Describes the legal battle that insued when the state of Connecticut tried to execute a pit bull named Bandit--the beloved pet of Lamon Redd

Bandit: Dossier of a Dangerous Dog

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Hearne, Vicki

Pets & Animal Care

Harpercollins

A collection of amazing animal stories introduces a Pakistani frog who became entranced by its own reflection, a lion who died of a broken heart, and a Brazilian parrot who enjoyed conversations with Albert Einstein. By the author of Bandit.

Animal Happiness

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

HarperCollins, Publishers

A collection of essays profiles an amazing array of remarkable creatures and their extraordinary behaviors, including the Pakistani frog who became entranced by his own reflection, the lion who died of a broken heart, and the Airedale sculptor.

Perennial

Have you ever watched a horse flick her tail or had a dog greet you at your door and known in your heart that the animal was exhibiting something more than simple instinctual responses? If so, you must read this book. In it Vicki Hearne asserts that animals that interact with humans are more intelligent than we assume. In fact, they are capable of developing an understanding of “the good,” a moral code that influences their motives and actions. Hearne’s thorough studies led her to adopt a new system of animal training that contradicts modern animal behavioral research, but—as her examples show—is astonishingly effective. Hearne’s theories will make every trainer, animal psychologist, and animal-lover stop, think, and question.

Adam's Task: Calling Animals by Name

Veteran dog trainer Vicki Hearne provides a penetrating examination of the interactions between animals and the human world. "Brilliant, fiery. Hearne captures a hundred nuances of the relation between people and animals. Anyone who likes dogs . . . will like Bandit."--Chicago Sun-Times. Hearne also is the author of Adam's Task: Calling Animals by Name and a contributing editor for Harper's.

From The Horse That, Trotting The horse that, trotting with open heart Against the wind, achieves bend and flow Will live forever. So far, so good, But they never do, until too late, Bend properly and time spreads from The momentary hesitations Of their spines, circles their tossing necks, Falls from their teeth like rejected oats, Litters the ground like penitence. This is where we come in, where the drop Of time congeals the air and someone Speaks to the discouraged grass . . . Tricks of the Light explores the often fraught relationships between domestic animals and humans through mythological figurations, vibrant thought, and late-modern lyrics that seem to test their own boundaries. Vicki Hearne (1946–2001), best known and celebrated today as a writer of strikingly original poetry and prose, was a capable dog and horse trainer, and sometimes controversial animal advocate. This definitive collection of Hearne’s poetry spans the entirety of her illustrious career, from her first book, Nervous Horses (1980), to never-before-published poems composed on her deathbed. But no matter the source, each of her meditative, metaphysical lyrics possesses that rare combination of philosophical speculation, practical knowledge of animals, and an unusually elegant style unlike that of any other poet writing today. Before her untimely death, Hearne entrusted the manuscript to distinguished poet, scholar, and long-time friend John Hollander, whose introduction provides both critical and personal insight into the poet’s magnum opus. Tricks of the Light—acute, vibrant, and deeply informed—is a sensuous reckoning of the connection between humans and the natural world. Praise for The Parts of Light “Hearne . . . strives to capture exactly what she knows she can't—the intense immediacy of animal consciousness, a consciousness free of the moral vagaries and intellectual preoccupations that pockmark human experience. Her style, smooth in some places, choppy in others, reflects both the wholeness of animal presence and the jarring, fragmentary nature of human reason and reflection. Hearne's poems demand participation, refuse passive enjoyment; she dares the reader to stay in the saddle.”—Publishers Weekly

Tricks of the Light: New and Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

University of Chicago Press

First edition; from the University of Texas Press Poetry Series.  This first poetry book (published in 1980) by Vicki Hearne, well-known for her remarkable essays on the relation of humans to domestic animals -- many of the published in the books Adam's Task and Animal Happiness.  A professional trainer of both dogs and horses, Hearne wrote in a way that was always vibrant with direct knowledge of animals wild and tame.

Nervous Horses

History & Criticism

Univ of Texas Pr

Explores the idea of communication between people and animals--from the sophisticated experiments of Washoe to common household pets--and suggests a relationship between understanding animal consciousness and expanding human consciousness

KNOPF

Have you ever watched a horse flick her tail or had a dog greet you at your door and known in your heart that the animal was exhibiting something more than simple instinctual responses? If so, you must read this book. In it Vicki Hearne asserts that animals that interact with humans are more intelligent than we assume. In fact, they are capable of developing an understanding of â€œthe good,â€ a moral code that influences their motives and actions. Hearneâ€TMs thorough studies led her to adopt a new system of animal training that contradicts modern animal behavioral research, butâ€"as her examples showâ€"is astonishingly effective. Hearneâ€TMs theories will make every trainer, animal psychologist, and animal-lover stop, think, and question.

Adam's Task

Vintage

Agricultural Sciences

Heinemann

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Bandit: Dossier of a Dangerous Dog

Animal Happiness

Animal Happiness

Adam's Task: Calling Animals by Name

Bandit: Dossier of a Dangerous Dog

Tricks of the Light: New and Selected Poems

Nervous Horses

Adam's Task: Calling Animals by Name

Adam's Task

Adam's Task: Calling Animals by Name