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Parakeet: Your Happy Healthy Pet

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The authoritative information and advice you need, illustrated throughout with full-color photographs--now revised and redesigned to be even more reader-friendly!

Whoever coined the term "birdbrained" wasn't familiar with parakeets. They're smart as well as funny and entertaining. This guide helps you with everything from preparing for and choosing a parakeet to teaching it to talk and perform tricks. It covers:
  • Details on setting up a healthy home for your pet
  • Everyday care, including feeding and grooming
  • Veterinary care and common health problems
  • Normal parakeet behaviors
  • Parakeets and children
Parakeets can live up to eighteen years. That's a lot of companionship from a colorful little character who will undoubtedly find a perch in your heart.

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Book details

Author
Julie Rach Mancini
Imprint
Howell Book House, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
Published
Pages
128
Formats
Hardcover
Series
Happy Healthy Pet
Subjects
Pets › Birds
ISBN-13
9780764599194

About the author

JULIE RACH MANCINI is a journalist and author specializing in pet care, with a focus on birds, whose titles include African Grey, Parakeet, Cockatiel and Conure.

Mancini began writing about bird health for Pet Health News in 1988, assisted in preparing the first issue of Birds USA, and served as managing editor and then editor of Bird Talk magazine beginning in 1992. Since 1997 she has worked as a freelance writer.

When she’s not writing, Mancini covers birds and small animals as her primary professional focus. Much of her published work addresses the practical care of companion birds and small pets.

Format: Hardcover