Author: Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff

The challenge that best-selling author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson set for himself was formidable: to create a true interspecies peaceable kingdom within his own household. He hoped to learn if several different species raised together from an early age - including natural enemies - could live peacefully side by side. So he took into his home a kitten, a rabbit, two rats, two chickens, and a puppy, and set about observing the whole process of socialization (or non-socialization) from the very beginning.