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Title Talking to animals : how you can understand animals and they can understand you / Jon Katz.
Publisher New York : Atria Books, 2017.
Copyright ©2017
Description 228 pages ; 24 cm
Edition First Atria Books hardcover edition.


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Contents Talking to Lucky -- Visualization: picturing the future -- Orson and the rings of fire -- Elvis -- Rose's message -- The great collapse -- Flo and Minnie: the barn cats -- Saving the animals -- Joshua Rockwood -- "Good morning, equines" -- Fate -- Epilogue: What they told me, what they taught me.
Summary We seem to need animals in our disconnected lives more and more, yet we understand them less and less. In Talking to Animals, New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz—who left his Manhattan life behind two decades ago for life on a farm where he is surrounded by dogs, cats, sheep, horses, cows, goats, and chickens—marshals his experience to offer us a deeper insight into animals and the tools needed for effectively communicating with them. By better understanding animal instincts, recognizing they are not mere reflections of our own human emotions and neuroses, we can help them live happily in our shared world. Devoting each chapter to an animal who has played an important role in his life, Katz tells funny and illuminating stories about his profound experiences with them. He shows us how healthy engagement with animals falls into five key areas: Food, Movement,Visualization, Language, and Instincts. Along the way, we meet Simon the donkey who arrives at Katz's farm near death and now serves as his Tai Chi partner. We meet Red the dog who started out antisocial and untrained and is now a therapy dog working with veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. And we meet Winston, the dignified and brave rooster who was injured defending his hens from a hawk and who has better interpersonal skills than most humans.
Subject Human-animal communication.
Other title How you can understand animals and they can understand you
ISBN 9781476795478
9781476795492
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