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Sto caricando le informazioni... Bandit: Dossier of a Dangerous Dogdi Vicki Hearne
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Employing a unique combination of psychology, philosophy, sociology, and dog training theory, Vicki Hearne recounts her experiences with Bandit, a dog deemed so dangerous that the state of Connecticut condemned him to death. Hearne rescued Bandit and was soon entrenched in a legal battle that extended well beyond his case as she fought to prove that no dog is inherently vicious. She quickly discovered the factors that contributed to Bandit's behavior and set about releasing the essentially "good dog" that lay within. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The book is interesting because a lot of it is about how animals think and behave, and also how a lot of people assume they think and behave, but they're wrong. Including, according to the author, many people in animal rescue work and humane societies. She has a lot of issues with them. And a lot of issues with how people can't be saying what they really mean, because their words, syntax or grammar don't make sense- she's very right about that in my opinion but it sure put my thoughts in a tangle to tease out understanding of how she explains these examples. The most straightforward being, that she considered the ban against pit bull dogs nonsensical because there is no such actual breed, and saying any "type of pit bull dog" is open to a lot of interpretation. In a lot of cases though, the author veers off into widely different subjects and sometimes I could not make head or tail of what she was saying anymore. She studied philosophy and wrote poetry which is all very evident in her writing style and thought process, and I just didn't get it. Sometimes I didn't even get a single sentence that covered a third of the page, read it three times, scratched my head what and had to put the book down. Also there's quite a few instances where she describes and analyzes some artwork- paintings and sculptures- and what they say about dogs (or horses) or our ideas about what dogs and horses are like. Except search as I might, I couldn't find the actual pieces she referred to, aside from one by Degas, and I did not at all see what Hearne did, in the painting...
I'm glad I struggled through reading it, at least this once. I would have given it a 4 if I had been able to understand some of it a little better.
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