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Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World's Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers

by Amy Sutherland

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Inside an Exotic Animal Training Program

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Inside an Exotic Animal Training Program

Amy Sutherland’s nonfiction account enters Moorpark Community College’s Exotic Animal Training and Management program, where instruction includes preparing hyenas for performance behaviors and tigers for veterinary examinations. The book centers the day-to-day learning environment shared by faculty, students, and the animals used in training, offering a close view of the practical work behind animal handling. Its subject is not simply exotic animals themselves, but the skills, routines, and human-animal relationships involved in teaching and managing them within an educational program.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in animal training and husbandry
  • Fans of behind-the-scenes nonfiction about educational programs
  • Those curious about exotic-animal care and handling

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Animal trainingExotic animalsAnimal careEducationHuman-animal relationships

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Book overview

A rare and absolutely enchanting look inside the Harvard of wild animal wranglers

As is obvious to anyone who has read her most e-mailed New York Times article of 2006, "What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage," Amy Sutherland knows a thing or two about animals. In Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched, she takes readers behind the gates of Moorpark Community College, where students are taught such skills as how to train a hyena to pirouette and coax a tiger to open wide for a vet exam. As she follows the faculty, student body, and four- footed teaching aides at Moorpark's Exotic Animal Training and Management program, Sutherland produces a true walk on the wild side, filled with wonder, comedy, occasional heartache, and transcendent beauty.
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