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| Dogs Never Lie About Love : Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs | 
| Author: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 174336
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0609802011
Dewey Decimal Number: 599.77215
UPC: 045863802019
EAN: 9780609802014
ASIN: 0609802011
Publication Date: September 8, 1998
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 Another Must Read Book February 16, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Dogs bring into our lives and bring out in us so many emotions that we either try to hide or never even realize that we have. A wonderfully written book on this subject!!!
SCIENCE OR YOUR OWN EMOTIONS AND EXPERIENCES? I KNOW WHICH IS BETTER! December 1, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
IT sounds like some of these persons who wrote reviews have never had a REAL experience with a critter in their lives. Science is not good at truly proving emotions of an animal!! They do it without themselves being willing to be emotional themselves and expect RIGHT off the results will be the same as they feel. A CLOSED MIND IS AN EMPTY ONE! )
Jeffery Writes Of his own experiences which my writing classes taught me to do. You cannot write about a subject unless you yourself have that knowledge which this man proves he has!...I have five four leged "people" (two independent cats) and they are allot like what this book talks about. My little girl dog has cried with me when I am not well. Not in voice, but she shows how she feels with large sad eyes and pinned back ears and when she is happy her eyes gleam excitment and she literaly dances her joy... He says dogs smell what we cannot see. Well, every time I ask my dogs who is there they all respond not only with ears but the twitching of noses. They are trying to smell what they hear!
He is right on about the great fear of a dog, loneliness and abandoment. My dogs all look at me with "why must we stay behind" and I can clearly see Disapointment on all three faces when I have to leave. It is then I have heard barks and howls when I leave and a neighbor ( who has critters too) told me this will go on for about 20 mins after I am gone. And when I return they are right there barking and sometims howling at my return with big smiles.
I have seen then show embarrassment many times. One dog had thought I threw a ball for him whereas I hid it behind me. He looked everywhere and would not stop looking untill I showed it to him..he then looked very surprised and his ears went down and looked at the other dogs in turn as if loking to see if they saw what happened then sat right where he was looking away till I actually threw the ball. He got a big grin on his face and took of after it. At LEast give this book a chance before condeming it.
lots of insight into how dogs think and act August 9, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I think the title can be a little misleading. You might expect nice stories about cute doggies. But what you get is an in-depth look at how canines -- domestic and wild -- relate to each other and to humans.
I read this book a few years ago when I'd just gotten a new puppy. The "robodog" training books were not working. This book gave me insight into how dogs think and I was able to relate to my dog and thus teach it to be a good house dog.
To this day he is a great friend to have around the house, and I know how to get him to do what I want because I understand him. I think he understands me too -- a little.
 Disturbing to some, affirming to others February 26, 2006
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I've found this book to be quite interesting. I've been around animals all of my life and for the life of me, I can't understand why people are so disturbed by the idea of emotion and feeling in non-humans. Have we REALLY evolved so far from animals? We knowing kill each other and partake of other "animalistic" behavior and yet we pretend that "they" are not like "us". I think we're disturbed by it because a) we want to see ourselves at the apex of evolution and b) we don't want to acknowledge that the animals we eat may have experienced fear (which they do) or didn't want to die in order to become our dinners. I've seen dogs embarrassed, hurt, mournful, joyful and have been looked at with utter love from my black lab, Licorice. My cat has been frightened, happy, contented and utterly aloof at times. This book, affirmed what I, and many other keen observers of animals, already knew after having spent time with numerous species. I don't understand why we need scientific proof for things that are readily obvious (like the research studies that "proved" breast milk is best for babies--it's a bit much). I can't scientifically "prove" that you feel anything, but undoubtedly you do.
 The Thoughts and Feelings of Dogs January 28, 2005
12 out of 19 found this review helpful
Written with the goal to study the emotions and inner thinking of dogs, this book is a fairly interesting write- up on one man's observations of his canine companions. The author's name is Jeffrey Masson and he is a dog lover extraordinaire- a man who thinks the world of his dogs and wants to share with everyone on the planet what he feels he knows about canine thinking.
Masson spends his time in this book talking about his three dogs and explaining the behavior he has observed in each of them. He talks about how his dogs react to different people and different situations. He presents examples of canine loyalty and heroics from known events in the past. This all makes for some pleasant enough reading, even though it gets a little repetitive after a while.
One thing that makes this book a little less valuable than it might otherwise be is the author's lack of any scientific research to back up its claims. Masson really likes dogs and he feels pretty certain that his observations bear some resemblance to absolute truth. But he offers nothing to back up his claims. He only offers observations, without any scientific or original research to prove himself.
Masson gets sappy from time to time in this book, so be prepared to read about his dogs giving him kisses, sleeping at the foot of the bed, showing their uncontrolled enthusiasm when he gets home, etc. It's easy to see that Masson is a lover of dogs, but his book is only average. I can relate to how he feels about our canine friends, but in the absence of any scientific experiments or original research, this book is only half as good as it could have been.
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