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The Hidden Life of Dogs

ISBN: 0395669588

Title: The Hidden Life of Dogs

Author: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

KDL Description:

Based on thirty years of living with and observing dogs, wolves, and dingoes, a profile of the canine world describes the lives of Misha, Maria, and Bingo, explaining what the author has learned in her years as a canine lover.

Amazon Description:

In this beautiful account, based on thirty years of living with and observing dogs, wolves and dingoes novelist and anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas brings us a completely new understanding of dogs. We meet Misha, a friend’s husky, whom Thomas followed on his daily rounds of more than 130 square miles, and who ultimately provided the simple and surprising answer to the question What do dogs want most? Not food, not sex, but other dogs. We also meet Maria, who adored Misha, bore his puppies, and clearly mourned when he moved away; Bingo, a brave asthmatic pug; and many more fascinating individuals in this unforgettable chronicle, which “brims with insight and respect” (Emily Mitchell, Time International).