I liked the depth and range of the book as it traversed many scientific paths, from the evolutionary origins of canine development to the latest in genetic and neuroscience research- including looking at wolves and Belyaev's and Trut's domesticated fox experiment (insert squeeee of happy memories of former readings here). It’s worth noting that which love language your pet speaks can influence the way they show their love for you. So while one dog may bring you household items and toys as gifts to demonstrate their affection for you, others may prefer to curl up next to you on the couch. New advances in the sequencing of ancient DNA will allow scientists to discover when the crucial mutation to the gene that controls Williams syndrome occurred.

The book concludes with practical suggestions of how to improve the emotional lives and health of dogs in homes, in shelters, and purebreds. Kunuk Abelsen, a 27-year-old musher arrives at the island where his dogs are kept near Kulusuk, Greenland Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them." – Dodie Smith, author of The Hundred and One Dalmatians Whether you’ve been gone for five minutes or five hours, one of the best parts of being a doggy parent is having that excited face greet you every time you reappear. Don’t mind me. Just tearing up as I read the end of this book with my 8-year-old pup lying next to me.Humans don’t question their ability to love their dogs. We feed and exercise them, set our schedules based on their needs, get up with them in the middle of the night, buy them silly toys, and tell them our deepest secrets. If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog." – George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us." – Ashly Lorenzana, author If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness." – Marjorie Garber, author of Shakespeare After All Wynne proposes a paradigm shift, synthesizing cross-disciplinary research to posit that it is dogs' "hypersociability" or "extreme gregariousness" that sets them apart.

It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.” Pigeons can identify different kinds of objects in 2D images; dolphins have shown they understand grammar; honeybees signal the location of food sources to each other through dance; all feats that no dogs have ever been known to accomplish.Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. Handoko Njotokusumo and Ace ride through traffic during their weekend joy ride on a motorcycle in Surabaya, Indonesia