Introduction: Why is it so hard to think straight about animals?
Anthrozoology : the new science of human-animal interactions
The importance of being cute : why we think what we think about creatures that don't think like us
Pet-o-philia : why do humans (and only humans) love pets?
Friends, foes, and fashion statements : the human-dog relationship
"Prom queen kills first deer on sixteenth birthday" : gender and the human-animal relationship
In the eyes of the beholder : the comparative cruelty of cockfights and Happy Meals
Delicious, dangerous, disgusting, and dead : the human-meat relationship
The moral status of mice : the use of animals in science
The cats in our houses, the cows on our plates : are we all hypocrites?
The carnivorous yahoo within ourselves : dealing with moral inconsistency.
