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# With Dogs at the Edge of Life Hardcover – December 8, 2015

**Brand:** colin dayan
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- **What is this?** With Dogs at the Edge of Life Hardcover – December 8, 2015 by colin dayan
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## Customer Reviews

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    Provoking and moving
  

*by L***. on Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2016*

I found this book to be remarkable--provoking, tender, and very insightful about the bonds that connect dogs and humans. It is part memoir, part deeply probing analysis of  the world dogs inhabit--and the violence with which humans often intrude in it. It is a very moving book that opened for me new avenues of understanding what sustains the deep connection between dogs and their humans.

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    Problematic at best, harmful at worst
  

*by E***L on Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2016*

With Dogs at the Edge of Life by Colin Dayan is an uneven work, essentially by design. The three main topics, each treated separately, include a memoir about the dogs in her life, a discussion/argument about Pit Bulls (or the dogs referred to as Pit Bulls), and a discussion about stray dogs in various parts of the world. The writing itself was fine, perhaps best in the personal section.I was likely one of many readers who became conflicted reading her section on Pit Bulls. Her argument about the way the breed has been scapegoated by the legal system as well as society in general is both well-researched and clearly presented. When she turns her attention to dog fighting I went from agreement to a surprised sense of disappointment. I found her arguments for legalizing dog fighting to be every bit as well-researched yet seriously flawed in logic. She argues against municipalities killing indiscriminately any dog it believes is bred for fighting (as in the breed is bred for fighting as compared to a breeder breeding for fighting), then turns around and says we should allow dogs to do what they are bred for, thus allow dog fighting. The same arguments about danger and being bred to fight were also leveled at German Shepherds, Dobermans, Rottweilers and other breeds over the past 50 years or so, the common denominator not being the breeding history but the rise and fall in the popularity of each breed among those who like to make dogs mean, whether to compensate for their own shortcomings or for organized dog fighting. A particularly weak attempt at comparison is between cultural value of Spanish bullfighting and Japanese dog fighting. The strawman she sets up claims bullfighting is culturally valuable but dogfighting is not. However, most people who are comfortable with one is comfortable with the other and similarly those uncomfortable with one is uncomfortable with the other. While many of the facts she brings up are indeed important (class difference being a factor in what is acceptable or not, for example) they speak to the need to be more equitable in protecting against the abuse of animals across cultures rather than sinking to the lowest common denominator and advocating for cruelty toward animals.I think this book is valuable for getting a glimpse into several areas where dogs and humans intersect in contemporary societies. I have to admit to losing about 99% of the respect I had gained for the author during the first part of the book when I read what I clearly believe to be a very week argument that can only serve to encourage more animals to be tortured and abused for the enjoyment of deranged human beings. That respect never returned through the rest of the book in spite of the last part being both interesting and reasonable. Read it critically whether you agree or disagree with her. Decide for yourself the degree to which you find her arguments to be well-formed and logical. But remember that this intellectual gymnastics concerns itself with the lives, torture, abuse and deaths of sentient beings that feel many, if not all, of the basic emotions we do.Reviewed from an ARC made available by the publisher via NetGalley.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Colin Dayan is a beautiful writer. Dogs is a provocative and timely book
  

*by K***O on Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2016*

Colin Dayan is a beautiful writer.  Dogs is a provocative and timely book. Anyone interested in our place in the hierarchy of creation should read this wonderful book. The way she describes interspecies and mammalian relationships through our very flesh will make you shiver!

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