Pets and People: How to Understand and Live with Animals
- ISBN-10
- 0525369759
- ISBN-13
- 9780525369752
- Category
- Pets
- Pages
- 132
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1975
- Publisher
- Dutton Adult
- Author
- Dorothy Edwards Shuttlesworth
Description
Discusses the history and characteristics of a variety of animals, including dogs, horses, birds, pigs, gerbils, rabbits, snakes, crickets, and goldfish, and the advantages and disadvantages of keeping them as pets.
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- 2017-03-01
- 328 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press
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- 2017-02-01
- 304 pages
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