Contents -- Foreword -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION On Investigating Human-Animal Relationships -- Lynda Birke and Jo Hockenhull -- PART ONE Social Networks -- 1. On Investigating Human-Animal Bonds: Realities, Relatings, Research -- Lynda Birkeand Jo Hockenhull -- 2. Animals, Mess, Method: Post-humanism, Sociology and Animal Studies -- Nikola Taylor -- 3. Nourishing Communities: animal vitalities and food quality -- Henry Buller -- 4. Being guided by dogs -- Marc Higgin -- PART TWO SHARING LIVES -- 5. Being-with-Animals Modes of embodiment in human-animal encounters -- Diane Dutton -- 6. Honouring Human Emotions Using Organic Inquiry for Researching Human-Companion Animal Relationships -- Susan Ella Dawson -- 7. Human-enculturated apes: towards a new synthesis of philosophy and comparative psychology -- Pär Segerdahl -- PART THREE ANIMAL EXPERIENCING -- 8. Lessons we should learn from our unique relationship with dogs: An ethological approach -- József Topál and Márta Gácsi -- 9. How can the ethological study of dog-human companionship inform social robotics? -- Gabriella Lakatos and Ádam Miklósi -- 10. The Nature of Relations -- Mette Miriam Böll -- 11. A science of friendly pigs … Carving out a conceptual space for addressing animals as sentient beings -- Françoise Wemelsfelder -- 12. Crossing Borders: some concluding comments -- Lynda Birke and Jo Hockenhull -- Index.