Reviews for If You Tame Me: Understanding Our Connection with Animals

The average rating for If You Tame Me: Understanding Our Connection with Animals based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-11-04 00:00:00 Patrick Roetzer As an animal lover and an animal psychology/behaviour enthusiast I was truly looking forward to reading this book. But it left me disappointed, it starts out with some pretty detailed descriptions of our horrific treatment of animals in the past. I am not an advocate of sugar coating or ignoring historical facts, but details of these tortures are really not necessary, we can all picture the acts ourselves. I found the descriptions disturbing, and felt unease returning to reading the book after. I thought the author passed a lot of judgement on visitors and adopters in the Shelter, whether she meant to or not. The author left me feeling disencouraged from interacting with an adoption agency in the future or at least wary of the way people working there might see me. I have read my fair share of books on sociology, psychology and behaviour on both human and animals, I thought compared to other authors her arguments were muddled at times and she tended to alter standard word definitions to fit her ideas, rather than looking for the right words. For anyone interested in this subject I would highly recommend reading the book "inside of a dog" by Alexandra Horowitz, instead.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-05-18 00:00:00 Mark Porter Another book about our connection with animals -- a subject dear to my heart. Do animals have a "self"? Although science is still asking this question, many dog owners know the answer.