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A Kid's Guide to Cats

How to Train, Care for, and Play and Communicate with Your Amazing Pet!
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A Kid's Guide to Cats by Arden Moore is an engaging and informative book for children interested in learning about cats. It offers practical advice on cat care, entertaining facts, and interactive activities to help kids understand feline behaviour and the responsibilities of pet ownership. This guide aims to foster a stronger bond between children and their feline friends by combining education with fun.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book may appeal to you if you're a young animal enthusiast eager to explore the fun and responsibility of cat care. With engaging illustrations and accessible facts, it provides valuable advice for understanding and nurturing your feline friends while sparking a lasting love for animals.

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A lively guide to cat ownership written for kids, featuring practical information on care and training along with rewarding ways to play and bond with a feline friend.

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This fun and practical cat care book written just for kids will guide young cat lovers in how to provide a safe, healthy environment, deliver daily care, and ensure positive interactions and rewarding, long-term relationships with feline friends.

Pet expert Arden Moore helps kids understand how cats think and what they need to be happy and healthy, whether socialising a spunky new kitten or welcoming an adult cat into a household. Along with essentials on topics such as how to read a cat's body language and proper litter box protocol, fun and fascinating features cover the history of cat-human relationships, why and how cats purr, ask the vet Q&As, trivia, DIY cat toys, and even tips for training a cat to come when called (yes, you can!).

Information-packed and filled with photography and colourful illustrations that infuse each page with feline energy, A Kid's Guide to Cats equips kids with everything they need to know to be great cat caretakers and companions.

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A Kid's Guide to Cats by Arden Moore is praised for being informative and engaging for young readers. The book is appreciated for its clear language and practical advice on cat care, which helps children understand feline behaviour and responsibilities. Its fun illustrations and interactive elements are noted for keeping kids interested while learning.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781635861013

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 March 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Storey Publishing LLC

Illustration: Full-color; photographs and illustrations througho

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 360g

Pages: 144

About the Author

Arden Moore is the author of more than two dozen books on cats and dogs, including A Kid s Guide to Cats, A Kid s Guide to Dogs, The Cat Behavior Answer Book, The Dog Behavior Answer Book, and Real Food for Dogs. She hosts the Arden Moore's Four Legged Life Show, a nationally syndicated weekly radio show and the award-winning Oh! Behave Show on Pet Life Radio. She travels North America teaching veterinarian-approved pet first aid and pet behavior classes with her dog, Kona, and cat, Casey. She has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows and is an in-demand speaker at pet conferences. Learn more by visiting her at www.ardenmoore.com and listen to her shows at www.fourleggedlife.com.

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