Best pet loss grief books according to redditors

I feel especially qualified to answer since I am a lady, a metal fan, and today is my birthday. I got Metal Cats which is perhaps the best present I've ever received. Concert tickets would be a good bet too. I always appreciate gifts that are more experiences rather than things.

Well there is a list of the bands here for the paperback: http://amzn.com/1576876772

Highly recommend reading Cat Warren's book What The Dog Knows. It's about her training her first cadaver dog, and she does a great job weaving in some history and general info.


I finished it two months ago and immediately got my dogs enrolled in scent work classes lol.

Though not domesticated, this man did live with and travel the world with his wolf Brenin. Basically he just understood he needed to be faster, stronger and smarter than the wolf at all times.

Check out the Metal Cats photo book.

Here is one of the few books I've bought...

Metal Cats

It's collection of stories from various writers about their favorites dogs. It's Old Yeller every 5 damn pages!

Cool! Here are some links:

A book - Circle Round:
https://www.amazon.com/Circle-Round-Raising-Children-Traditions/dp/0553378058

Some sites - http://www.brigidshearth.org/paganparenting.html

http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=ustx&c=parent&id=2400

Link to a copy of the book on amazon

Aww. What a sweetie. You can tell by the look in her eyes that she loves you, and she was tired.


I know it was hard, but you did good.

If you go over to... I believe it's /r/freeebooks, they have one on there you can download today from Amazon for free. It's all about coping with the loss of a pet.

Edit: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GBQW9W8

Have you thought about grief counseling? There is counseling available for pet owners. It's ok, you can grieve people other than humans. If you can't find any local groups, or want anonymity, there are support groups online and via phone. There are many books on the subject, too. Here are some links:

http://www.griefhealing.com/help-lines-message-boards-chats.htm

http://www.pet-loss.net/

http://www.amazon.com/Loss-Pet-New-Revised-Expanded/dp/0876051972

http://www.amazon.com/Coping-Sorrow-Loss-Your-Pet/dp/1598584537/ref=pd_sim_b_2

http://www.amazon.com/Saying-Good-Bye-Pet-You-Love/dp/1572243074/ref=pd_sim_b_3

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0099285770

A great book by this man, and a very enjoyable read

Non-mobile: It's collection of stories from various writers about their favorites dogs. It's Old Yeller every 5 damn pages!

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Jack Wintz has a book on this subject that is actually really good, called "I Will See You In Heaven": http://www.amazon.com/I-Will-See-You-Heaven/dp/1557257329

I say actually because I have read others that fell flat for me, but this one helped.

I'm so sorry for your loss. For what it's worth, I firmly believe your dog is in Heaven, and that you will see each other again. I don't believe God creates only to destroy. I don't see anything less than a concern for all of creation throughout the whole Bible.

My dog was my best friend, she kept me going through college and a lot of difficult things. I have no doubt that I will see her again, and that she still is, somewhere. I don't say this to make you feel as if you shouldn't doubt it, but just to say I deeply, deeply believe this. She was real and she is real and she mattered, and that can't be undone.

Going to jump in and take a stab at responding, if nobody minds...

Neuropsychology uses mathematics very rarely. Neuropsych is more about brain injury and rehabilitating the person around whatever neural issue they have. Neuropsychologists typically operate as part of a clinical treatment team, working alongside a neurologist, maybe a neurosurgeon if there was some intracranial or CNS trauma involved, and some sort of physical, behavioral, or cognitive therapist. In this team, neuropsychologists usually run the tests to diagnose disabilities or track symptoms over time. If you're interested in the neuroscience of psychology/cognition, you may be more interested in cognitive or behavioral neuroscience. These fields rely on mathematics but in a different way because the observations at that level are so hard to quantify. Mathematics in cognitive neuroscience (and even neuropsychology) is more about measurement theory: quantifying abstract or immeasurable phenomena and then attempting to explain how high-level function is tied to low-level events. Stuff that comes to mind includes the neurobiology of autism, visual attention, information processing in sensory networks, etc. This will lead into Bayesian decision theory, information theory, psychophysics, probability models, and from a very theoretical side, graph theory and looking at the mathematics of network topology and multi-sensory integration.

