Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

The Purest Bond: Understanding the Human-Canine Connection by Jen Golbeck, Stacey Colino

4 reviews

rachaelcwilson's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical content, and Animal death

Minor: Animal cruelty and Cancer

ninahuynh's review

emotional funny informative medium-paced

5.0

Very informative and engaging! The topic itself is an interesting one, but the way Golbeck and Colino dive into different aspects of human-canine connections (from interacting with children to health benefits) really sold me. The sections about how a dog acts and how certain behaviours can be interpreted made me feel nearly ready to adopt a canine friend!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Cancer, and Chronic illness

hmatt's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

This is a lovely, perfectly paced look at all the ways dogs enrich our lives. Each topic is explored from an emotional/anecdotal and scientific perspective in equal balance. Jen (the author) reading the audiobook is fantastic, as well. My only note is about how clunky the audiobook reads when it comes to naming the authors/scientists of studies - there's no real way to fix this, but it's a lot of "So-and-so, PhD, So-and-So, PhD, in their lab at X University in Y place, found that..."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Cancer, and Animal death

Moderate: Terminal illness, Abandonment, and Animal cruelty

lindseyag23's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Grief, and Mental illness

Minor: Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Pregnancy, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Car accident, Grief, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Domestic abuse, and Pandemic/Epidemic

The book discusses how dogs (and to a lesser extent other pets) help people who experience many of these content warnings- nothing particularly graphic. There are 2 chapters regarding aging and death of pets, again nothing graphic.