Enslaved by Ducks

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Summary: An Excellent Must Read!
Review: I picked up this book on a whim, and was delighted to find it a charming, well-written account of a man and his realtionship with animals. From accounts of zany petting zoo/meat market owners to questionable psychiatric professionals this book will leave you rolling on the floor with laughter. I am thoroughly enjoying this book and will be sorry when I come to the end, so please Bob, write more!

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Summary: Animal lovers will truly relate
Review: If you've ever welcomed a pet into your house, you will get a kick out of this book. If you've welcomed a few pets into your home, you will no longer feel alone. And if you've taken on more pets than you can handle without realizing it until it's too late, you will truly feel a special kinship with author Bob Tarte.

This book is laugh-a-minute page-turner to which animal lovers will truly relate. There is a full cast of animals in this family: rabbits, ducks, turkeys, cats, geese, birds... more birds... more birds... Each member of the menagerie has its own special needs and each has its own quirky personality traits. It's the interaction between the cast-mates and their exchanges with their caretakers that makes this book a real must read.

Join in the triumph of great animal successes as well as a few tearful losses as Bob and wife Linda welcome more and more family members into their home and actively work to love and care for them all.

If your animals rule the roost, this is the book to make you feel better about it.

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Summary: A Must-Read for Every Animal Person!
Review: Not long ago I decided to make a quick trip to the bookstore to see what's new and came home with a most wonderful story that I immediately read from cover to cover. The amazing array of animals that Bob and Linda come across are delightful! It is an adventure that will take you from chuckling aloud to tears in your eyes. And the fact it's all true makes it even more compelling. Excellent reading for anyone!

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Summary: DO YOU LOVE ANIMALS?
Review: This book is an important addition to a petbook library. Bob Tarte and his wife Linda acquire and humanely care for: ducks, geese, rabbits, parakeets, doves, turkeys and two "regular" cats. Chapter by chapter he humorously introduces each new pet and how he and his wife relate to each animal and how they experience the animal relates to them. Bob Tarte vividly describes his pets' antics as well as giving us scientific information that he and his wife have researched about each species. This gives the book a feeling of a "shared experience" between writer and reader. In addition, Bob Tarte manages to convey the seriousness of the unexpected heartbreaks, backbreaking work and expenses involved in taking on the responsibilities of saving and caring for their animals... especially ones that must learn to coexist, in what is for them, an unnatural environment. Linda and Bob's commitment to their "pet menagerie" is a must read for anyone who is considering taking on the responsibility of animal rescue or unusual pet(s) and of course for anyone who plainly loves animals!

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Summary: For the love of animals
Review: This was about a couple who live in the country and start out with the idea of buying a pet rabbit and from there the zoo begin ends up with turkeys,cats,rabbits parrots,and of course ducks and geese.This book at times is postively hilarious with the reasoning they come up with for getting the different pets and these are ideas that most of us have thought of as reason.The way that the wife wins out with her husband when he just knows that he will convince her not to get different animals and yet he knows he has already lost the battle.The greatest thing about this book is that it shows the love animals no matter what kind they are allow us to give them and the unconditional love they give back