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It is that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorations i know of what it means to be a woman and an artist. An trainer of exotic animals teaches potential zoo keepers how to handle such animals as emus, baboons, cougars, camels and wolves. When her first ideapitching magazine and newspaper editors stories related to her books subjectdidnt pan out, sutherland took a different tack. Her feature piece what shamu taught me about a happy marriage, on which this book is based, was the most viewed and most emailed article of the. An invitation into the magical, grueling, and virtually unknown world of exotic animal training behind the imposing gate of the exotic animal training program at. Light and easy to read, kicked, bitten, and scratched contains many entertaining stories about people and animals, including an account of the programs founder, bill brisby, a domineering john. Kicked, bitten, and scratched, by amy sutherland the. Amy sutherland is a bostonbased writer whom i first met when she called to interview me during the writing of her book, kicked, bitten, and scratched. An engrossing look at what goes on in the premier school for animal training sutherland brings you along and lets you vicariously experience what its like to learn to care for and train animals of all sorts.
June 21, 2006 journalist and author amy sutherland talks about her book, kicked, bitten and scratched. The dangers and delights of working with animals baltimore sun. Amy sutherland presents an introduction to exotic animal training as conducted by students at a prestigious california teaching school, describing their experiences from learning to communicate with animals to. This is defiantly another book for animal lovers and people who want to find out what real work goes into training animals and running a zoo. Life and lessons at the worlds premiere school for exotic animal. Kicked, bitten, and scratched tells personal stories and puts them all together to make one great book about the teaching zoo.
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