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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Reaching the Animal Mind Reaching the Animal Mind Karen Pryor After thirty years of training creatures both tame and wild, Karen Pryor, pioneer in the field of no-punishment animal training, presents what she knows about teaching animals and what they in turn h… OL15100537W
Animal handler Animal handler Alix Wood Describes the various careers and activities of animal handlers. OL17846972W
Running with Sherman Running with Sherman Christopher McDougall Rescues donkey from dying. OL20334758W
Animal partners Animal partners Curtis, Patricia Discusses ways in which animals are trained to help the handicapped and to provide companionship for mentally retarded, ill, and elderly persons. Based on interviews with professional animal trainers… OL2651913W
Zamba Zamba Ralph Helfer When Ralph Helfer, now one of Hollywood's top animal behaviorists, first began working, he was shocked by the cruelty that was accepted practice in the field. He firmly believed in "affection trainin… OL2677962W
Méchant Coco Méchant Coco Lucie Papineau Réédition. Jojo raconte l'histoire incroyable de sa relation avec Méchant Coco, un petit perroquet. On assiste aux diverses tentatives du garçon pour apprivoiser son nouvel ami emplumé ... [SDM]. Un… OL28168702W
Puppy training and critters, too! Puppy training and critters, too! Judy Petersen-Fleming Demonstrates how to train a puppy by comparisons with how keepers train wild animals in captivity. OL2933412W
Cesar's way Cesar's way Cesar Millan "I rehabilitate dogs. I train people." --Cesar Millan There are at least 68 million dogs in America, and their owners lavish billions of dollars on them every year. So why do so many pampered pets… OL5838638W
What Shamu Taught Me about Life, Love, and Marriage What Shamu Taught Me about Life, Love, and Marriage Amy Sutherland While observing exotic animal trainers for her acclaimed book Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched, journalist Amy Sutherland had an epiphany: What if she used these training techniques with the human anima… OL5853199W
Wild animal man Wild animal man Damoo Gangaram Dhotre As a skinny little boy in India, Damoo Dhotre ran away from home to join his uncle's circus and become an animal trainer. This was the boy who has since become one of the world's greatest animal trai… OL6546682W
Hold that tiger Hold that tiger Mabel Stark Autobiography of Mabel Stark, tiger tamer in the early 1900's. OL7629425W