Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
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- Ted Kerasote (Écrivain)
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His deep brown eyes looked at me with luminous appreciation and said, "You need a dog, and I'm it."
Unsettled by his uncanny read of me--I had been looking for a dog for over a year--I gave him a cordial pat and replied, "Good dog."
His tail beat steadily, and he didn't move, his eyes still saying, "You need a dog."
After a night together,
...he was still curled in his nest, looking directly at me.
"Hey," I said.
Up went one brow, down went the other.
"I am yours," his eyes said.
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Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
- France : 2008-04-21 - Poche (Français)
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While on a camping trip, Ted Kerasote met a dog—a Labrador mix—who was living on his own in the wild. They became attached to each other, and Kerasote decided to name the dog Merle and bring him home. There, he realized that Merle's native intelligence would be diminished by living exclusively in the human world. He put a dog door in his house so Merle could live both outside and in.
A deeply touching portrait of a remarkable dog and his relationship with the author, Merle's Door explores the issues that all animals and their human companions face as their lives intertwine, bringing to bear the latest research into animal consciousness and behavior as well as insights into the origins and evolution of the human-dog partnership. Merle showed Kerasote how dogs might live if they were allowed to make more of their own decisions, and Kerasote suggests how these lessons can be applied universally.
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