About the Author

Award-winning journalist and editor Susan E. Davis has written for a wide range of publications, including Sports Illustrated, Mademoiselle, The Nation, and The Washington Post. She is the author of The Sporting Life and Baby Play. She is a national educator with the House Rabbit Society and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, two children, two rabbits and miscellaneous other small creatures. Margo DeMello received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from U.C. Davis in 1995, and is the Program Director for Human-Animal Studies at Animals & Society Institute. She teaches Cross-Cultural Anthrozoology, Animals and Popular Culture, Critical An