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The Rat: An Owner's Guide toa Happy Healthy Pet
Ginger Cardinal

Howell Book House, 1997 - 128 pages

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Excellent book for newbies!

If you are like we were, rookies with rats, buy this book. It taught us everything that we needed to know about pet rat ownership. It is an invaluable tool for those new to rats and a great refresher for the pro rat owners.


the ultimate pet manual

I have almost 50 pets, so I do a lot of reading on my special friends. This book is my favorite book about rats. I recommend it each time I sell a rat at the pet store I work at. It is wonderful to have on hand as a reference and to read just for fun. The chapters on health care and training are especially well done. Anyone who loves ratties should have this book!


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Pretty Good

Most of the information is good, but there are some things it recommends that I wouldn't. I thought the cages she recommends are a little small, and that some of the bedding wasn't appropriate. Other than that, it was all right.






Pretty good, but lacking in some descriptions

This book has much good information about pet rats, but I didn't find some information I was looking for. There were very good tips on how to decide if a pet rat is right for you and on recommended cages and different toys rats like and don't like. We have two pet rats we bought at a pet store that look like the rat on the cover, but I had trouble determining what variety these are based on the descriptions and pictures. Also, the cage size recommendation was only for one rat, so I wasn't sure how big of a cage I need for two rats. In the Feeding Your Rat chapter, lab blocks and dog kibble were mentioned as staples, but the pet store had rat food which appears to be a mixture primarily of seeds and some food blocks. I couldn't tell from the book, whether this mixture of food was good for my rat. It would help if the book covered more information on what is available in pet stores and whether these are best for a pet rat.
All in all though, a pretty complete book.


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Excellent and Informative


This book is so much better than the "Barron's" series one. It is written in a way that kids and adults can understand. And I loved the humor sprinkled within. It felt like I was learning from a seasoned owner. =0) Nice personal touch! I learned much from this book and look forward to putting this knowledge to use!


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This is our seventh set of Happy, Healthy Pet titles. Like the others, they are books pet owners can turn to for the essential information they need to raise a healthy, happy pet. All books contain information on:feedinggroominghousinghealth carewhat to expect from the petbasic trainingAs our series expands and focuses on different kinds of pets, the emphasis remains on making the pet a companion. Owners of more unusual pets will particularly appreciate the expert advice in these books because professional care for exotic animals can be hard to come by. As always, the instruction on the books is from experts?people who know their pets intimately but always remember what it was like to have one the first time.

Happy, Healthy Pet guides are rich with professional quality color photos and are designed to be enjoyable and easy to learn from. More and more people are discovering each year what affectionate, intelligent and charming pets rats can be. Ginger Cardinal already knows. She's the former president of the Rat, Mouse and Hamster Society and a longtime breeder, exhibitor, judge and dedicated companion of these special rodents.


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