Animals' best friends : putting compassion to work for animals in captivity and in the wild
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Chicago ; University of Chicago Press, 2021.
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274 pages ; 23 cm
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Mancos Library District - NONFICTION
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Published
Chicago ; University of Chicago Press, 2021.
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English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-259) and index.
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"How do people who love animals translate that devotion into helping creatures who are not our pets? How do we express our care for animals when that means different things to omnivores and vegetarians-or, say, to hunters and non-hunters? Barbara J. King, a widely read expert on animal cognition and emotion, here guides readers through the difficult choices and deep rewards of turning empathy into action on behalf of animals. King discusses our relationship to animals in five different contexts: our homes, the wild, zoos, our food system, and research facilities such as biomedical laboratories. She offers a host of ways in which each of us can be better, and do better, for animals. Acting to improve animals' lives can, she shows, immeasurably enrich our own. True, there is also heartache and the risk of burnout from endlessness of animal rescue the dilemmas that attend it. But King's focus is on the joys. She describes the "happiness lift" that she herself has experienced joining with other activists on behalf of animals destined for slaughter or confined in sub-standard zoos-and in rescuing dozens of cats, some of whom we meet in this book. This is a book for anyone who cares for animals and wishes to do more for them, whether it's learning to live peaceably with spiders in the home or join with others to rescue our more dramatically endangered animal friends"--,Provided by publisher.
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King, B. J. (2021). Animals' best friends: putting compassion to work for animals in captivity and in the wild . University of Chicago Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)King, Barbara J., 1956-. 2021. Animals' Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild. University of Chicago Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)King, Barbara J., 1956-. Animals' Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild University of Chicago Press, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)King, Barbara J. Animals' Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild University of Chicago Press, 2021.
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