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Author: Kate H. Pellham
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-07-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781514899779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide to making decisions before and after acquiring a guinea pig. Includes information on ten different breeds of guidea pigs.
Author: Peter Gurney
Publisher: TFH Publications
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780793831517
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most popular and well-written books about guinea pigs on the market. Topics include housing, choosing, health care and behavior. The Proper Care of Guinea Pigs is written by a well-respected authority on guinea pigs and will make owners more enthusiastic about owning them.
Author: Virginia Parker Guidry
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Published: 2011-10-11
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1937049078
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“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: Dick King-Smith
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 29
ISBN-13: 9781406318722
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Author: Julie Rach Mancini
Publisher: Tfh Publications, Incorporated
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780793837694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprehensive guide that provides informative tips and photos illustrating all aspects of pet care for Guinea pigs.
Author: Laura S. Jeffrey
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 0766040828
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Discusses the selection, housing, diet, handling, grooming, and health of a new hamster, gerbil, guinea pig, rabbit, ferret, mouse, or rat"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Ingrid Newkirk
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2021-01-19
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1501198556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life with “admiration and empathy” (The New York Times Book Review) and offer tools for living more kindly toward them. In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who animals are: astounding beings with intelligence, emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities. In Animalkind, Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone present these findings in a concise and awe-inspiring way, detailing a range of surprising discoveries, like that geese fall in love and stay with a partner for life, that fish “sing” underwater, and that elephants use their trunks to send subsonic signals, alerting other herds to danger miles away. Newkirk and Stone pair their tour through the astounding lives of animals with a guide to the exciting new tools that allow humans to avoid using or abusing animals as we once did. Whether it’s medicine, product testing, entertainment, clothing, or food, there are now better options to all the uses animals once served in human life. We can substitute warmer, lighter faux fleece for wool, choose vegan versions of everything from shrimp to marshmallows, reap the benefits of animal-free medical research, and scrap captive orca exhibits and elephant rides for virtual reality and animatronics. Animalkind provides a fascinating look at why our fellow living beings deserve our respect, and lays out the steps everyone can take to put this new understanding into action.
Author: Donna Anastasi
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Published: 2011-11-08
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1937049299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe delightful South American “unrodent-like rodent” known as the chinchilla makes a playful and affectionate companion animal. Author Donna Anastasi refers to them as “inquisitive, sensitive, intelligent, and active,” the ideal combination of intelligence and interaction anyone would want in a small pet. This Complete Care Made Easy title is an ideal introductory pet guide about the chinchilla, with detailed chapters on characteristics, selection of a healthy chinchilla, housing and care, welcoming and taming the new arrival, feeding and daily care, training, and health and veterinary care. The book offers excellent advice about feeding and nutrition, including the choice of pellets, supplements, hay, and treats. The chapter “Understanding and Training Your Chinchilla” explains the abilities and limitations of chinchillas’ senses (they’re nearsighted but have exceptional hearing) and offers a great overview of how they communicate through sounds and body language. With positive reinforcement and a clicker (no leash and collar!), the chin can be trained to perform tricks for the family’s entertainment, and the book gives lots of training pointers for owners! For chin fanciers who are interested in further exploration, the author includes chapters on breeding chinchillas and getting involved in chin shows. Sidebars throughout the text provide useful information to chinchilla keepers, covering such topics as chin colors, harmful human foods, daily care checklist, and show terminology. The resources include chinchilla societies, books and websites. Glossary of terms and index included.
Author: Laura Howell
Publisher: Pet Guides
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781409561880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeaturing useful guidance throughout, this is the perfect guide for young guinea pig owners and those who are thinking of getting a pet guinea pig.
Author: Margaret Elward
Publisher: Ringpress Books
Published: 2004-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781860542510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe More You Know About Your Guinea Pig the better you will understand his specific needs and requirements. In Guniea Piglopaedia you will find invaluable guidance on every aspect of cavy care and health broken into the following easy-to-read sections: 1. Principles of keeping guinea pigs, with information on housing, feeding and breeding. 2. Breeding guinea pigs, with advice on planning a breeding programme, pregnancy, birth, and rearing the young. 3. Health care, detailing anatomy and physiology, with an A-Z listing of guinea pig diseases. 4. Guinea pig breeds, giving profiles of the many different breeds and types, and information about showing guineas. Readers will learn how to care for a guinea pig, how a guinea pig's body works, how recognize guinea pig diseases, how to identify different breeds, and how to breed and exhibit guinea pigs. Guinea Piglopaedia will prove an essential reference for all those who want to provide the very best care for their guinea pigs.
