Doug Fenwick

Lower socio-economic inner suburban working class in Melbourne. All locals were renters and worked at factories in the adjacent back streets. For pocket money, I sold morning and afternoon newspapers from aged 10, worked in a corner grocery shop; later part time in a chemical factory, picked berries, worked on farms, worked often in a flour factory, went timber cutting. Took on Veterinary Science studies at University because it had a living allowance scholarship. Spent 18 months as a Government Veterinary Officer, 25 years in Country Practice, 16 years at the University of Queensland. After 65-year-old compulsory retirement purchased and worked at Office Chair manufacturing business for 11 years.

I had been scribbling ideas and reviewing masses of literature on the similarities between the motivation and behaviour of humans and other animals for 50 years before I seriously began to type a manuscript which I self-published in 2008 under the title of "Animal, Brains and Cultures". It is a serious book with reviews shown at the end of "Cure It or Shoot It". As one reviewer concluded "This original work presents a paradigm for understanding human and animal behaviour in a clear-cut manner that has never before been so compelling nor relevant to the modern world.
An essential read for all of us on this planet – young adults, parents, lovers, workers and decision-makers!”