Mathematics is used in neurochemistry (or, more precisely, in fields like biochemistry, neuroendocrinology, neuropharmacology, biophysics, etc). In those fields, math is often used to describe the dynamics of whatever system you are studying, whether it's some kinetic process like diffusion or changes in protein conformation or receptor/chemical binding dynamics or even chemical metabolism. For this, you'll really want to know your differential equations and dynamical systems. The Dayan and Abbott textbook is great for this, but also look at http://www.amazon.com/Dynamical-Systems-Neuroscience-Excitability-Computational/dp/0262514206/ and even check out the journal Biological Cybernetics. Bertil Hille's book is also really good for things happening in and around the neuron.

This book got really good reviews! Dog Heaven

Other well reviewed books that you might want to look into are: The Forever Dog

and For Every Dog and Angel

Hobson is definitely the guy I would recommend, I would go with his popular press book (which has a fair bit of jargon) but is a really good and interesting read that should be understandable if you're willing to do a bit of googling (mostly just understanding neurotransmitters and the names of the brain regions). The book is "The Dream Drug Store". It goes into a lot of the neurobiology of it while also attempting to understand how that relates to normal cognition and ultimately attempting to link levels or degree's of consciousness and altered states of consciousness (from drug use) to dream states, it's actually really cool and pretty well written.

After our dog passed last year, my wife found a lot of help in this book

Goodbye Friend

It's been a year and she still is upset, but we've done some things to help. We had her cremated and built a little shrine for her with some of her favorite toys, and we had a painting commissions of her which hangs in our living room. But I'd 100% recommend that book.

I didn't find Theoretical Neuroscience particularly readable as others in the thread have said, but it is the go-to book for the classic topics in the field. I found Fundamentals of Computational Neuroscience to be a much much better book for introductions. From Computer to Brain : Foundations of Computational Neuroscience was fairly approachable. On the more cognitive side, From Neuron to Cognition via Computational Neuroscience was pretty good. If you like the nonlinear systems side, Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience: The Geometry of Excitability and Bursting was pretty tough to read but full of good content.

It really depends on what subsets of comp neuro you're most interested in. I worked mostly on the cognitive side, and I was never super satisfied with any books on comp neuro in that area. I think the field is just too young for a great summary to exist beyond the neuronal/small network level.

There is a ton of interesting mathematics that goes into other areas of neuro that wouldn't typically be included in Computational Neuroscience. Different imaging methods, for instance, have some pretty fun math involved and are very active areas of research.

We're in EST you goose!

I've been wanted to read this for awhile: The Philosopher and the Wolf!. It's a book about a philosophy professor who finds and adopts a full-bred wolf. He talks about his experience with it. He even brings it to all his lectures.

Guess you're going to the Philly Zoo? I haven't been there in a couple yaers, I'll probably go sometime this year. The river otters are SO ADORABLE. Definitely my favorite part. Have fun!

get your zoo on gurl

Reefcentral is the reddit of marine fish world, the mods in new to hobby are as good as it gets. Never go to your local fish store for advice!!! When you are ready, go to reefcentral and ask question after question. Give a couple hours at the most for them to be answered. Its overwhelming at first. I also started with this book and read and posted to reefcentral non stop. Took me a couple months to figure out the basics + more but now its super simple and if I dont know an answer I hit up reefcentral with a pic. Oh yea, Patience. Go into the hobby with a 3-5 month window before you plan on being up and running (maybe even more depending on your $$ situation). Know the larger the tank the easier it is to keep the water parameters. I have a 75 gallon and man am I glad thats what I started with.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/index.php

Been there, there’s nothing sadder. A good book to read (and it’s a quick read)

I came across this book Metal Cats at the library that shows the other size of some these metalheads. Hmmmmm cats, foxes......

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1576876772/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity. A bit hefty read, as it is very detailed and scientific despite being written by a philosopher (of neuroscience). Sinks very deep into the subject, speaking of which she or he who is reading is supposedly going to lose.

