Preface The Pet Book 
for there is nowhere on record rational treatment 
for this kind of pets. Because of this, the author 
called upon Dr. Hornaday for help and through 
his kindness, she was able to interview the very 
efficient and experienced curators of the different 
departments of the New York Zoological Gardens 
and take extended notes on food and care of these 
most common animals. 
There has been an insistent call for this kind of 
information from teachers of Nature-Study and 
Biology and also from the Boy Scouts who make 
their camps more interesting by capturing various 
wild creatures as they find them. 
