A Small Furry Prayer (27 page)

82
    W. Schleidt, “Apes, Wolves, and the Trek to Humanity,”
Discovering Anthropology
, March/April 1999, 8–10.

85
    For a really good look at Erika's Friedmann's work and the relationship between health, pets, and people see the
Discovery Health
episode on the topic, available online:
http://discoveryhealthcme.discovery.com/beyond/miniPlayer.html?playerId=1670048703

86
    K. Allen, “Cardiovascular Reactivity and the Presence of Pets, Friends, and Spouses: The Truth About Cats and Dogs,”
Psychosomatic Medicine
, 64 (2002): 727–739.

PART FOUR

96
    Allan Luks and Peggy Payne,
The Healing Power of Doing Good
(iUniverse.com, Inc. 1990).

96
    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
Flow
(Harper's Perennial, 1990).

100
   See Doug Boyd's
Rolling Thunder
.

103
   Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child,
Thunderhead
(Grand Central Publishing, 2000).

110
   It wasn't just that our computers broke. It was also that when we finally did get them back, on both computers our iTunes libraries, photos, and e-mails had been erased—that is, we lost the only things on our computers that truly connected us to our past.

113
  
http://ezinearticles.com/?Dog-Dominance-and-Dog-Aggression-%96-Which-Is-It?&id=366572
.

114
  
http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Big-Five-personality-traits
.

115
   Jerry Wiggins, ed.,
The Five-Factor Model of Personality: Theoretical Perspectives
(Guilford Press, 1996), 183.

117
   S. Kotler, “The Most Natural Selection.”
LA Weekly
, April 18, 2004.

117
   Joan Roughgarden,
Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender and Sexuality in Nature and People
(University of California Press, 2004).

118
   M. Takahashi, H. Arita, M. Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, and T. Hasegawa, “Peahens Do Not Prefer Peacocks with More Elaborate Trains,”
Animal Behavior
75, 4 (April 2008): 1209–19.

118
   Joan Roughgarden,
The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness
(University of California Press, 2009).

119
   Jonah Lehrer, “The Gay Animal Kingdom,”
Seed
, June 7, 2006.

119
   The quote is from personal communication with Joan Roughgarden.

121
   A good overview of the Techichi is from
Dog and Kennel
:
http://www.petpublishing.com/dogken/breeds/chihuahua.shtml
.

125
   There's a ton written on play behavior, but Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce's
Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals
(University of Chicago Press, 2009) is outstanding.

126
   Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson,
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
(Harcourt, 2005), 123.

PART FIVE

131
   S. E. Hinton,
The Outsiders
(Puffin, 1967), 35.

134
   The Department of Justice report on everything wrong with Rio Arriba County, “The Nature and Extent of the Problem,” is available here:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/rioarriba/natprob.htm
.

139
   Taken from a presentation on the subject; transcript available at
http://nursing.msu.edu/habi/Lavergne.pdf
.

140
   From personal correspondence with Lorri Greene. For more information, see Lorri Greene and Jacqueline Landis,
Saying Good-Bye to the Pet You Love: A Complete Resource to Help You
.

140
   Mary-Frances O'Connor, Michael R. Irwin, and David K. Wellisch, “When Grief Heats Up: Pro-inflammatory Cytokines Predict Regional Brain Activation,”
NeuroImage
47, 3 (2009): 891–96; Mary-Frances O'Connor, David K. Wellisch, Annette L. Stanton, Naomi I. Eisenberger, Michael R. Irwin, and Matthew D. Lieberman, “Craving Love? Enduring Grief Activates Brain's Reward Center,”
NeuroImage
42, 2 (2008): 969–72.

141
   J. Olds and P. Milner, “Positive Reinforcement Produced by Electrical Stimulation of Septal Area and Other Regions of Rat Brain,”
Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
47 (1954): 419–27.

142
   For more information on Patricia Wright, see a long feature I wrote about her for
Plenty Magazine
. There's a copy available on my website:
http://www.stevenkotler.com/node/62
. She also appears in Michael Apted's wonderful
Me and Isaac Newton
(1999).

143
   Linda Spalding,
A Dark Place in the Jungle
(Algonquin Books, 1999).

145
   This is Kundalini Yoga founder Yogi Bhajan's 3HO Foundation.

146
  
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2007/07/thoughts-on-the-meaning-of-suffering-part-1
.

149
   For a further look at the hell of puppy mills, try
http://www.stoppuppymills.org
.

150
   Whether animals get PTSD is an open question, at least for anyone who hasn't really spent any time around abused animals. A decent look at some of the research can be found in Charles Siebert's “An Elephant Crack-Up,”
New York Times Magazine
, October 8, 2006.

151
   Steven Lindsay,
Handbook of Applied Dog Behavior and Training
, vol. 2:
Etiology and Assessment of Behavior Problems
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2001).

PART SIX

155
   Joan Didion,
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968), 196.

155
   This is by no means the end of the list of origin stories for “This is the real McCoy.” The British etymologist and writer and
Oxford English Dictionary
contributor Michael Quinion lists a bunch of further possibilities on his World Wide Words website:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-mcc1.htm
.

159
   Coren writes a blog for PsychologyToday.com. You can find this story under “A Dog Whose Memory Was Too Good,” published November 24, 2008, but the quotes are from personal communication.

