Merle's door [electronic resource] : lessons from a freethinking dog / Ted Kerasote.
While on a camping trip, Ted Kerasote met a dog--a Labrador mix--who was living on his own in the wild. They became attached to each other, and Kerasote decided to name the dog Merle and bring him home. There, he realized that Merle's native intelligence would be diminished by living exclusively in the human world. He put a dog door in his house so Merle could live both outside and in. This portrait of a remarkable dog and his relationship with the author explores the issues that animals and their human companions face as their lives intertwine, bringing to bear the latest research into animal consciousness and behavior as well as insights into the origins and evolution of the human-dog partnership. Merle showed Kerasote how dogs might live if they were allowed to make more of their own decisions, and Kerasote suggests how these lessons can be applied universally.--From publisher description.
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- Physical Description: 1 online resource (398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
- Edition: First Harvest edition.
- Publisher: Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., 2008.
- Copyright: ©2007
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Description based on print version record.
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