With a scientist’s mind and an animal lover’s compassion, world-renowned biologist Rupert Sheldrake presents a groundbreaking exploration of animal behavior that will profoundly change the way we think about animals–and ourselves.How do cats know when it’s time to go to the vet, even before the cat carrier comes out? How do dogs know when their owners are returning home at unexpected … home at unexpected times? How can horses find their way back to the stable over completely unfamiliar terrain?
After five years of extensive research involving thousands of people who have pets and work with animals, Dr. Sheldrake proves conclusively what many pet owners already know: there is a strong connection between humans and animals that defies present-day scientific understanding. Sheldrake compellingly demonstrates that we and our pets are social animals linked together by invisible bonds connecting animals to each other, to their owners, and to their homes in powerful ways. His provocative ideas about these social, or morphic, fields explain the uncanny behavior often observed in pets and help provide an explanation for amazing animal behavior in the wild, such as migration and homing.
Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home not only provides fascinating insight into animal, and human, behavior, but also teaches us to question the boundaries of conventional scientific thought, and shows that the very animals who are closest to us have much to teach us about biology, nature, and consciousness.
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Filled with short, real life stories of animals/pets and how they are intuitively tuned in to our emotions. Anyone who has ever owned a pet will related to these stories. Loved this book and learned some interesting information as well.
Good read
It was not light reading as I thought it would be. to technical
I believe that animals are much more intuitive and mindful than we originally believed. They’ve been part of human culture for thousands of years. Why do we have therapy dogs that can detect a variety of human issues if they weren’t able to achieve a goal? Wonderful book, a nice read.
Repetitive
Anecdotal with some reports of supporting studies of communicative relationship between dogs and their significant others. Objective attempt to explore and present info. that has no formal scientific explanation.