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However, it’s easy to get lost in the pet store’s sea of dog products, passing aisle after aisle of dog food. Keeping your dog healthy or getting her back on the road to good health doesn’t have to be difficult, though. Dog Health and Nutrition for Dummies makes it easy to make sure your canine is living a healthy lifestyle. It gives you expert tips and advice on:
- Basic canine healthcare
- Feeding your dog
- Recognizing and treating common maladies
- Caring for the canine senior
Author M. Christine Zink, DVM, PhD is a specialist in canine sports medicine and professor at The Johns Hopkins University, but above all, a dog lover. She breaks down the complexity of caring for your pooch into easy terms with helpful reminders, warnings, and information, including information about:
- How to choose and work with a vet
- Your dog’s anatomy with detailed illustrations
- Canine first aid
- Drug therapy for dogs
- Maintaining your dog’s health with nutrition and exercise
- Common household hazards
Dog Health and Nutrition for Dummies gives you all the information you need to properly care for your beloved canine pal.
From the Back Cover
"A succinct and easily read compilation of hard science presented with humor and a deep regard for and understanding of our canine friends."
— Victor E. O. Valli, Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
"Dosed with subtle humor, the text offers a wide range of down–to–earth information covering all aspects of dog care. Whether experienced or new to the dog game, readers will enjoy Dr. Zink′s unprejudiced personal approach."
— Rachel Page Elliott, author of Dogsteps
Keep your dog healthy with simple care and good nutrition
An up–to–date guide to caring for your dog. Help your dog enjoy a longer and healthier life with the latest in conventional and alternative veterinary medicine. An expert in canine sports medicine offers advice on feeding, conditioning, and caring for your dog so that it will reach its full potential.
Discover how to:
- Practice the essentials of preventative care
- Treat common — and uncommon — canine ailments
- Administer simple first aid
- Select complementary and alternative therapies
- Work with your dog′s veterinarian
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Being from the Dummies range of books, everything is clear and easy to understand.
The only reason I give it 4 out of 5 is that I feel it could do a little more in depth on some articles, but other than that it is a brilliant book and a must own for dog owners.
This book presents both sides of the diet dilemma in an unbiased fashion, and backs it up with research from credible institutions and offers suggestions for improving whichever diet you use -- store bought or home cooked. In addition, the author is highly credible in her field -- she is an expert in canine sports medicine and is a full professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She teaches medical and veterinary students. She has her DVM and Ph.D. Honestly, you can't get much more credible than that!
The book is not extremist in approach; rather it presents sensible questions about just what is in manufactured dog food, and how do we know it. It then rounds out the picture by presenting alternative diets (home-cooked food) but presents drawbacks there and how to correct them. It addresses supplements as well.
While other topics are also presented beside nutrition (helping your dog age gracefully, training, etc.), I bought it mainly for its nutritional content, and I was not disappointed. The book cites research on nutrition from very credible institutions (Tufts University Veterinary School, as well as others). In addition, if you prefer to cook for your dog, it tells you how and where to send your food so you can find out if your are presenting a balanced meal. It offers other helpful hints as well.
The book is very well written, mainly in active voice, and on a level the layman can understand. This one belongs on your book shelf!
the good: the health and first aid sections are top rate and those make this book a must have for ANY dog owner. Luckily the bulk of the book covers these issues (the nutrition section is very small), and that makes this book a worth while purchase. one of the most useful things is a list of things that is included is a list of what to have in a pet first aid kit.
overall I'm only giving the book 3/5 stars because I feel that a book titled "health and nutrition" should thoroughly cover nutrition and this book just doesn't cut it. I highly recommend buying it used (which I did) and keeping it around just for the "health" information.
The content is very broad and covers just about anything you might need to know about health and nutrition including structure, drugs, parasites, first aid, holistic/alternative therapies, and many more. The author even presents issues such as the hotly debated food issue with a relatively fair and balanced approach. Although she does take a side, she presents the postives and negatives of each side and lets the reader know that there are various schools of thought out there should s/he choose to research further.
The book is attractively laid out with pictures, diagrams, charts, and cute little markers in the margin denoting things such as a "tip", "warning", "technical stuff", etc. It is an easy read that you are sure to pick up some new information from, regardless of your current knowledge about dogs. I highly recommend it to anyone.
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