Really enjoyed this expose of dogs, both their evolution to domestication and the behaviour side/pedigree side of dogs. Fascinating reading

The first half of the book is so repetitive that by the time I got to the second half I’d lost interest.

Read it knowing that this book is of one of many opinions and does not include all the references that it should. However, it's an interesting introduction to the evolution and behaviour of dogs and has some valuable points.

This is a pretty good book in understanding dogs, their history and why they're not like wolves. Although there are some conflicting writings such as why a dog behaves a certain way and how it can be trained out of it (although the training part is also conflicting, etc).
I think it's a good read to understand most dogs but as people mention, it can be confusing as to how we should probably train our dogs (though this is due to the lack of canine science in general).

Let's get this out of the way: this is not a book about how to have the perfect dog, or anything along those lines. This is science. Specifically, the over-looked science of what we know about dogs, their origins, perception, and their role in society. And I loved it.

The first third or so of the book looks at the history of wolf to dog, pointing out that all the dominance theories of dog behaviour are based on faulty understanding of wolves, especially the false belief that the study of captive wolves has a useful contribution to understanding modern dogs.

Beyond that, the text feels like a call for more use of science and education, and less celebrity and fads, to make dogs a rewarding part of our society. I'll single out pedigree breeding as one area that is just insane, but along the way there's a lot of science input to how we live with dogs.

Plenty of references and foot notes to follow up on.

over all very informative while still being very fun to read. Some points are repeated a little bit to often but over all a great read. if you have or like dogs its defiantly worth checking out.