Fowl weather
By: by Bob Tarte
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781565125025
Subjects: Human-animal relationships; Animals; Pets; Anecdotes
Description: A reflection on the unexpected benefits of living with an exuberant menagerie of thirty-nine animals--including parrots, ducks, geese, parakeets, rabbits, cats, hens, a dove, and a turkey--describes how these diverse animals provide the spiritual anchor in the author's life.
Table of contents: title: Cast of Characters -- viii -- Chapter 1; title: Alien Abduction -- 1 -- Chapter 2; title: Vanished -- 20 -- Chapter 3; title: Ask an Expert -- 40 -- Chapter 4; title: A Duck Out of Water -- 61 -- Chapter 5; title: Wild Things -- 82 -- Chapter 6; title: Fowl Weather -- 106 -- Chapter 7; title: Bobo's Back in Town -- 128 -- Chapter 8; title: Golden Orb Weaver -- 148 -- Chapter 9; title: Somebody Left Something Somewhere -- 167 -- Chapter 10; title: Underwater -- 184 -- Chapter 11; title: Travels with Stinky -- 207 -- Chapter 12; title: Elbow Room -- 223 -- Chapter 13; title: Aquarium -- 242 -- Chapter 14; title: Muskegon Wastewater -- 261 -- Chapter 15; title: Bella -- 282 -- Chapter 16; title: The Creature in the Woods -- 303; title: Acknowledgments and Culpability-- 307.