Willing Dogs & Reluctant Masters: On Friendship and Dogs by Gary Borjesson

By Gary Borjesson

Gary Borjesson explores what it skill to be buddies — fairly pals — with a puppy, and the way that courting can light up and tell the opposite friendships in our lives.

"We can examine a lot approximately friendship by means of reading our relations with canines, in part due to what we've got in universal with them, but in addition as a result of what we don't. Our ameliorations placed friendship and its phrases in amazing aid. The ensuing point of view is principally beneficial given how effortless it truly is for canines, friendship, and different regularly occurring facets of our adventure to flee our notice." —from the Preface

Dogs are striking creatures. greater than the other animal, they percentage with people a deep curiosity in friendship, cooperation, and justice. (That's most likely why we adore them so much.) In Willing canine & Reluctant Masters, Gary Borjesson explores the resource of—and justification for—our authority within the master-dog courting, whereas inviting readers to think about the position of authority in friendships between humans, as well.

Willing canines & Reluctant Masters will pride puppy vendors as they see themselves and their canine in Gary Borjesson's account of human-canine family members. and it'll inspire all readers to ask yourself anew approximately how friendship enriches our lives.

Since 1999, Gary Borjesson has taught at St. John's collage in Annapolis, Maryland, the place he and his spouse, Cindy Boersma, reside with their German shepherd, Atkis.

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