The author, Sy Montgomery, is a naturalist and has gone to the jungles of the world. She claims she relates more to animals and has a some sort of smoothing effect on wild animals. People say she is half dog, not necessarily jokingly. Her friends...pig "farmers", raise pigs for pets and not for slaughter. One year the friends had record litters. They asked Sy if she would take a runt. Although the book is about the pig growing up and changing lives, Sy writes about her (and her husband's) other animals. I found a passage I can relate to...
...they just didn't know us; they were our biggest fans. When the Ladies saw us coming, they would race toward us, their wings held slightly open, and mob us as if we were the Beatles....The Ladies believed we were bringing them cottage cheese, which was often true. Once they had finished all the cheese, wearing the avian equivalent of a milk mustache, they would wipe their amber beaks on the ground--or endearingly, on my pants and return to their bug hunting, narrating their explorations all the while in their lilting chicken language (pg 54)
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