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Dog Is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You (Clive D. Wynne)
A pioneering canine behaviorist draws on cutting-edge research to show that a single, simple trait—the capacity to love—is what makes dogs such perfect companions for humans, and explains how we can better reciprocate their affection.
Does your dog love you?
Every dog lover knows the feeling. The nuzzle of a dog’s nose, the warmth of them lying at our feet, even their whining when they want to get up on the bed. It really seems like our dogs love us, too. But for years, scientists have resisted that conclusion, warning against anthropomorphizing our pets. Enter Clive Wynne, a pioneering canine behaviorist whose research is helping to usher in a new era: one in which love, not intelligence or submissiveness, is at the heart of the human-canine relationship. Drawing on cutting‑edge studies from his lab and others around the world, Wynne shows that affection is the very essence of dogs, from their faces and tails to their brains, hormones, even DNA. This scientific revolution is revealing more about dogs’ unique origins, behavior, needs, and hidden depths than we ever imagined possible.
A humane, illuminating book, Dog Is Love is essential reading for anyone who has ever loved a dog—and experienced the wonder of being loved back.
Product details:
- Paperback: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 0358414237
- ISBN-13: 978-0358414230
- Dimensions: 5.31 x 0.68 x 8 inches
- Publisher: Mariner Books; Reprint edition (September 1, 2020)
- Language: English
- Hardcover: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 132854396X
- ISBN-13: 978-1328543967
- Dimensions: 6 x 0.95 x 9 inches
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Illustrated edition (September 24, 2019)
- Language: English
About the Author:
Clive D.L. Wynne, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University. Previously, he was founding director of the Canine Cognition and Behavior Laboratory at the University of Florida, the first lab of its kind in the United States. A native of the United Kingdom, Wynne has lived and worked in Germany and Australia as well as the United States and gives frequent talks to paying audiences around the world. The author of several previous academic books and of more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles that count among the most highly cited studies on dog psychology, he has also published pieces in Psychology Today, New Scientist, and the New York Times, and has appeared in several television documentaries about dog science on National Geographic Explorer, PBS, and the BBC. He lives in Tempe, Arizona.
Review:
“Lively and fascinating, Dog Is Love reveals a simple and yet enormously profound insight: Dogs are unique because they love us. The reader comes away cheered, better informed, and with a new and deeper appreciation for our amazing canine companions and their enormous capacity for love.”
(Cat Warren, New York Times best-selling author of What the Dog Knows)
“Clive Wynne is a thoughtful and clever canine cognition researcher; here, he tells the story of his, and his students’, particular journey through researching this intellectual puzzle: how are dogs so perfectly suited to our species? As a child, a dog’s love is certain; as a researcher, talking of dog ‘love’ is verboten. Clive gets through that and comes back to where he’s begun, with a dog happily rushing to greet him when he comes home.” (Alexandra Horowitz, New York Times best-selling author of Inside of a Dog and Our Dogs, Ourselves)
“A beautiful ode to all things canine. Clive Wynne gives us the best scientific proof that dogs really do love us.” (Gregory Berns, author of How Dogs Love Us)
“Science finally reveals the dog’s secret: the unique capacity for love that separates them from all other animals. Superb.” (John Bradshaw, New York Times best-selling author of Dog Sense)