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by: James M. Giffin, Liisa D. Carlson
Topics include: canine atopy, four weeks before breeding, acute septic mastitis, symmetric hair loss, notify your veterinarian, oily seborrhea, acute metritis, congenital megaesophagus, puppy strangles, benzoyl peroxide shampoo, kennel cough complex, nasal solar dermatitis, transmissible venereal tumors, secondary seborrhea, primary seborrhea, anorectal obstructions, fold pyoderma, interestrous interval, heartworm antigen test, chronic valvular disease, gastrointestinal foreign bodies, absent heat, nearest veterinary clinic, veterinarian for further instructions, anal sac infection
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Book Description "The best book of its kind in print! A Masterpiece in the field of dog care.... Mercifully clear and readable. If you own a dog and love it, you must keep a copy on your handy reference shelf!" -Mordecai Siegal, President of the Dog Writers Association of America and author of over 20 books on dogs and other animals. "Will more than pay for itself! Compared with similar books, this is the most beneficial ever published! All-encompassing and so inviting to use.Accurate, reliable, up-to-the-minute, intelligent and explicit.... This book will more than pay for itself with the very first dog health problem you may encounter and solve yourself. And I'll sign my name to that!" -Alfons Ertelt, Chief Tester, American Temperament Test Society "A Must for any dog owner!" -The American Field "Useful for any dog owner, indispensable for kennel owners.. Offers comprehensive, up-to-date, well-organized information on every phase of health care for dogs." -Publisher's Weekly "Buy It! You can't afford to be without this one!...I must have ten books on home veterinary care now-Forget Them! This one is complete, well and simply written, profusely illustrated, and wonder of wonders, it's well-indexed-in three ways, yet!" -Ilio A Howell Dog Book of Distinction
Editorial Reviews -- Amazon.com Open the front cover and the first two pages you see contain the Index of Signs and Symptoms, from Abdomen (painful, swollen, distended, and tucked up) to Weight loss, Wheezing, and Whining (continual). There's a comprehensive index in back, of course, running the gamut from Abortion to Zinc-Responsive Dermatosis, which is all very useful, but when your pooch is in pain, it's great to be able to turn, with the minimum of folderol, to the page that says to relax, it's nothing a bit of extra grooming won't fix, or alternatively to hightail it over to the vet hospital. It's a wonderful reference for any dog owner, with chapters on emergencies (such as burns, dehydration, and poisoning), as well as worms, infectious diseases, skin care, and canine eyes, ears, and nose. There are chapters on the digestive, respiratory, and circulatory systems, the nervous, musculoskeletal, and urinary systems, plus dog sex, whelping, puppy pediatrics, geriatrics, and chapters on cancers and medications. In short, it covers every health dimension a dog owner might want to know more about, identifies the possible causes, helps you determine the severity of the condition, and indicates what treatments or actions to take to best insure your dog's good health. --Stephanie Gold
This book isn't a purchase, it's an investment -- I have been meaning to write a review for this book for quite awhile, but when I found myself turning to it (yet again) last week after receiving a difficult diagnosis for my beloved geriatric dog, I thought it was time to sit down and express my appreciation for this book. I am not fond of reviews that insist I "must! " have this or that, so please forgive me if I sound strident in my insistence that this really "should! " be in the possession of everyone who has a dog to care for. Here lies information that can help you out of the trenches and decide when you should wake up your vet in the middle of the night, when to wait till morning, and when to try handling things yourself. This is also the place where I learned how to monitor my pets vitals so I can get an idea of what may be going on and to provide my vet with some of the information needed to hit the ground running. Out of the several pet care books I have (Pitcairn's being one of them) THIS is the book that I grab first and it's the one my neighbors come over to examine when thier dog seems "off" and the one my family calls and asks me to read parts of over the phone (I will share this book, but I won't loan it). I wish they'd all get thier own copy, but at least one of us has it on hand. As someone who has four large, geriatric dogs I love dearly, I wouldn't be without this book. Plenty of other books are going to provide you with glossy color photos and generic information, but when you need information--real, solid stuff you can leave teethmarks in, this book is what you need. General care and functioning is covered very well, but this volume really shines when things seem serious, even scary and it fleshes out those pre- and post-vet questions like no other. PS--Pitcairn's book, which I mentioned in passing, is a nice general resource that is especially helpful for those interested in learning about feeding thier pets natural, whole-food diets. I like my copy quite a bit, but I can best describe it by saying I'll loan that book to a friend for a week or so, not so with Home Veterinary Handbook.
