Life With Dogs

Life With Dogs
ISBN: 9781603201001
Publication Date: 1 December 2009

DOGS, DOGS, DOGS . . . Who can resist them? Most people seem to be born with an instinctive love of these animals and that's not surprising. It's anybody's guess as to how long we've been living with dogs, but one theory says that wolves first moved in with humans over 100,000 years ago. That's plenty of time to develop a relationship!

In the present day, just the sight of a puppy usually starts the oohs and aahs and, from children, the question: "Can I pet him?" Happily for both parties, dogs seem to get just as excited about us.

Meeting a friendly dog is the very definition of a feel-good moment for all concerned. And you will meet many of them in this book - friendly dogs, funny dogs, feisty dogs and funky dogs, lapdogs, working dogs, acting dogs, heroic dogs, barking dogs, snoozing dogs, celebrity dogs, cuddly dogs, silly dogs and even dogs that don't quite look like dogs.

This collection of warm, often funny, always resonant photographs is a brand-new sequel to the 1995 LIFE picture book,

A Dog's Life. LIFE's editors have revisited the earlier book on dogs and have kept several of the classic or irresistible shots, but they have added new photography, enlivened the design, and added text and quotations that set the proper man's-best-friend tone and then carry it straight through the book.

The best canine images from LIFE's storied pictorial archive, many of which first appeared on the magazine's

Just One More back page, are here, as are disarming shots of Fido taken by the man in the street. The book represents a tribute to the bond each of us shares with our pets. Guileless, frolicsome, energetic, ever ready to please, full of love - that is the dog, and that is this special book.