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Animal Welfare & animal connectionbooks

Below are the best books we could find on Animal Welfare and animal connection.

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A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life

Dog rescue is one of the largest underground movements in America. It is also one of the least understood.

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Steven Kotler
2025
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Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

Drawing on the latest research and her own work, animal scientist and author Temple Grandin identifies the core emotional needs of animals. Then she explains how to fulfill them, and teaches us to challenge our assumptions about animal contentment and honor our bond with our fellow creatures.

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Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson
2010
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The Gospel of Kindness: Animal Welfare and the Making of Modern America

When we consider modern American animal advocacy, we often think of veganism, no-kill shelters, and internet campaigns against trophy hunting. Contemporary critics dismiss animal protectionism as a modern secular movement that privileges animals over people.

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Janet M. Davis
2016
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Animalkind: Remarkable Discoveries about Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion

In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who animals are—intelligent, aware, and empathetic. Studies show that animals are astounding beings with intelligence, emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities.

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Ingrid Newkirk, Gene Stone
2020
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Temple Grandin’s Guide to Working with Farm Animals: Safe, Humane Livestock Handling Practices for the Small Farm

Award-winning author Temple Grandin is famous for her groundbreaking approach to decoding animal behavior. Now she extends her expert guidance to small-scale farming operations.

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Temple Grandin
2025
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Natural Healing for Dogs and Cats

This invaluable resource tells how to use nutrition, minerals, massage, herbs, homeopathy, acupuncture, acupressure, flower essences, and psychic healing for optimal health. Meticulously researched. Fully illustrated. Comprehensive guide to holistic healing methods. Extensive resource directory.

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Diane Stein
1993
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A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion

A powerful and wide-ranging indictment of the treatment of animals by humans—and an eloquent plea for animal rights. Every cow just wants to be happy. Every chicken just wants to be free. Every bear, dog, or mouse experiences sorrow and feels pain as intensely as any of us humans do.

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Matthieu Ricard
2017
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The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds

Ackerman journeys in search of monarch butterflies and short-tailed albatrosses, monk seals and golden lion tamarin monkeys: the world’s rarest creatures and their vanishing habitats. She delivers a rapturous celebration of other species that is also a warning to our own.

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Diane Ackerman
1997
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Our Symphony with Animals: On Health, Empathy, and Our Shared Destinies

A leader in the fields of animal ethics and neurology, Dr. Aysha Akhtar examines the rich human-animal connection and how interspecies empathy enriches our well-being.

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Aysha Akhtar, Carl Safina (foreword)
2021
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Animal Energy Therapy Project: One Woman’s Journey Healing Animals Through Energy Work

This is a memoir of a woman who took solo journeys to conduct an explorative, observational research study in India with elephants, horses, goats and dogs using specific Animal Energy Therapy techniques such as sound, touch and smell.

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Anne-Frans Van Vliet
2020
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