9 March

Talk To Animals. Get A Free And Very Classy Tote Bag

by Jon Katz
Talk To Animals: Win A Very Stylish Tote Bag

Good news on the “Talking To Animals” front. The first 1,000 people to pre-order my new book, “Talking To Animals: How We Can Understand Them And They Can Understand Us” which  is coming out in eight weeks (May 5).

Battenkill Books, my very wonderful and successful independent bookstore in Cambridge, N.Y., asked designer Nina Ossant to design some tote-bags specially for this book launch.  She did a great job.

About 400 people have already pre-ordered the book (they will get a free Tote-Bag) and there are 600 left. We can order more if necessary and I hope it will be. Connie says she is “flooded” with orders, sweet words for any writer to hear.

The book is about my 15 years worth of study and experimentation learning how to communicate with the animals I live with, to understand them and help them to understand me. This involves emotions, body language, visualizations and food. The book is chock full of anecdotes and examples, going all the way back to my first dog Lucky, and up through Simon, my donkey and Red.

I have lived with goats, sheep, cows, steers, chickens, sheep, horses, dogs and barn cats. I have learned from each one of them, I even got Elvis, my 3,000 pound Swiss Steer, to come and stay on command.

The book also explores the very urgent need to find a new and wiser and more mystical understanding of animals if we are to keep them in our world. More than half the animal species on the earth have vanished since 1970, says the World Wildlife Federation, mostly due to climate change and human development.

In our country, the animal rights movement is separating domesticated animals – horses, ponies, some dogs, some elephants – from people, with whom they have worked for centuries. They have made the entertainment and uplifting of people into a social crime, and are driving this animals into oblivion, off to slaughter, or inevitable extinction.

Animals no longer have any wild to go to, there are very few preserves to take them in, without work and connection to people, they will disappear from the earth. It is imperative that we understand animals like carriage horses, who desperately need work and activity in order to be healthy and content.

They have never lived in the wild and would not last long there.  They attach powerfully to people, and languish without work and stimulation. The carriage horses are the lucky ones. Few preserves can afford the $35,000 it costs to feed and care for them each year, they take old and dying horses, not young and healthy ones.

The animal rights movement seems to know nothing about animals in many cases,  they only know how to take them away from people. We need a wiser and more mystical understanding than this. The book seeks to offer one. So I’m excited about the Battenkill tote-bags and I hope we sail past the 1,000 mark soon so we can order 1,000 more. The book comes out in eight weeks, and thanks.

You can pre-order the book here. Battenkill takes Paypal and ships anywhere in the world.  You can also call the store at 518 677 2515.

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