What the Animals Taught Me, Stephanie Marohn
What the Animals Taught Me, Stephanie Marohn
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What the Animals Taught Me
Stories of Love and Healing from a Farm Animal Sanctuary

Author: Stephanie Marohn

Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie

Unabridged: 4 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2013

Categories: Nonfiction, Pets


Synopsis

What the Animals Taught Meis a collection of stories about rescued farm animals in a shelter in Sonoma County, California, and what these animals can teach us. Each story illuminates how animals can help us see and embrace others as they truly are and reconnect us with the natural world. Wishing to escape the urban rat race, freelance writer and editor Stephanie Marohn moved to rural northern California in 1993. Life was sweet. She was a busy freelancer. In return for reduced rent, she fed and cared for two horses and a donkey. Her life was full. Then, more farm animals started to appear: a miniature white horse, a donkey, sheep, chickens, followed by deer and other wildlife. Each one needed sanctuary either from abuse, physical injury, or neglect. Marohn took each animal in and gradually turned her ten-acre spread into an animal sanctuary. Each chapter ofWhat the Animals Taught Mefocuses on the story of a particular animal that became part of Marohns life. She shares what she learned from the sheep she rescued from an animal collector, the abused donkey she helped nurse back to health, and many others to remind us that animals have much to teach us about love, compassion, trust, and many of the qualities we so often try to cultivate in ourselves. A deeply inspiring collection,What the Animals Taught Meawakens our hearts and reminds us that our best life teachers sometimes come covered in fur.

About Stephanie Marohn

Stephanie Marohn is a medical journalist, nonfiction writer, and the author of the Healthy Mind series. She runs an animal sanctuary in Sonoma County, California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Miranda

The May Reading Vlog (aka tier listing 30+ books) is up! Now that you know where this one ranks, click the link to check out the rest!The Written Review The first to arrive was a horse...Pure white, with a long white mane and tail, she looked like a unicorn, minus the horn.Wh......more

This is a sweet, kindhearted book about one woman’s journey in becoming an accidental animal sanctuary manager. Her stories about her small herd of charges including donkeys, a miniature horse, sheep, chickens, cats, and more is by turn laugh-out-loud funny, heartbreaking, and educational. Like the......more

This is not Hit By A Farm. This is the story of a woman who keeps farm animals as pets, listens to cantaloupe, and owns a telepathic cat. While I respect and admire her for providing a home and medical care to animals that might not have otherwise been adopted, I'm perhaps too skeptical to learn her......more