Dog's Best Friend: Annals of the Dog-Human RelationshipUniversity of Chicago Press, 2004 - 380 ページ A comprehensive, humane, and bemused tour of the dog-human relationship, Dog's Best Friend combines anecdote, research, and reportage to illuminate our complex rapport with our cherished canine companions. Tracking our national obsession with an animal that now outnumbers children in American households, Mark Derr chronicles the evolution of "the culture of the dog" from the prehistoric domestication of tamed wolves to the modern horrors of overbreeding and inbreeding. Passionate about his subject and intent on sharing his zeal, Derr defends dogs with wit and flare, producing here a quirky, informative, and fitting tribute to our love affair with canines big and small. |
目次
PROLOGUE | 1 |
A WOLF IN DOGS CLOTHING | 11 |
Defining Dog | 15 |
Taming Wolf | 19 |
Becoming Dog | 21 |
Degrees of Separation | 28 |
Reading the Trail | 38 |
Proper Distance | 49 |
THE UGLINESS OF BEAUTY | 186 |
Ruined Dogs | 199 |
The Fancy | 215 |
The Dark Underbelly | 223 |
MUTTS OF THE NORTH | 229 |
Whiteout | 233 |
The Dogs | 238 |
Happy Trails | 248 |
BIG DOGS AND LITTLE DOGS | 53 |
The Large and Small of It | 57 |
Feist Dogs | 63 |
Big Dogs | 70 |
Florida Curs | 73 |
Hunting | 84 |
COMMON SCENTS | 91 |
Basic Training | 103 |
A Question of Odor | 115 |
Unwinding | 118 |
GNASHING TEETH | 120 |
The Dance | 141 |
Hounds of Hell | 149 |
THE CULTURE OF INSTINCT | 158 |
Guarding | 165 |
Herding | 175 |
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