Unleashing Your Dog: A Field Guide to Giving Your Canine Companion the Best Life Possible - Couverture souple

Bekoff, Marc; Pierce, Jessica

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 160868542X ISBN 13 : 9781608685424

Editeur : New World Library, 2019

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The phrase "it's a dog's life" connotes happy-go-lucky days of pleasure and ease. But our canine companions are in many ways our captives. No matter how cushy their captivity, we decide what and when they eat; where they sleep, poop, and play; when they can walk and when they must sit or stay. As the demand for dog trainers and veterinary behaviorists attests, dogs are not naturally adapted to living with and among modern humans. They give up a lot of freedom and instinctual pleasure, as well as their innate strategies for coping with stress and anxiety, in exchange for the comfort and care they get from humans. Bekoff and Pierce show that it is possible to let dogs be dogs without wreaking havoc on our own lives. They begin by illuminating the true nature of dogs and helping us "walk in their paws." They reveal what smell, taste, touch, sight, and hearing mean to dogs and then guide readers through everyday ways of enhancing a dog's freedom and minimizing deprivations in safe, mutually happy ways. The rewards, they show, are great -- for dog and human alike.

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Praise for previous books coauthored by Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce:

"Bekoff and Pierce want to create a shift in the human-animal relationship, and those that are ready to do so will want to read this book."
--Library Journal

"Through meticulous research and with a rational and reasoned approach, prolific animal rights advocate Bekoff (Rewilding Our Hearts, 2014) and colleague Pierce advocate for violence-free, more compassionate, and harmonious relations between humans and animals in all situations."
--Booklist

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: New World Library
• Date d'édition: 2019
• ISBN 10: 160868542X
• ISBN 13: 9781608685424
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256