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9780151014897

Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

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    9780151014897

  • ISBN10:

    0151014892

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-01-01
  • Publisher: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN

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Summary

The best-selling animal advocate Temple Grandin offers the most exciting exploration of how animals feel since The Hidden Life of Dogs. In her groundbreaking and best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her distinguished career as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals think, act, and feel. Now she builds on those insights to show us how to give our animals the best and happiest life on their terms, not ours. It's usually easy to pinpoint the cause of physical pain in animals, but to know what is causing them emotional distress is much harder. Drawing on the latest research and her own work, Grandin identifies the core emotional needs of animals. Then she explains how to fulfill them for dogs and cats, horses, farm animals, and zoo animals. Whether it's how to make the healthiest environment for the dog you must leave alone most of the day, how to keep pigs from being bored, or how to know if the lion pacing in the zoo is miserable or just exercising, Grandin teaches us to challenge our assumptions about animal contentment and honor our bond with our fellow creatures. Animals Make Us Humanis the culmination of almost thirty years of research, experimentation, and experience. This is essential reading for anyone who's ever owned, cared for, or simply cared about an animal.

Author Biography

TEMPLE GRANDIN earned her Ph.D. in animal science from the University of Illinois and went on to become an associate professor at Colorado State University. She is the author of four previous books, including the national bestsellers Thinking in Pictures and Animals in Translation. Grandin spearheaded reform of the quality of life and humaneness of death for the world’s farm animals. Through her company, Grandin Livestock Systems, she works with the country’s fast-food purveyors to monitor the conditions of animal facilities worldwide. She lectures widely on both animal science and autism.

 

CATHERINE JOHNSON, Ph.D., is a writer specializing in neuropsychiatry and the brain. She cowrote Animals in Translation and served as a trustee of the National Alliance for Autism Research for seven years. She lives with her husband and three sons—two of whom have autism—in New York.

Table of Contents

What Do Animals Need?p. 1
A Dog's Lifep. 25
Catsp. 67
Horsesp. 105
Cowsp. 137
Pigsp. 173
Chickens and Other Poultryp. 207
Wildlifep. 235
Zoosp. 263
Afterword: Why Do I Still Work for the Industry?p. 295
Acknowledgmentsp. 305
Notesp. 308
Indexp. 329
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What does an animal need to have a decent life?I don't mean a decent life physically. We already know a lot about that. I mean a decent mental life. What does an animal need to be happy?What it comes down to is that everyone who is responsible for animals needs a set of simple, reliable guidelines he or she can apply to any animal in any situation. And the simplest thing people can do is look at animal emotions. I believe the brain's emotional systems help us find an answer to the two questions everyone asks, which are How do you know what kind of mental stimulation an animal needs? And once you do know, or have a pretty good idea, How do you give it to him? The fun and novelty of PLAY, the anticipation and challenge of SEEKING, and the prevention of FEAR, RAGE, or PANIC--I'll show you how to use those emotions to create good environments for animals living in homes, zoos, on farms and ranches, and in the wild.

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