The Snake: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet [Paperback]

Lenny Flank Jr. (Author)

Book Description

Series: Happy Healthy Pet | Publication Date: December 2, 1996

A fascinating pet that comes in a variety of sizes and colors.

An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet is the series to turn to when you want a basic reference that's reliable, up-to-date, and complete. These guides feature:

• Expert authors, plus renowned guest contributors on specialized topics
• Full-color photos throughout
• Basic information on the breed, species, or topic
• Complete coverage of care, health, grooming, training, and more
• Tips and techniques to make life with a pet more rewarding

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From the Back Cover

Featuring the Best Information
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The Best Advice to Select and Care For Your Snake

With The Snake: An Owner’s Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet, you will discover easy ways to provide the very best in care for your reptile. An experienced herpetoculturalist offers straightforward advice so that you can create a thriving environment for your new snake.

The Snake offers:

• Completely up-to-date resources, including top websites of interest to reptile owners
• Information on choosing the right snake for you
• Ways to make reptile-keeping an enjoyable, educational experience for you and your family
• An exploration of appropriate snake housing, diets and healthcare
• Full-color photographs of snakes from hatchling to adult

About the Author

Lenny Flank, Jr. has been collecting and studying reptiles and amphibians for over 20 years, and currently owns over 80 individuals of some 40 species. He is a frequent lecturer on herpetoculture, and is an advisor to thousands of reptile owners through Lenny Flank’s Herp Page on the Internet.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Howell Book House; 1 edition (December 2, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0876054904
• ISBN-13: 978-0876054901
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,401,372 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a great book for beggining herpers!, November 8, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Snake: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet (Paperback)

if your just starting in the hobby of "herping" and you need info on selecting, housing, feeding, handling, snake bite, snakes of the world, natural history, and breeding you have found the perfact book! One quality i especially like about this book is the section on the 10 best snakes and the 10 worst ones. The photos are great!. I found this and exellant book to start my hobby in herping, and it can be used as an outline for even advanced "herpers" All and all it is a great book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I owe all of my knowledge about snakes to this very book., February 8, 2006

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Squash 'N' Squeak "The Silencing Machine" (The Darkest Regions of Outer Space) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Snake: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet (Paperback)

if it wren't for this book, I wouldn't know a thing about snakes, and reptiles in general. Lenny is a good writer and I like his guide on the 10 best and the 10 worst snakes(I don't care if an annaconda for sale is the nicest snake alive, you don't sell annacondas!). I agree with him when he says that more breeding should be done on the rare eastern indigo snake and green tree python, and less on the burmese python and boa constrictor(Even though I own a boa constrictor). It's nice that he wrote a few examples fo his own snakes escaping as well as what to do if your snake escapes(Even though I haven't had a snake escape yet). If he hadn't listed why dead rats are better for your snake to eat than live rats, my snakes would probably be covered in stiches. I highly reccomed this book to anyone who is interested in becoming a herper. It has everything you'll ever need to know about snakes, and it can be found at any petstore.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for Beginning Herpers, August 28, 2001

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J. Justicz (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Snake: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet (Paperback)

This book is a grreat book if you are interested in getting a snake, but don't know how to start. It tells you the best beginner snakes, the worst ones, snake do's and don'ts, and all the infromation a new herper would need. Although not the best book for experienced herpers, it can still be used as a reference for most. This is the best book I've read for selecting your snake and getting started on the care and maintenance.