From the Introduction: Writers - and people in general - make many of the mistakes they do about dogs not because they know nothing about them, but because so much of the cultural knowledge we possess is false. Myths about animals abound, and it seems the more important the animal is to humanity, the more myths it will generate. I won my first obedience ribbon with a dog at age twelve, and saw puppies born in my own backyard when I was seven - and the very first puppy I bred myself became an