Two identical puppies with long tan ears and white faces and pink tongues rest their paws over the top of this prominent sign stating NO CATS ALLOWED! There are tiny paw prints in the background, logo in a large cursive script and brown border on a sturdy hardboard measuring approximately 5" x 9". The sign is ready to hang with a black wire already attached. Ideal for bedroom doors and areas of the house to keep your pets separated - or visiting pets banned! Bargain price for this bit of fun.

Every essay is mesmerising in this collection of stories about household pets we dote on, animals we raise to end up as meat on our plates, creatures who could eat us for dinner, and the various tamed and untamed animals we share our planet with. Orlean discovers the delights of keeping chickens and in New Jersey meets a woman who has 23 pet tigers - something none of her neighbours knew about until one escapes. We meet the world's hardest-working donkeys find respite at a special clinic in Morocco, and in Iceland the world's most famous whale resists the efforts to set him free. We meet a show dog and a lost dog and a pigeon who knows exactly how to get home. Delightful and profound, stylish prose and precise research, observant and often howlingly funny, this is soothing storytelling. 256 page paperback, line art.

'The Greatest Collection of Taxidermy Dogs on Earth', man's best friend has been preserved whether it's his paw for a silver-topped page turner or a button hook dating from Victorian times, a dramatic staging of a terrier biting into a fox, preserved dog skulls, antique sporting dog rugs with the pelt laid flat and the heads preserved by taxidermy, a French bulldog with complete chest and forelimbs mounted on an oaken shield, a Mexican hairless dog in a rare example of a chupacabra, a Victorian six-legged puppy lovingly presented for posterity on a red satin pillow. It is an impressive collection under glass of very fine miniature dogs, cavalier King Charles spaniels, pugs, a very bewildered and shocked looking spaniel on page 71, a brindle bulldog, a champion greyhound, a great Dane, beagles, English foxhound, Pomeranian, a Dalmatian puppy, a dachshund and more. Veteran taxidermist Colin Griffiths describes the huge technical challenge and dealing with emotionally distraught owners willing to pay exorbitant prices to preserve their pet. 144pp, over 200 colour photos.