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    How Healthy Is Your Pet?: A Guide to Understanding Your Pet’s Healthcare
    How Healthy Is Your Pet?: A Guide to Understanding Your Pet’s Healthcare
    How Healthy Is Your Pet?: A Guide to Understanding Your Pet’s Healthcare
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    How Healthy Is Your Pet?: A Guide to Understanding Your Pet’s Healthcare

    By Glenda Paredes DVM and Garey Smith MBA

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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 cat's health.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateJun 15, 2018
    ISBN9781543935790
    How Healthy Is Your Pet?: A Guide to Understanding Your Pet’s Healthcare

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      How Healthy Is Your Pet? - Glenda Paredes DVM

      © 2018 Glenda Paredes DVM

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      ISBN: 978-1-54-393579-0

      Table of Contents

      A Guide to Understanding your Pet's Healthcare

      Heartworms

      Infectious Diseases in Pets

      An In-depth Look at Why We Vaccinate Our Pets

      Intestinal Parasites (Parasitic Worms)

      External Parasites (Fleas and Ticks)

      More Details on Why You Should Protect Your Pets from Heartworm, Intestinal Parasites, Fleas, and Ticks.

      Dental Care (Teeth and Gums)

      Pet Dentistry: Anesthetic versus Anesthesia-free

      Eating Right - Healthy Habits

      Pet Illness from Internal Conditions or Problems

      Hormone Abnormalities

      Internal Organ Failures

      Masses, Growth, or Cancer

      Surgeries for Pets (Dogs and Cats)

      Anesthesia, Pain Management, and Sedatives

      Veterinary Acupuncture

      Skin Infections and Skin Health

      A Closer Look at Allergies in Pets - Dogs and Cats with Allergy

      Ear Infections

      Eye Infections

      Caring for Your Puppy

      Caring for Your Kitten

      Why Spay or Neuter Pets?

      Senior or Geriatric Pet

      Emergencies: Keeping Your Pet Safe

      Advanced Diagnostics for Pets

      Evaluating Medications or Drug Facts

      Why is Pet Insurance Better than Monthly Wellness Plans

      What to Know Before Adopting a New Pet

      A List of Pet Health Myths that are Verifiably False

      And Finally

      A Guide to Understanding your Pet’s Healthcare

      This book primarily covers pet healthcare for dogs and cats and is essentially a compilation of some of the many health issues affecting pets. From the book you will learn how to care for your pet, how to communicate effectively with your veterinarian about your pet, develop a basis for understanding the standard of care provided to your pet, and allow you as the pet owner to take more initiative or a stronger role in offering your pet the best healthcare available. Ideally, this book is for pet owners (owners of dogs and cats) who want to take a more active role in caring for their pets or just want to have a general understanding of what is involved. Students in middle school, high school, or college, who want to pursue a career in the veterinary field including those aspiring to be veterinary technicians, or young veterinarians in small animal medicine, should read this book.

      Pet healthcare is a complicated issue with many areas that need improvement. One of the biggest areas for improvement is pet owner compliance with acquiring and/or administering preventive medications, treatments, and diagnostics. There are different reasons pet owners may have for not complying with preventive pet healthcare. These generally fall under one of the following categories:

      Affordability – they are unable to fit it in their current budget

      Cost Benefit – they do not think it is worth the cost especially when they compare to human healthcare offset by health insurance.

      They have a personal believe that conflicts with the veterinarian’s expert recommendation. That is, they do not believe it is needed or necessary.

      They trust another source of information more than the veterinarian (sometimes online information for better or worse)

      They trust their own instinct or knowledge more than the veterinarian’s expertise

      They do not have the time to administer routine medications

      They forget to administer routine medications

      Some of the reasons for not complying with preventive treatment are also, why some pet owners decline certain recommended diagnostics testing and even certain doctor recommended treatments even when their ill pet is at the veterinary hospital. Some owners may choose to do short term treatments for illnesses and ignore the more long-term solutions that aim to treat the root cause(s) of the problem.

      Below, you will see primary pet healthcare information presented in a topic format and covering mostly preventive healthcare care, diagnostics, and general veterinary recommendations for pet care. Some topics are covered in more detail than other topics, but overall the information ranges from beginner to intermediate levels as far as the technical content. We explore some of the worst threats to your pet’s health and things you can do to lower their risk of getting sick. You will also learn which disease-causing agents are zoonotic, which means that they are communicable between pets and people. As you read further,

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