Thu, Sep 21
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Hersch Wilson, Dog Lessons: Learning the Important Stuff from Our Best Friends
“When in doubt, walk your dog” is the first of many valuable maxims in Hersch Wilson’s remarkable Dog Lessons. Hersch will be in conversation with Ben Swan, Special Projects Director and Murad Kirdar, Director of Community Engagement, Española Humane Shelter.
Date, Time & Location
Sep 21, 2023, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store event and live streamed to Zoom, for Zoom.register here
Pre-order (publishes Sept. 5) your copy of or by calling the store to order (505) 988-4226. Signed copies will be available after the event. Dog Lessonsonline
The follow-up to his acclaimed , this is not a training manual for dog owners, nor a primer on the latest in animal behavioral science (as he readily admits, he’s a pretty lousy dog trainer). It is instead a blend of memoir and clear-eyed meditation on these fellow pack animals, a heartfelt reflection on what dogs can teach us when we open ourselves enough to listen and learn. After more than sixty years of living and working with dogs (Wilson is a volunteer firefighter and, along with his wife, a boutique pet store owner), he began writing a column about dogs for his local paper in Santa Fe in 2013. The…