My pets

Chapter 2: DEDICATION

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About This Book

The author recounts personal experiences maintaining an aviary and other small pets, presenting episodic chapters on owls, robins, mockingbirds, pigeons, canaries, rabbits, rats, hummingbirds, and more. Each chapter mixes practical advice on feeding, housing, and breeding with lively observations of individual animal behavior and temperament, amusing mishaps, rescues, and the challenges of raising young. The collection emphasizes compassionate, hands-on care, patience, and the varied personalities of animals, offering both instructive tips and affectionate vignettes for readers interested in pets and birdlife.

DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to those of my boy and girl friends who are never satisfied with a story unless it is entirely true. While the most of my stories are partly true, I have never before written one that is entirely and wholly true in every particular. The story of my aviary and the pets in it is taken from my diaries, and many of the birds are still living and moving and having their being, and are always glad to see any girls and boys who call on them, if they do not come in too great numbers at one time.

Marshall Saunders.

Boston, January, 1908.