Service Animals Books

I have recently purchased this book along with several other "trap and snare" building books. If you are new to building snares, this one is ok. I think this kind of info would be better presented in the format of an instructional video.

Catch even the craftiest critters with trap lore perfected over generations. Ragnar Benson outlines his favorite traps that are easy to build and maintain and are guaranteed to work! Ragnar tells you how to nab every imaginable fish and beast (including humans). Detailed illustrations show you how to build a floating duck snare, den trap, "board-against-a-chicken-house" set, live-mouse set, campfire set, fish trap, and more. 5 1/2" by 8 1/2," 136 pages.

This book has nice, sturdy pages, but the illustrations aren't spectacular. The story has a nice rythm and rhyme, but the story itself is pretty silly.

It's about a lion, monkey and parrot who have a picnic in the jungle - the last page shows them sitting on a picnic blanket, with dishes & everything. The monkey is handing a banana to the lion, who is taking it with his PAW.

The story just isn't very cute and it's just so unfeasible. I recommend skipping this one.

This was one of my young toddler's favorites. The narrative has a superb rhythm that lends excitement to the text: "There's a lion in the jungle and he's really on the run!" Colorful and imaginative illustrations match the vivid story. Sure it's unrealistic, the lion might eat the other animals--but this is a very fun kids' book to read and hear.

Media attention to the fate of animals during disasters has increased considerably in recent years with more people showing an interest in helping with the animals. The question is, how should we help? This book addresses that question and more. It is an exceptional reference book, first for its compilation of information on animal management but also for its broad coverage of disasters in general and its presentation of the emergency management system. The 200 photographs, illustrations, and tables bring a wealth of objective information and emotional tone to the subject. Written for emergency management, animal care professionals, and volunteers, this book takes a transdisciplinary approach. The chapter, "Myths and Realities" clears away misguided notions about what happens to animals, preparing the reader for practical recommendations based on experience and systematic studies. From that point, the content covers the spectrum of disaster management: types of disasters, the consequences for animals, structure and function of emergency management, preventive measures, developing a response plan, animal evacuation, and management of animals and their owners during large-scale disasters. The emphasis is on preparation and protection rather than the overly romanticized and often less effective rescue.

If hurricanes or earthquakes are uncommon where you live, you may be thinking that preparing for animal care is unnecessary. On a wintry morning in March 1996, 1700 residents of Weyauwega, WI were evacuated when a train derailed and 19 propane tank cars caught fire. Hundreds of pets were left behind because owners didn't think they would be gone long. The evacuation lasted 18 days. Lack of an emergency plan incorporating animals resulted in a humanitarian and public information nightmare. Pet owners and humane groups begged and physically threatened emerency officials regarding pet rescue efforts. Much of this could have been avoided with basic preparation. You can do it. This book will help you.

The volume of information contained in this book is impressive. As a newcomer to the area of animal rights, I cannot think of a better place to start. This book provides both a comprehensive research tool, and an excellent overview of the many aspects of animal rights.
The ability to compare the general content and tone of several books on a particular topic is very useful. Scanning through the entries is informative and thought provoking, in large part due to the author's comments and questions. Without claiming one side or the other, he challenges many traditional ways of thinking about the issues involved, and introduces alternative views. I found myself prompted to look at other aspects of animal rights that I had not considered before. An outstanding resource for anyone interested in any aspect of animal rights.

Well-researched treatment of Western society's relationships with the domestic animal kingdom. Citing literature, art and historical accounts, this book traces the history of animals as fictional characters, anthropomorphic characters, beasts of burden, food, companions, and even lovers to humans. Interesting and enlightening stories accompany statistics to unjudgmentally describe these relationships and society's reaction.

I would love to see a sequel dealing with other cultures.

It is an informal, emotional reading. Although the name causes a misunderstanding about the real purpose of the book, it is interesting and it contains useful advices.

At first I was unsure if I wanted to read a pro vivisection book. But I thought I might as well. Professor Fox offers many of same old arguments that scientists want the public to hear. Namely, that any pain & suffering that animals may experience in experiments is more than justified if it helps humanity. He also offeres one unique one. It's his Planet of The Apes argument. It's a hoot. Surprisingly, Professor Fox only half believes the things he writes about. Through out the book he does want to believe that vivisection is okay,( including his witnessing of a burn experiment involving a pig ) but you can also sense that he is not 100% sure of it either. However, to the shock of many in the scientific community, a few months after Professor Fox book was published. He publicly announced that he no longer supports vivisection. Professor Fox is now an anti-vivisectionist, and reportedly even became a vegetarian as well. So if your looking for information to help support your belief that vivisection is acceptable, you may like this book. But keep this in mind: the arguments in this book couldn't even convince the guy who wrote it

Una manera sencilla y rapida de comprender.

This book basically takes a rather sophisticated college course on Animal Rights and summarizes it for popular consumption. The book is very thorough and clear.

The author takes a moderate position on animal ethics. Animals have moral status, for which reason we ought to change our treatment of them significantly. But animals are different, so their lives are worth less and they don't have any rights. Some of her points are made too quickly to be convincing. For example, the sheer fact that humans can give and withhold consent is presented as the whole basis of their having rights, on some pages. On other pages a social contract approach to rights is taken.

The tone of the book is clinical and detached, never personal or passionate. The author pronounces what is right and wrong, reasonable and unreasonable, as if from the the throne of reason. As a result, this is not a really engaging read, but if you want to know what the current debate about animals among philosophers looks like, this book will give you a very good idea.

This isn't so much a book as a "how-to" manual for learning how to do philosophy. She gives you some readings and gives you exercises that ensure that you have carefully and *charitably* read them, identified the arguments, etc. Anyone who seriously worked through this book would become a very careful and critical thinker.

The selections from Singer and Regan are good (although she could have picked better, I think) but the other selections from Midgley and Scrutin aren't so great. They strike me as somewhat obscure and the space would have been better spent with more "standard" anti-animal/pro-status quo writings. If a 2nd edition of the book were changed in that way, it'd be a lot better.