Inside of a Dog -- Young Readers Edition: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

One of the first lessons we learned was that we were the ones who needed obedience training. Most dogs that behave badly, we found out, have been conditioned to do so by ignorant or inconsistent owners.

Even small dogs can hear things better than a human and barking is a good warning if not actually intimidating to an intruder.

It was traumatic to know oneself to be a simple dog but to live in a world where other dogs treated you as something other.

That, to me, seemed the way to attract the attention of a beast, to call a domestic animal back to its job, a creature with which you have so little in common that you do not even punish it.