Talking to Animals: How You Can Understand Animals and They Can Understand You Audiobook (Free)

New York Occasions bestselling author Jon Katz-“a Thoreau for contemporary times” (San Antonio Express-News)-presents us a deeper understanding of the inner lives of animals and teaches us how exactly we can better communicate with them, made genuine by his very own remarkable experiences with a wide array of creatures great and small.

In Talking to Animals, journalist Jon Katz-who left his Manhattan life behind 2 decades ago for life on a farm where he is surrounded by dogs, pet cats, sheep, horses, cows, goats, about Talking to Animals: WAYS TO Understand Animals and They Can Understand You and chickens-marshals his experience to offer us a deeper insight into animals and the tools needed for effectively communicating with them.

Devoting each chapter to a specific pet from his life, Katz tells funny and illuminating stories about his profound encounters with them, displaying us how healthy engagement with pets falls into five major areas: Food, Movement, Visualization, Vocabulary, and Instincts. Along the way, we meet up with Simon the donkey who finds Katz’s plantation near death and now acts as his Tai Chi partner. We satisfy Red the dog who started out antisocial and untrained and is currently a therapy pup working with veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. And we meet Winston, the dignified and courageous rooster who was simply harmed defending his hens from a hawk and that has better interpersonal skills than most humans.

Thoughtful and smart, lively and powerful, this book will completely change the way you consider and connect to pets. Katz’s “honest, straightforward, and sometimes searing prose will talk with those who like animals, and might well convert some who do not” (Booklist).