This fascinating exploration spans 2,000 years to look at the central role exotic animals have played in war, diplomacy, and the pomp of princes and potentates. ...More

The inspiring story of how the author found his life's work--and true love--as caretaker to a flock of wild parrots roosting in one of America's most picturesque urban settings. ...More

From Charlemagne to Mark Twain, this engaging collection of true tales offers often comical and always intriguing insights into the lives that the famous shared with their pets. Illustrations throughout. ...More

Horse people are a unique breed (unto themselves), and the relationship between people and their horses is unlike any other. Stories include tales of rescue and rehabilitation, heartbreaking losses, dedication, and positive messages of responsibility and unconditional love. ...More

Dr Monica Diedrich's gift of psychic communication allows her to converse with dogs, cats, birds, and other animals--revealing their unheard wishes, concerns, needs, and fears. Funny, heartbreaking, and touching, these true stories confirm the colorful, loving personalities of our furry friends and their significance in our lives. ...More

In this funny and poignant memoir about a wildly neurotic Labrador retriever named Marley, an unsuspecting young couple come to understand what really matters. Marley had no brakes on his loyalty, exuberance, or passion. ...More

Guglielmo, one of only a handful of massage therapists working on exotic animals, takes readers to a world where dolphins line up to take turns for their massages, beluga whales lean into his hands for better contact, and uncontrollable dogs grow calm under his soothing touch. 16-page photo insert. ...More

the creator of The Waltons, is a warm and personal, yet humorous, recounting of how the members of the Hamner family have lived with and loved the animals in their lives. ...More

"James Herriot's Animal Stories" contains ten of the Yorkshire vet's best-loved stories, celebrating dogs, cats, lambs, horses, cows, and their colorful human counterparts--all brought to life via the Herriot storytelling magic and illustrated with Lesley Holmes' radiant watercolors. (Animals/Pets) ...More

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Jon Katz shares his aptly named Bedlam Farm with his wife, four dogs, two cows, four donkeys, three hens, a rooster, a barn cat, and an indeterminate number of sheep. Living amid such an unruly menagerie, this inveterate pet lover can hardly regard himself as lord of the manor. Indeed, he must strive hard simply to rise above the chaos of his personal animal kingdom. ...More

Historian Katharine MacDonogh offers a richly detailed historical account of court pets from the Renaissance to the present, addressing such themes as the attraction of animals among royalty, favored breeds, special treatment and abuses received by pets, animal treatment outside the palace, and the origin of various species. ...More

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The "New York Times" bestselling author of "When Elephants Weep" and "The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats" explores the complex feelings that barnyard creatures possess, from love and loyalty to grief and sorrow. ...More

This charming memoir chronicles Montgomery's touching friendship with a generous soul, who just so happens to be a pig, and the valuable lessons she learns about family, community, and the pleasures of the sweet, green Earth. ...More

The host of the nationally syndicated radio show "Country Hitmakers" and one of the country's recognized leaders in the rescue-adoption movement presents her first collection of more than 30 heartwarming stories in which she describes how animal rescue and adoption has transformed her life many times over. ...More

Noah had it easy. On any given day at the Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch in Medina, Texas, Nancy Parker-Simons, her husband Tony Simons, and a willing crew of employees and volunteers care for at least sixty rescued dogs, not to mention numerous cats, chickens, pigs, horses, wild mustangs, donkeys, and a rooster named Alfred Hitchcock-- and Kinky Friedman, the rescue ranch's "Gandhi-like figure" who brings Nancy and Tony stray and abused animals, raises money for the rescue ranch, and makes sure no one leaves the ranch without a dog or two.

In this entertaining book, Nancy Parker-Simons tells the heartwarming, often hilarious story of the Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch. She describes how a series of "it must have been fate" incidents brought her together with Tony Simons and Kinky Friedman, and how, in 1998, the three of them decided to create ...More

An extraordinary look into the hearts and minds of animals, this tells the untold, true story of Spring Farm CARES, an upstate New York animal shelter which is the world's first center for the teaching of interspecies communication. ...More

To complement Country Music Television's television special, this book features candid photographs and stories of country music stars and their pets. A percentage of the proceeds will be go to the Animal Care Task Force of Nashville and The Nashville Humane Society. ...More

For the millions of animal enthusiasts in America, here's a heartwarming collection of tales by veterinarian Robert Sharp that relate the joys and misadventures of being an animal doctor in small-town U.S.A. With humor and compassion, No Dogs in Heaven? portrays the great and not-so-great characteristics of human and animal nature, all infused by a lovable veterinarian's belief that indeed, there are dogs in heaven. Included is the telling of Sharp's first day as a rookie veterinarian nervously preparing to inject a needle into a one-ton Holstein bull; finding a rash on a cute puppy whose lovely young owner bared her breasts to ask his opinion of a similar skin ailment; treating a vicious dog whose violent owner had stabbed it with a knife, only to treat the same dog two years later-now a sweet and gentle pet of an adoptive family; and ca ...More

In his hilarious debut, Enslaved by Ducks, Bob Tarte won legions of fans by telling the story of how he, once resistant even to having a dog, was convinced by this wife to take in animal after animal. In his newest tell-all tale, Bob reveals how things have gotten truly chaotic. Not only has the Tarte menagerie of parrots, doves, cockatiels, rabbits, ducks, geese, and cats continued to grow, but they're now joined by other uninvited guests, both human and animal.There's a family of mice, a spider who requires hand-feeding, Bob's grade school classmate who's now a grade A nuisance, the pet sitter applicant who never met an animal he didn't want to butcher, the master gardener who tramples every rare plant in his path. And the everpresent sock monkey.
Yet, no matter how much his life is overrun by the demands of fauna-- and family-- Bo ...More

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The author of Cookoff pens an invitation to the magical, grueling, and virtually unknown world of exotic animal training in this look at a world premier school at California's Moorpark College. ...More