Friend for Life
The extraordinary partnership between humans and dogs

Friend For Life: The Extraordinary Partnership Between Humans and Dogs is a very engaging book. Written by the popular TV presenter Kate Humble, it straddles autobiography and her investigation into the origins of dogs as we know them, establishing how they may have adapted their behaviour througho......more

I'm a real fan of the author, Kate Humble, a TV presenter here in the UK - she's full of enthusiasm and humour, yet wonderfully down to earth, plus she's a great animal-lover. The book is all about the history of people and dogs, and all the myriad ways in which dogs have been used by humans over the......more

This is a lovely read, by a journalist who seems to have a fantastic job - travel around the world reporting on dogs. She goes to Asia to spend a month with herders in a remote high valley, for instance. But the running thread is Kate's lovely brown and white Welsh sheepdog, and whether the pair can......more

I always love a new animal memoir, so when I saw this for sale at my local bookstore I knew I had to read it. I really enjoyed it, although I will say some parts are long winded and invariably flew off subject. We get introduced to someone and then it flies off on another tangent and then back, and......more