277 Secrets Your Snake and Lizard Wants you to Know Unusual and useful Information for Snake Owners & Snake Lovers (Hardcover)

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Product Description

In this "sssss"cintillating follow-up to her immensely popular dog- and cat-focused titles, Cooper offers hilarious anecdotes about her favorite fork-tongued friends--with an additional section on lizards.

About the Author

Paulette Cooper is the award-winning author of thirteen books, including 277 SECRETS YOUR DOG WANTS YOU TO KNOW and THE SCANDAL OF SCIENTOLOGY.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 70 pages
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press (March 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580080359
• ISBN-13: 978-1580080354
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #710,735 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars incredibly interesting book, January 7, 2001

By A Customer

This book was unbelievably interesting. I only expected to just look at it quickly but found myself looking at every page, and finding something that was like "wow' on every one of them.

There were a lot of short articles on many subjects and they were written in a fun and light manner and were really easy to read. Some of it made me laugh, and I learned a lot about snakes in general, for example, their mating habits, and about dangerous snakes, (lots of great stuff on that) and rattlesnake facts and all kinds of things I've never seen in other books.

The author seems to have gotten lots of tips for owners from snake owner newsgroups or mailing lists of people who owned snakes because I found a lot of very practical stuff on how to keep snakes, and what to do about mites, and how to handle neighbors who hate snakes, and feeding snakes and terrariums and traveling outside with a snake all from people who had snakes.

If the author wrote another book on this subject I'd buy it in a second but for the time being, this is the best book I've ever seen on snakes. I will keep it always because I like snakes.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A "must have" for snake keepers or potential snake keepers, June 26, 1999

By A Customer

Ths is a fun book to read if you have any interest in snakes, and a vital part of your library if you keep snakes, or contemplate keeping them. There are lots of "how I do it" tips from experienced snake owners that aren't found in most other snake care books, such as how to safely transport your snake with you in a car, or how to keep your snake cage cool during a heat wave. These helpful hints and fascinating facts are written in a lively manner, with a lot of humor. While the sections are short so you can consider it "bite-sized" reading, I found it hard to put the book down before the last page.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended for anyone with an interest in snakes., May 4, 2000

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

277 Secrets Your Snake Wants You To Know is an easy-to-red, informative, comprehensive and reliable compendium of information about snakes covers both the common and the uncommon when it comes to snakes. Author Paulette Cooper provides an invaluable overview of the snake, fascinating facts, intriguing tid-bits, and "slithery stories" the covers everything from getting snakes in the mood for love, what to do if you are bitten by a snake, the health problems of snakes, and what to know about dangerous snakes before it's too late! 277 Secrets Your Snake Wants You To Know is fun, informative, and highly recommended reading for anyone considering their own vivarium, researching the serpent, traveling the rainforests, or just visiting the zoo.