If a dog could write a book of philosophy, what would it contain? Do dogs live a fulfilled life? Do they love us? And what makes a ¿good boy¿? Drawing on his life lived with dogs, on the ideas of philosophers from Socrates to Hume and Sartre, and on the cutting-edge psychology of canine cognition, Mark Rowlands explores the way that dogs experience the world, to bring us closer to an understanding of ourselves. At once a celebration of man¿s best friend and a thought-provoking work of philosophy, The happiness of dogs explores how dogs may have better answers to the meaning of life than we do.