What Shamu Taught Me about Life, Love, and Marriage: Lessons for People from Animals and Their Trainers
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780594008125 (0594008123)
Publish date: February 12th 2008
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Book Club,
Culture,
Self Help,
Animals,
Psychology,
Society,
Relationships
This is a short easy read. Ten chapters, no index, but there is a short glossary. It's not about training people really, it's more about not training them, more about changing your own reactions to other people.
I should have taken notes while I read this book. Sutherland is sent to write a newspaper article about exotic animal trainers. In the process of writing the article, she realizes that the training techniques of the animal trainers are the same ones we humans use, albeit unconsciously and not very w...