[.ca] Hermit Crabs (ISBN 0764112295)

Great Book!:
For your first hermit crab's health and happiness, you need to get this book! It's filled with all of the basics you need to properly care for your new pet, plus little bonuses about their history and hermies in the wild!

Brilliant work:
I think we have to accept here that the shell is nothing mroe than a metaphor for the banality of existance and the transformation of life into the realm of the "HYPERREAL" (re: Derrida, Baudrillard, Eco). Clearly the primal needs of the "animal with in us" (ie, marcuse) are represented by the twigs/rock/algae required by the thing-in-itself (ie, "crab") whereas we must view the struggle inherent in the replacement of the shell as a transferance from one phase of life to the next, as well as the perception/truth metamorphasis of such (re: Kant). Here SUe Fox informs us of the process we can anticipate (spiritually?metaphysically?) in a standard epistomological framework. Excellent work.

Amazing:
I actually bought this book by mistake - I have a dog - but found it a fascinating and hugely informative read. I am now a convert! The very next day I went out and bought a small garbage can which I roped up to the hind-quarters of my Spaniel Barry. Barry loves it; he has arthritis in his rear legs anyway and he enjoys pulling himself around in his garbage can, and I get a dog hermit crab.

AWESOME GUIDE:
I bought this book and WOW, it totally helped me take care of my hermit crab Sidney. It tells you all that you need to know to let your hermit crab live safely and happily ever after!

A surprise:
I must say I was a little puzzled by the title of this book. A "pet Hermit crab" sounds like an oxymoron--after all, a hermit is supposed to be anti-social, right? So why would you want one for a pet--especially one that has big, sharp claws? Well, I could be wrong, perhaps there's a little bit of the Hermit crab in all of us--the apparent loner who yearns to be the popular social butterfly and just needs a little bit of encouragement to come out of his or her shell, so to speak, to become the life of the party. So I decided to take the plunge, and I bought myself a pet Hermit crab. So far things are going swimmingly for me and the little guy. We spend evenings together walking the beach, hanging out, and listening to our favorite rock n' roll and pop tunes. I discovered he loves the Beattles hit, Octopus's Garden, and of course, he's a big fan of Herman and the Hermits, along with most of the British Invasion. Hermit crabs do have their advantages, not the least of which is they have built-in protection against rising real-estate prices, something he points out to me quite often, since we live in a beach-front condo and I have yet to purchase my own home. Oh well, we're looking for a shell that'll fit me but it's hard to find anything big enough. Anyway, he really is a pretty cool pet, I have to admit, and I can certainly recommend one for someone who wants a low-maintenance, inexpensive, and surprisingly with-it and companionable little pet.