Adam's Task: Calling Animals by Name

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.

A fascinating and complex investigation of the kinds of subtle communication that goes on between animals and humans.

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.

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.