Frogs and Toads - (Your Happy Healthy Pet Guides) 2nd Edition by Steve Grenard (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

The authoritative information and advice you need, illustrated throughout with full-color photographs-now revised and redesigned to be even more reader-friendly!

Frogs and toads are perennial favorite pets. They include easy-to-care for breeds and intriguing, exotic varieties. For both first-time pet owners and life-long hobbyists, frogs and toads can make fascinating pets, but it is essential to learn how to care for them properly. With colorful photos, charts, and tables, this guide covers the basics, including:

• Choosing your frog or toad
• Creating and maintaining your pet's new habitat
• Feeding and caring for your frog or toad
• Keeping your pet healthy

You'll also learn about the varieties of frogs and toads, and about their existence in the wild.

From the Back Cover

The authoritative information and advice you need, illustrated throughout with full-color photographs--now revised and redesigned to be even more reader-friendly!

Frogs and toads are perennial favorite pets. They include easy-to-care for breeds and intriguing, exotic varieties. For both first-time pet owners and life-long hobbyists, frogs and toads can make fascinating pets, but it is essential to learn how to care for them properly. With colorful photos, charts, and tables, this guide covers the basics, including:

Choosing your frog or toad

Creating and maintaining your pet's new habitat

Feeding and caring for your frog or toad

Keeping your pet healthy

You'll also learn about the varieties of frogs and toads, and about their existence in the wild.

About the Author

Steve Grenard is an avid herpetologist with more than forty years of experience with amphibians and reptiles; he published a paper on the reproduction of the Marsupial Frog in 1958. In the summer of 2000, he published a controversial and widely debated review in "Natural History Magazine" on the possibility of American rattlesnake venoms evolving new properties. He is the author of several Howell Book House titles, including: "Your Happy Healthy Pet: Bearded Dragon, An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet: The Lizard, " and "Amphibians: Their Care and Keeping." He is also the author of a number of scholarly medical and herpetological books, including "Medical Herpetology" and "Handbook of Alligators and Crocodiles, " and is the author of "Introduction to Respiratory Care, " a best-selling text review of respiratory therapy. Steve is a board-certified respiratory therapist and polysomnographer and is the clinical coordinator of the Institute of Sleep Medicine at Staten Island University Hospital in Staten Island, New York.