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New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond
Alan Beck, Purdue University, Editor
Afternoons with Puppy: Inspirations from a Therapist and His Animals
Partly a treatise on the ways dogs, birds, and even lizards and fish can be used in therapeutic settings; partly a primer on the life lessons that animals teach; and partly a paean to Fine's pets.
Assessing the Human-Animal Bond: A Compendium of Actual Measures
Assessing the Human-Animal Bond gathers, in one place, those measures presently used to study the human-companion animal bond.
Between Pets and People: The Importance of Human-Animal Companionship
A review and exploration of the evidence that animals have a significant influence on human life and health.
Bridging the Bond: The Cultural Construction of the Shelter Pet
What happens behind the doors of the animal shelter? This book will introduce the reader to the work culture of animal shelter employees, volunteers, activists, educators, and pets. By weaving together her own personal memoirs with interviews with workers, the author describes the traditions, philosophies, history, and current social dynamics of a typical animal welfare community.
Brood Bitch: A Mother's Reflection
Brood Bitch is a mother's reflection inspired by her hand-raising a litter of Pembroke Welsh corgis whose own mother died after a Caesarian delivery. Devastated by the loss of her only companion and awed by the task of saving the puppies, the author is surprised to discover she enjoys this exclusive commitment.
Brute Force: Policing Animal Cruelty
Brute Force looks at people having the most contact with everyday animal abuse — humane law enforcement officers who are charged with enforcing anti-cruelty statutes. The author spent one year studying 30 “animal cops” and dispatchers in two large cities.
Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Animal Abuse
Evidence is mounting that animal abuse, frequently embedded in families scarred by domestic violence and child abuse and neglect, often predicts the potential for other violent acts.
Children and Animals: Exploring the Roots of Kindness and Cruelty
Many cases, dealing with humans' relationships with animals, have been distorted and become examples of malevolence and cruelty. The perpetrators of such inhumane treatment are often children and adolescents but adults sometimes join their ranks. How common are these incidents? What motivates human maltreatment of animals? Are there cultural, societal, neighborhood, and family contexts that contribute to cruelty to animals?
Cruelty to Animals and Interpersonal Violence: Readings in Research and Application
Cruelty to Animals and Interpersonal Violence presents in one volume historical, philosophical, and research sources that explore the maltreatment of animals and the ways people hurt each other.
The Ecology of Stray Dogs: A Study of Free-Ranging Urban Animals
"This fascinating small monograph is the work of a man who-armed with camera, tape recorder and thermometer and driving not a Land-Rover but a used sedan-studied free-ranging dogs among the bricks of Baltimore."-Scientific American.
Gross's work provides both personal as well as professional advice on how specially bred and trained dogs help to facilitate communication for children with autism and other developmental disabilities.
The International Handbook of Animal Abuse and Cruelty
The authoritative, up-to-date compendium covering the historical, legal, research, and applied issues related to animal abuse and cruelty from scholars worldwide.
What would today's world be like if man had not domesticated animals? A Perfect Harmony illuminates a vital but virtually ignored aspect of human history: the partnership between man and domestic animals through the ages.
This book explores the issues about pets and their legal definition, but does so in a fresh new way.
Playing with My Dog, Katie: An Ethnomethodological Study of Canine-Human Interaction
An in-depth case study of a single dog and her guardian (the author) at play uses an "ethnomethodological" approach.
Potcakes: Dog Ownership in New Providence, The Bahamas
This monograph describes animal welfare in the cultural context of The Bahamas and offers insights as to how this predominantly Afro-Caribbean society has integrated mongrel dogs, called potcakes, into its culture.
Rescuing Rover: A First Aid and Disaster Guide for Dog Owners
Whether you're hiking with your canine friend in a remote area or work with a dog on a search-and-rescue team or police force, you need to be prepared for emergencies when veterinary service is not available. Rescuing Rover: A First Aid and Disaster Guide for Dog Owners provides dog owners, handlers, and emergency physicians with an understandable guide for safe treatment until the dog can be transported to a veterinarian.
The Significance of Children and Animals reveals the interconnected lives of the inhabitants of the preschool classroom - an environment abounding in childish verbal and nonverbal interactions with birds, turtles, toads, birds, bugs, and other creatures.
The Sacrifice: How Scientific Experiments Transform Animals and People
The Sacrifice provides a uniquely detailed account of the sociological context of animal experimentation.