Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond Audiobook (Free)

From Alexandra Horowitz, #1 NY Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog, an eye-opening, informative, and wholly entertaining evaluation and celebration from the human-canine relationship for the curious dog owner and science-lover alike.

We keep dogs and are kept by them. We love dogs and (we suppose) we are adored by them. We get them sweaters, toys, shoes; we are concerned with their public lives, their food, and their health. The story of human beings and dogs can be thousands of years of age but about Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond is definately not understood. In Our Dogs, Ourselves, Alexandra Horowitz explores all aspects of this unique and complex interspecies pairing.

As Horowitz considers the existing culture of dogdom, she reveals the odd, surprising, and contradictory methods we live with canines. We commemorate their individuality but breed them for sameness. Despite our deep emotional relationships with canines, legally they are property to become bought, sold, empty, or euthanized as we want. Even the way we talk with our dogs reaches once perplexing and delightful.

In thirteen thoughtful and wonderful chapters, Our Dogs, Ourselves affirms our serious affection because of this most charismatic of pets—and starts our eyes to the companions at our sides as never before.