Cat Toys: How to Make Your Home a Feline Paradise/Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-251 (Women's Edge Health Enhancement Guide)

Save Your Furniture and Thrill Your Cat! To keep your cat happy, healthy, loving, fit, and feeling the enthusiasm of a kitten, turn your home into a feline paradise! Kittens, adult cats, and elderly felines alike delight in having their own playthings and spaces in the home. For the ultimate in pampering treatment, offer your cat scratching posts, catnip toys, climbing structures, perching places, napping spaces, and more! In Cat Toys , Lura Rogers offers expert advice on choosing safe, suitable accessories for your cat, including cat beds, cat condos, cat trees, scratching posts, toys, and catnip-stuffed mice. She also gives tips for making kitty accessories with little expense, selecting items that best suit your cat's personality, and choosing the right location for cat structures in your home.

- Raise your own butterflies!

- Create a butterfly habitat with 15 projects and activities

- Close-ups of 40 favorite North American butterflies

Everyone enjoys seeing butterflies flitting about on a warm summer day, but few people realize that many species are endangered. Without help, nine out of ten caterpillars won't survive long enough to become butterflies. The grandfather of butterfly farming, Rick Mikula, wants to improve these odds. In The Family Butterfly Book, Rick shares his vast knowledge, contagious enthusiasm, and deep respect for these fascinating creatures.

Though many of us know that caterpillars turn into butterflies, Rick explains the transformation from start to finish - egg to caterpillar to chrysallis to butterfly - and reveals where each stage can be found in the wilds of our own backyards. With stunning color photographs and detailed illustrations, Rick explains how to attract, safely catch and handle, and raise and support butterflies. He also discusses how to make irresistible habitats for butterflies and emphasizes the importance of basking sites, water sources, and shelter. Did you ever want to hand-feed a butterfly? Have a live-butterfly tree? Feature butterflies in special celebrations? Rick explains all that and more.

School Library Journal

Gr 5 Up-This handsome, oversized volume, chockablock with family/classroom projects and experiments, is sure to be greeted enthusiastically. Lavish, crisp full-color photos, information boxes, maps, and lists of butterfly do's and don'ts make clear the creatures' physiology and metamorphosis. Mikula gives solid instructions on raising butterflies and creating butterfly habitats. He discusses the capture of wild specimens (to be released) and the taking of pupae/chrysalides for home/classroom rearing, including lots of caveats to young collectors throughout. No commercial sources are listed. The author also presents the joys of color photography, giving tips on equipment and techniques. All in all, a substantial and eye-catching title.-Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

In a fun, easy-to-read format, Moore delivers creative, simple, natural, and fun ideas for pampering your cat. From recipes for gourmet treats to grooming tips, herbal flea repellants to pet comfort corners, pet massage techniques to understanding how a pet thinks, 50 Simple Ways presents easy-to-implement tips that support a happy, healthy cat and a strong human-feline bond. Readers will enjoy the light-hearted approach to practical matters, such as making your home cat-friendly, playing with your cat, basic first aid, traveling with your cat, and even boosting your cat's spiritual life. The emphasis is on the simple and natural with a touch of the herbal. These books are sure to be a hit with cat owners and anyone seeking the perfect gift for a cat lover. With specialty cat gift shops popping up everywhere, and with interest in pet pampering at an all-time high, this simple, fun guide is perfectly aimed to capture a reader's attention. Save Your Furniture and Thrill Your Cat!To keep your cat happy, healthy, loving, fit, and feeling the enthusiasm of a kitten, turn your home into a feline paradise! Kittens, adult cats, and elderly felines alike delight in having their own playthings and spaces in the home. For the ultimate in pampering treatment, offer your cat scratching posts, catnip toys, climbing structures, perching places, napping spaces, and more!In __Cat Toys__, Lura Rogers offers expert advice on choosing safe, suitable accessories for your cat, including cat beds, cat condos, cat trees, scratching posts, toys, and catnip-stuffed mice. She also gives tips for making kitty accessories with little expense, selecting items that best suit your cat's personality, and choosing the right location for cat structures in your home.
Finally, a veterinarian's guide to complete herbal health care for your cat!

As a cat lover; you may have considered using herbs as part of your pet's health-care regimen. Perhaps you've wondered:

Are herbs really safe for use on my diabetic cat?

Which plants are best to treat fleas, coughing, or arthritis?

What's the best way to give my cat herbal remedies?

In this comprehensive guide, holistic veterinarian Randy Kidd offers thorough, up-to-date information on preventive care as well as immediate health problems. He also explains how to choose, make, and administer the best herbal preparations, and he provides at-a-glance information on more than 40 versatile herbs that will help you keep your favorite feline healthy and happy through every stage of life.

Offering 40 fun projects that include building butterfly habitats, feeding butterflies by hand, and even incorporating live butterflies into special celebrations, Rick Mikula encourages you to get the whole family involved as you explore the exciting and colorful world of butterflies. Providing a comprehensive overview of the butterfly lifecycle and close-up photography of 40 stunning North American species, this guide teaches you everything you need to know to identify, care for, and raise these beautiful and fascinating insects. Holistic veterinarian Randy Kidd offers thorough information on gentle, chemical-free treatments for acute feline health problems and preventative care. Learn to use herbs to make soothing remedies for common ailments like coughing, arthritis, and persistent fleas, as well as for addressing the pangs of old age and the constant troubles associated with feline diabetes. With expert advice based on years of experience, Dr. Kidds Guide to Herbal Cat Care will help you keep your cat happy and healthy. Text and color photos present information on the raising and mating of butterflies; provide instructions for twelve projects, including making a butterfly house and learning to hand-feed them; and profile nearly forty types of butterflies, listing their breeding areas, host plants, and nectar plants, and describing their chrysalises and their physical traits as caterpillars and as butterflies "Want to spoil your Siamese? Bond with your Bombay? Here is a one-of-a-kind guide to grooming, exercising, feeding, and giving extra TLC to your favorite felines"--Publisher website (July 2007) "Maintain your dog's health the natural way with gentle, chemical-free treatments for preventive care as well as acute canine health problems"--Publisher website (June 2007) Many of us view our cats not only as cute fuzzy additions to our windowsills but also as our playmates, friends, confidants, and dinner companions. Herbs have been an integral part of humankind's diet and pharmacy since we began roaming the earth. "Projects, activities, and a field guide to 40 favorite North American species."--Cover Cats are capable of making as many as 20 meow sounds.