Friend For Life: The Extraordinary Partnership Between Humans and Dogs

One mild February day in 2013, in the Welsh village of Devauden, Kate Humble unexpectedly fell in love. With a ginger and white Welsh sheepdog puppy.

Learning how to train Teg to become a fully-fledged working sheepdog, Kate began to discover the extraordinary relationship that can be forged between a human and a dog when the two are working together in partnership.

Inspired by that special connection, Kate wanted to find out more: how did this extraordinary animal evolve from predator to lifesaver? What happened to allow a fearsome hunter to be invited onto our sofas?

Inspiring, eye-opening and heart-warming, Friend for Life is the story of how dogs became essential to our lives and why they really are man's best friend.

Kate Humble is a writer and broadcaster specialising in science, wildlife and rural affairs. Together with her husband she runs Humble by Nature, a rural skills education centre on a working farm near Monmouth in the Wye Valley. She lives in permanently muddy jeans on a smallholding in Wales.