On either side of the scientific dog writer, Horowitz or Bradshaw, one senses the phantoms of two alpha writers: Cesar Millan, television's "dog whisperer," and John Grogan, the "Marley & Me" memoirist — the pseudo-science of the dog as pack animal, on the one hand, and the sentimental fiction of the all-sympathetic dog, on the other.
Gopnik observes that on either side of these scientific books, one senses the phantoms of two alpha writers: Cesar Millan, television's "dog whisperer," and John Grogan, the "Marley & Me" memoirist — the pseudo-science of the dog as pack animal, on the one hand, and the sentimental fiction of the all-sympathetic dog, on the other.
On either side of the scientific dog writer, Horowitz or Bradshaw, one senses the phantoms of two alpha writers: Cesar Millan, television's "dog whisperer," and John Grogan, the "Marley & Me" memoirist the pseudo-science of the dog as pack animal, on the one hand, and the sentimental fiction of the all-sympathetic dog, on the other.
At a stop in the doorway of a veterinary waiting room, the children cast sympathetic glances at a dog whose fur was pocked with small bites.
A believer in sympathetic magic, Mills gathers dog-eared objects and forgotten rituals to summon a world of mixtapes and Judy Blume and Three Mile Island and skateboarders who grab their boards behind their front leg.
The "sestet" has a brilliant, amusing, sympathetic portrait of the Gypsies' dog.
He said on his official website in 2007 that he liked portraying Santa's Little Helper because the dog was a "sympathetic" character.
Alpha-2-agonists are able to block cardiovascular responses caused by intubation and surgery in humans [ 39] and opioids can block the sympathetic response to surgery in dogs [ 23, 24].
There is only one scene which might reasonably be said to go a bit far in making Grant sympathetic, in which he comforts a dog after an accident.
One of their more interesting findings was that the people who were most sympathetic with underdogs were sympathetic with top dogs, too.
But others from the court's conservative wing sounded more sympathetic, hatching high-spirited hypotheticals about hot-dog vendors and raucous spring break parties.
