The Wonderful Thing About Pets: Remarkable Stories About the Animals Who Share Our Lives

By Gary Burghoff

Book Overview

From Burghoff, host of the PBS series "Pets: Part of the Family*, " comes a collection of truly amazing animal stories. With illustrations by award-winning artist Greg Dearth, these tales define the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579541879
• ISBN13: 9781579541873
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

wonderful book for animal lovers

This is a quick and ez read about pets who have done so much for their owners. Most stories are about how either pets have saved their owners lives or helped them with some disability. There are additional stories about animals who love other animals and even some interesting facts about animals. I recommend this book to anyone who loves animals.These stories are very short, only a few pages each, and there are a total of 36 different stories in this book.

Heart-warming!!

I got this book to give to the cat-loving teenage daughter of an old friend and ended up having to read it myself first. It contains one heart-warming story after another of people's love for their pets and how this is reciprocated, as well as stories of love and caring between animals of different speicies. All through the book, I kept saying to my husband, "You have to hear this one!" and read yet another aloud to him. This book will be loved by anyone who has ever shared his or her life with a non-human creature. I plan to give it as gifts to at least a half dozen such people myself. Enjoy!