If You Tame Me: Understanding Our Connection with Animals
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (762 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073V5ZXWV |
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| Number of Pages | : | 564 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
If You Tame Me makes a persuasive case for the existence of a sense of self in companion animals and calls upon us to reconsider our rights and obligations regarding the non-human creatures in our lives. Why do we regard these companions as having distinct personalities and as being irreplaceable? Irvine looks closely at how people form connections with dogs and cats available for adoption in a shelter and reflects on her own relationships with animals. Nearly everyone who cares about dogs or cats knows that they have a sense of self that renders them unique. In particular, dogs and cats have b
"Awesome Book" according to Christine P. Kalman. This book is awesome and I love it because I want to open a nonprofit animal shelter and do my dissertation on canine behavior and my epistemology teacher said this cannot be related to scientific theory. Well Leslie Irvine proved her wrong!!! Thank you MS. Irvine for such a wonderful book! Read it in a couple of days!:)Christine. "Thought provoking and thoroughly enjoyable" according to Patricia Anderson. Sociologist Dr Leslie Irvine's If You Tame Me is a very important and inspiring book. It will be of great interest to all who love animals and are concerned about their welfare. If you sense a kinship with nonhuman animals and the natural world, you will thoroughly enjoy this book. It is very well-written and well researched. It takes many of the assumptions that we commonly make a. J. Purnell said Another GOOD BOOK!. This is a book highly recommended by people in the know about living with animals. I wish there was a book like this about humans.