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Animals Make Us Human: Creating The Best Life For Animals (2009)

by Temple Grandin(Favorite Author)

3.96 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0151014892 (ISBN13: 9780151014897)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: In this book, Grandin offers up the latest research into animal behavior, giving advice on home to make pets happier and less troubled.So, there I am, reading the section on cats in my bed, waving the cat-fishing pole about, and Mao takes some sort of crazy course-correcting jump and scratches my nose and chin. This morning I look as if I attended Heidelberg. And I didn't make the cat happy, either, because he didn't like the smell of the antibiotic ointment or the band-aids.It's a good book.***Happily, I managed to conclude my reading without anymore disfiguring incidents. I worry that the kids are more traumatized than I'll realize until I pay their therapists' bills, but both seemed in fine playing-with-cats form last night.Good book. I think Grandin takes a very clear-... moreeyed view of how humans interact with animals, ie., we feel like we deserve something from them, whether it's affection, or meat, or tourist dollars. I laugh at the Ducks Unlimited people saving wetlands so they can slog through and shoot ducks, but hey, they're saving more ducks than they're killing. Highly recommended to anyone who interacts with animals, at home or at work. there's a lot of absorb.
review 2: When I picked up this book from the library, it has this image of a dog on the cover, and it looks like your run-of-the-mill animal book. I have to say that I was pleasantly impressed with Temple Grandin's information in this book. I picked it up because it was recommended by a user on backyardchickens.com in regards to animal behavior. Normally books like this have the same old this, that, and the other. This one does not. She brought to mind many evidence-based behavior explanations and information that I actually was engaged with this book. It's just a rare delight to come across a behavior book that sheds new light, and shows how obsolete older (what we have always known as to be true) theories of how animals think and why they respond and behave as they do. I'm interested in reading her other book now. less

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