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Title	:	Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
Author	:	Ted Kerasote
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 398 pages
Published	:	July 2nd 2007 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (first published 2007)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Animals. Dogs. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Audiobook. Environment. Nature

Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog

Ted Kerasote

Hardcover | Pages: 398 pages

Rating: 4.2 | 18211 Users | 1771 Reviews

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While on a camping trip, Ted Kerasote met a dog—a Labrador mix—who was living on his own in the wild. They became attached to each other, and Kerasote decided to name the dog Merle and bring him home. There, he realized that Merle's native intelligence would be diminished by living exclusively in the human world. He put a dog door in his house so Merle could live both outside and in.

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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Original Title:	Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
ISBN:	0151012709 (ISBN13: 9780151012701)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Merle, Ted Fielding
Setting:	Wyoming(United States)

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This is a humurous, heartfelt book about a wonderful dog named Merle. Although there were sections which became too technical regarding the evolution of the dog, it is easy to scan over those pages and get back to the beautifully written story. If you love dogs, you need to read this book. It covers Merle's entire life with Ted, and yes, it includes his last day. Get the tissues out! If you don't cry, you were absent the day they passed out hearts. If you don't have a dog, you will want to go

I first purchased this book back in 2009. I stopped reading it because it did not hold my interest and because a Stieg Larsson trilogy was calling my name. I decided to try it again a couple of weeks ago. While I got farther in the book this time, I was reminded why the book bored me the first time. This boredom surprises me as I am a huge dog lover and have enjoyed all of the other dog-centered literature that I have read. There are a couple of reasons specifically that I can identify as being

Ok, i love good books about animals and have read quite a few. I was so disappointed with this book I couldn't even finish it :-( --that is rare. The author had some cute back stories about his life with Merle, but all the scientific ramblings about the why behind the what just lost me. Sometimes he would just go on and on about neurons and synaptic cleft and neurotransmitters..blah, blah, blah, blah...I expected a heartwarming story about a lost dog found and the great adventures he and his new

MARVELOUS! I give this book 5 stars without a second thought! You cry, you chuckle, you laugh out loud, you read again sections of other dog books mentioned in the text that one has^previously read, you search Wikipedia concerning subjects that the text brings to your attention and about which you realize you really have to know more. This book has everything for anyone that truly loves their dog.OK I have to say one thing and I would really like to discuss this with others...... I don't like

This book has been number three on my to-read list for many years, but I simply never came across a physical copy of it. Following my vow to read some of my oldest wishes, I downloaded it on Kindle. I'm so glad I did!This book had me ugly crying by the end, desperate sobs that hurt almost as much as what I was reading. I adore my animals, and although I don't/can't let them live the life Merle had, I am going to be devastated when they are gone. Ted's journey, and the final days with both Merle

I read this book a few years back, before I attempted writing reviews (ones beyond a few lines anyway). It has been on my favorites shelf ever since then and Merle has drifted into my thoughts now and again, so I thought I would try to add a few more words.One day Merle, a young yellow lab mix, shows up at a camp where Ted and friends were camping, Ted and Merle hit it off. Ted decides to bring Merle back home with him but soon finds out that Merle would not be content to be locked indoors all

I am a bit surprised by some of the negative reviews of this book, especially the chap that suggested that you "skip this book." If you skip it you will have missed a gem. It is not a dog training book or a "treatise on animal behavior" as someone suggested. It is the telling of a thirteen year relationship between a man and a dog and the life that they shared together. The author intersperses the narrative with research that support his observations over the years. He makes no attempt to state