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Summary: Good book, not as comprehensive as Barron's Handbook
Review: Diane Grindol has written another useful and interesting book for the bird owner's library - THE CANARY. This little book is a good basic volume with diet, grooming and other health care tips including a section on various ailments such as mites, cysts, and canary pox. In various sidebar sections Grindol includes a recipe for pellet muffins, the benefits of formulated diets and and how to turn seeds into nutritious treats by sprouting them. Her sections on cages and cage supplies, as well as perch choices are probably cover some of the most important aspects of canary ownership. Apparently, canaries can become ill if they sit on the same sized perches all day.I did not find this book any more useful than the Barron's handbooks on canaries although it does include a few different features. My book is a hardback and will probably last longer than the books with paper covers. This book includes many charming photos as do the other books I purchased - however, two of them show a canary with a Siamese cat, which made me wonder about the advisability of letting a cat so near a canary, even for a photo op. The book includes a description of the most common canary, the `German Roller' which apparently has the most beautiful song. A useful feature of this book is the list of Internet sites you can visit if you really want to investigate canaries in detail.
Rating:
Summary: Good book, not as comprehensive as Barron's Handbook
Review: Diane Grindol has written another useful and interesting book for the bird owner's library - THE CANARY. This little book is a good basic volume with diet, grooming and other health care tips including a section on various ailments such as mites, cysts, and canary pox. In various sidebar sections Grindol includes a recipe for pellet muffins, the benefits of formulated diets and and how to turn seeds into nutritious treats by sprouting them. Her sections on cages and cage supplies, as well as perch choices are probably cover some of the most important aspects of canary ownership. Apparently, canaries can become ill if they sit on the same sized perches all day. I did not find this book any more useful than the Barron's handbooks on canaries although it does include a few different features. My book is a hardback and will probably last longer than the books with paper covers. This book includes many charming photos as do the other books I purchased - however, two of them show a canary with a Siamese cat, which made me wonder about the advisability of letting a cat so near a canary, even for a photo op. The book includes a description of the most common canary, the 'German Roller' which apparently has the most beautiful song. A useful feature of this book is the list of Internet sites you can visit if you really want to investigate canaries in detail.
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Summary: Not the best canary book
Review: This book isn't that great. I recommend "My Canary and Me" instead. It looks so sophisticated, well, not THAT sophisticated, but harder to understand, very little book.
Rating:
Summary: Not the best canary book
Review: This book isn't that great. I recommend "My Canary and Me" instead. It looks so sophisticated, well, not THAT sophisticated, but harder to understand, very little book.
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Summary: Tweety wishes he had it so good!
Review: This is a great book for any canary lover. Before I read this book I did not know much about this animal other than seeing him getting chased by Sylvester. Diane writes wonderfully, you will be through with the book before you know it! Clearly an expert in the field, her love for these birds is obvious as you read this book. Whether you own a canary now, or are just thinking about getting one, you must get this book!
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Summary: Great book on Canaries
Review: You can tell this person loves Canaries.
I just got two and this book has been so helpful and VERY informative.
It takes the rocket science out of it and presents a user friendly but very informative approach to raising these wonderful birds.
The best tip was play music for them. I had mine singing on the first day (with his mate in the same cage) thanks to that tip. Mine seem to like music with a flow, from dance, pop, ballads, to new age etc.
This will definitely get them to sing or they are sick.
The best sentence in the book: A caged bird depends on you to provide it with everything that a wild bird would have naturally - sunlight, rain, perches, and food.
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