Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog

Written by:
Ted Kerasote
Narrated by:
Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
13
Narrator
1
Release Date
July 2007
Duration
13 hours 0 minutes
Summary
Ted Kerasote met and adopted Merle, a Laborador mix, while he was on a camping trip. Merle had been living in the wild, and after taking the dog home with him to Wyoming, Kerasote soon realized that Merle could not adjust to inhabiting exclusively in the human world. So he put a door in his house to let Merle live both outside and in.

A deeply touching portrait of a remarkable animal, Merle's Door explores the issues that all animals and their human companions face as their lives intertwine, and presents the latest research into animal behavior as well as the origins and evolution of human-dog interaction. Merle showed Kerasote how dogs might live were they free; Kerasote suggests how they should be allowed to live, and the doors that should always remain open to them.
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Peggy Stortz

Although I'm quite nuts about my dogs, this book got a bit long. Interesting, but I recommend the abridged version.

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Brett

Ted loves his dog and treats him as an equal. Even though they are obviously different species, they are best friends and both work and play together well. They hike, hunt, fish, socialize and even ski together. And Merle becomes the 'mayor' of his town making his rounds each day visiting people and other dogs. The story of Merle is interesting, engrossing and moving. The intertwined research of dogs can sometimes be dry and long winded, but the story itself is worth a listen. The lessons learned are mostly lessons about dogs taken from Ted's experience with Merle. This book is really not a life lesson for people, but more a lesson about dogs, how to treat them, what they want, and how to provide an environment that dogs would really enjoy.

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