A humorous look at what happens when taxidermy goes terribly wrong, by the founder of the hit website crappytaxidermy.com.A relaxed toad enjoying a smoke and a brew. A cat with eerily flexible front legs. A smiling lion with receding gums. Whether you choose to laugh or cringe at these spectacularly bad attempts at taxidermy, you won't be able to tear your eyes away from the curiosities inside. This volume brings together the very best of the worst (along with a DI...

You won't know whether to laugh or cry at these spectacularly bad attempts at taxidermy, brought to you courtesy of the hit website crappytaxidermy.com. The site's plethora of bad taxidermy examples - including a squirrel riding a rattlesnake like a cowboy, and various anatomically imaginative renderings of all creatures great and small - have proved hugely popular. Here the very best of the worst stuffed animals are brought together in one full-colour volume; with additional features includi...

"[The] moving follow-up to . . . Enslaved by Ducks . . . Tarte's laughter-through-tears approach is therapeutic and inspirational." — Entertainment WeeklyIn Bob Tarte's home, pandemonium is the order of the day, and animals literally rule the roost—thirty-nine of them at last count. Whether it's the knot-tying African grey parrot, or the overweight cat who's trained Bob to hold her water bowl ju...

"Pam Johnson-Bennett is the queen of cat behavior!" -- Steve Dale, author of My Pet WorldThe author of Catwise, Think Like a Cat, and Cat vs. Cat, Johnson-Bennett sheds light on the communication breakdowns between cats and their humans. In this offbeat and illuminating book, feline behaviorist Pam Johnson-Bennett, takes you on the wildest house calls of her career. Meet Mambo, the cat who...

Like every great lasagna, Garfield was born in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant on a winter's night in 1978, while outside snow fell like grated Parmesan cheese. He weighed five pounds, six ounces at birth--that's big for a kitten!--and right from the start showed a passion for Italian food. The restaurant owner, forced to choose between Garfield and closing his doors for lack of pasta, sold Garfield to a pet store. Garfield thought he was a goner until Jon Arbuckle walked in the door....

A fast-food helping of humor!What is it that makes Garfield America’s favorite feline? Maybe it’s the way he flies through the fat lane without losing his cool or without missing a meal! You’ll marvel as Garfield finds new ways to evade exercise and beat boredom. But it’s nothing that a few airborne sardines can’t cure, and feeding Odie a jar of sticky peanut butter is a sure way to a slobbering good time. So join Garfield and his friends before the food is gone and the fu...

Meet Crusoe, the Celebrity Dachshund - the self-proclaimed "wiener dog who thinks he's more of a celebrity than he really is"!Crusoe is the star of his wildly popular blog, winner of the 2013 AND 2014 Best Pet Blog Award. This ridiculously photogenic miniature dachshund has a big personality, stunning fashion sense, and an insatiable penchant for whimsy. Perhaps you know him better by his infamous alter ego, BATDOG?In his New York Times bestselling...

Adorable photos and witty captions of “the cutest cat in the world” (Good Morning America)Lil Bub is a star. The adorable “perma-kitten” might look a little different than other felines, but her tiny size, toothless mouth, and extra toes have made her the darling of cat lovers around the world.Aided by her human, this celebri-cat is finally satisfying her demanding public with a book. Showcasing 100 captioned full color photos of Lil BUB —traveling...

Besides being mans best friends, our canine companions turn out to be some of the worlds best comedians, from puppy antics that convulse us into giggles, to the pranks of older furry friends that keep us chortling at lifes follies. Here is a compact treasury of canine humor that simply takes the biscuit. Packed with dog jokes, dog riddles (''What has four legs and one arm? A happy pit bull''), quips and quotes (''Never moon a werewolf''),''dogma,'' doggerel, and much more, such as dog licens...

FUNNY BEYOND WORDS!Sometimes less is more (more or less), which is certainly the case in this unique Garfield book featuring comics without dialogue—though an occasional sound effect might “SPLUT” in your face! Filled with silly sight gags (out with the catcalls, in with the pratfalls), Garfield Left Speechless provides visual fun for everyone in a colorful collection with universal appeal.Great for kids who can’t read yet. Even dogs will be drooling over ...

Between the two World Wars, the most famous employee of the British Museum was a cat called Mike. For some twenty years, Mike made it his home and his friend was a most irregular Egyptologist, Wallis Budge, a freebooting fieldworker and smuggler of antiquities. It was a time when the wildest spiritualist ideas were in full resurgence, when ghosts, mummies and lethal curses were held to stalk the earth and many leading scientists, writers and thinkers saw no contradiction between science an...

PEOPLE LOVE THEIR PETS.SOME PEOPLE LOVE THEIR PETSA LITTLE TOO MUCH.Who could blame Mr. Whiskers for trying to high-dive from a penthouse window or Fluffy for crawling into a washing machine? After being dressed up for Halloween, married off in elaborate weddings, toted everywhere in baby backpacks, or just plain coddled within an inch of their sanity by obsessively doting owners, these pets are on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Or worse. They’d call the suicide h...