Marc Bekoff Wants You to Let Your Dog Be a Dog
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I’m so excited to tell you what I’ve been up to! I’m building a canine-focused media company to become the trusted resource for you to learn about dogs. So if you want to know “how do I feed my dog” or “why does my dog scratch his paws on the ground after she pees” we’ve got you covered.
On top of a brilliant website called Love Dog full of experts dishing deep dives on thoughtful subjects, sorry no “5 hacks to tell if your dog loves you” and any of that dog-shit because well, it’s for hacks, we are launching a podcast and YouTube show with our amazing guest.
Please check out EPISODE 1: MARC BEKOFF
“However my deeper hope- both with this book and when I speak to people- is that increased understanding will foster more caring. A dog’s feelings matter to them, and they should also matter to us. We should take the perspective and emotions of dogs into account in every aspect of our shared lives. This applies to training . . . we often place unrealistic social expectations on dogs, especially homed dogs, who are constantly being asked to do what we want them to do. So giving dogs some extra tender loving care is really good for them and for us… There’s no shortage of dogs who will benefit from humans trying to figure out what it is like to be a dog.” Dogs Dymistified: An A to Z Guide to All Things Canine, Marc Bekoff
Marc Bekoff is a professor emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has published 31 books (or 41 depending on how you count multi-volume encyclopedias), won many awards for his research on animal behavior, animal emotions (cognitive ethology), compassionate conservation, and animal protection. Marc has worked closely with Jane Goodall, is co-chair of the ethics committee of the Jane Goodall Institute, and is a former Guggenheim Fellow. He also works closely with inmates at the Boulder County Jail.
Marc has published numerous essays (popular, scientific, and book chapters) and 30/40 books (depending on how you count multi-volume encyclopedias) that have been translated into 21 languages. Canine Confidential: Why Dogs Do What They Do was published in March 2018 by the University of Chicago Press. Unleashing Your Dog (with Jessica Pierce) was published in March 2019 by New World Library and in 2021 Princeton University Press published A Dog's World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World Without Humans (with Jessica Pierce). Dogs Demystified: An A to Z Guide to All Things Canine will be published by New World Library in June 2023 and the second edition of The Emotional Lives of Animals will be published in March 2024.
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