This book is about animals and humans. It is a book about the daily interactions with animals. Therefore, in this sense, it is a book about the normal everyday life of the animals that are imprisoned and abused by humans. However, it is a reality that we humans have largely ignored. A reality that we do not care about. With this book, Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz has succeeded in bringing this cruel everyday life back into our consciousness. He depicts reality, as well as the emotional and mental worlds of both humans and animals, with his simple, unexcited words as sharply as hardly any photograph could. The reader suddenly realizes: The truth of "human" interactions with animals is characterized by an inner - learned - indifference, carelessness, and cruelty on the part of humans, and deeply felt suffering on the part of animals.