Dog Is Love, Clive D. L. Wynne
Dog Is Love, Clive D. L. Wynne
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Dog Is Love
Why and How Your Dog Loves You

Author: Clive D. L. Wynne

Narrator: James Langton

Unabridged: 8 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/24/2019


Synopsis

“Lively and fascinating... 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 

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.

About Clive D. L. Wynne

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on July 23, 2020

I adore dogs, and people who know me know that. One of my friends, after reading my novel A Place of Hiding said, "One thing I knew for sure. There was no way you were going to kill that dog." Which pretty much sums up who I am. This piece of writing by Dr Wynne is a must read for anyone who has a d......more

Goodreads review by Aaron on November 15, 2019

This book is a wonderful addition to the dog science sub-genre, and a rejoinder to the occasional (and ignorant) canard that dogs are mere sycophants whose loyalty and affection is either feigned or misinterpreted by humans. Any dog owners suspects this is nonsense, but this book provides objective......more

Goodreads review by Annette on February 16, 2020

Over-written, in the extreme. As a lifelong dog-lover, dog-companion, and I've trained a dog to work with vulnerable children alongside me in a clinical setting, I looked forward to reading this book. But I was disappointed. The same points are made over and over, perhaps because there aren't a lot......more

Goodreads review by Dollie on July 15, 2023

When I saw the title of this book, I had to read it. I have always believed that my dogs love me back and the author of this book, the founding director of the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University, has been all over the world researching dogs to see whether they do love us back.......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on February 10, 2021

This is a must-read for anyone who has a relationship with a dog. Wynne details the evolution of dogs' relationships with humans and highlights the genetic foundation for their affinity and love for humans. He also emphasizes the importance of socialization and ensuring that we meet our furry friend......more