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Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog

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One day in Minnesota, he met my mom, Abby, and she reminded him of Merle. She was calm and even looked like Merle. I might have given up, but I didn't. Since we lived just across the field from each other, we were going to have to be neighbors. Every day, I'd go over to play ball with him and the other dogs and Eric, their person. He's a great ball thrower.

In telling Merle's story, Kerasote also explores the science behind canine behavior and evolution, weaving in research on the human-canine bond and musing on the way dogs see the world. Merle is a true character, yet Merle is also Everydog. An absolute treasure of a book." Booklist

If your pet dog starts becoming more self-actualized, there might be a time they’ll hold a mirror for you, and the face you see on it might be a humbling experience for you. Told in Pukka the pup’s charming voice and accompanied by more than 200 photos, Pukka: The Pup After Merletells the story of how Ted found Pukka. It recounts the early days of their bonding as they explored both Ted’s hometown of Kelly, Wisconsin, and the wider world. As walks become hikes and hikes become climbs, pup and man’s adventures culminate in a rugged wilderness journey that teaches both Pukka and Ted something new about the dog-human partnership. Kerasote makes scientific detours during the telling of his story to explain how dogs evolved and why they have certain attributes. The factoids are at times so interesting, and Kerasote's observations so astute, that I realized how little attention I pay to my own dogs' idiosyncrasies, and how shallow my own observations are.

We went to the bank, the pet store, the kayak store, the café, and the bookstore. These were fun, but the most fun was stopping at the Kelly post office to get the mail.be dogs -- in other words, diminishing their authority over them—because, frankly, authority is addictive. In our western

Reading Merle's Door involves more than just sailing through an engaging biography of a man sharing his life with a rare and free-spirited dog since it contains islands of useful and scientifically sound information about dog behavior as well. To be entertained and educated at the same time time is rare in dog books, which makes this one definitely worth reading." author of How Dogs Think Stanley Coren Compare the end-of-life care Merle and Brower received to the care humans receive. Have you been in a situation that could have been gracefully resolved by applying Bernard Hershhorn’s criteria, described in “Through the Door”? Should distinctions be made between the rituals, medical treatments, and euthanasia procedures we apply to pets and those we apply to humans? Right away some of Ted's friends came by to say hi. Bailey was first. She's a famous grouse hunter.

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T]his summer's Marley? In his memoir cum training manual, Kerasote waxes poetic about his mutt Merle and provides tips for deepening the dog/human bond." People Magazine He now looked as if he were going to die. He didn't look in the least regretful, though. In fact, he wore a blissful smile.

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