Synopses & Reviews
In it Vicki Hearne asserts that animals that interact with humans are more intelligent than we assume. In fact, they are capable of developing an understanding of the good,” a moral code that influences their motives and actions. Hearnes thorough studies led her to adopt a new system of animal training that contradicts modern animal behavioral research, butas her examples showis astonishingly effective. Hearnes theories will make every trainer, animal psychologist, and animal-lover stop, think, and question.
Synopsis
Have you ever watched a horse flick her tail or had a dog greet you at your door and known in your heart that the animal was exhibiting something more than simple instinctual responses? If so, you must read this book.
Synopsis
In it Vicki Hearne asserts that animals that interact withhumans are more intelligent than we assume. In fact, they are capableof developing an understanding of the good, a moral code thatinfluences their motives and actions. Hearne s thorough studies led herto adopt a new system of animal training that contradicts modern animalbehavioral research, but as her examples show is astonishinglyeffective. Hearne s theories will make every trainer, animalpsychologist, and animal-lover stop, think, and question.
About the Author
Vicki Hearne was an accomplished scholar of linguistics, literature, philosophy, and behavioral psychology as well as a poet. She was known for her distaste of sentimental indulgence and her idea that animals want to be challenged when working with humans. She was a professor at Yale University and operated a dog-training school for years in Westbrook, Connecticut.Donald McCaig, the author of Jacob's Ladder, Rhett Butler's People and Canaan. He and his wife, Anne, work a sheep farm in the western mountains of Virginia.