A Small Furry Prayer
Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life
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Steven Kotler was 40 years old, single, and facing an existential crisis when he met Lila, a woman devoted to animal rescue. "Love me, love my dogs" was her rule, and Steven took it to heart. Spurred to move by a housing crisis in Los Angeles, Steven, Lila, and their eight dogs - then 10, then 20, and then they lost count - bought a postage-stamp-size farm in Chimayo, New Mexico. A Small Furry Prayer chronicles their adventures at Rancho de Chihuahua, the sanctuary they created for their special needs pack.
While dog rescue is one of the largest underground movements in America, it is also one of the least understood. An insider look at the "cult and culture" of dog rescue, A Small Furry Prayer weaves personal experience, cultural investigation, and scientific inquiry into a fast-paced, fun-filled narrative that explores what it means to devote one's life to the furry and the four-legged. Along the way, Kotler combs through every aspect of canine-human relations, from humans' long history with dogs through brand-new research into the neuroscience of canine companionship, in the end discovering why living in a world made of dog may be the best way to uncover the truth about what it really means to be human.
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Ted Kerasote met and adopted Merle, a Labrador mix, while he was on a camping trip. Merle had been living in the wild, and after taking the dog home with him to Wyoming, Kerasote soon realized that Merle could not adjust to inhabiting exclusively the human world. So he put a door in his house to let Merle live both outside and in. A deeply touching portrait of a remarkable animal, Merle's Door explores the issues that all animals and their human companions face.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best Audio Book I've ever listened to
- De John Bonkowski en 07-15-07
De: Ted Kerasote
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Animals in Translation
- Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
- De: Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson
- Narrado por: Andrea Gallo
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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Temple Grandin’s professional training as an animal scientist and her history as a person with autism have given her a perspective like that of no other expert in the field. Grandin and coauthor Catherine Johnson present their powerful theory that autistic people can often think the way animals think—putting autistic people in the perfect position to translate “animal talk.”
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful, but I have a bone to pick...
- De Tango en 05-06-13
De: Temple Grandin, y otros
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Dogtripping
- 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, and 3 RVs on Our Canine Cross-Country Adventure
- De: David Rosenfelt
- Narrado por: Jeff Steitzer
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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When best-selling mystery writer David Rosenfelt and his family moved from Southern California to Maine, he thought he had prepared for everything. They had mapped the route, brought three GPSs for backup, as well as refrigerators full of food, and stoves and microwaves on which to cook them. But traveling with 25 dogs turned out to be a bigger ordeal than he anticipated, despite RVs, the extra kibble, volunteers (including a few readers), and camping equipment.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Only about 1 hour of the book is about the trip
- De Gretchen en 10-29-13
De: David Rosenfelt
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A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home
- Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher
- De: Sue Halpern
- Narrado por: Karen White
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
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At loose ends with her daughter leaving home and her husband on the road, Sue Halpern decided to give herself and Pransky, her under-occupied Labradoodle, a new leash - er, lease - on life by getting the two of them certified as a therapy dog team. Smart, spirited, and instinctively compassionate, Pransky turned out to be not only a terrific therapist but an unerring moral compass. In the unlikely sounding arena of a public nursing home, she led her teammate into a series of encounters with the residents that revealed depths of warmth, humor, and insight Halpern hadn't expected.
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2 out of 5 stars
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my mistake!
- De joyce en 02-02-14
De: Sue Halpern
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Cat Daddy
- What the World's Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Clean
- De: Jackson Galaxy, Joel Derfner
- Narrado por: Jackson Galaxy
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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In this book, Galaxy tells the poignant story of his 13-year relationship with a petite gray-and-white short-haired cat named Benny, and gives singular advice for living with, caring for, and loving the feline in your home. When Benny arrived in his life, Galaxy was a down-and-out rock musician with not too much more going on than a part-time job at an animal shelter and a drug problem. Benny's previous owner brought the cat to the shelter in a cardboard box to give him up.
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5 out of 5 stars
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10 Stars!!!
- De Dawn J en 12-04-12
De: Jackson Galaxy, y otros
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How Dogs Love Us
- A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain
- De: Gregory Berns
- Narrado por: LJ Ganser
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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How Dogs Love Us answers the age-old question of dog lovers everywhere and offers profound new evidence that dogs should be treated as we would treat our best human friends: with love, respect, and appreciation for their social and emotional intelligence.
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2 out of 5 stars
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misleading title
- De Cindy en 08-06-15
De: Gregory Berns
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)
- Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
- De: Lyudmila Trut, Lee Alan Dugatkin
- Narrado por: Joe Hempel
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs - they are foxes. They are the result of the most astonishing experiment in breeding ever undertaken - imagine speeding up thousands of years of evolution into a few decades. In 1959, biologists Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut set out to do just that, by starting with a few dozen silver foxes from fox farms in the USSR and attempting to recreate the evolution of wolves into dogs in real time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De paul en 10-26-17
De: Lyudmila Trut, y otros
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In the Company of Bears
- What Black Bears Have Taught Me About Intelligence and Intuition
- De: Benjamin Kilham
- Narrado por: George Backman
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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Imagine raising an orphaned bear cub, carefully reintroducing her to the wild, then being welcomed back, almost daily, to observe her wild world for more than 17 years. Imagine visiting her in her feeding spots, watching her with her mates and her young, peering into her den, and, over time, observing the lives of all the other wild bears in her territory and surrounding ones. That is what happened to Ben Kilham.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing book!
