Birdie
The descriptions of the character's actions get long and drawn out from time to time but I think it's an important read regardless, if not to learn the bleaker origins of the animated cartoon then for its exploration and themes of urbanization and environmentalism. Has some interesting ideas about how urbanization and the loss of nature forces animal and man alike to behave in a way that does not come naturally, which I think is the main value the book brings.
CONTENT WARNINGS for the book are: Scat and references to it (in terms of animals and animal behavior but it's pretty commonplace and frequent in this book), animal death and baby animal death, rabies and an attack by a rabid animal (specifically an attack on children), a lot of references to and descriptions of 'breeding' that border on being personified from the animal's point of view and also have a separation through the lens of animal psychology and behavior, making the overall effect pretty icky.
I think I got all of them but as always be safe and take care!
The descriptions of the character's actions get long and drawn out from time to time but I think it's an important read regardless, if not to learn the bleaker origins of the animated cartoon then for its exploration and themes of urbanization and environmentalism. Has some interesting ideas about how urbanization and the loss of nature forces animal and man alike to behave in a way that does not come naturally, which I think is the main value the book brings.
CONTENT WARNINGS for the book are: Scat and references to it (in terms of animals and animal behavior but it's pretty commonplace and frequent in this book), animal death and baby animal death, rabies and an attack by a rabid animal (specifically an attack on children), a lot of references to and descriptions of 'breeding' that border on being personified from the animal's point of view and also have a separation through the lens of animal psychology and behavior, making the overall effect pretty icky.
I think I got all of them but as always be safe and take care!