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Three books for dog lovers
This week, I’m bringing you three books for the dog lovers in your life. And if there are no dog lovers in your life? My gosh! You need some new friends and family!
The first book is one that I’m reading aloud to my dog, Dara. OK, she’s snoring through most of it but I’m savoring Clive D.L. Wynne’s “Dog is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You.” Wynne founded a canine science lab at Arizona State University and his book is a marvelous mix of scientific research about dog evolution and behavior and anecdotes and observations about dogs like Chaser and Missy and his own dog Xephos. "We matter to dogs," Wynne writes, "on a deeper level than most scientists and experts are comfortable admitting.”
My second must-have book for dog-obsessed readers like me comes from another scientist, and it is as readable and charming as Clive Wynne’s. Alexandra Horowitz runs the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College and her new book, “Our Dogs, Ourselves” investigates how dog behavior reflects who we are and how our relationship with our dogs changes both of us. Horowitz writes: “Once a dog has your heart, you are stuck: there is no undoing it.”
And my third dog book is a modern classic that your kids will love — Minnesota author Kate DiCamillo’s “Because of Winn-Dixie.” Watch the movie — if you must — but read the book with your kids first! In fact, make it a Christmas Eve tradition!
~Kerri Miller |
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