Training the Animal Within Us
Have you watched a movie or show and wondered how they got that animal to perform? Do you want to be one of the trainers for these cute, scary, furry, or deadly animals?
Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched : Life and Lessons at the World's Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers will introduce you to the intense, exciting. exhausting world of training wild animals.
Amy Sutherland spent a year following students at the prestigious
Exotic Animal Training and Management Program at California's Moorpark College. Despite long hours, difficult conditions, and dangerous animals, competition for slots in the program is intense and the rewards at the completion are high. During her year with the students, Amy discovered that human behavior can be as challenging as animal behavior. She wrote an article for the
New York Times (
free registration required) about how she used the techniques that she learned to train her husband. But beware, as Amy found out, any "animal" can be retrained.
