Pets

A guide to bringing a feline friend into the family With its unique, fun format and diverse information and activities, this book helps everybody in the family discover what’s involved in bringing home a new kitty–including how to coax the new pet into a carrier and keep her calm in the car! This book covers everything from what to do about clawing and fur balls to how to keep a cat healthy. more...

Price: $14.99

An indispensable primer for families considering a saltwater aquarium This book gives families a great way to test the waters before taking the plunge and getting a saltwater aquarium. It covers everything from set-up and equipment (including a filtration system and lighting) to monitoring the water and temperature, from selecting the fish to feeding and caring for them. more...

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Care & Management of Horses provides a common-sense approach to keeping a horse healthy, sound, comfortable, and happy. Intended for the serious horse person, the book emphasizes the whole horse — mental and physical — and encourages the owner to center horse-keeping practices around the horse’s needs. Respected equine author Heather Smith Thomas discusses the horse in nature to help the reader understand what is natural or unnatural for a horse and the problems brought on by domestication. Other topics include practical horse handling, facilities of good horsemanship, feed and water, foot care, and seasonal care. Care & Management of Horses presents detailed information in a user-friendly format that helps the horse owner make educated decisions. more...

Price: $9.99

The only fully comprehensive guide to “all things feline,” from the host of Cat Chat on Martha Stewart Living Radio. Finally, a definitive book that delivers many unknown facts about every aspect of caring for and sharing your life with a cat, ranging from proper nutrition and strange behavior to medical care and multi-cat households, to grooming and geriatrics. The Cat Bible explains the mysteries of feline behavior to owners who are devoted to their cats without being able to fully understand them. It offers straightforward solutions to the problems that cause people to give up their cats, many of which are preventable, including litter box avoidance, furniture scratching, and physical ailments. There are more than 90 million American households that count cats as family members, but they are a vastly underserved population, devoted to their kitties, yet bereft of all the public attention, programming, and print devoted to dogs. Now, bestselling author and investigative journalist Tracie Hotchner offers them The Cat Bible, with straightforward, fact-filled solutions to health and behavior problems, based on years of research into the real reasons behind these issues. In the same warm, straightforward style that attracts devoted listeners to her radio shows, Tracie tackles controversial topics such as the truth about commercial dry pet foods and their dangers, bringing readers the latest facts on every topic that affects a feline’s well-being. more...

Price: $20.00