With so many cat breeds available, the right choice can be difficult. How can you tell if your cat will be good with children, or need extra grooming? Will it love being outdoors, or will it prefer indoor comforts? Will it want to bring you little presents it has hunted in the backyard? Is it intelligent and curious, or is it really quite lazy? This authoritatively written guide gives you all the information you need about the essential character of over 120 breeds, enabling you to make an informed decision to find the perfect pet for you. Each cat profile includes information on personality, appearance, grooming requirements, and specific health considerations.

Choose the perfect cat for you From Siamese to Sphynx cats, The Complete Cat Breed Book will help you choose the perfect companion for you. Fully illustrated and featuring over 150 of the world's best-loved cat breeds, this is the only cat breed guide you'll ever need. Complete with breed history, appearance and personality traits with Q&A charts, you're sure to find all the information necessary when choosing your cat. Also find expert advice on communicating with your cat and top tips on tackling behavioural problems such as ankle biting or furniture scratching. A concise care programme will cover all stages of your cat's life, from establishing a routine to dealing with common health problems. The Complete Cat Breed Book is a one-stop manual to helping you become the owner of a happy, healthy, well-mannered cat.

From dogs and cats to hamsters, fish and stick insects, Russell explores more than 50 unique pets in Pet Selector!, a hilarious guide to pets’ personalities, needs, wants and origin stories.

This all-in-one guide to the world's favourite pet ensures that you can be the owner of a healthy, happy cat. From ancient breeds to modern hybrids, The Complete Cat Breed Bookwill help you choose the perfect companion for you. The book outlines the characteristics of the domestic cat and the various things to look for when choosing a cat. Each breed profile outlines the breed's history and its key characteristics, and features beautiful photographs. The book offers practical advice on the essential aspects of feline health, from handling and grooming to exercise, nutrition, and first aid. It also includes advice on how to identify and prevent common behavioural problems. Fully illustrated and featuring over 140 of the world's best-loved cat breeds, The Complete Cat Breed Bookis the only cat breed guide you'll ever need.

Is a purebred cat or mixed-breed cat right for you? Cats are playful, loving, and clean pets. There are more than seventy breeds and millions of mixed-breed cats in shelters waiting for homes. This book will help readers figure out which cat or kitten is the best fit for them, what to feed it, how to keep it safe, and much more. Readers learn how to take good care of your new cat so you can enjoy many happy years together.

Learn how to turn raw data into rich, interactive web visualizations with the powerful combination of Python and JavaScript. With this hands-on guide, author Kyran Dale teaches you how build a basic dataviz toolchain with best-of-breed Python and JavaScript libraries—including Scrapy, Matplotlib, Pandas, Flask, and D3—for crafting engaging, browser-based visualizations. As a working example, throughout the book Dale walks you through transforming Wikipedia’s table-based list of Nobel Prize winners into an interactive visualization. You’ll examine steps along the entire toolchain, from scraping, cleaning, exploring, and delivering data to building the visualization with JavaScript’s D3 library. If you’re ready to create your own web-based data visualizations—and know either Python or JavaScript— this is the book for you. Learn how to manipulate data with Python Understand the commonalities between Python and JavaScript Extract information from websites by using Python’s web-scraping tools, BeautifulSoup and Scrapy Clean and explore data with Python’s Pandas, Matplotlib, and Numpy libraries Serve data and create RESTful web APIs with Python’s Flask framework Create engaging, interactive web visualizations with JavaScript’s D3 library

Adding another cat to your home does not have to be the start of a cat to cat war zone. Although cats are often misunderstood as natural loners, you can readily introduce new members to your family, and keep the fur from flying. This book shows different cat breeds and how to maintain a home environment that will help multiple cats and their owners live in peace.