. As they journey together through joy, change, healing and loss, their relationship carries Andrea beyond old fears and familiar ways of seeing, opening her to a world alive with connection, wonder and everyday magic.Their intimate story reaches into the larger mystery of love and how it can transform us.Infused with warmth, humor, and profound tenderness, Heart Dog is both a love story and celebration of extraordinary partnerships.Heart Dog invites you to discover a world that is more connected, more mysterious, and more filled with everyday magic than you ever imagined.

What people are saying . . .

" Andrea Montgomery offers us a rare and tender gift in Heart Dog—a deeply moving account of the heart and soul connection she shared with Monty, the beloved dog who entered her life at just the right time. Through their journey, she reveals profound insights about love, transformation, and finding one's purpose. With courage and vulnerability, Andrea invites animal lovers to listen more closely to the wisdom of their companions and to embrace the healing truths they share. Heart Dog is a book to treasure—one that gently guides readers back to the quiet knowing of their own hearts, through the unconditional love of their animal kin."Tammy Billups, International Pioneer on the Sacred Animal-Human Partnership, Certified Interface Therapist, and Author of four award-winning books, including Animal Soul Contracts, and Your Animal - Your Soul Mirror

" In Heart Dog, Andrea offers a deeply authentic and moving account of transformation through her relationship with her beloved dog, Monty. Her willingness to explore both the depths of grief and the expansiveness of love makes this book a powerful testament to the healing potential of the human-animal bond. What makes this story so compelling is its honesty. Andrea does not present a perfect path, but a real one, filled with questions, doubts, breakthroughs, and ultimately, trust. Through Monty, we see how animals can guide us toward greater compassion, presence, and connection when we are willing to listen. A touching and inspiring read for anyone who has ever loved an animal and been changed by that love."Kathleen Prasad, Founder of Animal Reiki Source and the creator of the Let Animals Lead method

“What I thought was going to be an ordinary reading project has turned out to be a truly profound experience. You’ve written a gorgeous love letter to your Monty and hit a key that so many are searching for in explaining the emotions we struggle to define as we go about living our lives.”Jan Pierce Murphy, Compassion Fatigue Coach, artist, animal advocate

Andrea & Monty

Andrea Montgomery is a writer, animal lover, and lifelong student of the natural world. For more than twenty years, she worked as a botanist and ecologist, studying the intricate relationships that connect living things and helping to protect and restore wild places in the Pacific Northwest.But her greatest teacher came into her life on four paws, with two sparkling eyes.Monty is a rescue dog of unmistakable character - joyful, expressive, ebullient, effervescent, smart, devious, curious, loud, sensitive, stubborn, funny, opinionated and endlessly enthusiastic about just about everything.With his extraordinary capacity for love and joy, Monty changed not only the course of Andrea's life, but the way she understands what it means to love and to be alive.Monty became her companion - yes - but also her collaborator and greatest teacher, inviting her to question old assumptions, loosen her grip on certainty, and step into a world richer, more mysterious, and more magical that she had ever dreamed possible.Monty is Andrea's heart dog and Andrea is Monty's heart person.Heart Dog is Andrea's first book - and their love story.Today, Andrea continues to explore ways in which love itself may be the very deepest way of knowing and understanding our world.Andrea currently works as an intuitive interspecies communicator and wildlife rehabilitator.She is working on her second book - and it is about animals (of course).Though Monty left this life in May 2025, Andrea considers this very much a continuing collaboration. After all, some relationships are just too large for a lifetime.Learn more about Andrea & Monty at www.montheart.com

Love Letters

"Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends."-Hafiz

There are animals who hold very particular keys to opening very particular human hearts.Heart animals.As I wrote Heart Dog, I felt an awareness, a kinship with all those beings - past, present and future - who have loved another being with their whole heart.I recognized with awe that Heart Dog is one love story among so many.I felt the immense power of all that love.And I wanted to share that too.So, I invited people to contribute love letters to their own heart animals.The response was breathtaking.

Letters flowed in from people who may be familiar to you - like acclaimed actor and animal advocate Peter Egan; global leader in moon-bear conservation and founder of Animals Asia Jill Robinson; prolific author, compassionate conservation pioneer and dog behavior expert Dr. Marc Bekoff; author and dog advocate Jai Arjun Singh; poet John Roedel; TV psychic Anna Raimondi; author and founder of The Retreat Animal Rescue Billy Thompson - and from many others who you will come to know through their letters to their beloved heart animals.Each letter is a love story.

Who is your heart animal?

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"It is healing simply to be heard, to be met, to be seen, to be known."
-Jon Kabat-Zinn

Love In Action

I often asked Monty, "Do you know how MUCH I LOVE you?"Each time he would look at me enquiringly, ears perked, pips raised, and I would take his sleek face in my hands and kiss his silky cheek and tell him -"I love you so much that it fills up the WHOLE world!"And that is true.The truest thing.And that's why ALL profits from Heart Dog will be used to help animals from all over the world live their very best lives.It's one way our love keeps living in the world.That's Monty's legacy . . . & Burnie's, & Arnold's, & Rocky's, & Spirit's, & Squirt's, & Martini's, & Buz's, & Big Girl's, & DJ's, & Tucker's, & Megan's, & Douglas's, & Sasha's, & Dora's, & Nellie's & Fifi's, & Coco's, & Star's & Tina's, & Jethro's, and . . .

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