Animal Happiness Pa
by Hearne,VickiEdition: 00
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2007-08-17
Publisher(s): FRWHEEL
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Summary
Animal trainer, philosopher, and poet Vicki Hearne offers a treasure trove of animal anecdotes, focusing on the premise that in a time when suffering abounds it is vital to consider happiness and the diverse ways in which it is experienced. Written with Hearne's unique passion and wit, this is a book for the thinking trainer or animal lover-the reader who wants to discover the essence of each wonderful creature. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Vicki Hearne was an animal trainer for more than twenty-five years. The author of the widely praised Bandit: Dossier of a Dangerous Dog, she received a 1992 award for outstanding literary achievement from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
Table of Contents
| New Introduction | |
| Author's Introduction | |
| Profiles | |
| Parrots and Philosophers | p. 3 |
| Too Much Leopard | p. 6 |
| Honcho de Dedeaux | p. 9 |
| English Riding, Western Style | p. 12 |
| Love and Responsibility | p. 15 |
| Living Jewels | p. 17 |
| Four-Legged Therapist | p. 19 |
| A Tom Sawyer of a Hound | p. 21 |
| Horses Without Landscapes | p. 24 |
| By a Frog's Own Light | p. 27 |
| Justice in Venice Beach | p. 29 |
| Beauty and Terror on the Wing | p. 31 |
| Straight to the Heart | p. 33 |
| Properly Pigheaded | p. 36 |
| For a Song | p. 39 |
| Max into Maximilian | p. 42 |
| The Philosopher's Cat | p. 44 |
| Companion Dog Excellent | p. 46 |
| Ordinary Wonders | p. 49 |
| A Prince Among Dogs | p. 52 |
| Peppy the Wonder Horse | p. 55 |
| The Nordic Nerd | p. 57 |
| Far Fierce Hours and Sweet | p. 59 |
| The Heart of an Aristocrat | p. 62 |
| Scrapper, Who Died of a Broken Heart | p. 65 |
| Sarah, Who Hated Holidays | p. 67 |
| A Funny Sort of Water Dog | p. 70 |
| A Distinct Impression of Diamonds | p. 73 |
| The Dedication of Tortoises | p. 76 |
| Lineages | |
| The Airedale: A Case of Genial Fraud | p. 81 |
| The Airedale's Criminal Past | p. 86 |
| "Oyez a Beaumont" | p. 94 |
| The Thoroughbred Mutt | p. 100 |
| Beware of the Dog! | p. 106 |
| What Is His Name? | p. 123 |
| Advice | |
| About Josephine Trainer | p. 141 |
| Columns | p. 142 |
| Possibilities | |
| Wittgenstein's Lion | p. 167 |
| The Case of the Disobedient Orangutans | p. 175 |
| Why Dogs Bark at Mailmen | p. 197 |
| Job's Animals: Reflections on the Sacred and the Ordinary | p. 218 |
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