Your Rabbit - Kids Guide

Description

A practical handbook for children who want to raise their own rabbits for pets, for profit, or to show. Beginning with how to choose a breed and purchase your first pet, this book explains how to handle, house, feed, groom and breed rabbits, and gives advice on birthing, preventing health care, and tending sick animals. It also helps kids how to learn to prepare to show their rabbits.

Author of two Storey books, Nancy Searle is a Cooperative Extension Service Agent who has worked with 4-H programs for over ten years in Massachusetts, where she resides. She has written Your Rabbit and Your Goats. Nancy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Science from the University of Massachusetts, and is a member of the American Rabbit Breeders Association. Nancy has received acclaim from School Library Journal's writer Eldon Younce: "A definitive guide for young readers, this is so thorough that even those experienced in raising rabbits would find it helpful. FFA members, 4-Hers, and pet owners will be pleased to find this title on the shelf."