About this title: With the groundbreaking "Animals in Translation," 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. Now she builds on those insights to show how to give animals the best and happiest life. (Animals/Pets)
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Edition: First edition. Advanced Reading Copy.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780151014897ISBN:0151014892
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: 2009-01-06
ISBN-13:9780151014897ISBN:0151014892
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Description: New. The author of "Animals in Translation" employs her own experience with autism and her background as an animal scientist to show how to give animals the best and happiest life. read more
Edition: F First Edition, First Printing
Binding: H Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780151014897ISBN:0151014892
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: 1/6/2009
ISBN-13:9780151014897ISBN:0151014892
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"The title is a little misrepresentative of the book. It's not a treaty on how animals make us human. Instead I would characterize the content of showing how the classification of animal "Blue ribbon" responses (or emotions) are similar to humans. If animals can be shown to have feelings then they're not so different from humans.
Most animals have a seeking and fear switch. When a novel experience is provided either one gets switched on. Too far in one direction the animal bolts, or explores. Generally seeking is positive and fear negative. Fear can lead to anger and violence.
She covers how different animals can be led to more seeking activities for a more content state of mind. Laboratory, zoo, and food farms activities and behaviors are touched on to provide examples of the difference between animal behavior in the "wild" versus controlled.
I've read other books which seek to illustrate the symbiotic relationships of animals and humans and how that working relationship contributed to the development of both. This can be seen on the human-dog/wolve relationship.
If you've read other books by the author you'll realize that she usually slides back into areas of expertise which is designing slaughterhouses and how to efficiently and humanly slaughter animals.
A better title would have been "the emotional live of Animals" or "how to keep an animal occupied and content."
I would still recommend this book for anyone interested in learning more about how animal minds work."
"Reading this book helped me get a better grasp on the different groups of animals and their behavior. I really really love our Luna Dog more now and can appreciate her sentiments in different settings much better now than before I read this book.
One thing I like about the book is how Grandin doesn't just jump on the bandwagon of 'we use terrible practices in our slaughterhouses in this country!' but instead points out specific problems, how they are problems for the animals, but then gives suggestions for reasonable solutions to the problems.
I was very intrigued by the history of how sow stalls, for example, came into existence and what forces went into play to make the sows have the life they do today.
I haven't ever been a cat person, but the chapter on cats gave me (almost) respect for the darn things.
I really like the chapter on horses and the one on cows. The one on hens I found interesting because we'd like to get a hen house as soon as it's feasible and I found the information not only very inspiring (to do away with my support of the poor practices in the chicken industry today), but very informative and helpful."
"My dog's emotional health took a dramatic turn for the worse when we moved a few weeks ago. After her extreme separation anxiety induced panic attack, I needed answers on what was going on in her fragile little head. Most dog books I found are boring training manuals. They focus on animal behaviors and rehash lessons from doggy obedience class 101. Grandin's book is so different in that respect. She focuses on the emotional systems underlying animals' behaviors. Grandin provides insights into what humans can do to understand and better meet their pets' complex emotional needs. I came for the dogs because of issues in my personal life. But I stayed for the cats, horses, cows, pigs, poultry, wildlife, and zoo animals because of Grandin's deep respect for animals, strong sense of ethics, and thought-provoking ideas."
"I expected something much different going into this book. I thought it was going to be more about how domestic animals and humans interact, and how we, as pet owners, can do more to enrich their lives. I know the synapsis makes reference to the fact that there would also be information about animals raised for slaughter, but I was thinking this would be a pretty minor part of the book. This was the case for about the first three discs, which I thought was somewhat engaging and was looking forward to the book building in interest.
The remaining NINE discs, however, read like a dissertation for an agricultural thesis. I've read textbooks more interesting than this, and I'm completely at a loss as to what the title has to do with the actual content. I'm perplexed as to what people find so fascinating about his women's work. I feel like she has some great insights into animal behavior (possibly due to her autism as she claims, but I didn't feel like she offered much support for this hypothesis), but its hard to suffer through her drawn out ramblings and repetition of the same ideas over and over long enough to cipher out her actual valid points. People seem to like Animals in Translation better, so maybe I'll give her another shot. If her writing capabilities is lacking as much as they are in this book though, I'm going to have to pass."
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