Dogsygen: Celebrating the Secret Lives of Dogs - Couverture souple

Sugg, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798325045547

Editeur : Independently published, 2024

Synopsis

Dogsygen... All our lives and every day we breathe this secret oxyggen. Watching dogs race and tumble and leap; watching dogs play with children; when the warm calm weight of a dog slows our heartbeats down to the patient rhythms of nature... Sealed off though we are from air and wind and rain, from heat and cold and scent in double-glazed homes, air-conditioned cars, planes, trains and shops and offices, dogs allow us to duck through a secret door directly into a natural world heady with scent and the raw delights of grass, mud, water and animal life. It has been estimated that 'in one year, a mature tree will absorb 48lbs of carbon dioxide from the air and release oxygen in exchange'. Meanwhile, all across the world, dogs take ordinary polluted air, fused with the stress of troubled humans, and effortlessly convert it into dogsygen.

These 222 true dog stories celebrate Dogsygen, and the secret lives, loves, adventures, heroisms and genius of dogs. Many of the stories told here offer us glimpses into secret lives and habits long forgotten. Others recall the now vanished everyday rescues made by ordinary roaming dogs, who saved the lives of adults, children, and other dogs. We meet also the secret unguessed depths of love, devotion, loyalty and friendship nestled in the hearts of dogs. A dog spends days bringing its food to another which is trapped; refuses to leave the body of a dead dog or person; sheds tears for a dead master; takes a wounded dog to hospital; or quite simply dies of grief on the death of its owner.

We explore the courageous and proud sense of duty in sled dogs, dogs of war, police dogs (including a wolf detective in Vienna) or dogs guarding children. We glimpse the secret hints of dog souls and afterlives in the form of ghost dogs; hear the uncanny speech of famous talking dogs; and ask why so much brilliant animal reasoning power has often been degraded under the label of 'instinct'? We also celebrate those humans who seemed to live and breathe and generate a headier, richer dogsygen than ordinary mortals, from legendary prizefighter Tom Sayers, through dauntless female novelist Ouida, and onto the great adventurers and nature lovers, William Butler and John Muir.

At times in this journey we sense also that dogs breathe a form of dogsygen stranger than science can grasp; that they are attuned to a medium allowing telepathy and homing across vast distances, in defiance of accepted laws of the senses and of nature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798325045547
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 485
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