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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year! With an Introduction by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Dogs Highly respected author, philosopher, and animal trainer Vicki Hearne offers a treasure trove of animal anecdotes, all written in her unique and poetic style. Through entertaining stories about cats, horses, an ornamental carp, a scorpion, and tortoises, Hearne focuses on how each of these various creatures experiences happiness in its own special way. She takes issue with Ludwig Wittgenstein on lions and language, discusses the naming of pets, and considers the process of mourning a loved dog's death. Hearne believed that animals are much more like ourselves that we thought. They have emotions, intelligence, and humor. Her writing here makes her case. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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"The great trainers of every kind of animal, from parakeet to dog to elephant, have said for millennia now that you cannot get an animal to heed you unless you heed the animal; obedience is a symmetrical relation. In a given case it may start with the human, who perhaps says to the dog 'Joe, Sit!' Soon, however, the dog will take the term and turn it, use it to respond, to say something back, and it is at this moment that the true training with any species either begins or fails. If the human being obeys, hears, heeds, responds to what the animal says, then training begins. If the human being 'drops' the animal at this point, not realizing that the task has only begun, then the dog or orang (or for that matter monkey) will not listen where there is nothing to heed."
However, a lot of the book is a meandering, often digressing philosophizing that I found maddening and irrelevant. ( )