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Title: For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend
ISBN: 0345477146
Author:
Patricia B. McConnell
Publicate Date: 2006-08-29
Publish: 2006-08-29
List Price: $24.95
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: Showed Me What I Was Missing!
This book is amazing - a fast-paced entertaining read, plus it improved my relationship with my dogs. I never knew how much I was missing. My dogs were sending me signals about how they were feeling using facial expressions and body language and I just wasn't getting it. Now that I know what to look for we can have two-way communication. The numerous photos inside are helpful and entertaining. I also loved the stories about the author's dogs Tulip and Luke.
This book is essential for all dog lovers. I can't recommend it enough!
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2: Too much story telling
If you like a lot of story telling, you will probably enjoy this book.
But for me, I like a little story and get straight to the point. So far I can't get pass the massive of this happened, that happened...etc. I'll probably pick it up again sometimes when I really don't have anything else to do or read.
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3: Heartwarming and intellectually stimulating
A dog nerd's delight, this book delves into the complex subject of canine intelligence and emotion and brings along compassion for both the animal and the well-intentioned, occasionally foolish human.
The pictures are great! Comparing a dog's facial expression/mood with that of a human being in same frame of mind was a stroke of genius. Who will not understand that? Those photos alone make the book purchase worthwhile.
It's not an easy read but well worth the extra effort. Every sentence is packed with meaning and some of the information presented is foreign and technical. It takes some additional contemplation to fully appreciate everything that was discussed.
Readers of this book can't help changing for the better.
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4: Do Dogs Feel Emotions? Silly Question!
I am nearly finished with this book and I have thoroughly enjoyed it.
In the first chapter, I grew somewhat impatient. It seemed a bit overwritten. Mostly though it addressed the question, still alive in scientific circles, of whether or not dogs feel emotions; I think I was more impatient with the question than the writing. As a dog person, I've answered this question to my own satisfaction: of course they do! And indeed, over the course of the book, the author makes a very strong scientific case for the fact that, yes, dogs almost certainly do feel emotions.
What I loved about the book is the author's combination of experience and passion for dogs. Her experience is in helping problem dogs. So much wisdom here. I saw my own dogs from a new perspective. I even saw myself from a new perspective. She discusses what science has discovered about both human and canine brains and how it applies to emotion. Fascinating stuff.
She tells delightful stories about her own dogs and dogs she has known professionally.
She is a good writer, good story teller and this is a great book.
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5: So-so.
Obviously written by a new Author. The amount repetition in this book can become overwhelmingly irritating. The information it does give is certainly worth knowing, and is why I gave the book two stars.
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