The best-selling animal advocate Temple Grandin offers the most exciting exploration of how animals feel since The Hidden Life of Dogs.

In her groundbreaking and best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her behalf own encounter with autism as well as her distinguished job as an animal scientist to provide extraordinary insights into how animals think, act, and feel. Today she builds on those insights to show us how to provide our animals the very best and happiest life-on their conditions, about Pets Make Us Individual: Creating the very best Life for Animals not ours.

It’s usually simple to pinpoint the cause of physical discomfort in animals, but to learn what is causing them emotional stress is a lot harder. Sketching on the most recent study and her own work, Grandin recognizes the core psychological needs of animals. After that she explains how to fulfill them for cats and dogs, horses, farm animals, and zoo animals. Whether it’s steps to make the healthiest environment for your dog you must keep alone most of the time, how to maintain pigs from getting bored, or how to know if the lion pacing in the zoo can be miserable or just exercising, Grandin teaches us to challenge our assumptions about pet contentment and honor our connection with this fellow creatures.

Animals Produce Us Human is the culmination of almost thirty years of analysis, experimentation, and experience.

This is essential reading for anybody who’s ever owned, cared for, or simply cared about an animal.