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Product Description How can we give animals the best life--for them? What does an animal need to be happy In her groundbreaking, best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her experience as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals think, act, and feel. Now she builds on those insights to show us how to give our animals the best and happiest life--on their terms, not ours. Knowing what causes animals physical pain is usually easy, but pinpointing emotional distress is much harder. Drawing on the latest research and her own work, Grandin identifies the core emotional needs of animals and then explains how to fulfill the specific needs of dogs and cats, horses, farm animals, zoo animals, and even wildlife. Whether it's how to make the healthiest environment for the dog you must leave alone most of the day, how to keep pigs from being bored, or how to know if the lion pacing in the zoo is miserable or just exercising, Grandin teaches us to challenge our assumptions about animal contentment and honor our bond with our fellow creatures. Animals Make Us Human is the culmination of almost thirty years of research, experimentation, and experience. This is essential reading for anyone who's ever owned, cared for, or simply cared about an animal. A Q&A with Temple Grandin, Author of Animals Make Us Human Q: In Animals Make Us Human, you discuss a wide range of animals, from dogs to pigs to tigers. Which animals do you enjoy studying and working with the most? A: I've worked with cattle the most, so I really enjoy cattle. I always liked to sit in the pen and let the cattle come around me and lick me--they're really peaceful animals when they're not afraid. But the thing about cattle is they're a prey-species animal and they get scared really easily--and I can relate to that because as a person with autism, fear is my main emotion. So I can relate to how cattle are always hypervigilant, looking for rapid movements, looking for little signs of things that might be danger. Q: How has autism helped you in your work with animals? A: I'm a total visual thinker. And you've got to think about it: animals don't think in language. If you want to understand animals, you must get away from language. Animals are sensory-based thinkers; they think in pictures, they think in sounds, they think in touches. There's no other way that their brains can store those memories. Q: How has your work affected the treatment of animals? A: I've been working on improving the treatment of cattle for years. When I started out in the seventies, people were incredibly rough and abusive with cattle. The thing that kept me going was that there were some really nice people who handled their cattle well, and their cattle had a great life, and so I could see that it was possible to handle animals right. And today many more people are now involved in teaching low-stress stockmanship and good cattle handling. When I started in the early seventies, I was a pioneer in the U.S. on this; nobody else was working on these things. Q: How will this book be useful to people working with cats and dogs in animal shelters? A: People often don't recognize emotions in these animals. I went to a very nice animal shelter recently that had group housing for cats that had tree-like things with platforms and cubbyholes for the cats to get in, and a very astute worker there noticed that you can have a situation where a cat seems very calm in a shelter, but he's not really sleeping, he's constantly keeping an eye out for another cat. And people need to watch for that kind of situation, because even though it looks peaceful, that one particular cat that never sleeps is going to be stressed out. Also at this shelter, I was very pleased that the amount of dog barking was way less, and I think one of the reasons for this is that every day, every dog is taken out for an hour of quality time, playing and being walked and interacting with a person. That's going to help lower the stress. Dogs need to be taken out every day for quality interaction with a person, exercise, and fun play. Q: What are the things you really like about creating a book like Animals Make Us Human? A: I really enjoyed getting into all the neuroscience information. Another thing I talked about in the book are the problems with not having enough people working out in the field to implement things. We've got policymakers who never work out in the field, and some of the policies can backfire. We need to have more people working in the field. In the wildlife chapter, I talk about who's going to be the next Jane Goodall--we need a lot more of that kind of on-the-ground work. Q: You mention Dr. Nicholas Dodman and some other people in your field. Has anyone in particular been a great inspiration for you? A: One of my big inspirations when I was starting out was a scientist named Ron Kilgore, who studied sheep handling and sheep behavior. At the same time that I was working on cattle handling in the U.S. in the early seventies, Ron Kilgore was doing the same sorts of things in New Zealand. I discovered one of his papers early on, and that really was an inspiration. Q:What do you think of the more extreme animal activists? A: Violence I'm totally against--that's very counterproductive. All that does is make the animal industry go and get more lawyers and more security systems. Demonstrations--sometimes there may be a place for that. In some situations we might have philosophical differences. I eat meat. I get hypoglycemic if I don't eat animal protein. But I feel very strongly that we've got to give the animals a decent life. A woman working at Niman Ranch said that we've got to give animals "a life worth living." These cattle can have a decent life: the cows and the bulls, out on a ranch eating grass. The calves spend half their lives in a feed yard, but they're still outside. Another way I look at it is, those cattle would have never been born, would have never existed, but now that we've made them exist, we've got to give them a decent life. Q: If you could give your book to one person or one group of people so that they could learn more about animal care, who would that be? A: I think any kind of person who works with animals, whether it's a pet owner, a cat owner, people who work with horses, people who work on farms--anyone who works with animals on a daily basis is going to like Animals Make Us Human, and they're also going to like Animals in Translation. Q: Proposition 2 in California just passed. Its aim is to reduce the inhumane confinement of farm animals by giving them enough room to stand up, turn around, and stretch. What do you think of this, and what do you think the real effects will be? A: Veal stalls and sow stalls we need to get rid of, plain and simple. Putting a sow in a box where she can't turn around for most of her life, that's absolutely not acceptable. Two-thirds of the public have problems with it. With hens and chickens, that's a more complicated issue. It's so much more expensive to put them in systems that are cage-free, and what I'm worried about is the egg industry migrating to Mexico and being a real mess, where we have no controls at all. What people don't realize is that half of the egg industry is liquid egg, which can be easily shipped in those stainless-steel tanks. It's the eggs that go into bread, the eggs that restaurants use...And I'm concerned that that might migrate to Mexico. There needs to be a lot more thought going into how we're going to implement things. What's happening in a lot of fields now--with any issue, not just animal issues--is we're getting more and more policymakers totally separated from the reality of what's happening on the ground, where ideology takes over from practicality. Q: What are your future plans relating to animal advocacy? What is the next issue that you would like to tackle? A: I'm an implementer. Somebody has to work on implementing things. I want to continue working with people on practical guidelines that will result in improvements. I spend a great deal of time working with large meat buyers, because economic forces can often bring about great change. One of the things that should be a major criterion in judging welfare is when there are too many lame animals. And lameness is something I can measure. I want things I can measure. Too often we've got our best and brightest going into policy, and they haven't done anything practical. All I can say is, whatever field you're in, whether it is animals or something else, you need to get out in the field and find out what's going on in the trenches, so that you don't make policies that might have unintended, bad consequences. Get away from the lobbyists, get away from all that, get out and visit farms, visit ranchers, because with a lot of issues, the truth is somewhere in the middle. (Photo © Joel Benjamin)

