Listen to Puppy Love from NPR’s OnPoint – An excellent interview with author Jon Katz about dogs, dog training and the changing role of dogs in our society. Originally aired: June 11, 2003.
Author, dog owner and trainer Jon Katz says that the relationship between dogs and their owners has gone way beyond master and pet; that increasingly we’re treating them as family members and human surrogates.Katz says that in America today we give our dogs human names, they sleep on our beds, we spoil them with gifts, and turn to them more and more for emotional support, helping us through loneliness, isolation, divorce and aging. (more…)
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