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    Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: Fully Updated and Revised

    By Rupert Sheldrake

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    With a scientist's mind and an animal lover's compassion, world-renowned biologist Rupert Sheldrake presents a groundbreaking exploration of animal behavior that will profoundly change the way we think about animals--and ourselves.

    How do cats know when it's time to go to the vet, even before the cat carrier comes out? How do dogs know when their owners are returning home at unexpected times? How can horses find their way back to the stable over completely unfamiliar terrain?

    After five years of extensive research involving thousands of people who have pets and work with animals, Dr. Sheldrake proves conclusively what many pet owners already know: there is a strong connection between humans and animals that defies present-day scientific understanding. Sheldrake compellingly demonstrates that we and our pets are social animals linked together by invisible bonds connecting animals to each other, to their owners, and to their homes in powerful ways. His provocative ideas about these social, or morphic, fields explain the uncanny behavior often observed in pets and help provide an explanation for amazing animal behavior in the wild, such as migration and homing.

    Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home not only provides fascinating insight into animal, and human, behavior, but also teaches us to question the boundaries of conventional scientific thought, and shows that the very animals who are closest to us have much to teach us about biology, nature, and consciousness.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateApr 26, 2011
    ISBN9780307888464
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    Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: Fully Updated and Revised
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    Rupert Sheldrake

    Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist, a former research fellow of the Royal Society at Cambridge, a current fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences near San Francisco, and an academic director and visiting professor at the Graduate Institute in Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Cambridge University and was a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, where he carried out research on the development of plants and the ageing of cells. He is the author of more than eighty scientific papers and ten books, including Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home; Morphic Resonance; The Presence of the Past; Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness; The Rebirth of Nature; and Seven Experiences That Could Change the World. In 2019, Rupert Sheldrake was cited as one of the "100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in the World" according to Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine.

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    • 5/5
      This is a fascinating read for any pet owners (or "pet staff" in the case of cats). It is even more thought-provoking if you have ever felt a special connection with one of your pets. As an aside, considering the author's pedigree, I think that his concept of "morphic resonance" should be taken seriously by the scientific establishment. Humans don't know all there is to know about the world.
    • 3/5
      The catchy title caught my eye. In the end, this doesn't definitively answer any questions about the unique powers of animals. The author presents interesting anecdotes and relates them to animal research over the years which have indicated some kind of telepathy or precognition is going on. He also proposes that science needs to look more seriously into the powers of animals rather than askance and place them into a wider context of biology and evolution. More of a read to broaden one's mind about the potential of science to better understand animal behavior.
    • 2/5
      Many of the stories are interesting. The book gets less and less so as you go along.