Are you a cat person? A dog person? Maybe you're more into exotic pets like pythons or toucans? Well, whatever your pet preference, Picking Your Pet has your favorite animal covered--from everyday pets to more unusual critters. Part of the successful Expert Guides series, Picking Your Pet is a comprehensive guide to 300 of the world's favorite pets. Discover an amazing array of animals from fuzzy kittens and flopsy bunnies to slithering snakes and gentle tortoises. Each page showcases a particular animal, describing in detail its origins and history. Helpful boxes provide at-a-glance specifics such as the animal's scientific name, its family, size, habitat, diet, breeding, and distribution around the world. Perfect for animal fanciers and pet owners, this handy pocket-sized book also makes a helpful take-along resource for people actively looking for a pet.