I found this fair-condition softcover at the Used Book Superstore during their store-closing sale, and was glad to have another release copy.

This book is very impressive, and quite fascinating! Grandin discusses the ways different types of animals perceive things as compared to humans, suggests that perhaps dogs made us evolve into different types of humans even as we made them evolve into different types of dogs, points out that pigs can be artificially bred more effectively if the human learns how to please each particular pig (!), explains how predatory killing is done in a very different mood than enraged/attack killing (not surprising, really, as successful predation means food), and much, much more. Some of the information makes the behavior I've seen in my house cats more comprehensible, and definitely does so for livestock I've known - cattle, horses, chickens. Wish I'd had Grandin's book back then...

There's advice for choosing a pet, how to cope with fearful animals, etc. And Grandin analyzes human behavior, responses, and learning with as detached a view as she does that of animals, leading to some interesting insights. Excellent book!

[Also check out her Animals Make Us Human. And the TV Tropes page about the award-winning 2010 biopic may be of interest too.]

I'm adding this book to the Anything But Romance shrinking bookbox, which will be on its way to keno-mom shortly. Hope someone enjoys it!