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Stories about Pets and Their People
W. W. Norton & Company
July 2003
On Sale: July 1, 2003
288 pages
ISBN: 0393324680
EAN: 9780393324686
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Non-Fiction
A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller: a
veterinary behaviorist evokes James Herriot with these
remarkable stories of distressed pets and their equally
troubled owners. With humor and compassion, renowned
animal behaviorist Dr. Nicholas Dodman explores the complex
emotional problems of troubled animals and their (often)
equally distressed owners, creating a classic of animal
literature, with stories as wise, and almost as human, as
the lives of the animals they portray. Did you hear about
the dog who always arranged exactly six pieces of kibble in
buttonhole depressions in the couch before he could lie
down? Or the cat who compulsively hoarded shiny objects?
Fifteen years ago Dodman began studying the psychological
maladies that afflict our pets, helping to launch a field of
animal psychotherapy and psychopharmacology that suggests
that animals' emotional problems are often as complex,
heartrending, and treatable as those of their human
counterparts. If Only They Could Speak, with thirteen
true stories culled from Dr. Dodman's own practice, echoes
the wisdom of writers like Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and
Jane Goodall. The stories here are as wise, and almost as
human, as the lives of the disturbed animals they portray.
Animal Personality Assessment Guide included. 15 b/w
photographs.
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