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picotly's review against another edition
This book just made me angry so I'm freeing myself of it. I feel like the author would bring up a good point of needed-change in the dog world but then then refuses to endorse anything that would require any of the natural discomfort of change. Also laughable (bad) to categorize police dogs as working dogs necessary in an imagined better world for dogs. This book just felt so steeped in a white, upper middle class perspective that it is never going to actually provide useful ways for rethinking our relationship to dogs. Also, I just have to say as someone working in an animal shelter, super gross to see someone advocate for policies that would take dogs away from people not living up to some mystical standard of care that was so classed I wanted to scream.
bucketoffish's review against another edition
3.0
This is an interesting series of essays on the relationship between humans and dogs. Horowitz talks about topics as diverse as what people say to their dogs, views on desexing dogs, the history of dog breeds, names for dogs, the misinterpretation of what dogs think, etc. I thought this book was really fun and would recommend it for dog lovers.
rayne709's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
2.0
Listened to the version read by the author. Not going to lie listening to this book instead of reading it highly influenced my rating. There were several points in the book that the author made a good generalized point but then brought up so many examples that made her original point null and void. In addition I never again need to listen to an author read a list of names for what felt like an eternity of rambling.
ce_hope's review against another edition
4.0
A thought-provoking look at our relationship with our four-legged family members. Warning: will make you hyper-aware of hearing and speaking "dog talk"
childoftheninth's review against another edition
5.0
If you own a dog, if you have ever loved a dog, read this book.
kristakruger's review against another edition
2.0
This book was not what I expected at all. I really wanted to love it, but didn’t.
It might have been the dreadfully boring, 59 page chapter titled “The Trouble with Breeds” that did me in. I’m certain it was interesting to some people, but it just felt like it was never ending to me.
The research presented though the book is dull to say the least. There are some interesting parts in the book, but most often that is when the author is relating her own experiences with her own dogs to the research presented.
This was an extremely dry book that was very hard to read. In fact, part way through I just started skimming the book instead of full on reading.
It might have been the dreadfully boring, 59 page chapter titled “The Trouble with Breeds” that did me in. I’m certain it was interesting to some people, but it just felt like it was never ending to me.
The research presented though the book is dull to say the least. There are some interesting parts in the book, but most often that is when the author is relating her own experiences with her own dogs to the research presented.
This was an extremely dry book that was very hard to read. In fact, part way through I just started skimming the book instead of full on reading.
alexrob's review against another edition
2.0
Extremely well written but a very intense look into human interactions with dogs (mostly negative). Things I knew and are all true but still made it hard to get through and I expected at least a positive “but we can do XYZ going forward” at the end but there really wasn’t much of one.