If Only They Could Speak: Stories About Pets and Their People
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ISBN: 0393051005 / Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, June 2002
A collection of fourteen true stories by an animal behaviorist offers insight into animal psychotherapy and psychopharmacology that contends that animals have emotional structures as complex as humans.
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A veterinary behaviorist evokes James Herriot with these remarkable stories of distressed pets and their equally troubled owners. Did you hear about the dog who always arranged exactly six pieces of kibble in buttonhole depressions in the couch before he could lie down? Or the cat who compulsively hoarded shiny objects? Fifteen years ago, Nicholas Dodman, a renowned animal behaviorist, began studying the psychological maladies that afflict our pets, helping to launch a field of animal psychotherapy and psychopharmacology that suggests that animals' emotional problems are often as complex, heartrending, and treatable as those of their human counterparts. If Only They Could Speak, with thirteen true stories culled from Dr. Dodman's own practice, echoes the wisdom of writers like Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and Jane Goodall. The stories here are as wise, and almost as human, as the lives of the disturbed animals they portray. Animal Personality Assessment Guide included.
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