Contents

For the curious reader: Happily, dogs pop up everywhere in this book—including at each chapter’s beginning and in the margins. If you see a dog in the margin, follow that dog (if you’re so inclined): the subject at hand is discussed more fully in that dog’s chapter.

Image Bonded

Image The Perfect Name

Image Owning Dogs

Image Things People Say to Their Dogs

Image The Trouble with Breeds

Image The Scientific Process as Practiced at Home Watching Dogs on a Thursday Evening

Image Dog Stuff

Image The Dog in the Mirror

Image Interlude: The Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab by the Numbers

Image Does My Dog Love Me?

Image Against Sex

Image Humorless

Image Tail of the Dog

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Sources

Index