Born to Bark: My Adventures with an Irrepressible and

Born to Bark: My Adventures with an Irrepressible and Unforgettable Dog

"For Christmas the woman who would become my wife bought me a dogâ€”a little terrier. The next year her Christmas gift to me was a shotgun. Most of the people in my family believe that those two gifts were not unrelated."

So begins Born to Bark, the charming new memoir by psychologist and beloved dog expert Stan Coren of his relationship with an irrepressible gray Cairn terrier named Flint. Stan immediately loved the pup for his friendly nature and indefatigable spirit, though his wife soon found the dogâ€™s unpredictable exuberance difficult to deal with, to say the least.

Even though Flint drove Stanâ€™s wife up the wall, he became the joy of Stanâ€™s life. The key to unlocking this psychologist-authorâ€™s way of looking at dog behavior, Flint also became the inspiration behind Corenâ€™s classic, The Intelligence of Dogs. Undeterred by Flintâ€™s irrepressible behavior (and by the breederâ€™s warning that he might be untrainable), Coren set out to prove that his furry companion could pass muster with the best of them. He persevered in training the unruly dog and even ventured into the competitive circles of obedience trials in dog shows, where Flint eventually made canine history as the highest-scoring Cairn terrier in obedience competition up to that time. (Stan chose not to tell his wife that the highest-ranking obedience dog of that year, a border collie, earned a total score that was fifty times higher.)

The longest-running popular expert on human-dog bonding, Coren has enlivened his respected books and theories about dogs with accounts of his own experiences in training, living with, loving, and trying to understand them. A consummate storyteller, Coren now tells the wry, poignant, goofy, and good-hearted tale of his life with the dog who (in the words of his own book titles) taught him How to Speak Dog and How Dogs Think and whose antics made him ask Why Does My Dog Act That Way? Illustrated with Corenâ€™s own delightful line drawings and photos, and interwoven with his heartfelt anecdotes of other beloved dogs from his earlier life, Born to Bark is an irresistible good dog/bad dog tale of this extraordinary, willful pooch and his profound impact on his masterâ€™s insights into canine behavior as a research psychologist and on his outlook on life as a whole.
Country USA
Brand Atria Books
Manufacturer Atria
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781439189214
Model 9781439189214
ReleaseDate 2011-08-16
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781439189214

Country	USA
Brand	Atria Books
Manufacturer	Atria
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781439189214
Model	9781439189214
ReleaseDate	2011-08-16
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781439189214

Born to Bark: My Adventures with an Irrepressible and Unforgettable Dog

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