Question about Shiloh

I am 10 years old, and I was wondering if the real Shiloh is still alive? My favorite part of your book was when Marty was able to keep Shiloh. I learned from your book that you should never lie, but in Marty’s case he was lieing because he needed to protect Shiloh. You also have to be brave even if you are really scared like how Shiloh was about going back to Judd.

No, Shiloh died in 2000.  The vet estimated that she was about twelve years old.  I had a gravestone placed over her grave.  Many of us will face a similar problem in our lives–not about a dog–but about which action to choose, when both have consequences.  Even voting can be a problem: neither candidate is perfect, and we have to decide which one would do the most for our country and which would do the most harm.  Huckleberry Finn faced the problem when he and the slave Jim took off on a raft, choosing freedom for Jim, even though at the time it was against the law.