Author : Myra Mahoney
Publisher : Mini Encyclopedia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,56 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Guinea pigs as pets
ISBN : 9781842862261
"Guinea Pigs remain a perennial favorite as pets with young and old alike. This book will show you how to care for your pet. It will examine in detail the ideal methods of housing, feeding, grooming, health and care. Once you have learned all you need to know to keep your pet safe and healthy the book will examine the most popular breeds available and provide the right criteria to help you make a choice."--Publisher's description.
Author : Virginia Parker Guidry
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 12,63 MB
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Pets
ISBN : 1937049078
“Compact, easy-to-care-for, and a bundle of fun” is how author Virginia Parker Guidry describes the irresistible guinea pig. Ideal pets for families with children, cavies (as they’re often called) are clean, odorless, gentle, loving, and entertaining. This Complete Care Made Easy Guinea Pigs encapsulates all the virtues of these perfect small mammals and gives new owners practical advice about how to care for them. In chapter one, “A Guinea What?” the author talks about the guinea pig’s natural history—they’re neither pigs nor from Guinea, but rather a rodent from Peru—and how scientists classify this very unique mammal. To decide whether the guinea pig is right for you, chapter two discusses who makes the ideal owner and presents thirteen popular breeds of longhaired and shorthaired guinea pigs and the colors available to pet owners today. The chapter “Finding a Healthy Guinea Pig” offers solid advice about selecting the right guinea pig, where to purchase or adopt, and the preferred sex. A complete chapter on preparing for the guinea pig offers the reader excellent advice about acclimating the new pet to the home, selecting the best cage and hutch, and pig-proofing the home. The subject of understanding guinea pig behavior is discussed in the chapter “Living with a Guinea Pig,” which also covers daily-care topics such as feeding, grooming, handling, exercise, and litter box training. Keeping the guinea pig healthy is discussed in “Staying Healthy,” a chapter that covers preventing illness, choosing a veterinarian, and common ailments. The final chapter “Just for the Fun of It!” explores games, toys, activities, and showing guinea pigs. The appendix includes lists of pig-specific clubs, organizations, and websites. Glossary of terms and index included.
Author : David Alderton
Publisher : Southwater Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Aquarium fishes
ISBN : 9781780190440
Illustrated throughout with 1200 sumptuous color photographs, this expertly written manual provides all the information you need to buy and care for your pet with complete confidence.
Author : Mark Evans
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 2001-04-30
Category : Guinea pigs
ISBN : 9780789476494
Offers information for the first-time pet owner on the physical characteristics, selection, care, and feeding of guinea pigs.
Author : Dorothy Yamamoto
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 37,54 MB
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1780234678
Guinea pigs are one of the world’s most popular pets—small, friendly, easy to care for, and unbearably cute. We have felt this way for a long time: guinea pigs were first domesticated in 5000 B.C.E. Since then they have inspired historical figures ranging from the scientist William Harvey to the artists Jan Brueghel and Beatrix Potter. In this book, Dorothy Yamamoto offers the first in-depth treatment of this cuddly little creature over the several millennia it has been a part of our lives. Yamamoto examines the role guinea pigs have today—as pets—but also looks back to less loving times when guinea pigs were put to more direct use. She discusses them as a crucial sacrificial offering to Incan gods, as the entrée in the Cusco Cathedral’s painting of The Last Supper, and as a highly favored experimental subject—for which they have become the quintessential metaphor for anyone in the same unfortunate circumstance. Threading her account with examples from the guinea pig’s many appearances in literature and art, Yamamoto reveals the personality and cultural importance of an animal we have always wanted to keep nearby, providing a fun and unique book for any animal lover. Published in Association with the Science Museum, London
Author : Julie Rach Mancini
Publisher : Tfh Publications, Incorporated
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9780793837694
Comprehensive guide that provides informative tips and photos illustrating all aspects of pet care for Guinea pigs.
Author : Jack Byard
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,88 MB
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1912158698
Did you know that Barnvelder chickens are known for being lazy while Belgian D’Uccle chickens are known for being friendly? Impress friends and relatives with interesting facts about more than 40 breeds of chickens from around the world, including their history, personality, egg-laying and flying abilities, and other fun facts. From knowing what chickens are considered the “French Poodles of the world” to which ones can fly the highest, learn all about these diverse – and sometimes rare – animals with this fascinating guide and Know Your Chickens! • Features over 40 popular breeds of chickens, each receiving its own full-page spread • Provides fun facts highlighting their characteristics, history, personality, capabilities, and more • Includes distinctive, high-quality photography of each breed • Its compact size makes it fun and easy to flip through for fast and interesting info.
Author : Immanuel Birmelin
Publisher : B.E.S. Publishing
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 36,39 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9780764138942
(back cover) Information and advice to help you take good care of your Guinea Pigs The typical Guinea Pig: origins, anatomy, life cycles, and more Expert advice: feeding, behavior, caging, health care Understanding your Guinea Pigs: their body language and its meaning Step-by-step directions for everyday care Informative and attractive checklists and sidebars Filled with handsome color photos (picture caption) Guinea Pigs make unusually interesting household pets, both for children and adults
Author : David Alderton
Publisher : Southwater
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781780191102
Practical advice on choosing and buying a pet, housing, feeding, handling, showing and health care.
Author : Celia Lewis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 31,43 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Pets
ISBN : 1472906462
Covering 65 domestic breeds of ducks, geese, guineafowl, quail, turkeys and peafowl, the book gives an insight into the individual personalities and attributes of each kind of bird. With just a little land and available water, you can raise a variety of domestic fowl, from friendly ducks and characterful geese to guineafowl, dainty quail, placid turkeys or even peafowl. Illustrated with the author's charming watercolour paintings, this book is packed with practical tips on keeping domestic fowl and selecting the right breed for your circumstances. The breed profiles are written in engaging text and include the history and place of origin, colour combinations, differences between male and female birds, the appearance of hatchlings and the numbers of eggs to expect. As well as selecting an appropriate breed, you need to consider your neighbours, the kinds of bird you can and should keep, whether you want them for eggs or as pets, and whether you want to breed them. The book offers helpful advice on all these issues and also on housing, the provision of water, feeding and the noise and impact your birds will have, as well as preventing and treating common ailments. Whether you are starting out as a smallholder, are interested in raising a few ducks or geese in a suburban or rural setting, or are simply a devotee of domestic fowl there is plenty to captivate you in this book.
