FOREWORD - THIS is a book which is different from most dog books, for it touches the fringes of the dogs understanding and of his mental life in relation to ourselves. It also emphasizes our responsibility towards the only animal which, leaving all its natural affinities, has attached itself utterly to us. It is this responsibility which, to my mind, we so often forget and so often neglect, even when we realize it. We keep a dog because we like dogs, and there the matter ends. How often do we really sacrifice anything for this animal whose life is one long sacrifice for us. We feed the dog sufficiently or too well, wr exercise him when it does not interfere with our pleasutcs, but how many of us would dream of getting up earlier by an hour to give the dog a walk, if we happen to expect a clay too full of other business Or pkasur to enable us to do so. Mr. Sheard has obviously sct hirnself the task of making the dog better known and understood in those circles which are not...