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What the Dog Knows

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Author: Cat Warren –


Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio –


Genre: Memoir, Special Interest –


Overall rating: 5/5 –


Writing, content: 5/5 –


Duration: 11:05 h, medium –


Narrator: Cassandra Campbell –


Narrator/performance: 5/5 –


Impressions: n/a –


Performance errors: 0/5 –


Complexity/reading level: 3/5 –


Audience: General


Commentary/review

I enjoyed this audiobook so much I wished it to go on forever. It has it all – a book about dogs, written by a passionate, female academic, with a lot of information – verified, understood and well put together.

The book is about training cadaver dogs, all wrapped around the personal experience of Cat Warren and her first working German Shepherd – Solo. She was able to capture the nuances of the relationship between dogs and humans so well, I suspect that this may well be one of the greatest audiobook titles currently available on the subject of dog training on my two apps (Storytel and BookBeat).

The book is obviously written according to the rules of story-telling. However, given that the serious informative content is so well constructed, this personal touch does not seem strained or overshared. The book is also quite dark but in a matter-of-fact way, like any mature content should. Expertly read, nothing to report there. Highly recommended.

What the Dog Knows audiobook cover, a German Shepherd on a mint underground

I loved the cover, mint goes so well with the coat of most dogs.

Cover Photo by Birger Strahl on Unsplash