Rats

by Sue Fox

Book Overview

A guide for caring for one's pet rat and keeping it happy and healthy. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087666933X
• ISBN13: 9780876669334
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: TFH Publications
• Length: 93 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Good book for pet owners

This book is a well-researched guide, although sometimes written at a bit of a simplistic level. Approximately 80%-85% of the book is information about proper care for a pet rat and diagnosing possible diseases. The book contains little information about rats as a species that is not commonly found in an encyclopaedia; if you are looking for a general book, this one will probably leave you unsatisfied. However, if you are looking for a guide to keeping rats as pets, I can say that the book is quite useful. When I've kept rats, I have particularly found the section on ailments to be valuable. For people who are new to raising rats, the book is an excellent place to start.

Excellent for beginners.

As a complete beginner to the world of rat keeping, I found this book to be useful regarding practically every aspect of rat keeping. The section on taming and training was excellent, much better than any other book that I had seen. For me that section was the most important since it deals with how to make the pet-owner relationship more rewarding for both parties involved. Susan Fox obviously also owns her own rat/s which means the book is written from personal experience, not just theoretical conjecture. Very good information and interesting reading.

Extremely Informative

This book had so much information, especially for someone who is unfamiliar with having a pet rat. When my daughter wanted one, we had no idea about how to care for it. This book told us everything we wanted to know, and told it to us in a very easy-to-read and easy-to-understand style. I have recommended it to my daughter's friends when they want to get a pet rat like hers.