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Does your gun dog training need a little more structure? Are you part of a group that wants a program to help organize your training together? Or maybe you are an instructor who wants to organize a course based on Retrieving for All Occasions? Then this study guide is for you!

<b>"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much." </b><br/> Mark Twain<br/><br/>From <i>Six Dinner Sid</i> and T.S. Eliot's rebellious Rum Tum Tugger to the infuriating Cheshire Cat of Wonderland and Behemoth the Cat, the demonic shapeshifter of Bulgakov's <i>The Master and Margarita,</i> <i>A Literary Cat for Every Day of the Year</i> draws together quotes and passages from poems and stories in celebration of the most famous cats in literature.<br/><br/>A must-have for all cat-lovers and book lovers, this inspirational collection - with beautiful vintage line illustrations - is the perfect gift for feline fans to treasure all year long.

Do you have a gun dog and want to have a great time working with your dog and perhaps enter a field trial? Do you want to find a training method where your dog has just as much fun as you do? Do you want to learn how to combine clicker training and field trial training? If so, this is the book for you. Retrieving for All Occasions is an accessible and inspiring book about how you can use the clicker training philosophy in your gun dog training. The book describes an approach to gun dog training that will challenge you to try something new ? if you have the desire and will to do so. This book includes over 100 exercises to train a talented spaniel or retriever. The exercises are for introductory field trial classes for spaniels and retrievers, but this book is also useful for those who have pointers or setters and want to train them for gun dog work. Elsa Blomster and Lena Gunnarsson are dog training instructors in Gothenburg, Sweden, and base all their training on the clicker training philosophy. They train and compete with their spaniels and retrievers in obedience, agility, rally obedience, tracking, and field trials.

In <i>Birds and Us,</i> award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through this mutual history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified by Ancient Egyptians to Renaissance experiments on woodpecker anatomy, from Victorian obsessions with egg collecting to the present fight to save endangered species and restore their habitats.<br/><br/>Weaving in stories from his own life as a scientist, including far-flung expeditions to wondrous Neolithic caves in Spain and the bustling guillemot colonies of the Faroe Islands, this rich and fascinating book is the culmination of a lifetime's research and unforgettably shows how birds shaped us, and how we have shaped them.<br/><br/>'<i>Birds</i><i> and</i> <i>Us</i> wings its way through 12,000 years of our species' engagement with the avian world. Birkhead tells it all with delightful gusto, plaiting personal encounters with challenging historical research and bewitching scientific rigor' <b>Tim Dee</b><br/><br/>'Thought-provoking at every turn, this inspiring, shocking, wonder-filled exploration of our relationship with birds from earliest times delivers a sobering challenge to us living with birds today' <b>Isabella Tree, author of <i>Wilding</i></b><br/><br/>'A fascinating book about the close and often surprising relationship between birds and people, written by one of our leading ornithologists' <b>Stephen Moss</b>

Do you love your animals but wish you could understand what they're trying to tell you? Do some of their behaviours leave you baffled or their fears put you in a frazzle? This book covers the essentials of animal communication and will teach you how to make a telepathic connection with your animals.

A charming collection of quotes about cats from our favourite authors, accompanied by artwork in the trademark style of Paul Magrs (author of The Panda, the Cat and the Dreadful Teddy).

These hilarious playing cards are ready for games night at home, on-the-go, or at the bar for a cat's night out!