Jimmy Buffett spins a colorful novel about a Southern family determined to hide their pet pig in a fancy four-star hotel in New York City-- while a meat-loving chef is sharpening his carving knife downstairs. Come along as he presents a gumbo of captivating characters and outrageous events in this wonderfully entertaining pig tale-- proving once again that stretching the truth is a lot of fun, and laughing is the best vacation of all.

When he can't find his cat to enter in the neighborhood pet show, Archie must do some fast thinking to win a prize.

Dink and his friends investigate why pets, like Mrs. Davis's canary, Mozart, are mysteriously disappearing all over town.

A rhyming story about the hysteria that ensues when a new pet snake is found missing from his cage.

A young boy learns that moose do not always follow the rules of proper pet behavior.

While making rounds treating local pets, veternarian Dr. Kate Turner discovers the bodies of a local couple. While police suspect a murder-suicide, Dr. Kate thinks otherwise. As she discovers many in the small community had good resons to do them in. Was the couple murdered for money their champion dog could bring to another breeder? Is the couple's money-grubbing daughter the one to blame? Or did long-buried personal secrets cause their deaths? How...

A clever spider is lonely and longs to become a family pet.

"Billy is a grumpy boy who's not like the other kids. His mother takes him and his sister, Sara, to the animal shelter one Saturday in hope of cheering him up. But the pets he sees are too happy for his taste. Then he finds the grumpy pets..."--

A young girl brings her pets to the library--with predictably disastrous results.

When he feeds his new pet fish dog biscuits, Simon's wish for a dog comes true in a most unusual way.