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Outstanding! Easy to read and full of valuable information on how your pet (or other animal) actually thinks and sees the world around it. It is also full of valuable, real-world examples of how to handle this and also full of valuable insight into people and how we think. Temple Grandin, the author, is autistic (although relatively high-level functioning) and she sees the world differently than you and I see it. She also believes that is how animals see the world. I don't agree with the extremes she believes, but I think she is on to something and there is a lot to be learned from her. She certainly has plenty of examples of instances where her point of view produced the results the animal handlers were looking for in any case.

It is also interesting from a self-examination point of view. For instance, I am definitely a very visual person as Temple would say . By page 26 I was very hooked. I highly recommend this book to anyone. It is easy to read, and full of interesting insight about people and animals.


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Animals in Translation Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior A Harvest Book Temple Grandin Catherine Johnson 9780156031448 Books Reviews

Informative and interesting, but sometimes hard to follow.
Temple Grandin occasionally wanders off subject and states, "more on that later", but she doesn't ever address it again later, which leaves one hanging and wondering.
I only made it halfway through and I failed to finish the book because it did not keep my attention.
This book is perfect for anyone who works with animals, and especially anyone STUDYING to work with animals. It is written in a style more akin to a textbook or training manual - which I was not expecting. It is extremely insightful, and the language is easy to understand - with lots of examples to help explain. It covers a broad spectrum of animals from lab, and farm animals to wild animals and domestic animals such as dogs and cats. If you have any regular interaction with an animal, you are likely to get something from this book. Grandin doesn't just explain her views on a situation either, she explains the differing views of others as well. She also compares animal behaviors and ways of thinking, to that of autistic people - the similarities are amazing in my opinion. It's no wonder to me that she has been able to discover these insights into animals that other "normal" people have not been able to. Her insight is simultaneously both more simplified, yet more complex - she figures out that it's usually a simple fix to the problem, not something major, yet, no one else is able to see that - it's simple for her but not them. Her techniques of finding the problem (such as trying to see the animal's world from ITS point of view) make you wonder why no one else figured out that you should do that. It makes so much sense, especially when you consider the old saying of how you can't understand someone until you've walked a mile in their shoes - it's the same for animals you need to understand where they're coming from. At the end of the book there is also a guide to the different behaviors she covered, as well as troubleshooting for dealing with that specific behavior or problem cause. Overall I found this to be a very educational and insightful book and would recommend it to anyone interested in animals and the way they think and behave, as well as why.
This is an absolute delight to read. I love animals-even humans. Grandin gives some new and interesting ways to look at the connection between autistic perception and thinking and that of animals. She thinks the frontal lobes and words limit our ability to understand autism and animals. The frontal lobes abstract and pattern recognize but lose sensory detail. She may be right.
Animals and autistic people can help us see more of the worlds detail that the frontal lobes filter out in much the same way as dogs and their superior sense of smell. We need to learn to interact and cooperate with the rest of nature-even the "pathogens".. Frank
For we who already know how smart the other species with whom we share this planet are, the book confirms our thinking! For those who hadn't known, this book is revelatory, to say the least! Thank you both for this fine collaboration. I plan to explore other writings on this subject immediately.
Amazing insights that I have been able to apply to my own interactions with animals. Difficult to read due in part to the mechanical style and due to the large content related to Temple Grandin's personal trials. Despite those stylistic hurdles, I am on my third read through of this book and have bought two others of hers.
This book has some great insights into the lives of animals. Someone who was not diagnosed autistic might have been fiercely criticized for saying the things Ms. Grandin says about the similarities between autistic perceptions and animal perceptions. Even she is very brave to say these things. And I think she is correct about many things.
The animals I know best are dogs and she says some things about dogs that I don't agree with. However, her understanding of our overall relationship with dogs, of our _history_ with dogs, is wonderful. Right or wrong about details, she provokes thought about all of the subjects she discusses and has many brilliant things to say.

However, the main thing I want to do here is to defend her from the mindless critics who say that she should not have gotten involved with the meat industry.

When you see a beef-breed calf you _know_ that it is only going to live eighteen months under normal circumstances. What you might want to do is to change the world so that everyone is a vegetarian but you can't. You could buy that calf and give it a home but that won't change the fate of millions of other cattle, today and tomorrow.
What Temple did was to work very hard to make that calf's life and end-of-life as stress-free and pain-free as possible. To criticize her for that is to side with torture.
Outstanding! Easy to read and full of valuable information on how your pet (or other animal) actually thinks and sees the world around it. It is also full of valuable, real-world examples of how to handle this and also full of valuable insight into people and how we think. Temple Grandin, the author, is autistic (although relatively high-level functioning) and she sees the world differently than you and I see it. She also believes that is how animals see the world. I don't agree with the extremes she believes, but I think she is on to something and there is a lot to be learned from her. She certainly has plenty of examples of instances where her point of view produced the results the animal handlers were looking for in any case.

It is also interesting from a self-examination point of view. For instance, I am definitely a very visual person as Temple would say . By page 26 I was very hooked. I highly recommend this book to anyone. It is easy to read, and full of interesting insight about people and animals.