Amati, odiati, mangiati

How sick and schizophrenic can it get? Loving one animal like a lifelong human partner while feeding it parts of many other, tortured animals is a good start. I find it really hard to deal with this cognitive dissonance because it is so extremely obvious that the actions are unlogic and not consiste Leggi tutto

Written by a psychologist & anthrozoologist, Herzog seems to hold to the middle of the road in most debates & gives a good account of both sides so far as I can tell. There's a lot more to how we think about animals than I would have thought & he comes at the issue from several different angles. He

I watched a video one time on Youtube of a soldier in Iraq throwing a puppy off of a cliff for fun. You could hear the puppy's cry get farther away as it plummeted lower and lower. You can probably still find this video if you search "soldier throws puppy off cliff." This video deeply affected me, a Leggi tutto

I listened to this a few weeks ago & gave it 5 stars as an audio book (My review is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... ) even though I don't think that was the best format for it. While it's not filled with facts & figures that require study, there were some I would have liked to have revie Leggi tutto

There were several moments during this book when I thought, "WTF!?" but due to other obligations, I did not write them down and prepare a review. 1. I had forgotten all about the book until reading an article about the feral dog epidemic, when I remember that one of the more insane things in this bo Leggi tutto

Although I liked this author's attempt to be fair to all perspectives, there were some questions that he chose not to explore. Herzog points out that many dog lovers live with cats instead of dogs. In fact, he is one of them. But he never asks why this pattern has developed. Is it because cats make b Leggi tutto