165
   Doug Star, “Animal Passions: Fido Loves You,”
Psychology Today
, March 1, 2006.

165
   Candace Pert,
Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine
(Simon and Schuster, 1999).

166
   J. Bowlby,
Attachment,
vol. 1 of
Attachment and Loss
, 2nd ed. (Basic Books, 1999); J. Bowlby,
Separation: Anxiety and Anger
, vol. 2 of
Attachment and Loss
(Hogarth Press, 1973); M. Ainsworth and J. Bowlby,
Child Care and the Growth of Love
(Penguin Books, 1965).

167
   Jaak Panksepp,
Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions
(Oxford University Press, 1998).

168
   “Sounds of Dog's Laugh Calms Other Pooches,” ABCNews.com, December 4, 2005. But if you want to hear for yourself, Simonet released a CD called
Dog Laughter
that you can play at home and watch the sound calm down your dogs.

168
   B. Holland, “Express Yourself: It's Later than You Think,”
Atlantic Monthly,
July 1996.

171
  
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=35782
.

174
   R. Descartes, “Animals Are Machines,” in
Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence,
eds. S. J. Armstrong and R. G. Botzler (McGraw-Hill, 1993), 281–85.

174
   Voltaire info comes from Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson,
Dogs Never Lie About Love
(Crown, 1997).

174
   J. Bentham,
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
(Kessinger, 2005).

175
   Ibid.

175
   “First Chimp Reported to Learn Sign Language Dies,” Associated Press, October 31, 2007.

175
   Elizabeth Hess,
Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human
(Bantam, 2008).

177
   Bill Maher quote from
US Magazine
, February 1999.

177
   Testimony of James F. Jarboe, domestic terrorism section chief, Counterterrorism Division, FBI, before the House Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health February 12, 2002, “The Threat of Eco-Terrorism.”

177
   Gareth Walsh, “Father of Animal Activism Backs Monkey Testing,”
Sunday Times
, November 26, 2006.

179
   American Museum of Natural History press release, April 20, 1998. See
http://www.well.com/~davidu/amnh.html
.

179
   J. Hance, “Governments, Public Failing to Save World Species,” Mongabay.com, November 4, 2009.

179
   R. Manning,
Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
(North Point Press, 2004).

180
   Joan Didion, “On Self-Respect,” from
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
.

PART SEVEN

185
   See the Mountain Lion Foundation, “After the Hunt: Challenges Facing California's Mountain Lion Population.”

190
   Mountain lions are technically not big cats because they can't roar. Instead, they share vocalization patterns with house cats—hissing, growling, and such. But they can also scream, which sounds much like a roar, only slightly more extraterrestrial.

191
   J. Berger, “Why Look at Animals?”
About Looking
(Pantheon, 1980), 1–28.

191
   James Serpell,
In the Company of Animals
(Cambridge University Press, 1996).

193
   J. Robbins, “Resurgent Wolves Now Considered Pests by Some,”
New York Times
, March 7, 2006. There are also lots of other places to read about the battle over wolves in Yellowstone, but my personal favorite is Rick Bass,
The Ninemile Wolves
(Ballantine, 1992).

197
   For a great staring point for Thoreau on wildness, try his 1862 essay “Walking.”

201
   Farrah Fawcett-Major was the star of the 1970s TV show
Charlie's Angels
.

201
   D. Mech, P. Wolf, and J. Packard, “Regurgitative Food Transfer Among Wild Wolves,”
Canadian Journal of Zoology
77 (1980): 1192–5.

202
   Paul Ekman,
Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life
(Times Books, 2003).

204
   E. Durkheim,
Elementary Forms of Religious Life
(BN Publishing, 2008).

206
   Mary Douglas,
A World of Goods: towards an anthropology of consumption
(Basic Books, 1979).

206
   This can be found in the foreword to Jiddu Krishnamurti's
The First and Last Freedom
(HarperCollins, 1975).

208
   Ernest Becker,
The Denial of Death
(Free Press, 1973).

208
   Ted Andrews,
Animals Speak: The Spiritual and Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small
(Llewellyn Publications, 1996).

PART EIGHT

212
   P. P. G. Bateson and R. A. Hinde, eds.,
Growing Points in Ethology
(Cambridge University Press, 1976).

212
   Karen Pryor and Kenneth Norris, eds.,
Dolphin Societies: Discoveries and Puzzles
(University of California Press, 1976).

213
   “Why Your Dog Is Smarter than a Wolf,”
Christian Science Monitor
, October 26, 2005.

214
   Adam Miklosi,
Dog Behavior, Evolution and Cognition
(Oxford University Press, 2007).

214
   The Marco Iacoboni quote came from personal communication.

214
   Lea Winerman, “The Mind's Mirror,”
Monitor on Psychology
36, 9 (October 2005).

215
   There's a ton of technical books out there about mirror neurons, but for good fun try Michael Gazzaniga,
Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique
(HarperCollins, 2008).

215
   Sandra Blakeslee, “Cells That Read Minds,”
New York Times
, January 10, 2006.

215
  
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran/ramachandran_index.htm
.

215
   John Colapinto, “Brain Games,”
New Yorker
, May 11, 2009, 76.

215
   A. Paukner, S. Suomi, E. Visalberghi, and P. Ferrari, “Capuchin Monkeys Display Affiliation Towards Humans Who Imitate Them,”
Science
325, 5942 (August 14, 2009): 880–83.

216
   Masson,
Dogs Never Lie About Love
, 147.