{"product_id":"kicked-bitten-and-scratched-isbn-9780143111948","title":"Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched","description":"\u003cb\u003eA rare and absolutely enchanting look inside the Harvard of wild animal wranglers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As is obvious to anyone who has read her most e-mailed \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e article of 2006, \"What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage,\" Amy Sutherland knows a thing or two about animals. In \u003ci\u003eKicked, Bitten, and Scratched\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e)Amy Sutherland is the author of \u003cb\u003eCookoff\u003c\/b\u003e and was a features reporter at the Portland Press Herald in Portland, Maine, for seven years. Her articles have also appeared in the \u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eDisney Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e. She has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303108858085,"sku":"NP9780143111948","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143111948.jpg?v=1767730697","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/kicked-bitten-and-scratched-isbn-9780143111948","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}