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Keeping Chickens by Gordon Kerr
35.00 NZD
37.00 (5% off)
Category: Pets
The ultimate guide to keeping chickens in your backyard. The more obvious rewards of chicken ownership - like delicious fresh eggs daily and fabulous cost-free fertiliser - are well known. Chickens even help keep the number of pest insects in your garden. But there are other benefits too, not least of w ...Show more
Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps: A Penguin Handbook by Claude Goodchild
25.00 NZD
Category: Pets
Covers the various things that small-scale raisers of rabbits or of poultry, whether for egg-production or for table use, need to know. This book offers advice to keep chickens and rabbits happy, whether they be in a city garden or roaming in a farm yard.
Dogs Never Lie About Love by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
26.99 NZD
Category: Pets
A study of man's best friend, this book talks about the dog's emotions, dreams, sadness, fears and loves, and attempts to interpret their feelings.
True Animal Tales by Rolf Harris
29.99 NZD
Category: Pets
From everyone's favourite Aussie, comes a wonderful collection of funny, heroic and sometimes heartbreaking stories about animals from all over the world. It includes well known heroes like Greyfriars Bobby, the little Skye terrier who faithfully guarded his master's grave for fourteen years to new hero ...Show more
The Dog Who Loved by Jon Katz
29.99 NZD
Category: Pets
As Izzy settles down to life on Bedlam Farm, Jon is amazed that all signs of the troubled rescue dog who first arrived have disappeared. More than this, the Border collie demonstrates an uncanny sensitivity to, and tenderness towards, humans who are troubled or ill. Izzy's unusual gift leads Jon off the ...Show more
A Cat Called Norton: The True Story of an Extraordinary Cat and His Imperfect Human
28.99 NZD
Category: Pets
Peter was a confirmed loner and cat hater, until he was given a small, grey (and impeccably handsome) kitten with folded ears by his then girlfriend. The girlfriend went but Norton stayed - in fact, he and Peter became inseparable. Trotting along beside him down the street, having his own chair in resta ...Show more
For the Love of Norton: The Cat Who Taught His Human How to Live by Peter Gethers
27.99 NZD
Category: Pets
There are only three things a cat needs for a fine life - good food, a comfortable bed, and universal praise and love. Luckily - after converting his human, Peter, from cat hater to cat lover - Norton has plenty of all three. And they're about to get better, as his Peter and girlfriend Janice decide to ...Show more
Rescue Me by Melissa Wareham
45.00 NZD
Category: Pets
Melissa Wareham always wanted to work with dogs. After failing her biology O-level, she realised she'd have to start at the bottom, cleaning out kennels at Battersea Dogs Home. From frail old men looking for a four-legged companion to famous folk who've lost their favourite hound, it seems that at some ...Show more
The Loved Dog: The Gentle Way to Teach Your Dog Good Manners by Tamar Geller
36.99 NZD
Category: Pets
"The Loved Dog" is Tamar Geller's revolutionary guide to effective dog-training using the gentlest of methods. Tamar, whose clients include Oprah Winfrey, Ben Affleck and Goldie Hawn, teaches a groundbreaking socialisation technique for training dogs. By strengthening the bond between dog and owner, dog ...Show more
Life with Beau: A Tale of a Dog and His Family by Anna Quindlen
34.99 NZD
Category: Pets
What started as an ode to Quindlen's aging black Labrador in her "Newsweek" column has become a life-affirming short book about happiness, in the tradition of "A Short Guide To A Happy Life and Being Perfect". In this wise little book, Anna Quindlen writes: "The life of a good dog is like the life of a ...Show more
Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving: How Dogs Have Captured Our Hearts for Thousands of Years by Jeffrey Masson
34.99 NZD
Category: Pets
A groundbreaking, inspiring, and deeply personal exploration of the unique relationship between dogs and humans, from the bestselling author of Dogs Never Lie About Love. In The Dog Who Couldn’t Stop Loving, Masson considers the far-reaching consequences of the co-evolution of dogs and humans. Over the ...Show more
The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving: How Dogs Have Captured Our Hearts for Thousands of Years by Jeffrey Masson
44.99 NZD
Category: Pets
No other animal loves us in quite the same way as dogs love us. And it is mutual. Is it possible that we developed the capacity for love, sympathy, empathy, and compassion because of our long association with dogs? This title considers the far-reaching consequences of this co-evolution of dogs and human ...Show more