When a house dog grows depressed alongside her owner, the dog escapes into the woods and must learn how to survive on her own four feet.

A naturalist's boyfriend offers to put her elderly dog down, but he finds it difficult as he thinks about his relationship.

An older man, recently retired, lives in Paris with his younger husband who is often traveling for work. Though the man is reluctant when his husband first brings home a dog, the pet soon becomes his close companion as he struggles with aging, questions his marriage, and faces trauma from his youth.

After a plague wipes out mankind, talking fifty-year-old dogs roam the world aimlessly, unsure of what to do without their best friends.

After the disappearance of one of her beloved humans, a dachshund tries to acclimate to life without her. But, when yet another loss strikes, the dachshund's life is changed forever.

A boy observes the close relationship between a unique hunting dog and his companions when they venture out to catch an elusive bear.

Writing a foreword, a man reflects on his relationship to a writer and said writer's wife.

Bundy, an old man, agrees to take care of Miss Tyler’s dog. However, Bundy is ashamed of the pet, and waits for the canine to die.

After his dog falls ill, a socially awkward middle-aged man struggles to navigate his day-to-day life without her.

A Russian, fifty-two-year-old cancer survivor living in New York struggles to come to terms with the fact that his dog—which had been left behind by his ex-girlfriend—might be dying.