Hermit Crabs: Complete Pet Owner's Manual

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Summary: The definitive hermit crab book.
Review: Detailed enough to satisfy my curiosity, yet covers the basics (thoroughly!) in an easy-to-understand manner that has my 8 year old excitedly flipping through the pages and reading whole paragraphs aloud to me. We browsed a lot of websites and bookstores prior to ordering Hermit Crabs: Complete Pet Owner's Manual and nothing comes close to this one slim volume of info. Well-written and logically organized; beautiful photographs.

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Summary: EXCELLENT ADDITION FOR CRAB CARE BOOKS....
Review: Donald L. Drenning ([e-mail]), a 'Crabber' of 3 years...aka 'CLD, February 11, 2000, Long OVERDUE Publication... Sue Fox has delivered a 'crown jewel' to the world of 'Crabbing'. This book is filled with excellent pictures and information for those interested in Gods little creatures, the Hermit Crab. The book is written so that people can read and understand crab care without having to go to a dictionary to look up every other word. It is concise and well organized. One of the best books on Hermit Crabs I have come across in some time. This book fills a void of several years, with the lack of good current information about the Land Hermit Crab. Her inclusion of the popular Compressus species (aka 'Ecuadorian') was most welcomed! I highly recommend this fine publication to anyone interested in Hermit Crabs.

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Summary: EXCELLENT ADDITION FOR CRAB CARE BOOKS....
Review: Donald L. Drenning ([e-mail]), a 'Crabber' of 3 years...aka 'CLD, February 11, 2000, Long OVERDUE Publication... Sue Fox has delivered a 'crown jewel' to the world of 'Crabbing'. This book is filled with excellent pictures and information for those interested in Gods little creatures, the Hermit Crab. The book is written so that people can read and understand crab care without having to go to a dictionary to look up every other word. It is concise and well organized. One of the best books on Hermit Crabs I have come across in some time. This book fills a void of several years, with the lack of good current information about the Land Hermit Crab. Her inclusion of the popular Compressus species (aka 'Ecuadorian') was most welcomed! I highly recommend this fine publication to anyone interested in Hermit Crabs.

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Summary: Great Book!
Review: For your first hermit crab's health and happiness, you need to get this book!

It's filled with all of the basics you need to properly care for your new pet, plus little bonuses about their history and hermies in the wild!

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Summary: Amazing
Review: I actually bought this book by mistake - I have a dog - but found it a fascinating and hugely informative read. I am now a convert! The very next day I went out and bought a small garbage can which I roped up to the hind-quarters of my Spaniel Barry. Barry loves it; he has arthritis in his rear legs anyway and he enjoys pulling himself around in his garbage can, and I get a dog hermit crab.

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Summary: No longer Crabby.
Review: I actually purchased this book as a gift for a friend who had rescued a hermit crab from a yard sale. She did her best, but it didn't seem like things were going well. Thanks to this book, she's been able to bring her crab back from his boring, sitting in the tank lifestyle to becoming an active, entertaining and engaging pet. Plus, the crab has experienced an improved quality of life too. If you've got crabs, buy this book.

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Summary: AWESOME GUIDE
Review: I bought this book and WOW, it totally helped me take care of my hermit crab Sidney. It tells you all that you need to know to let your hermit crab live safely and happily ever after!

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Summary: A surprise
Review: I must say I was a little puzzled by the title of this book. A "pet Hermit crab" sounds like an oxymoron--after all, a hermit is supposed to be anti-social, right? So why would you want one for a pet--especially one that has big, sharp claws? Well, I could be wrong, perhaps there's a little bit of the Hermit crab in all of us--the apparent loner who yearns to be the popular social butterfly and just needs a little bit of encouragement to come out of his or her shell, so to speak, to become the life of the party.

So I decided to take the plunge, and I bought myself a pet Hermit crab. So far things are going swimmingly for me and the little guy. We spend evenings together walking the beach, hanging out, and listening to our favorite rock n' roll and pop tunes. I discovered he loves the Beattles hit, Octopus's Garden, and of course, he's a big fan of Herman and the Hermits, along with most of the British Invasion. Hermit crabs do have their advantages, not the least of which is they have built-in protection against rising real-estate prices, something he points out to me quite often, since we live in a beach-front condo and I have yet to purchase my own home. Oh well, we're looking for a shell that'll fit me but it's hard to find anything big enough.

Anyway, he really is a pretty cool pet, I have to admit, and I can certainly recommend one for someone who wants a low-maintenance, inexpensive, and surprisingly with-it and companionable little pet.

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Summary: Brilliant work
Review: I think we have to accept here that the shell is nothing mroe than a metaphor for the banality of existance and the transformation of life into the realm of the "HYPERREAL" (re: Derrida, Baudrillard, Eco). Clearly the primal needs of the "animal with in us" (ie, marcuse) are represented by the twigs/rock/algae required by the thing-in-itself (ie, "crab") whereas we must view the struggle inherent in the replacement of the shell as a transferance from one phase of life to the next, as well as the perception/truth metamorphasis of such (re: Kant). Here SUe Fox informs us of the process we can anticipate (spiritually?metaphysically?) in a standard epistomological framework. Excellent work.

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Summary: The definitive hermit crab book.
Review: Perfect and complete reference for raising a hermit crab. Well organized with plenty of pictures. Easy to find answers to your questions