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Emergency First Aid for Your Dog - Handbook

Emergency First Aid for Your Dog Handbook is an important resource for any dog owner. This brand-new book, published in 2004, is a concise, handy reference that features life-saving, step-by-step instructions for emergencies. It tells you what to do in virtually any emergency situation and includes easy-to-read sections on dog CPR, bleeding control, treatment for bite wounds, seizures, poisonings, choking, being hit by a car, shock and much more. It even includes prevention techniques to reduce the likelihood of a crisis. Buying this book may be the single most important thing you will ever do for your dog.

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High-Tech Pain Management for Pets
Low-Level Laser Therapy

Low-level laser therapy is emerging as the new high-tech device of choice to treat a wide variety of aches and pains, injuries, and diseases. The low-level laser is not simply alternative medicine; it is high-tech medicine destined to play a major role in both human and veterinary care. Used by physicians in Europe for over thirty years, the low-level laser has recently gained approval by the FDA for certain human applications, and physicians and veterinarians throughout the United States are beginning to embrace this extraordinary technology.

This book is a manual for use of the low-level laser to treat pets. It is quite possibly the first such book in existence. Whether your focus is treating family pets or million-dollar race horses, this was written for you.

The author of this book, Dr. Tamara S. Shearer, is a nationally acclaimed veterinarian, winner of the Hartz® “Veterinarian of the Year” award. Dr. Shearer uses low-level laser therapy on her patients and her pets (cats, dogs, horses and pot-bellied pigs).

The Essential Book for Dogs Over Five

A dog over five years of age needs special care to be kept safe, comfortable, and healthy. This one-of-a-kind book will provide you with a foundation of practical knowledge and creative solutions for your adult dog. It will enable you to take care of your pet's unspoken needs from today forward. You will learn three simple ways to help your dog live significantly longer, how to prevent the leading cause of disability in dogs, the best ways to prevent problems associated with aging, and the top ten health warning signs for your dog. Find out now what you need to know to help your dog live happier, healthier and longer. Learn best how to care for your dog through all stages of adult life. Your dog will thank you! Written by renowned veterinarian Tamara Shearer, D.V.M., this book is simply the single most important resource available for your mature dog.
Technical Specifications: 252 pages, 14 illustrations, 86 chapters in 7 parts, 6 appendices. Softcover. Published in 2002.

Emergency First Aid for Your Cat

This is not simply a book on cat care; it is a life-saving step-by-step guide for emergencies. It tells you what to do in virtually any emergency situation and includes instructions on cat CPR, bleeding control, and treatment for bite wounds, seizures, poisonings, choking, being hit by a car, shock and much more. It details specific treatments for poisoning from 142 different types of plants (and yes, different plant poisons do require different treatments) as well as a wide variety of household and other poisons. It cross-references symptoms with problems and conditions to enable appropriate treatment in virtually any situation. It even includes prevention techniques to reduce the likelihood of a crisis. Find out what to include in a cat first-aid kit (pp. 14-16). Learn how to prevent life-threatening shock (pp. 110-112), and learn what never to do when your cat swallows string (p. 76).
Technical Specifications: 326 pages, 21 illustrations, 273 chapters/listings in 8 parts. Softcover.

The Ultimate Diet Tool Kit

This book was displayed at the 1998 American Dietetic Association Annual Meeting/Exhibition. It is based on our four best-selling nutrition software programs (3,500,000 copies sold), providing instant access to key nutritional information and providing a set of the most important diet tools available. From calorie and exercise graphs to fat-control charts for grocery shopping, this book has the tools you need to better understand and manage your diet. Find out what food has 3000% more vitamin C than oranges (page 233) and which vegetables contain more calcium than milk (page 235). Learn which seafood is high in fat and cholesterol (pages 198-208) and find how much weight loss you can expect from exercise (pages 66-81). Use menu plans that give you a real choice in foods but won't leave you hungry (pages 11-65). Quickly and easily compare the nutritional content of different foods, identify low-calorie/low-fat substitute foods, determine calories burned and weight loss from exercise, convert food-product labels into meaningful nutritional information, find foods high in certain vitamins and minerals, and much more.