Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
A deeply touching portrait of a remarkable dog and his relationship with the author, Merle’s Door explores the issues that all animals and their human companions face as their lives intertwine, bringing to bear the latest research into animal consciousness and behavior as well as insights into the origins and evolution of the human-dog partnership. Merle showed Kerasote how dogs might live if they were allowed to make more of their own decisions, and Kerasote suggests how these lessons can be applied universally.
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253 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 01, 2008 Type: User Review |
Into the wild with Merle.
What a book!Just read the final chapter about this beautiful and "free thinking dog".The story is both hillarious and sad.It reads like a love story.And so funny as to what Merle is "thinking" and how Ted is describing Merle's facial...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 29, 2008 Type: User Review |
Best dog book ever written! EVER!!!
I felt as if I knew and lived with Merle for his whole life. Ted is one of the best. most intimate writers I have ever come across. I could think of nothing but this book for two weeks. It is that good. Do yourself a favor, and meet Ted and his...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 28, 2008 Type: User Review |
Merle Won Me Over
Being neither a hunter or a pet owner that would be comfortable letting my dog or cat go through the "Door", I read this book with a certain amount of trepidation. That being said, you have to love Ted and Merle, because I know that I love my dog...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 25, 2008 Type: User Review |
don't have to be a dog lover . . .
i highly recommend this book. right now it's making the rounds at my vet's clinic. the writing is beautiful and the story knocked me out. made me sad i don't live where i can let the dogs off-lead. but we have a great chain of dog parks around...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 22, 2008 Type: User Review |
Dogs, love and grief
This is a long book. I know that sounds like a simpleton opening, but somewhere slightly past the middle of this tome, I started finding some of the corroborating scientific information about the relationships between men and other mammals just a...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 20, 2008 Type: User Review |
Don't order this book from Amazon !!!!
I did and I am so disappointed because it did NOT have the pictures in it as it was supposed to. So I am sending it back and going to the bookstore where I should have gone in the first place. I have heard its an excellent book !!!!!!
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 07, 2008 Type: User Review |
Realistic story of life with a true companion dog
Merle's Door is a great dual-biography...of both the author as well as his companion dog, Merle. As is true with most dogs, their story is interwoven with that of their human family...and, like their human counterparts, would be quite incomplete...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 03, 2008 Type: User Review |
The best of a thousand
I've read a thousand books, and most I'd consider good as I try to be discriminating with my reading. By good, I mean in the sense that I've been delighted, enriched, made to laugh out loud, and shown countless insights into living and this life...
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 31, 2008 Type: User Review |
Merle and Ted- A Winning Team
Ted Kerasote has written, by far, the best book I have ever read that shares the life of a dog. This book has haunted me. It will make you laugh-out-loud, do some deep thinking, and at times maybe even cry. As a personal opinion, it makes "Marley...
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 26, 2008 Type: User Review |
This was the best book I have ever read
This was the best book I have ever read, it is so good that I am starting it over. I have never read a book more than one time. Anyone who loves dogs should read this, it is much more than just a story of a man and his dog. I also found this book...
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