Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Ehringer, Gavin, author.

Title Leaving the wild : the unnatural history of dogs, cats, cows, and horses / Gavin Ehringer.

Publication Info. New York : Pegasus Books, 2017.
©2017

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  636 EHRINGER    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  636.009 EHRINGER    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  636.009 EHRINGER    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  636.009 EHR    Check Shelf
Edition First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Description xii, 356 pages ; 24 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents Dogs -- A wolf among men -- The generic dog -- The first breeders -- England goes to the dogs -- A breed is born -- Pity the pit bull -- Let sleeping dogs lie -- Cats -- Of mice and men (and cats) -- Cat cult culture -- Putting the evil in medieval -- Catching a break -- Life in the great indoors -- Alley cat blues -- Fancy cats -- Cows -- The cheeseburger: a natural history -- Sex and the single cow -- Frankencattle? -- Three dairies, act one: the raw deal -- Three dairies, act two: cows in the machine -- Three dairies, act three: emerald pastures -- The moo-niverse -- Horses -- Life on a horse ranch -- In the beginning -- Horses and humans -- When horsemen ruled the world -- Arabians, from breed to greed -- The all-American horse -- Conclusion -- A baker's dozen best practices of pet animal breeders.
Subject Domestic animals -- History.
Animal breeding.
Human-animal relationships.
Dogs -- Breeding.
Cats -- Breeding.
Cattle -- Breeding.
Horses -- Breeding.
ISBN 9781681775562
1681775565
-->
Add a Review