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Starred Review. Grandin (Animals in Translation), famed for her decades-long commitment to treating livestock as humanely as possible on its way to slaughter, considers how humans and animals can best interact. Working from the premise that an animal is a conscious being that has feelings, the autistic author assesses dogs, cats, horses, cows, pigs, poultry, wildlife and zoo animals based on a core emotion system she believes animals and humans share, including a need to seek; a sense of rage, fear, and panic; feelings of lust; an urge to nurture; and an ability to play. Among observations at odds with conventional wisdom: dogs need human parents, not alpha pack leaders, and cats respond to training. Discussions of why horses are skittish and why pigs are arguably the most intelligent of beasts—raccoons run them a close second—illuminate the intersection of people and more domesticated animals; chapters on cows and chickens focus more generally on animal welfare, particularly the horrific conditions in which they are usually raised and slaughtered. Packed with fascinating insights, unexpected observations and a wealth of how-to tips, Grandin's peppy work ably challenges assumptions about what makes animals happy. (Jan.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Product details

Hardcover: 341 pages

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition (January 6, 2009)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0151014892

ISBN-13: 978-0151014897

Product Dimensions:

6.5 x 1 x 9.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.5 out of 5 stars

393 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

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There were many aspects described of factory farming that I could have lived without knowing. Much of this book was graphic and disturbing. It takes a tough person not to let emotions get in the way of focusing on making conditions at factory farms better for animals. Temple Grandin is one such person and I admire her being able to research and think things through to provide better lives for chickens, cattle and other creatures we consume. I do admire her work and appreciate that she has made improvements for these creatures.

