The ultimate survivors that have flourished in the most difficult of circumstances, rats have a long history of being the smartest rodent in the room! Rats are growing more and more popular as pets for adults and children alike. Having raised and trained rats for over forty years, Miriam Fields-Babineau, in her book Rat Training, teaches rat owners to harness that intelligence through a reward and clicker system of training. An avid proponent of reward-based positive-training techniques, the author explains how to create a successful learning environment for your rat as you teach him how to come on command, jump through a hoop, walk on a leash, stand on his hind legs, and much more. Illustrated with color photographs by Evan Cohen and Virginia Broitman, Rat Training includes tips on what to look for when buying a rat, how to care for your new pet, and how to acclimate your rat to other household pets. In the chapter called "Rat Manner," the author describes how rats think and their social organizations and behavior. Fields-Babineau has trained rats for various purposes, including working in movies, and her chapter called "The Great Rat Race" describes the demands of rat shows and acting careers for rats. The chapter called "Scurry and Hurry" is devoted to agility training and trick training (such as shoulder riding). Resources and glossary included.
Unleash Your Greatness is the ultimate guide to transforming your life through your authentic purpose. Rachel Hale takes you through her own journey of discovery, loss and rediscovery of Greatness and the path that we must all journey on with the realisation that what we have always felt in our hearts is real. That Greatness has always been with us and has tried in many ways to surface through our lives through our desires, gifts, messages and even through our darkest moments. Unleash Your Greatness is a story of courage, hope and empowerment for anyone looking to discover their purpose and give full expression to their authentic calling in life.
At the end of a day already fraught with trouble nine years old Rhys is devastated by the news of his missing brother. Firstly he has school problems. With his best friend Giddy, he chases grasshoppers and gets his clothes very dirty. He experiments with kissing a girl, April who does not react like his brother's girlfriends. Together Rhys and Giddy decide to train a very reluctant greyhound for racing. Do they succeed? But worse was to come - an invitation to April's birthday party."