Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched by Amy Sutherland

Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched by Amy Sutherland

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.

Anyone who reads [this book] will never view animals in quite the same way again(Los Angeles Times)

Amy Sutherland is the author of What Shamu Taught me About Life, Love, and Marriage; Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched and Cookoff. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe. She has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. Her feature piece What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage, on which this book is based, was the most viewed and most e-mailed article of The New York Times online in 2006. Sutherland divides her time between Boston and Portland, Maine.

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ISBN 13	9780143111948
ISBN 10	0143111949
Title	Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched
Author	Amy Sutherland
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2007-05-29
Number of pages	336
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