Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, by Rupert Sheldrake

Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: and other Unexplained Powers of Animals, by Rupert Sheldrake
Crown Publishers, 1999
317 pages plus notes, references and index. A few graphs and b&w photos scattered throughout the book.
Library: 133.89 SHE

Description
Many people who have ever owned a pet will swear that their dog or cat or other animal has exhibited some kind of behavior they just can't explain. How does a dog know when its owner is returning home at an unexpected time? How do cats know when it is time to go to the vet, eveb before the cat carrier comes out? How do horses find their way back to the stable over completely unfamiliar terrain. And how can some pets predict that their owners are about to have an epileptic fit.

These intriguing questions about animal behavior convinced world-renowned biologist Rupert Sheldrake that the very animals who are closest to us have much to teach us about biology, nature, and consciousness.

Filled with captivating stories and thought-provoking analysis, Dogs that Know When Their Owners are Coming Home, is a ground-breaking exploration of animal behavior that will profoundly change the way we think about animals, and ourselves. After five years of extensive research involving thousands of people who own and work with animals, Sheldrake conclusively proves what mant pet owners already know-that there is a strong connection between humans and animals that lies beyond present-day scientific understanding.

With a scientist's mind and an animal lover's compassion, Sheldrake compellingly demonstrates that we and our pets our social animals linked together by invisible bonds connecting animals to each other, to their owners, and to their homes in powerful ways.

Sheldrake's provactive ideas about these social, or morphic fields explain the uncanny behavior often observed in pets and helps provide an explanation for amazing animal behavior in the wild, such as migration and homing.

Dogs that Know When Their Owners are Coming Home not only provides fascinating insight into animal, and human, behavior, but also teaches us to question the boundaries of conventional scientific thought. This remarkable book deserves a place next to the most beloved and valuable books on animals, such as When Elephants Weep, Dogs Never Lie About Love, and The Hidden Life of Dogs.

Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Human-Animal Bonds
1. The Domestication of Animals

Part II: Animals that know when their people are coming home
2. Dogs
3. Cats
4. Parrots, Horses, and other animals

Part III: Animal Empathy
5. Animals that comfort and heal
6. Distant Deaths and Accidents

Part IV: Intentions, Calls and Telepathy
7. Picking up intentions
8. Telepathic calls and commands
9. Animal-to-animal telepathy

Part V: The Sense of Direction
10. Incredible Journeys
11. Migrations and Memory
12. Animals that know when they are nearing home
13. Pets Finding their people far away

Part VI. Animal Premonitions
14. Premonitions of Fits, Comas, and Sudden Deaths
15. Forebodings of Earthquakes and other disasters

Part VII. Conclusions
16. Animal Powers and the Human Mind

Appendix A: How to take part in research
Appendix B: Experiments with Jaytee
Appendix C: Morphic Fields

Notes
References
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
About the Author