![]() There are still many (often non-'scientific') questions that remain unanswered about dogs: about their minds, yes, but especially about living with dogs in our society, and how we can best treat them now and in the future. It can change the course of our lives: dogs weave their way into our lives with their constant silent presence by our sides. ![]() It changes the course of our days: dogs need to be walked, fed, attended to. Horowitz shows that when each person makes the decision to breed, own, or adopt a dog, we enter into a relationship that will change us. And she goes beyond the cognitive science to consider the culture, laws, and human dynamics that reveal and restrict this bond between two disparate species. ![]() ![]() From her position as a dog scientist, she uses the science of dogs and dog-human interaction to ground a consideration of the various ways that dogs, as a species, reflect us, and how they reflect (sometimes badly, sometimes well) on us. In this book Alexandra Horowitz examines what's called the 'dog-human bond': examining all aspects of the complexity of this unique interspecies pairing. ![]()
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