The Parrot: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet - Arthur Freud

Advantages: Has a picture about a parrot
Disadvantages: I killed my neighbours parrot because of it

...This is a fabulous book. I don't own it personally, but share it with my neighbours, as they keep parots, which I have to look after. Well, not anymore.... This book is incredibly confusing, I read it in the belief that it would teach me how to win one of my favourite online games "http://www.freegamesonline.dk/funnygames/insanegames/polly/index.php" Polly the kleptomaniac parrot. I soon discovered stabbing, netting, shooting and encouraging parrot homosexuality was wrong in the real world. Yet still that was too late.. Guide to owning a parrot teaches about how to own your parrot, not how to get the perfect headshot whilst its in mid flight. I beg of you, learn my lesson and do not buy this book. However if you want to kill parrots i would reccommend this book... Read review

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...As you’ll know if you have read my review about Henry, my husband and I are the proud owners of a Weimaraner. In case you haven’t read it here is a brief discription of how we came to own him and the reason we ended up buying this book! A friend of Dave’s (my husband) asked us to look after him after being offered a job abroad, he was only 12 weeks old and had only been with them a couple of weeks. He never came to collect him and so we aquired a Weimaraner!! That I hope explains our reason for buying this book, it was intended as a guide to help us understand our new “friend”…did it work!? Well, actually no not really! About the books authour. The book is written by Judythe Coffman and according to the blurb on the back of the book has an exstensive knowlegde of the breed. Judythe Coffman became enchanted... Read review

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Advantages: It rhymes. Kids like it.
Disadvantages: I read it out loud 21 million times in the course of 3 months

...Picture the scene. It’s gone midnight and you’re working somewhere in the Med, bringing back the coach from Cabaret, full of slightly drunk adults and very hyper kids. The rep in charge of guiding the coach is pretty hopeless and has run out of jokes having already guided it for the hour or so going there. You commissions depend on happy guests ticking the “Excellent” box on the questionnaire when they leave, but at the rate he’s going, you’re unlikely to get an “Average”. What do you do? If you’re anything like myself and Donna, the two kids reps who happened to be on board, you pinch the microphone and take over the show. Feeling in a, well, strange mood, we started nattering away, and, moments later were reciting “Arthur In A Pickle” to the group word perfect, despite... Read review

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