Adam's Task: Calling Animals by Name » (1st Edition)

VICKI HEARNE was an animal trainer for more than twenty-five years. The author of the widely praised Bandit: Dossier of a Dangerous Dog and Animal Happiness,she received a 1992 award for outstanding literary achievement from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

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.

San Francisco Chronicle

As witty, wise and rare a book as has come along in some time.

New Introduction   Donald McCaig     ix
Preface to the 1994 Edition     xiii
By Way of Explanation     3
A Walk with Washoe: How Far Can We Go?     18
How to say "Fetch!"     42
Tracking Dogs, Sensitive Horses and the Traces of Speech     77
Crazy Horses     117
Horses in Partnership with Time     155
Calling Animals by Name     166
The Sound of Kindness     172
Lo the American (Pit) Bull Terrier     192
What It Is about Cats     224
Rights, Autism and the Rougher Magics     245
Afterword     267
Index     269