I have strange feelings about this. It's not that I didn't enjoy it, because I did (obviously considering I gave this 4 stars) but I felt really sad for the greater majority of this. First Buck is taken from what seems like a loving family, then he is abused, then he gets stuck with some crappy humans and other animals that he doesn't get along with, until he finally ends up with a human who loves him, but said human ultimately dies in the end. I guess it's as happy as an ending that Buck could have gotten. I just wasn't prepared for how sad this was going to make me.