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Mans best friend 狗，人类最好的朋友 Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behaviour Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet. 《狗的心灵世界：狗类行为科学新发展让你更加走进爱犬的内心世界》 By John Bradshaw. Basic Books; 324 pages; $25.99. Published in Britain as In Defence ofDogs: Why Dogs Need Our Understanding. Allen Lane; ?20. Buy from Amazon.com,Amazon.co.uk 作者：约翰?布拉德肖;Basic Books出版社出版;324页;售价25.99美元;英国出版名为《为狗辩护：为何狗需要我们的理解?》;Allen lane出版社出版;售价20英镑。本书也可在Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk购得。 THE relationship between people and dogs is unique. Among domesticated animals, only dogsare capable of performing such a wide variety of roles for humans: herding sheep, sniffing outdrugs or explosives and being our beloved companions. It is hard to be precise about whenthe friendship began, but a reasonable guess is that it has been going strong for more than20,000 years. In the Chauvet cave in the Ardche region of France, which contains the earliestknown cave paintings, there is a 50-metre trail of footprints made by a boy of about tenalongside those of a large canid that appears to be part-wolf, part-dog. The footprints, whichhave been dated by soot deposited from the torch the child was carrying, are estimated to beabout 26,000 years old. | 
