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At the age of 36, Caroline Knapp, author of the acclaimed bestseller Drinking:A Love Story, found herself confronted with a monumental task: redefining her world.  She had faced the loss of both her parents, given up a twenty-year relationship with alcohol, and, as she writes, "I was wandering around in a haze of uncertainty, blinking up at the biggest questions: Who am I without parents and without alcohol? How to form attachments, and where to find comfort, in the face of such daunting vulnerability?"  An answer materialized in the most unlikely form: that of a dog.  Eighteen months to the day after she quit drinking, Knapp stumbled upon an eight-week-old puppy at a local animal shelter, took her home, and named her Lucille.  Now two years old, Lucille has become a central force in Knapp's life: "In her," she writes,  "I have found solace, joy, a bridge to the world."Caroline Knapp has been celebrated as much for her fresh insight into emotional and psychological issues as she has been for her gifts as a writer.  In Pack of Two, she brings the same perception and talent to bear on the rich, complicated terrain of human-animal relationships.  In addition to mining her own experience with Lucille, Knapp speaks to a wide variety of dog people--from animal behaviorists and psychologists to other owners whose dogs have deeply affected their lives--about this emotionally complex, sometimes daunting, often profoundly healing alliance.  Throughout, she explores the shift in canine roles from working partners to intimate companions and looks, too, at how this new kinship, this wordless bond, becomes a template for what we most desire ourselves.

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It pains me to admit that, years ago, I was one of those misinformed souls who used harsh methods and equipment in my dog training. I competed in AKC Obedience and Schutzhund, using choke chains, prong collars and correction. I worked as a professional pet dog trainer for several years.Positive dog training was just emerging as a powerful force and I was still poo-pooing the idea, focused on the outdated notion of dominance. Then I met a very patient motivational dog trainer, who allowed for in depth and non-judgemental discussion of the topic. Thank you, Jeannie Collins! I began to realize that partnership and communication was the answer, not force and domination.Sometime later, I picked up this book and it completely changed my life as a trainer. I realized the error of my ways with great guilt. This spoke to me of the intelligence, cooperative nature and under-acknowledged mental and emotional capacity of dogs. This is not a training book, but it touched me so profoundly that I trashed my old-school training books, threw out the choke collars and began anew. Guess what happened? My dogs and I started having a lot more fun, training became easier, and we started raking in the trial ribbons and titles! Without force, my dogs were far more cooperative. We understood each other instead of being anxious about each other's actions.The story of Knapp's relationship with her dog is nothing spectacular, a great many books have been written about a certain author's certain life-changing dog. After working in the veterinary and dog rescue field for 25 years, I am somewhat immune to this type of memoir's emotional effects. But Knapp's writing is not overwrought, and her description of what this relationship meant is powerful without being melodramatic. It focuses on her growth as a person. It made me realize I was missing something, even though my life already revolved around my dogs.Other than my love of dogs and the beauty of her writing, I can't exactly say why it touched me so deeply. Sometimes these memoirs get on my last nerve because of bad writing, ovbious lack of knowledge about dogs, or extraneous information. Not so with Pack of Two.If you have read Knapp's other books, you know she is one hell of a writer, a real pro with a lot of style. Something about her gritty humor combined with honest emotion is so relatable. Whatever it was, it sealed the deal for me and I went on to forge a much deeper, more satisfying and more effective way of relating to my dogs. As a dominance oriented owner, my dog was, on some level, viewed as an adversary looking for a coup. I missed out on so much amazing communication, so much "dogness". Knapp has a knack for describing this realtionship vividly.I will always be grateful that this book appeared in my life just when I needed it. I feel a pang just seeing it on my bookshelf, because it confirmed so much about dogs that I had kept out of my life for so long. Donald McCaig, another great dog writer, has said something like, "Dog training is all about regret". So true for me! But, since Pack of Two, so many years ago, I have communicated with my dogs better than most people in my life, and for that, I thank you, Caroline. I mourn your passing from this planet.

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