Author: Gabby Wild Publisher: ISBN: 9781426338601 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
The wildlife veterinarian and environmental advocate shares highly visual profiles of amazing animals from around the world, covering subjects ranging from animal anatomy and behavior to the work of specialist caregivers and how kids can help protect endangered species.
Author: Kathleen A. Cooney Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118335554 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 226
Book Description
Veterinary Euthanasia Techniques: A Practical Guide provides detailed guidance on euthanasia procedures in a wide variety of species, including dogs, cats, exotics, horses, and production animals. Based on the current AVMA guidelines, the book offers step-by-step descriptions of the recommended methods of euthanasia, giving all the information needed to perform these techniques with confidence. Veterinary Euthanasia Techniques helps practitioners, students, and technicians expand their knowledge base and provide competent, compassionate euthanasia services. Including information on client considerations, equipment, positioning, sedation, and aftercare, the focus of the book is on providing detailed procedures for correctly performing euthanasia. Veterinary Euthanasia Techniques presents complete information on euthanasia, offering specific advice to improve skills and aid in decision making.
Author: Courtney S. Diehl Publisher: ISBN: 9781937862664 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 194
Book Description
Gunshot injuries. Breeding disasters. Controlling trainers, nutty horse owners, warm hearted clients and "laugh-out-loud-funny stories that you just can't make up"- Dr. Courtney deals with it all in this lively series of tales about the life of a mobile vet in the Colorado Rockies. In her stories from thirteen years as a mobile horse vet, whether running IV - fluids on top of a mountain or squaring off against an unethical cutting horse owner who calls her "Little Lady," Diehl makes us laugh, cry and smile. It's a journey that brings the reader onto the farms and into the clinic and shows what it's really like to be a mobile veterinarian.
Author: Graham Wallace Publisher: ISBN: 9780995115408 Category : Veterinarians Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
In February 1945, with no veterinary training available in New Zealand, Graham Wallace braved a German raider in the Tasman Sea to begin his studies in Sydney. The potentially explosive journey setting the tone for a colourful life working with big farm animals in rural New Zealand as a travelling vet, later specialising in disease prevention and vaccine creation. Vet on the Go is a collection of tales about his time as a vet that is both informative and funny, and addresses changes in practice and attitudes in the profession over seventy years.
Author: Bruce R. Coston Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1250014980 Category : Pets Languages : en Pages : 275
Book Description
Bruce R. Coston's first book, Ask the Animals, earned him high praise for being another James Herriot. Now, in his delightful second memoir, Coston shares more rich stories about his animal patients and the clients who make veterinary practice so fulfilling. In this humorous, poignant, and enthralling collection, Coston explores what it is about the interaction with our pets that provides such profound companionship, and how a love for animals helps us to be more fully human. This ability to enrich and fulfill us is the Gift of pets. Coston's characters, both the people and the animals, will engage you from the first page. You'll meet Mr. Johnston, the linguist, and his Mountain of Love; Rachel, the office prankster; Coston's "girlfriend," Megan; and Mischief, the only patient Coston has ever had that helped to pay for her own surgery. You'll learn what a "sugar glider" is and how to give one mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. You'll marvel at Lisa, Coston's first veterinary technician, and the courage that the Gift of pets gave her to reinvent herself and rekindle the dreams she thought she had squandered.The Gift of Pets celebrates what it's like to be truly blessed with a deep love and concern for the pets with which we surround ourselves. Coston invites all animal lovers to rejoice in that Gift with him in this inspiring book of true stories.
Author: Janey Lowes Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books ISBN: 178929200X Category : Pets Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
The heartwarming and heartbreaking story of one selfless young vet on a mission to save the lives of the street dogs of Sri Lanka. It is a story of challenges and adversity and the triumph of someone who truly cares.
Author: Gareth Steel Publisher: HarperElement ISBN: 9780008466619 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Imagine going from neurologist to dermatologist, orthopaedic surgeon to obstetrician, assassin to saviour - all in one day. Welcome to the extraordinary world of veterinary medicine... In Never Work with Animals, vet Gareth Steel shares the moments of humour, horror and heroism across his 20-year career caring for creatures great and small, from bulls to stick insects. Thought-provoking, heartwarming and often laugh-out-loud funny, this unforgettable memoir reveals what life is really like for our vets.
Author: William B. Karesh Publisher: Grand Central Pub ISBN: 9780446675994 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
An internationally famous wildlife veterinarian chronicles his experiences and adventures caring for wild animals in virtually every corner of the world and discusses his fierce dedication to the cause of wildlife conservation. Reprint.
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