With Dogs at the Edge of Life Paperback – 2 October 2018

Very disappointing. I hoped for something that would enlighten me about the peripheral edges between human perception and our social, legal and moral constructs... I was promised an introduction into that place where we can step back and examine what makes us human; what makes us first and foremost so violent and how we need to unpack our very human perceptions of what Law is. How do we institutionalize legal frameworks to continue punishing, killing exterminating both nature beast and man?Instead I got a rambling, narcissistic, unfathomable, personal memoir about ( yet again) "a punishing mommy and world-weary daddy" and how again and again, our author found comfort and solace in her "rescue" dogs.I know this writer is a brilliant academic...but really, who, in truth, is she writing for...?

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!

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.

Good!