The Nutshell: Devastated by the death of his beloved dog Merle, the star of the best-selling Merle’s Door, nature writer Kerasote set out to find a successor who would live the longest, healthiest life possible—and to determine the reasons, from genes to food to veterinary care, why dogs live only a fraction of the years that humans do.

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