Summer Reading

Books virtually animals as well as merely about fiction equally good – the books on my to-read listing this summer.

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By Zazie Todd, PhD

It’s a tradition hither at to issue a summertime reading list. Typically the listing includes links to merely about favourite articles yesteryear other bloggers, equally with terminal year’s listing concentrating on sound advice on dogs as well as cats or 2015’s play edition.

But immediately each month’s newsletter highlights favourite posts (see August's newsletter here), I decided to produce things differently this summer. I’ll hold upwards taking a fight of fourth dimension off, as well as I idea I would portion with yous merely about of the books on my mass pile waiting to hold upwards read.

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Books from the mass club

Not surprisingly, the Book Club choices brand upwards a meaning proportion of my reading list.

This month, the mass lodge is reading Marc Bekoff’s interviewed Bekoff virtually the mass dorsum inward April. As this is the mass for August, I’m re-reading it amongst the mass club. Early on inward the book, Bekoff writes,

"This mass seeks to response the interrogation of who dogs are, non what dogs are." 

The mass is an interesting read virtually what nosotros know virtually dogs, illustrated with many stories virtually the dogs Bekoff has known as well as of the people who write to portion their stories with him. In the appendix, Bekoff explains how yous tin decease an ethologist as well as what yous volition larn from observing dogs. This is an enjoyable mass that volition aid yous empathise dogs better, with a potent emphasis on the welfare of our canine companions.

Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon yesteryear Bronwen Dickey is the mass club’s alternative for September. It looks at the complex history of pit bulls inward America as well as what it tells us virtually our human relationship with dogs. It’s a topical alternative as well as the photos that accompany the text are fascinating (and, at times, disturbing). Dickey is an splendid author as well as grabs your attending from the commencement pages. I can’t hold back to dig inward to this book.

Animal Book Club is reading this month

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