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The Tarantula Whisperer: A Celebrity Vet Shares Her Secrets to Communicating with Animals

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I started this book expecting it to be the story of how Dr. Pasten came to understand what made her diverse universe of patients behave the way they do. Indeed, there is much to be learned here from her insights and sensitivity to these animals. What I didn't expect was the wealth of useful, practical medical information she has packed into this conveniently-sized book. But, most of all, I didn't expect to laugh...long, hard, and out loud almost every chapter. I ended up reading half of it to my husband because he kept wanting to know what was so funny!

There's an interesting story on just about every page -- this is a terrific pet book for those who want to go beyond the (often boring) how-tos -- I've read hundreds of pet books (researching my own pet books "277 Secrets Your Dog Wants You To Know..." "...Cat Wants You To Know," etc.,) and this is clearly one of the best. You won't be able to put it down.

I love everything about the TARANTULA WHISPERER except the title. Referring to spiders just doesn't cover all the great stories found here. This wonderful record of a veterinarian's adventures covers everything from elephants to buzzards. It's downright "edutaining" (educational and entertaining). Don't miss it!

The Tarantula Whisperer brought some tears and plenty of joy and laughter to me. I got the sense that Dr. Pasten is very passionate about her veterinary work and is equally passionate about sharing the special human-animal bond with her audience. Her creative writing geniously intertwines real-life stories about her clients and personal companions and gives simple, yet interesting approaches to making your pets happy...Happiness is what it's all about, isn't it?

I'm anxiously awaiting her next book!

Intrigued by the title and encouraged by the rave reviews, I was not prepared for my level of disappointment with this book. It struck me that Dr. Pasten was so busy thinking of a rejoinder to everyone that I found it hard to believe she actually listened to what the animals were saying to her. Or perhaps she just related better to animals. I found her sense of humor appallingly offensive for a book of this nature. I kept waiting for her to NOT have a smart comment at the end of each story which I'm sure was meant to be humorous but was often just silly. Please, save your money.

"Tarantula Whisperer" is not a book about spiders! It is a wonderfully entertaining, educational book on understanding animals, communciating with them and caring about and for them. With fun anecdotes from her vet practise, Pasten gives us unusual insights and untraditional advice. My dogs and I highly recommend it.

There's much to be learned about talking with one's pets from Dr. Pastan in this book. She doesn't, however, explicitly reveal her secret for whispering to tarantulas. I think she probably has really tiny lips.

it was a really interesting book to read and is a great introduction for anyone interested in alternative animal medicine it had some good general points about communicating with animals and brought up some issues that you would have never thought of.

The title was interesting and a grabber as I am working in animal healing/communication and wished to learn more from someone claiming they knew how to do this. I had hoped this book would assist in that process with new information. I was very disappointed as there was only minimal referrals to how to do this--only a few sentences in all. Most of the book focused on many different animals, what their human companions had done or not done and what she did, many times referring to things heard in vet school that most of the lay public would have no knowledge of--perhaps it will educate someone on these aspects, just not on the communication. This did not give a very good model on how to facilitate this process and obtain accurate results. More information really needed to be included for this to be considered a book dealing with animal communication for someone serious about including this skill in working with their animal companions. It has a good title, just no real content on the subject saddly. For the serious student there are many other books that work much better than this one.