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Whether you own cats, dogs, rabbits, chickens, horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, or a combination of animals, you need expert information to make sure your animal friends stay happy and healthy. From nail care for dogs to treating saddle sores on horses to incubating turkey eggs, Veterinary Guide for Animal Owners, 2nd Edition offers advice in easy-to-understand language. With this comprehensive book, learn how to:
• Provide first aid for cattle
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The Magic Door books are an invitation to view learning as fun. Engaging art and creative text provide readers with basic lessons that last a lifetime. The Best Vet in the World reveals how vets care for pets and explores their important role as community helpers who look after our animal companions. 'A book is a door, a magic door. It can take you places you have never been before!' Each story in this lighthearted series begins with an invitation...
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Phototherapy, the use of light to treat a variety of conditions, is not new and has been researched for well over 100 years. It has mainly been confined to ultraviolet wavelengths for its antibacterial properties. With the advent of LASER and Light Emitting Diodes, treatment in the visible spectrum and its fringes has gained credence both from research and through anecdotally reported results. This book aims to look at its application along with the...
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Este manual de prácticas de laboratorio en microbiología veterinaria exhibe algunos temas de alta relevancia para la clínica veterinaria. Aborda asuntos recurrentes en el área, como la toma y envío de muestras al laboratorio, su procesamiento y la interpretación de los resultados, para dar un tratamiento oportuno y acertado a los pacientes. Se escogieron dieciséis temas comunes y significativos para nuestra casuística diaria, que son del interés...
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Have you ever wondered what shapes the life and career of a suburban pet vet? What they secretly think of you, your pet and TV vets? What their clients think of them? Follow Dr. Ed Layt as he reminisces about growing up in Brisbane, Australia, surviving veterinary school and his multitude of tales from 35 years in veterinary practice.
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Are veterinarians real doctors? Turns out the answer is yes. What's a Real Doctor? fills the perceived chasm between a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and a human Medical Doctor at an early age. Tristan, Cooper, and Clara have a thoughtful discussion to compare both careers from a child's perspective. Their discussion, without a doubt, leaves everyone a little more confident and a little more informed on what veterinarians actually do that makes them...
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Actualizada revisión del tema que indiscutiblemente constituye la clave para la comprensión de los mecanismos fisiológicos. Tras consignar los fundamentos químicos y físicos para una cabal interpretación de los fenómenos propios de la materia viva, el autor nos hace transitar gradualmente desde las fluctuantes condiciones del medio externo hacia el controlado ambiente del mar interior de seres humanos y animales.
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When you bring your pet to the veterinarian, do you find yourself nodding your head in agreement because you truly understand or simply because you do not want to seem out of touch. Many pet owners face their veterinarian with limited understanding of what is involved in their pet's healthcare. This book gives you foundational knowledge of pet health care so that you can have a real conversation with your veterinarian about your dog's health or your...
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Today’s therapy-dog handlers recognize the need to be teammates with their dogs. Teaming with one’s dog involves unobtrusively providing physical and emotional support as well as respectful guidance in what to do. Being a teammate requires attention to our own behavior, not just our dogs. This book reminds all handlers that being conscious of what we do with our dogs helps them do their best work, and also can increase the effectiveness of our...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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For centuries prior to the development of an effective vaccination against rabies, the bite of a mad dog was linked to a horrific ailment marked by convulsions, an utter dread of swallowing liquids, uncontrollable thrashing, and even the tendency to bark and attempt to bite othersa horrid prelude to an agonizing death. Drawing on learned theories of medical practitioners and beliefs of the common people, The Bearer of Crazed and Venomous Fangs investigates...
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This is companion volume to How to Treat Your Dogs and Cats with Over-the-Counter Drugs serves as a reference for pet owners and continues Dr. Robert Ridgway's primary goal of offering an easy-to-use guide that enable them to correctly use over-the-counter (OTC) drugs to treat their ailing pets. Dr. Ridgway offers a complete description of many common disease conditions that owners can either treat or prevent with OTC drugs. Easy to read and understand,...
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This book has over 190 syndromes that can be, treated at home with over the counter drugs. This allows owner to save several hundreds of dollars in veterinary care bills. The book is easy to read and is, written using words that is easily understood and professional wording is not, used to allow for better and quicker comprehension of what signs to look for and the dose of over the counter (OTC) drugs to use. Over the counter drugs, doses are, provided...
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El presente texto se organizó en 16 sesiones de laboratorio, en las que se revisan las técnicas básicas utilizadas en el diagnóstico parasitológico y la identificación de los parásitos más comunes en México. Se trató de consignar la información más relevante de cada uno de los temas estudiados; para ampliar estos contenidos, se recomienda consultar las obras clásicas de parasitología veterinaria referidas en la parte final de este volumen....
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La Toxicología es la ciencia que estudia la dosis, naturaleza, incidencia, severidad, comportamiento, metabolismo, mecanismo de acción, acumulación, excreción V efectos que producen los diferentes agentes químicos y físicos en el hombre y los animales, con el fin de prevenir, aminorar, tratar V diagnosticar sus efectos nocivos.
Esta obra es una valiosa herramienta para que los estudiantes de pregrado, profesionales no especialistas, estudiantes...
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While not a textbook, this is an easily understood, clear explanation, accompanied by good advice, for the treatment of many common maydays encountered by our dogs. Dr. Jacks bedside manner and family doctor approach is both refreshing and enlightening; it makes for an enjoyable and rewarding read. Owen McFadden, DVM Midlothian Animal Clinic Midlothian, Virginia Dr. Bloxham brings good practical insight as well as a little personality into this informative...
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"From Dr. Schott's 30 years in veterinary practice come over 60 heartwarming, funny, and adorable stories about angry pelicans, bug-eyed goldfish, and plenty of cats and dogs In the third book in this bestselling series, we meet the oddest creatures, from an escaped newt to a baby snow leopard, but the focus is on the dogs and cats that make up most of a pet vet's day, and on the wacky and wonderful people who bring them in. Dr. Schott also pulls...
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