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

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

by Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce

ISBN:  9781608685424

Publisher:  New World Library

Publication Year:  2019

Format:  Trade Paperback

Pages:  204

From the back cover:

“No matter how cushy their lives, dogs live on our terms. They compromise their freedom and instinctual pleasure, as well as their innate strategies for coping with stress and anxiety, in exchange for the love, comfort, and care they get from us. But it is possible to let dogs be dogs without wreaking havoc on our lives, as biologist Marc Bekoff and bioethicist Jessica Pierce show in this fascinating book. 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 dogs’ freedom in safe, mutually happy ways. The rewards, they show, are great for dog and human alike.

‘This is not just another dog book. It’s a dog manifesto! Written by two supremely gifted experts, Unleashing Your Dog reveals not only what your dog wants but why.’ ~ Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus and How to Be a Good Creature

‘Two paws up for this great work! Designed to inform and educate in an entertaining and easy-to-read format, it will help dogs and dog owners everywhere live richer lives.’ ~ Dr. Nicholas H. Dodman, professor emeritus at Tufts University and author of Dogs Behaving Badly and The Dog Who Loved Too Much

‘This easy-to-read guide will enlighten and entertain dog lovers everywhere.’ ~ Marty Becker, DVM, author of Your Dog:  The Owner’s Manual

‘Remarkably informative, inspirational…Everyone who shares their life with a dog or is thinking of doing so will benefit from this book, as will the dogs.’ ~ Mark Derr, author of How the Dog Became the Dog