El mejor amigo del perro

Dogs are key pieces of our life. But when did this animal come to occupy that place? How did these creatures come to help us not only in hunting, but also in defusing bombs and detecting cancer? And, above all, how did they end up becoming our most faithful companions? With his inimitable wit and his gift for storytelling, Simon Garfield explores and celebrates this long, deep and unbreakable connection between species and how it has transformed countless lives, both human and canine. Garfield begins his journey with the first visual representations -dogs in rock art- and ends in the laboratory that sequenced the canine genome for the first time. Along the way, we discover the legendary corgis of Buckingham Palace, the dogs of the Soviet space program, the world's first labradoodle and a border collie capable of identifying more than a thousand different stuffed animals. This elegant, light-hearted author with a great sense of humor reveals the secrets of the best dog trainers in the world, takes us into the wild world of dog breeding and dog shows, and unearths the deep psychological roots of the human-dog bond.