From Alexandra Horowitz, #1 NY Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog, an eye-opening, informative, and wholly entertaining exam and celebration of the human-canine romantic relationship for the curious pet owner and science-lover alike.

We keep dogs and are kept by them. We love canines and (we presume) we are adored by them. We buy them sweaters, toys, shoes or boots; we are worried with their public lives, their food, and their health. The story of human beings and dogs is normally thousands of years old but about Our Dogs, Ourselves: THE STORYPLOT of one Bond is far from understood. In Our Canines, Ourselves, Alexandra Horowitz explores all areas of this unique and complex interspecies pairing.

As Horowitz considers the current culture of dogdom, she reveals the odd, surprising, and contradictory ways we live with canines. We commemorate their personality but breed of dog them for sameness. Despite our deep psychological relationships with dogs, legally they are property to become bought, sold, abandoned, or euthanized even as we desire. Even just how we speak to our dogs reaches once perplexing and wonderful.

In thirteen thoughtful and charming chapters, Our Dogs, Ourselves affirms our profound affection because of this most charismatic of animals—and starts our eyes towards the companions at our edges as never before.