Even while we see ourselves in dogs, we also treat them in surprising ways.
We love dogs and (we assume) we are loved by them. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd ISBN: 9781471185182 Number of pages: 320 Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 23 mm You may also be interested in.This middle grade adaptation of Our Dogs, Ourselves is an eye-opening, entertaining, and beautifully illustrated look at humans’ complicated and sometimes contradictory relationship with man’s best friend by New York Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog. It is intended for the curious dog owner and science-lover alike, who wants to read good, intelligent thinking on dogs, not overly sentimental but not without heart. 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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