Adam's Task: Calling Animals by Name By Vicki Hearne

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A groundbreaking meditation on our human-animal relationships and the moral code that binds it.Adam's Task, Vicki Hearne’s innovative masterpiece on animal training, brings our perennial discussion of the human-animal bond to a whole new metaphysical level. Based on studies of literary criticism, philosophy, and extensive hands-on experience in training, Hearne asserts, in boldly anthropomorphic terms, that animals (at least those that interact more with humans) are far more intelligent than we assume. In fact, they are capable of developing an understanding of "the good," a moral code that influences their motives and actions.Drawing on an eclectic range of influences—Nietzsche, T. S. Eliot, Disney animal trainer William Koehler, and Genesis from the Bible, among others—Hearne writes in contemplative, exploratory, and brilliant prose as she interweaves personal anecdotes with philosophy. Hearne develops an entirely new system of animal training that contradicts modern animal behavioral research and that, as her examples show, is astonishingly effective.Widely praised, highly influential, and now with a new foreword by New York Times bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler, Adam’s Task will make every trainer, animal psychologist, and animal-lover stop, think, and question.

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So many reviewers have completely missed the point of this book, in spite of Hearne's warning in the first paragraph that the book is "philosophical" and about finding "an accurate way to talk about our relationships with domestic animals." Listen carefully: It is not a training manual. Let's wait a moment for the folks who need to digest that.Not so strangely, Hearne does not reveal her special trick for getting dogs to fetch, although there is an entire chapter called "How to Say 'Fetch!'" (Note it is about how to SAY 'fetch', not how to teach it.) In fact, she spends almost as much time talking about horses as she does about dogs, and there is even a substantial chapter on cats. Since the latter "can't be trained," this might serve as an additional clue that (ready?) "This is not a training manual."To those who got that and still weren't too happy with the book, I offer my sympathy. There are places where Hearne lets "literature" run away with coherence, not on every page but often enough that I found myself writing "More gibberish" in the margin 'way too often. That said, there is enough unique, illuminating insight in the book to more than make up for the occasional rave. I am not sure that all good dogs are "contemptuous of bribes," but I have one who is (admittedly, she is still a teen with teen arrogance), and I had one who was (a Rotty mix of great wisdom, gentleness, and charm). If we remember that our work is "finding a way to talk about our relationship with domestic animals," Hearne's observation becomes apt. By presuming that we can bribe a dog into doing our will, we say something about that relationship that is worth reconsidering.A key concept of Hearne's "new vocabulary" is the idea that dogs think in terms of "their work." Gwynn, for example, my snotty teenager, has identified patrolling for squirrels as "her work." Her companion, an ACD named Pwyll, finds her dedication and concentration rather bizarre. He's happy to rush after this squirrel or that, but it's just one of many pleasures. Gwynn, on the other hand, will refuse to come, no matter how tempting the treat or offer or how unpleasant the outcome, when she is busy with a squirrel. Once she is finished with the squirrel, then she is happy to oblige, and she sees nothing wrong with her behavior. Patrolling for squirrels is her work; when she is busy, ignoring me isn't personal. That is not to say it's Ok to ignore me, but understanding her behavior in these terms makes dealing with it less fraught. Most of us know someone who is convinced his dog piddles on the carpet "to get even" when left alone, and what Hearne wants us to think about is not the truth or falsity of this opinion, but the metaphysics, the philosophy that it entails.One reviewer sneers that HE hardly ever regards anyone "metaphysically," so the idea that a dog does is pretty silly. The silly thing is speaking from such ignorance. You regard someone "metaphysically" when you hypothesize about him (That mouth: He's a drinker, for sure! NB: Drawing that conclusion from busted capillaries in the nose is not "metaphysics"). Of course dogs size us up, decide whether we are worth listening to or deserving of respect or to be avoided like the plague. And what Hearne is trying to grasp is how they do that, how they judge us, what they value. If you think a dog is a happy little moron-savant ready to do anything you want in return for a cheese stick, you may be right. But that is not the wholeness of dogs, it is not the nobility of dogs, and it is not what Hearne is interested in.There are some questionable things in Hearne's point of view. Her argument that dog fighting may not be a bad thing is utterly unconvincing, for example. She makes the case that if a dog's work is fighting, then maybe fighting is Ok. What she fails to mention is that being a person who wants to watch dogs kill each other is not Ok. Even if gladiators volunteer, it is a degraded species that's wants to watch them die.This is the first book about animals, training, and cognition that I have gone back immediately to re-read. Some of the early chapters made more sense the second time around. There are, after all, two kinds of gibberish. The author may know what she means but fail to say it, or she may not know what she means and say something to hear her own voice. There is very little of the latter in Adam's Task. One tragedy of Vicki Hearne's early death is that with a few more books, she might have made herself better understood.

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