The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bird Care & Training


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Quick and easy guidance on how to create a safe and stimulating environment for your bird.




Parakeet


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The authoritative information and advice you need, illustrated throughout with full-color photographs--now revised and redesigned to be even more reader-friendly! Whoever coined the term "birdbrained" wasn't familiar with parakeets. They're smart as well as funny and entertaining. This guide helps you with everything from preparing for and choosing a parakeet to teaching it to talk and perform tricks. It covers: * Details on setting up a healthy home for your pet * Everyday care, including feeding and grooming * Veterinary care and common health problems * Normal parakeet behaviors * Parakeets and children Parakeets can live up to eighteen years. That's a lot of companionship from a colorful little character who will undoubtedly find a perch in your heart.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Choosing a Pet


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What will it be--a dog or a hedgehog? A Gerbil or guinea pig? A cat or cockatiel or chinchilla? This book looks at 21 types of pets, each in its own chapter. 75 photos and drawings.




The Complete Pet Bird Owner's Handbook


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Covers all aspects of pet bird ownership, including selection, nutrition, behavior, home physicals, emergency medical care, preventative medicine and much more. --Publisher.




The Complete Idiot's Guide To Raising Chickens


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Readers will flock to this book Raising chickens is a growing trend hitting urban and suburban areas, as well as the country. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Raising Chickens covers every aspect of raising chickens, whether one lives in the country, suburb, or city. People wanting their own supply of organic, additive-free, free-range eggs want to know how to keep their chickens healthy and egg producing. • How to choose what to start with-chicks, pullets, or hens • How best to feed and water • Coverage of the most popular breeds • Everything about eggs, including how to sell them




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Sign Language


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Explains how to use American Sign Language to make introductions, tell time, order food, tell a joke, communicate with children, express emotion, and ask for directions







The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Italian


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A guide to speaking beginning Italian provides grammar rules, pronunciation guidelines, practical phrases and slang words for travelling, and facts on Italian history and culture.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Labrador Retrievers


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The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to Labrador Retrievers will cover everything a new or prospective Lab owner would need to know, including: deciding whether or not a Labrador Retriever is right for you, and vice-versa, the history of the breed, and how to find a reputable breeder. This book also tells readers how to acclimate their new Lab to their home, housetrain, manage their Lab's nutrition and health, what to do in an emergency, how to training their Labrador Retriever, how to deal with mistakes, and understanding Lab behavior.AUTHBIO = Margaret H. Bonham is a professional freelance writer and sled dog racer in Colorado. Her writing credits include six books (published or under contract). Her work has appeared in various national pet publications including Dog Fancy, Dog World, Dog and Kennel, Pet Life, Pet View, Natural Pet, and Mushing Magazine. She has been a columnist and contributing editor for Dog and Kennel and PetVeiw magazines and she was a frequent contributor to pets.com and vetmedcenter.com Internet sites. Maggie has written a column on nutrition for Pet View Magazine, plus several columns on basic dog nutrition.She has also formulated her own racing diet for her sled dogs for optimal performance.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Coffee and Tea


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A freshly brewed introduction to the caffeine subculture. For hot beverage novices and budding baristas, here is an essential introduction to the world of coffee and tea, from a basic history of each product, to advanced tips and tricks for blending, brewing, and using syrups and milk, to recipes from around the world. • Includes information on different types of beans and teas, available brewing equipment, and little-known secrets to making fabulous coffee- and tea-based drinks • Written by food and beverage writers who are experts in the field • Contains the finest recipes from worldwide barista champions