“Thought-provoking. . . . A recent and rigorous inquiry into how people can greatest serve their canine companions. Canine lovers will wish to take be aware.” ― Publishers Weekly

By Zazie Todd PhD

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This month, the Animal Guide Membership is studying Who’s a Good Canine? And The best way to Be a Higher Human by Jessica Pierce. 

From the writer:

“Who’s a Good Canine? is an invite to nurture extra considerate and balanced relationships with our canine companions. By deepening our curiosity about what our canines are experiencing, and by working along with them in a spirit of collaboration, we will grow to be simpler and compassionate caregivers.

With sympathy for the challenges met by each canines and their people, bioethicist Jessica Pierce explores frequent practices of caring for canines, together with how we offer train, what we feed, how and why we socialize and prepare, and the way we make use of instruments resembling collars and leashes. She helps us each to establish potential sources of concern and anxiousness in our canines’ lives and to increase practices that present bodily and emotional nourishment. Who’s a Good Canine? additionally encourages us to assume extra critically about what we count on of our canines and the way these expectations can set everybody up for fulfillment or failure. Pierce affords sources to assist us domesticate attentiveness and kindness, inspiring us to follow the artwork of noticing, of astonishment, of wanting with recent eyes at these beings we expect we all know so nicely. And greater than this, she makes her findings relatable by analyzing aspects of her relationship with Bella, the canine in her life. As Bella reveals all through, all canines are good canines, and we, as people and canine guardians, may very well be doing a bit bit higher to get together with them and provides them what they want.”

Who’s a Good Canine? is accessible from all good bookstores and my Amazon retailer. 

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