Navalny is serving prison sentences based on charges which would never have been upheld under any independent legal system. A further 100 Russian lawyers and 100 regional deputies are demanding that the torture of Navalny cease and again that medical assistance be provided. We add our voices to those of the 600 Russian doctors requesting urgent and immediate independent medical help. Despite running a fever, he is required to stand all day. Visits from relatives and phone calls are forbidden, his attorney-client privileges have been canceled. He has been consistently returned to solitary confinement, squeezed into a concrete cell the size of a dog kennel, with no ventilation.
And despite Quid's habits of barking, running away, chewing unchewable things, and all the other normal puppy behaviors (at one point Horowitz lists the contraband that Quid has tried to eat, beginning with rocks), I defy you to read this book and not feel, with a pang, that you too need a puppy.As we write and you are well aware, Alexei Navalny is being held in IK-6, one of the harshest penal colonies in your country.
This is a book to learn from, for sure, but it is also a book to savor Horowitz's loving descriptions of Quid sleeping, "melting into a cushion," are adorable. Why is eight weeks the optimum time to separate a pup from its mom? What is the age at which puppies are deemed (by scientists) to be at their peak cuteness and why? Why do puppies fit so well into homes with humans? Why do they bark, and what do barks mean?Īny puppy questions you might have, Horowitz has answers in real time, as Quid grows. Eleven squirming puppies later (oh, how we feel for the mother dog, Maize), we have the great joy of watching through Horowitz's eyes as they spend their first weeks sleeping, eating and growing, and then taking their first tentative steps toward exploration.Īt eight weeks, Horowitz chooses a puppy and takes her home. Being a diligent researcher, she finds a dog about to give birth, determined to observe her new puppy from Day One. Given the sharpness of puppy teeth, that is not a bad comparison.īut then, at some point, the idea gripped her. Despite running the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College, she notes that raising a puppy is as unfamiliar to her as raising a snow leopard. It is astounding to realize that Alexandra Horowitz, author of so many insightful and useful books about the development of dogs, has never raised one from puppyhood.
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