Animal Books

For the Love of Animals Book

For the Love of Animal by Kathryn Shevelow is a touching book on the early animal rights movement in England during the 18th and 19th century.  Kathryn has put together a number of hard-to-read stories of humans treating animals like crap and how a few great people stood up for the rights of animal.

The wonderful thing about this book is the fact that Kathryn Shevelow is a specialist in eighteenth century British literature and culture and a professor at the University of California, San Diego and has written other books on the topic of 18th century England so you know she knows what she is writing about.

During the 18th century, animal abuse was very common and very people understood or cared about animals.  Things started to change when people started to take in pets to have them live with them, instead of using animals just for food, products and work.  When people started to live with and care for the animals, people started to realize that maybe it was not such a good idea to treat animals so poorly.

Kathryn Shevelow’s For the Love of Animals – The Rise of Animal Protection Movement is a must have for animal rights activists and the hardcore animal lovers to fully understand how it all started.  This is obviously a great book for animal and history buffs, something that am quite happy to admit to being!

For further reading, please check out all of the animal books that i have reviewed.  Also please feel free to check out some of my animal pictures that i have taken!