Here is the authors page: http://www.kerasote.com/

I have to say that I LOVED this book. I'd been searching around for some time for a book to get me back into reading. I took several years off to lose myself in the World of Warcraft as a method to quit smoking. It worked but it left me a little blind walking back into the world of books. I needed something smart without being too overly challenging. It needed to be well written and to impart some kind of applicable knowledge upon me while STILL managing to hold me for several hundred pages. I needed to keep the tempo of my game-playing energy up but be working my brain all the same.

Merle's Door offered me all of this and more. It talked about hunting and the lifestyle of those who participate in it and helped the city girl in me understand a more outdoorsy mentality. It also gives one a very non-traditional look at dog training, and one I used on my first dog. This method is one I've studied a bit while reviewing the method's given by the monks of New Skete. It involves that of a more intrinsic nature, one that speaks to finding the a language that is specific to dog and owner through a process of growth and learning. It reminded me of how I figured out my first husky and traveled with her for almost the exact time that Merle traveled with Ted.... in perfect harmony.

I expected the book to give me everything I stated above but was surprised that it didn't stop there. It drew from a very wide range of research and publications that I'd read YEARS ago, bringing them up to jar my memory in a rather interesting tingle. There were new cites and resources listed and all done with a style of writing that didn't judge or point, didn't support or criticize, but merely explained and weighed as it fit into the authors own particular life.

It was a very enjoyable, emotional, intellectual, and beautiful book.

Highly recommended!!

I love to get lost in a good book. I will check this out and thanks for the recommendation!

I read the amazon clips and his books sound really interesting but I would have a difficult time with the level of freedom he gives his dogs, I would be terrified my dogs would get hurt.