Fowl Weather: How Thirty-Nine Animals and One Sock Monkey Took Over My Life

In Bob Tarte's home, pandemonium is the order of the day, and animals literally rule the roost—thirty-nine of them at last count. Whether it's the knot-tying African grey parrot, or the overweight cat who's trained Bob to hold her water bowl just above the floor, or the nightmarish duck who challenges him to a shoving match, this menagerie, along with his endlessly optimistic wife, Linda, provides daily lessons on the chaos inherent in our lives. But not until this modern-day Noah's Ark hits stormy weather—and Bob's world spins out of control—does he realize that this exuberant gaggle of animals provides his spiritual anchor. It is their alien presence, their sense of humor, and their impulsive behavior that both drive Bob crazy and paradoxically return him to sanity.

With the same sly humor and dead-on character portraits that made Enslaved by Ducks such a rousing success, Tarte proves that life with animals offers a wholly different perspective on the world.

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Fowl Weather: How Thirty-Nine Animals and One Sock Monkey Took Over My Life

In Bob Tarte's home, pandemonium is the order of the day, and animals literally rule the roost—thirty-nine of them at last count. Whether it's the knot-tying African grey parrot, or the overweight cat who's trained Bob to hold her water bowl just above the floor, or the nightmarish duck who challenges him to a shoving match, this menagerie, along with his endlessly optimistic wife, Linda, provides daily lessons on the chaos inherent in our lives. But not until this modern-day Noah's Ark hits stormy weather—and Bob's world spins out of control—does he realize that this exuberant gaggle of animals provides his spiritual anchor. It is their alien presence, their sense of humor, and their impulsive behavior that both drive Bob crazy and paradoxically return him to sanity.

With the same sly humor and dead-on character portraits that made Enslaved by Ducks such a rousing success, Tarte proves that life with animals offers a wholly different perspective on the world.

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Fowl Weather: How Thirty-Nine Animals and One Sock Monkey Took Over My Life

Fowl Weather: How Thirty-Nine Animals and One Sock Monkey Took Over My Life

by Bob Tarte
Fowl Weather: How Thirty-Nine Animals and One Sock Monkey Took Over My Life

Fowl Weather: How Thirty-Nine Animals and One Sock Monkey Took Over My Life

by Bob Tarte

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Overview

In Bob Tarte's home, pandemonium is the order of the day, and animals literally rule the roost—thirty-nine of them at last count. Whether it's the knot-tying African grey parrot, or the overweight cat who's trained Bob to hold her water bowl just above the floor, or the nightmarish duck who challenges him to a shoving match, this menagerie, along with his endlessly optimistic wife, Linda, provides daily lessons on the chaos inherent in our lives. But not until this modern-day Noah's Ark hits stormy weather—and Bob's world spins out of control—does he realize that this exuberant gaggle of animals provides his spiritual anchor. It is their alien presence, their sense of humor, and their impulsive behavior that both drive Bob crazy and paradoxically return him to sanity.

With the same sly humor and dead-on character portraits that made Enslaved by Ducks such a rousing success, Tarte proves that life with animals offers a wholly different perspective on the world.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781565125025
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication date: 03/16/2007
Pages: 306
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.76(h) x 1.17(d)

About the Author

Bob Tarte wrote for The Beat magazine for twenty years. He has also written for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Miami New Times, the Whole Earth Review, and other publications. He hosts the What Were You Thinking? podcast for petliferadio.com. He and his wife Linda live in Lowell, Michigan, and currently serve the whims of parrots, ducks, geese, parakeets, a rabbit, doves, hens, one turkey, and way too many cats.

Table of Contents


Cast of Characters     viii
Alien Abduction     1
Vanished     20
Ask an Expert     40
A Duck Out of Water     61
Wild Things     82
Fowl Weather     106
Bobo's Back in Town     128
Golden Orb Weaver     148
Somebody Left Something Somewhere     167
Underwater     184
Travels with Stinky     207
Elbow Room     223
Aquarium     242
Muskegon Wastewater     261
Bella     282
The Creature in the Woods     303
Acknowledgments and Culpability     307

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Bob Tarte's writing is as delightful as Gerald Durrell's, and his humor is as quirky and smart as a Gary Larson cartoon. Yet Tarte has a voice all his own, and his unforgettable family—feathered, furred, and (the human ones, mostly) flummoxed—is one you'll love visiting. I couldn't put this book down (though I did pause to laugh out loud), and when I finished, I read it all over again!" — Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig

"More than just a hilarious and raucous romp (which it is), Fowl Weather shows how a parrot, or a rabbit, or a duck, or a cat, can teach us more about ourselves and about the chaos of the world than any therapist or philosopher. Bob Tarte is clearly a man after my own heart." - Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants

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