THIS IS A BOOK about dog consciousness. To some people, the subject might seem anthropomorphic simply by definition, since in the past even scientists have been led to believe that only human beings have thoughts or emotions. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. Surely, that such a notion remains in our philosophy is merely a holdover from the Christian creationism it resembles,and is unscientific at that, given the fact that human beings have consciousness which, in the absence of miracles, we acquired through our long mammalian past.