I learned so much from Professor Grandin. She is so good at backing up her observations with biological and historical facts. She focuses quite a bit on dogs. As a dog rescue volunteer, the information has helped me understand my own dogs as well the various purebreds and mixed breeds we save from animal shelters. I have quoted information from this books to many other dog owners and recommend it highly to anyone who shares this planet with animals.

Overall ThoughtsI purchased this book for one of my college classes and normally, I just sparknotes those kinds of books, but that was not the case for this one. I honestly didn’t know what to expect when I got this book. I thought it would be just a book that talks about how awesome companion animals are and how much they improve our lives. Which, this book did have its fair share of that, but it had so much more to bring to the table. It was actually very informative and opened my eyes to the way animals view the world. It discusses behavioral aspects in animals and actually is really educational on how to even work with these animals.Targeted Audience I would recommend anybody who is in the animal science field, works with animals on a daily basis, or even just owns a pet themselves to read this book. One thing about working in the animal science field or anything of that nature, most times people have no idea what to do or how to act around animals. They are incredibly book smart, but most people don’t know how to handle these animals. This book focuses a lot on emotion and behavior of these animals. She goes into detail on what motivates these animals to act the way they do and also what to do in response. I think this book should be a part of every animal science curriculum.More Levels To The Book Not only does it inform you on what to do in certain situations with animals or how to handle them, but it also helps educate on what makes these animals happy and how to give them a stimulating, successful living environment. A huge aspect of this book is their happiness and making sure they have the best environment possible. For example, how birds get incredibly bored very quickly, and if they don’t get their cages changed around often, they can get so bored or stressed that they will begin to pluck out their own feathers. Before reading this book, I wouldn’t even consider birds being capable of getting that bored. So this doesn’t only improve their mental health, but also prevents them from doing physical harm to themselves.Conclusion Overall, I would highly recommend this book to anyone with a passion for animals. Temple Grandin does a great job in backing up these statements on emotional wellbeing of animals with facts and studies, which can be very hard to do. She is an incredibly wise woman and anyone could benefit from her writing.

I loved Dr. Grandin's earlier book, Animals in Translation, and found some overlap in this book. I did enjoy reading her views and findings on our most ubiquitous domesticated animals, especially pigs and cows. The facts certainly reinforced my commitment not to eat meat from the factory farm system. The facts on so-called more humane raising of cage-free egg-laying chickens makes me question whether to support eating eggs at all, and treatment of dairy cows, even in organic sources, challenges my drinking of organic milk products. Though Dr. Grandin has been a more researcher and designer of more humane practices in factory meat farming, it's clear to me that farming on an industrial scale is not compatible with the humane treatment of animals. Combined with strong evidence that a plant based diet is more healthy in countless ways, a book like this provides a strong argument for me not to eat meat, and to be very cautious about the source of even organic and more humanely raised egg and dairy products. Given the ever increasing growth of human populations, improved humane animal farming is very unlikely on the immense scale needed.

Extremely well written. Dr Temple Grandin has brought an analytical clarity to the subject.Animal behavior specialist struggle with criticism regarding anthromorphism. I suspect that it is just normal animal behavior that has involved into the animal known as human that is being described rather than an anthromphism.When humans decide to raise animals for their benefits, then it became important to provide their basic needs from birth to death and is good business.Dr. Temple Grandin provides a wonderful guide regarding animal behavior and problem solving.Her insights regarding the suppression of patents and the problems with managing the behavior of people when they interface with a complex system was on target.Cattle have to navigate handling systems designed by Dr Grandin, but they are the simpler part of the problem. The more difficult variable is positively influencing the human behavior that interfaces her handling systems.Animals Make Us Human is also a great business guide.

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