I'm in the middle of reading Metzinger's Being No One; one of the things he's big on is identifying which constructs within a transparent self model survive being popped out and consciously examined, and which elements are inextricable (hence transparent) building blocks of the model itself. I suppose any functional theory of mind includes the limitations of what is not mind, or what can be removed and keep the mind intact? It's a great book so far, but very difficult going. It's amazing how much of symbolic/epistemic language is dependent upon an unreconstructed dualistic view of mind. Makes talking about it/thinking about it very, very difficult.

I saw this right below your post on my front page, so i thought i'd just let you know that this book on dealing with lost pets is free until the 7th.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GBQW9W8

I love dogs, man. Losing them just feels so bad.

http://www.amazon.com/Being-No-One-Self-Model-Subjectivity/dp/0262633086

Certainly! I would be happy to answer any questions you have, just send me a PM. I'm not an expert but I would be happy to give you perspective from the real world side of things.

Here is a study you can read that goes over a lot of what I just said. They included smooshy faces too so you can read about how they performed compared to their normal-nosed counterparts if you're interested!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4859551/

This is by far the best book I have, but it's expensive but it's an actual textbook. It goes over so so much, including the anatomy of dog noses and scent theory and positive training (they even included some writings by Karen Pryor). Fair warning, there are some chapters in there about how humans decompose so if you're squeamish you may want to skip some chapters. It's all very honest but kind of gross if you find those things off-putting.

https://www.amazon.com/Cadaver-Dog-Handbook-Forensic-Training/dp/0849318866

These two books are honestly very much the same. It's not worth it to buy both, just whichever one happens to be cheaper for you. They are very good though! They don't focus so much on scent theory but they are crammed with lots of training instructions and scent games.

https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Training-Search-Rescue-Dog/dp/1621871045/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1484358751&sr=1-1&keywords=Ready%21+Training+the
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https://www.amazon.com/Search-Rescue-Dogs-Training-Hero/dp/0764567039/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=FB2KGHQEPVR4BPM91YPQ

This one is more of just a fun read but I really love it. It is about the author and her cadaver sniffing german shepherd and all the cool things they have done. She is very good about sprinkling cool facts all throughout the book. If you ever want a good book to just read, this one is awesome.

https://www.amazon.com/What-Dog-Knows-Science-Perceive/dp/1451667329/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1484358909&sr=1-1&keywords=what+the+dog+knows

Fragile Tears(Cunningham), Page 83

Shirt?

Punk kitty?

Hair metal kitty?

A book?

Metal Cats

Considering this is on top of my wishlist, and this is one of my favourite tumblrs...I'm going with "appealing". My SO was not hugely fond of my 2 cats at first (generally likes dogs more) but he loves them and spoils them rotten now.

Here you go: "Metal Cats" - Metal musicians and their cats.

Today in the news, I found the link on the homepage of Germany's (by far) largest online magazine.

This is the best photo!

The book "Metal Cats" (Amazon)

Robert Sapolsky's A Primate's Memoir is excellent. I had been working with primates as an undergrad and was thinking about doing field work but wasn't sure if I had just romanticized the whole thing. The lab director heard about this and lent me this book and inspired me to go out and do it! After spending 9 months in Africa, I applied for a post-grad program in primatology and will be going out again next spring! It basically changed my life.

Another great one is Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild. Taught me there's nothing to fear in nature. Helped me adjust to field life and now I'm absolutely addicted to the outside.

My heart goes out to you on this one. No matter the dogs age its never long enough that we get to share our lives with them. I firmly believe that in this life there are those special dogs the ones you are going to carry with you forever in your heart and I think that Bee is one of those dogs for you! I 100% Recommend getting this book http://www.amazon.com/Every-Dog-Angel-Christine-Davis/dp/0965922529/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1321646255&sr=8-16 I personally give a copy of it to my friends when they lose a "forever" dog. Spoil the pants off that dog my angel Skye when we lost her we made a day of just moments for her. We went to the beach and got Mcdonalds on the way. We sat in the sand with her and fed her a 20 piece chicken nugget. We then went to the vets and thank goodness it was the one I worked at because the doctor let us go outside under the stars and do it (the office made Skye nervous). I would also ask if they can make a paw print of Bee most vets offices will do that for you. If you need an ear or a shoulder please let me know.

