A Practical Guide to Impractical Pets: Mammals, Reptiles, Birds, Fish, Insects

by Barbara Burn, E.P. Dolenski, Emil P. Dolensek

This authoritative one-volume compendium deals with pets of all kinds: mammals, reptiles, birds, fish, and even insects. It covers such topics as creating a suitable habitat, nutrition, parasite... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876057245
• ISBN13: 9780876057247
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Howell Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Interesting and imformative.

I enjoyed this informative book with interesting facts on how to care for a tropical fish to a hedgehog to a iguana. However, I was worried about a things that were untrue in her book. She listed that iguana has teeth. I have a four-foot long iguana, but it doesn't have teeth! But in any form, this is an excellent book to read and remember.

The all-around best book on pet selection and care

This book is the most comprehensive guide to animal care and selection that I have ever seen. It lists pets by category: Easy, Difficult and Impossible, and goes to the trouble of explaining why some animals (listed in the "Impossible" section) just do not make good pets for the average person. There is also a lot of information on the basic care of the species and covers, in all, somewhere around 84 species. Recommended reading for anyone who loves animals.