The Powerful Bond between People and Pets: Our Boundless Connections to Companion Animals

by Gerald Koocher and P. Elizabeth Anderson

Book Overview

An engaging and science-based examination of people and companion animals, this book shows how their lives are inextricably intertwined, what the impact has been on culture and on society, the reasons people go to great lengths to care for and protect their beloved animals, and why the grief when they are lost is so profound and unique. Anderson, a longtime animal welfare advocate, also shows how we conversely ignore the suffering of some animals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275989054
• ISBN13: 9780275989057
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"