Reviews:
THE SOURCE for Home Veterinary Information -- We have two working breed pups that are about 9 months old now, and this book has proven itself very valuable already. The breadth of topics covered and depth of information is very thorough but not overwhelming. It can help you ascertain the most likely cause of your dog's symptoms, which makes your decision of home remedies vs. immediate veterinary help a much less stressful one. For example one of our dogs has had a couple of episodes where something had irritated the lining of his stomach and he went into fits of licking the floor until he threw up multiple times. This may sound gross but when you're going through it, it's very disconcerting because you don't know what's happening to the dog. We looked up the symptoms, read the possible causes (based on the combination we saw) and with a call to our vet determined he had most likely ingested something that upset his stomach. This, rather than Bloat (which has similar side-effects and can be fatal or an obstructed bowel (also very serious). The point is, this book, more than any other we've used (including an edition from about 20 years ago) helps eliminate the guesswork. You want to manage your dog's care based on facts rather than guesswork for obvious reason. This book is filled with them.
Best home vet book around -- This is without question the very best home Veterinarian text that is available. Excellent even if you know a lot about dogs, great even if you worked for a Veterinarian for years. You can learn so much from this book! -- I love learning about dogs. I could never have too much dog knowledge. I crave it. I want to be a veterinarian and there is so much I want to learn about dog veterinary medicine. I don't want to wait for vet school! I'm already learning now. I soak up veterinary information like a sponge. So since I am like obsessed with vet learning, I read this book heavily. I love having such a comprehensive book sitting on the shelf and available to me whenever the mood strikes me to do some learning. I seriously read it like a text book. Soooooo all I'm saying is if you want something that tells all about diseases in dogs and how to prevent and treat them, this book will tell ya quite a bit. And it's quite easy to find stuff in it too! Least I think so anyway :)
Absolute must for every dog lover.. -- Once in a while a book comes along which in the field of practical applications... is a real treasure. This is one of those books. Full of photos and easy to read text, not to mention helpful advice, "this is it"-- for the dog owner who really cares. It will not turn you completely from being independent of your vet, but it will help in determining which symptoms and cases where you would just have to run to him. For example, in the section "Intestines", it describes the most common irregularities, like diarrhea, the color, consistency, odor, frequency, condition of dog, common causes, and finally the treatment section. And it does not stop there. It will then give related problems about the intestines, from malabsorption syndromes to colitis, obstructions, constipation, voluntary retention, mechanical blockage, damaged nerves, flatulence and coprophagia (yeech!), et.al. And that is just a section, as I said, under Intestines. Whether you have one dog, or several kennels, professional breeder, backyard breeder, or no breeder at all, and just interested in the well-being of man's best friend, it will turn you from a feeling of uncertainty into a confident owner. It's the "leash" you can do. This revised and expanded edition is one of my prime sources of information regarding the health of my dogs. It will save the owner, as it has saved me from needless worries, (or make it worse, depending really on the personality of the owner), and a lot of expenses. Read it, you'll like
Undeniably the best -- I am continually amazed by the ability of the authors of this book to present clear and pithy, yet absolutely comprehensive, information about what seems to be the entire gamut of doggy afflictions. I have consulted it on numerous occasions and have always found answers, which were later confirmed by my vet. It's not just good science, this book is a model of how to process and present information to a reading audience. It's good stuff. Best Home Vet Book -- This book is great, we tell the vet what our dogs have everytime we go in! I recomend it to any dog owner! The best adjunct to vet's care I can think of! -- Explains in enough detail without getting overly technical. Really helpful in coming up with questions for the vet in follow-up care, and in explaining what's going on in your sick dog. This is a must-have for intelligent dog owners who want to be educated veterinary health care consumers but aren't vets themselves. It could be stronger in nutrition, but otherwise near perfect.
Good reference & very useful -- This book is an execellent reference. The chapters are well organised and set out ... making it very easy to read and use. Its extremely comprehensive in scope - the book details numerous ailments & problems, ranging from allergies, common diseases, dietary & respiratory disorders, all kinds of parasitic infestation to home injuries and emergencies such as cuts, dehydration & poisoning; including cancers and tumours. The author goes though the possible causes of each ailment & condition and suggests remedies & solutions. While concise, the text particularises and sets out sufficient detail to satisfy all but the most demanding of readers ... Reference to the book, after visiting the vet, is helping us understand better what our vet is saying and doing ... and this provides reassurance that we are doing our best for our dogs. We also find the photographs (although a little distressing) to be of essential value. The photographs have been invaluable in teaching us how to recognise and identify physical symptoms ... The photographs also allows us to make quick & direct comparison between the condition we see in/on our pets with that described in the book & depicted in images ... this allows us to make some sort of assessment (albeit, untrained) on issue of severity and urgency. All in all ... the book is good value.