Nerdlen/daun. In our western culture, more dogs live today – and also people – than ever before. This larger density inevitably leads to the freedom for dogs becoming less and less. This not only affects freewheeling, but generally the opportunities for self -determination. We determine when you go where, when you eat what, where you sleep, with whom you have contact with and much more – there is no room for autonomy.
Today's dogs have first -class medical care and possibly also their own trainer, physiotherapist and nutritionist, but they are increasingly suffering from mentally, as the horrendous number of anxiety disorders and behavioral problems show in domestic dogs.
Arts -specific behaviors such as ditch, marking, hunting or striping are suppressed, artificial such as skateboarding or showing tricks are encouraged. In addition, dogs are increasingly hired by us in order to do emotional work: they should act as an antidepressant, to cheer us up, to do service as therapy and assistance dogs for stress disorders- often at a high price.
So dogs have a hard time with people and as a result the people with the dogs.
What can we do about it?
Bioethiker Jessica Pierce puts her finger in these wounds and takes a close look at the relationships between humans and dogs to find out where something goes wrong and how we can change our expectations and assumptions so that we can do it better in the future. A sometimes uncomfortable book that will make every real dog lover very thoughtful!
About the author
Jessica Pierce is an internationally recognized bioethic. Her work ranges from considerations to the responsibility of people towards nature to detailed explorations of human-animal relationships. Among other things, together with Marc Bekoff, she wrote the much -noticed book dogs without people who appeared in German translation in 2023 at Kynos. Your articles will be published regularly in the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian and Scientific American. She teaches bioethics at the University of Colorado.
Being a dog today – plea for a good life
Jessica Pierce
304 pages
Paperback
Kynos Verlag
ISBN 978-95464 – 334 – 9
Price: 18 euros