- De Sydney Mae en 12-01-24
De: Benjamin Kilham
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The Age of Empathy
- Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
- De: Frans de Waal
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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Is it really human nature to stab one another in the back in our climb up the corporate ladder? Competitive, selfish behavior is often explained away as instinctive, thanks to evolution and "survival of the fittest", but in fact, humans are equally hard-wired for empathy. Using research from the fields of anthropology, psychology, animal behavior, and neuroscience, Frans de Waal brilliantly argues that humans are group animals.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Lot Of Things In Common With Our Animal Friends!
- De James en 08-14-11
De: Frans de Waal
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Citizen Canine
- Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs
- De: David Grimm
- Narrado por: Graham Hamilton
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 75
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In this fascinating exploration of the changing status of dogs and cats in society, pet lover and award-winning journalist David Grimm explores the rich and surprising history of our favorite companion animals. He treks the long and often torturous path from their wild origins to their dark days in the middle ages to their current standing as the most valued animals on Earth. For pet lovers or anyone interested in how we decide who gets to be a “person” in today’s world, Citizen Canine is a must-have. It is a pet tale like no other.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Cats and Dogs Unite!
- De Gillian en 03-03-15
De: David Grimm
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Afield
- American Writers on Bird Dogs
- De: David Smith - editor, Robert Demott - editor
- Narrado por: Bryan Brendle
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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This marvelous collection features stories from some of America’s finest and most respected writers about every outdoorsman’s favorite and most loyal hunting partner: his dog. For the first time, the stories of acclaimed writers such as Richard Ford, Tom Brokaw, Howell Raines, Rick Bass, Sydney Lea, Jim Harrison, Tom McGuane, Phil Caputo, and Chris Camuto come together in one collection. Hunters and non-hunters alike will recognize in these poignant tales the universal aspects of owning dogs.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great stories. Poor performance.
- De Paul en 12-09-17
De: David Smith - editor, y otros
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How to Be a Good Creature
- A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
- De: Sy Montgomery
- Narrado por: Sy Montgomery
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
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Understanding someone who belongs to another species can be transformative. No one knows this better than author, naturalist, and adventurer Sy Montgomery. To research her books, Sy has traveled the world and encountered some of the planet's rarest and most beautiful animals. From tarantulas to tigers, Sy's life continually intersects with and is informed by the creatures she meets. This restorative memoir reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals - Sy's friends - and the truths revealed by their grace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enchanting Start To 2019....
- De Rory en 01-02-19
De: Sy Montgomery
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The Thing with Feathers
- The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
- De: Noah Strycker
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As we learn more about the secrets of bird life, we are unlocking fascinating insights into memory, relationships, game theory, and the nature of intelligence itself. The Thing with Feathers explores the astonishing homing abilities of pigeons, the good deeds of fairy-wrens, the influential flocking abilities of starlings, the deft artistry of bowerbirds, the extraordinary memories of nutcrackers, and other mysteries.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book, terrible reader
- De MGM123 en 03-16-18
De: Noah Strycker
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Wild Ones
- A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
- De: Jon Mooallem
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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Half of all species could disappear by the end of the century, and scientists now concede that most of America’s endangered animals will survive only if conservationists keep rigging the world around them in their favor. So Jon Mooallem ventures into the field, often taking his daughter with him, to move beyond childlike fascination and make those creatures feel more real. Wild Ones is a tour through our environmental moment and the eccentric cultural history of people and wild animals in America that inflects it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The line between conservation and domestication...
- De Bonny en 04-02-14
De: Jon Mooallem
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Our Wild Calling
- How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives - and Save Theirs
- De: Richard Louv
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Richard Louv's landmark book, Last Child in the Woods, inspired an international movement to connect children and nature. Now Louv redefines the future of human-animal coexistence. Our Wild Calling explores these powerful and mysterious bonds and how they can transform our mental, physical, and spiritual lives, serve as an antidote to the growing epidemic of human loneliness, and help us tap into the empathy required to preserve life on Earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sharing our world
- De Scott Br en 10-06-21
De: Richard Louv
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Ever By My Side
- A Memoir in Eight [Acts] Pets
- De: Dr. Nick Trout
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
New York Times best-selling author Nick Trout has captivated audiences with his books that take us behind the scenes into the heartwarming - and sometimes heartrending - world of veterinary medicine. In a perfect follow-up to his first two books, he turns his lens inward and offers a funny, moving, and thoughtful, memoir about the animals he's had all his life. Nostalgic, warm, and insightful, Ever By My Side is about the power of animals to shape our lives....
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2 out of 5 stars
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This guy is no James Herriot!
- De Crochetaway en 10-11-12
De: Dr. Nick Trout
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- elizabeth
- 07-22-20
Covers a lot of ground
I truly enjoyed this book it touched upon a lot of different things in the animal world not just sheltered dogs. It was funny at times and sad a good balance left me feeling good.
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- Shirley
- 08-29-11
Great book
The only way this book could have been more enjoyable is if the author had read it himself. I grew up in New Mexico so I could relate to many of his comments about NM. Before reading the book, we had rescued a Chihuahua mix so it also hit close to home. Next time I'm in NM I might have to go visit Rancho de Chihuahua.
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- PD
- 04-16-23
Quite a bit of expletives
I liked the fact it was about animals but the course language & sexual references ruined the book for me.
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- cncr76
- 09-17-20
Cute story...
Overall, a cute story. It would have been much better to listen to with a better narrator. This narrator sounds way too robotic and unemotional to tell a story about dog rescue.
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