Very interesting book about dogs as pets and their behaviour. It is very well written and easy to read. The book has wide margins with very charming line drawings of animals by Annie Eisenmenger and Konrad Lorenz

Some of Lorenz's conclusions are out of date: he felt, based on behaviour, that some dogs were descended from jackals and others from wolves; but this is a fascinating book nonetheless. His acute observations of animals are a pleasure. (In an ideal world, I would have been an ethologist.)

This book has been re-published with an introduction by Donald McCaig, which gives a biography of Konrad Lorenz.

Translated (presumably from Austrian) by Marjorie Kerr Wilson; published by Kodansha International.

Dr. Lorenz was one of the founders of the science of ethology, or animal behaviour. His most famous book is probably "On Agression," which gives a plausable answer to "What good is aggression?

See also:
- The Other End of the Leash
- No Bad Dogs