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Featuring useful guidance throughout, this is the perfect guide for young guinea pig owners and those who are thinking of getting a pet guinea pig.
This is one of a selection of guides aimed at the child who is about to acquire a pet for the first time. Written by a vet, this book includes practical information on caring for a guinea pig to help owners learn about every aspect of daily care while empasizing both the enjoyment and commitment of pet ownership. The books include advice on how to choose a pet, things to get ready, fun and games, visiting the vet, health care and feeding.
The 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 t...
A guide to making decisions before and after acquiring a guinea pig. Includes information on ten different breeds of guidea pigs.
Informs children how to choose and take care of their guinea pigs and other small pets.
Examines the origins and varieties of guinea pigs; discusses their behavior and biology; offers advice on acquiring, housing, caring for, and breeding guinea pigs; and includes information on guinea pig health and first aid.
Titles in the Pets' Guides series teach young readers how to care responsibly for their chosen pet. However, in a unique spin, each book is written from the point of view of one of the animals themselves, thus also allowing the books to be used to teach perspective. In this book, Gordon the Guinea Pig reveals how readers should go about choosing pet guinea pigs, what supplies they will need, how to make a new pet guinea pig feel at home, and how to properly care for pet guinea pigs, including feeding, exercising, and keeping a guinea pig cage clean. Text in the book is accompanied by clear, labelled photographs to further reinforce key concepts.
Guinea pigs look a little like pigs, with their short, round bodies. They even squeal like pigs! However, guinea pigs are not pigs—they’re rodents. Readers are sure to enjoy this fun and enlightening book about one of the world’s most popular pets. The text includes facts about where guinea pigs live, what they eat, how to care for them, and more. Informative text is paired with colorful, close-up photographs of these charming, furry critters.
Guinea Pigs.
Describes the history and various breeds of guinea pigs and discusses their selection and care including such aspects as housing, feeding, breeding, and exhibition.