Circle Round is an excellent book on this topic: https://www.amazon.com/Circle-Round-Raising-Children-Traditions/dp/0553378058 it gives really useful, kid friendly and meaningful ways kids can participate in ritual.

In the book The Dreaming Brain by Dr. J. Allan Hobson, it's explained that the parts of your brain that are active during REM sleep along with the change in levels of certain chemicals in your brain contribute to some common characteristics of dreams.

Thee characteristics are that dreams often feature intense emotions (especially fear, anxiety and surprise), dreams are disorganized, illogical and can contain really bizarre sensory experiences (they begin randomly and you have feelings like falling/flying/running in slow motion), and dream content is very difficult to remember due to the fact that long term memory functions are not active during REM sleep and short term memory functions are not ideal due to low levels of serotonin and high levels of acetylcholine during REM sleep cycles.

Your emotions during dreaming are affected by the chemicals in your brain during the REM cycle and certain regions of your brain being the most active, like the limbic system.

I recommend Dreaming: An Introduction to the Science of Sleep or The Dream Drugstore to learn more about Hobson's activation synthesis theory. His books are hard to read because they're very technical, but they were extremely interesting.

You're not alone. I've been through this several times, although perhaps not as dramatically. It's a huge, devastating loss. Part of what's so isolating about it is that not everyone is an animal lover or understands the bond, so you don't know whom to trust or confide in about this.

There are some pet loss support groups, both online and IRL. They can be very comforting. I recommend contacting your vet's office or the local shelters to inquire.

Also, the book Goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet is very helpful.

Take care.

I can't advise on applying to PhD programs, but a book you should definitely look into is Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience by Izhikevich.

Slightly related, the intersection between neuroscience and topology will either by through ODEs (think phase plane analysis type stuff, which Izhikevich covers in detail) or analyzing neural networks via network analysis (so more graph theory type stuff) or algebraic topology (i.e. topological data analysis).

I think penn state has an active group doing neuroscience with topological tools. Specifically Carina Curto is someone to look into; if she doesn't do stuff you're particularly interested in, one of her collaborators likely will. She also wrote a survey article in the bulletin of the ams recently. I skimmed it and it looks like it will give a you a good flavour of how topology is used in neuroscience nowadays. Good luck!

Izhikevich has a great book for mathematical descriptions of neurons and circuits, some cartoons and interpretable descriptions
https://www.amazon.com/Dynamical-Systems-Neuroscience-Excitability-Computational/dp/0262514206/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1543300294&sr=8-1&keywords=dynamical+systems+in+neuroscience
Edit: spelling

Super fucking relevant

I used to think that a self-aware machine-intelligence was not going to be created by human beings, whether or not such a thing is even possible, but I have started to change my view for a couple of reasons.

One is the understanding that self-awareness, that is, a sense of discrete identity, may not be a necessary component of a high intelligence. An exponentially more intelligent entity than any human might be perfectly possible without that entity being in any way self-aware.

http://www.beinghuman.org/metzinger

https://www.amazon.com/Being-No-One-Self-Model-Subjectivity/dp/0262633086/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0/142-1611769-0902728?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=HWRG615EE5F7GDRP2FMC

The other thing that may be that if machine AI continues to improve its ability to appear to be self-aware and human-like, it will pass Turing tests based on its sophistication and superior speed, even if it never actually becomes self-aware, and in this case, what's the difference?

Of course, it is useful to keep in mind that in attempting to create machine intelligence comparable to human intelligence, the human intelligence ha the advantage of three billion years of ruthless, make-or-break R & D....

In any case, I am fairly certain it's not such a hot idea.

This book might be of interest to you. It's honestly just pictures, but some of them are really awesome.

Have you read Being No One by German cognitive scientist Thomas Metzinger?

If not, then you haven't read enough, yet.

Here it is on Amazon.

Daniel Wolpert sums it up pretty nicely. If you prefer to read, I of the Vortex has answers as well.

Try this book:

Dog Obsessed: The Honest Kitchen's Complete Guide to a Happier, Healthier Life for the Pup You Love https://www.amazon.com/dp/1623367484/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_s9KLzbC6ZAAG4