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"Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: Fully Updated and Revised" is Rupert Sheldrake's highest-rated book on LuvemBooks, with a reader rating of 4.4/5.

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Rupert Sheldrake was born in 1942.

Rupert Sheldrake

English

Born 1942

Alfred Rupert Sheldrake is an English author and parapsychology researcher. He proposed the concept of morphic resonance, a conjecture that lacks mainstream acceptance and has been widely criticized as pseudoscience. He has worked as a biochemist at Cambridge University, a Harvard scholar, a researcher at the Royal Society, and a plant physiologist for ICRISAT in India.

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Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: Fully Updated and Revised

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First published in 1999 and reissued in a revised edition in 2011, Rupert Sheldrake's Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home is a wide-ranging scientific investigation into unexplained animal behavior — from dogs that anticipate their owners' returns at unexpected times, to cats that appear to know when the vet visit is imminent, to animals that forewarn of epileptic seizures and seismic events. Drawing on a vast collection of case histories and proposing his theory of morphic fields, Sheldrake challenges the limits of conventional biology and asks readers to reconsider what animals — and the invisible bonds between them and humans — are truly capable of.

Reviewed Apr 12, 2026

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