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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Sanctuary | |
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| A Special Bond | |
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| The Ties that Bond | |
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| The Biochemistry of the Bond | |
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| Pet Keeping Through the Ages | |
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| Domesticated Animals: "Bonded to the House" | |
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| Animal Sacrifice: "The Perfect Gift" | |
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| Animal Welfare and the "Great Republic of the Future" | |
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| Self-Evident Truths | |
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| The Mismeasure of Animals | |
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| Thinking and Feeling: Shared Capacities | |
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| Denying Animal Intelligence | |
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| Signs of Change | |
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| Lifesaving Dolphins and Dogs, Altruistic Elephants, and Other Remarkable Animals | |
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| The Emotional Lives of Animals | |
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| The Betrayal of the Bond | |
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| A Message From Hallmark: Exposing Factory Farming | |
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| The Slaughterhouse Next Door: Inside a California Meat Plant | |
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| The Hypocrisy of "Happy Cows" | |
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| Endless Denials: The Challenge of Reform | |
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| "The New Agriculture": The Ways of Industrial Farming | |
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| "Meat Science": Turkeys Who Can't Walk, Pigs Who Can't Move, and Other Victims of Agribusiness | |
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| Stirring the Silent Majority | |
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| A Culture of Cruelty: Animal Fighting in America | |
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| Bad Newz on Moonlight Road: Dogfighting Comes Out of the Shadows | |
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| Michael Vick and the Contradiction of Cruelty | |
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| Blood Sport Through the Ages | |
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| "The Feathered Warrior" | |
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| "I Won't Disappoint You" | |
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| For the Love of Pets | |
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| Katrina and the Human-Animal Bond | |
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| The Animals in Our Lives | |
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| In the Name of Mercy: Animal Shelters and the Problem of Euthanasia | |
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| Factory Farms for Dogs: The Tragedy of Puppy Mills | |
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| The AKC and "the Maintenance of Purity" | |
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| Nothing Fancy: The Costs of Reckless Breeding | |
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| The Cull of the Wild | |
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| Unfaithful Stewards: Betraying Yellowstone's Bison | |
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| Killing and Longing: The Lessons of TR | |
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| The Era of Rational Slaughter | |
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| "Let's Kill them All": The Attack on Alaska's Wolves | |
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| "Garbagingfor Bears": Commercial Hunting and Contemptible Conduct | |
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| The Face of Innocence and the Shame of Canada | |
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| Building a Humane World | |
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| Cruelty and its Defenders | |
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| The Moral Scale and Humane Living | |
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| Rhetorical Camouflage: Debating Opponents of Animal Protection | |
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| Collateral Damage and the NRA | |
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| "The Agro-Industrial Complex": Harvesting Subsidies | |
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| "The Rising Plague" and the Veterinary Oath | |
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| The Humane Economy | |
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| "Creative Destruction" and Living Capital | |
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| Wild Neighbors | |
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| Chemistry and Compassion | |
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| Twenty-First-Century Science | |
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| Innovation and the Spark of Life | |
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| Appendix: Fifty Ways to Help Animals | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |