Bol to pred casom velky hit v USA a citala som len uvod z knizky v NY times, ktory ma dost pobavil, lebo evidentne autor v nom zavadza uhol pohladu na psov ako socialnych parazitov, ktori manipuluju ludmi a ziju na nas ukor
ale celu knihu som zatial necitala
Uryvok z uvodu:
"If biologists weren't victim to the same blindness that afflicts us all, they probably wouldn't hesitate to classify dogs as social parasites. This is the class of manipulative creatures exemplified by the cuckoo, which lays its eggs in the nest of some unsuspecting dupe of a bird of another species; the poor befuddled parents see this big mouth crying out for food and stuff it full of worms at the expense of their own offspring. Every time they turn their backs, the cuckoo hatchling shoves another of its foster parents' flesh and blood overboard.
Calling dogs parasites is fighting words, but what can I say? Dogs have got us exactly were they want us, and we, idiotic grins fixed to our faces, go along with it all. If we can manage to don our unsentimental evolutionary spectacles, dogs loom large as a huge net biological burden upon mankind, competing for food, diverting vast economic assets in the form of labor and capital, spreading disease, causing serious injury."
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/bu ... truth.html