Gifts for Pet Lovers, Book Review, $15

This is a quick note to tell you how useful I've found the Merck/Merial manual for Pet Health.  There is a home edition that you can pick up in the $15 ballpark that will cover everything you want to know about caring for your own pets. It covers mostly dogs, cats, and horses, but also exotics from fish to prairie dogs. The text is a simple read, probably at 11-12th grade level.

At what age does a cat normally develop tumors or polyps?  What is lung worm?  How is FIP treated? Diseases that are zoonotic are important to know and can be found in this book also. Can you deal with behavior problems in horses?  Colic - there's a word that makes horse owners shudder, but there's an entire chapter on Digestive Disorders of horses in this hefty book.

Over 1300 pages of information of the like that I learned in veterinary college, and some things I didn't know about at all!  How to make a first aid kit for your birds, info on sugar gliders, viruses of amphibians, ferret hazards, and so on.  I have to say this is my go-to first book when I am puzzled by something with my Animal Cornucopia. 

It also covers emergency care for horses, dogs, and cats, drugs used to treat specific disorders (informational, not a formulary), trauma care, bites, and poisoning symptoms and what to do in different cases. If you are searching for a gift for an animal lover, animal person, pet parent, this is the book to get.  Just click! You'll be glad you did! (Clicks help support the blog, you can always search for other products once you get there.....thanks!)

So get this book for the pet lover on your gift list.

 

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