Kategoria BISAC: Humor >> Topic - Animals

As America's favorite pets, cats are showered with attention. But celebrity sometimes has cat-astrophic effects. The truth is, felines are succumbing to eating disorders, chronic fatigue, and obsessive behavior (mostly cleaning), as well as shedaholism.

Now help is at hand (and paw). These words of comfort and meditative advice offer compassionate solutions to such problems as:
- chasing your own tail
- overcoming fear when the Higher Power leaves for the...

The swell of dog love that met Cindy Adams everywhere she went after the publication of her bestseller The Gift of Jazzy made it clear that Jazzy's fans were primed for the next installment. And since, in Cindy's own words, "Yorkies are like peanuts--you can't stop at just one," her decision to bring Juicy into the family gave her ample ammo to do just that. But it wasn't long before her beloved Jazzy--who had become her closest family member and helped her cope with her husband's death--passed away unexpectedly. Cindy was devastated. Jazzy's paw prints had been indelibly imprinted...

Rabbits. We'll never quite know why, but sometimes they decide they've just had enough of this world--and that's when they start getting inventive. This cult hit and international bestseller follows over one hundred bunnies as they find ever more outlandish ways to do themselves in. From an encounter with the business end of Darth Vader's lightsaber, to supergluing themselves to a diving submarine, to hanging around...

A Box of Bunny Suicides combines Andy Riley's two cult favorite books, The Book of Bunny Suicides and The Return of the Bunny Suicides,...

This 11th collection of "Sherman's Lagoon" brings the shark faithful even more underwater antics, as great white Sherman and the Lagoonies enjoy life under the sea.

In an imaginary lagoon near the island of Kapupu in the South Pacific lives a group of nutty but sophisticated underwater creatures-complete with neuroses that rival those of humans (also known as "hairless beach apes"). Somehow their wet world is oddly yet hilariously similar to our own.

Sherman, a great white shark, is a typical guy (well, except for that pesky dorsal fin), and Megan is his ruthless but nurturing wife....

A funny thing happened on the way to the Empire State Building...and now, for the first time since his 1933 debut, King Kong, thelegendary ape of the big screen, tells his fascinating story. In My Side, he answers:

What was his romantic lead Fay Wray covering up? Not much, according to the wonderful and frank creature who sneaked several good peeks.

For which great power was on-screen nemesis Bruce Cabot a secret agent? Don't ask. Read.

How did Kong -- a serious and trained actor -- refuse to parrot his lines,...

Some MoreHorse Tradin recounts the dealings of a whole slew of craggy old-timers and rangy characters. See them match wits as they trade well-bred mares, snorty-like range colts, and used-to-be-bad horses from the tumbleweed plains. Admire the old-time knavery, skill, and salesmanship in such tales as Gittin Even, Brethren Horse Traders, Mule Schoolin, and...

In these razor-sharp essays, Markoe recounts her dogs' phone chats with animal communicators, her search for past lives, and her brief stint as a stun gun saleswoman. She describes the workshop that taught...