Ask Your Animal: Resolving Animal Behavioral Issues through Intuitive Communication - Softcover

Williams, Marta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1577316096 ISBN 13: 9781577316091

Publisher: New World Library, 2008

Synopsis

Ask Your Animal provides a clear, hands-on guide to relating with animals and nature using intuitive communication. Its step-by-step instructions, true stories, and practice exercises are designed to inspire and guide the beginner. More advanced techniques help you resolve specific issues with the animals in your life — or in your neighborhood. Using this approach, you can start addressing these common situations right away:

Controlling bad habits like barking and digging; recovering lost animals
Calming an animal with separation anxiety; coping with an animal's death
Achieving a better bond with your animal; restoring trust in an abused animal
Creating harmony among the animals in your home; trailering a reluctant horse
Eliminating aggressive behavior; assisting sick and injured animals
Connecting with rescue animals and animals in crisis

About this title

Synopsis

Harkening back to the practical, easy-to-implement techniques in "Learning Their Language", Marta Williams takes communicating with the animals in our lives a few steps further by offering concrete suggestions for specific animal issues. Starting with a basic overview of what it means to communicate intuitively with animals, Marta goes on to offer case studies of how such communication can work. Marta guides readers step by step to a new understanding of how and when animals communicate, and teaches simple ways to begin interpreting and testing the signals animals give to humans. The particular focus of this book is solving common animal behaviour issues.Perhaps a dog constantly barks or lunges, or a cat goes missing or won't eat. Maybe there is a new animal in the household or a new child, and another animal is reacting inappropriately. Or, a horse shies and won't respond to training. All of these issues and more are dealt with through examples, exercises, and case studies. Photographs of the animals give the book an authentic feel and can be used to test communication skills with the accompanying exercises.

The exercises will help readers build their skills and practice new techniques as they learn them, making the relationship with their companion animals a two-way connection. Marta titles one of her chapters "peaceable kingdom", and her book will help readers realize that dream in their own households and, perhaps, their neighbourhoods by employing a few simple techniques.

From the Inside Flap

"Move over, Dr. Doolittle, and make room for Marta Williams. Ask Your Animal shows that the question is not if we can talk with other animals but how to do it. This easy-to-read book is a must for everyone who encounters animals in their lives. Enjoy and share widely."
-- Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals and editor of The Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships

"Most humans are just beginning to scratch the surface with animal communication. In this book, Marta Williams shows us how to scratch a bit deeper."
-- Mark Rashid, clinician and author of Horses Never Lie and Life Lessons from a Ranch Horse

Edition details

• Publisher: New World Library
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1577316096
• ISBN 13: 9781577316091
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216