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Merle's Door (Hardcover)

By: Ted Kerasote (Author)

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Describes how the author adopted a dog living on its own in the wild that he encountered during a camping trip and his decision to install a dog door in his house so that the dog could live both inside and outside, in a study of the human-dog partnership, animal consciousness and behavior, and how dogs might live if they can make some of their own decisions.

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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.
A deeply touching portrait of a remarkable dog and his relationship with the author, Merle's Door explores the issues that all 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.

When Ted Kerasote adopts a stray Labrador while on a camping trip, he thinks he's just getting a pet, but he soon learns, like so many dog owners before him, that he's entering into a true relationship with an idiosyncratic individual. Filled with humor, insight, and compassion, MERLE'S DOOR draws on both colorful anecdotes and the science of animal behavior to show how Merle in particular, and dogs in general, are complex and fascinating creatures.

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