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Veterinary Nursing of Exotic Pets
From budgies and cockatiels to chipmunks and chinchillas, our interest in exotic pets has rocketed in recent years. With the house rabbit being the UK's third most commonly kept pet after the cat and dog, and sales in small mammals, reptiles and birds continuing to grow, exotic pets have now become a specialist area of veterinary practice in their own right. Veterinary Nursing of Exotic Pets is the first book to address the need for a definitive reference book devoted entirely to the principles and applications of nursing exotic species. Developed from a City and Guild's course, it not only covers husbandry, nutrition and handling, but also explores anatomy and chemical restraint, and provides an overview of diseases and treatments.
320 pages, Paperback
First published March 28, 1991
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September 10, 2019
The book I read this summer was Veterinary Nursing Of Exotic Pets, Second Edition, by Simon J. Girling. This book was published on March 31st, 2003 and is a nonfiction book. This book covers the proper surgical, testing, and restraining needs of any exotic species within the categories of rodents, avians, and reptiles within a veterinary clinic or hospital. This book also takes place within the owner’s home on how each species should be housed, groomed, fed, and the correct husbandry required for that species. This book covers a variety of different procedures that take part within a veterinary clinic such as what sites are best to draw blood from, inject medications, proper restraints for the procedures, and how to keep them under anesthesia as well as premedications and reversal drugs. The central themes of this book are all related to animal care and nursing. Healing animals and rescuing exotic species has been around for many years and remains highly relevant and important to this day. It is becoming more and more common for people to house exotic species and it is highly important that they get the correct housing and veterinary care to live a happy and healthy life. The overall theme of the book is to ensure the use and safety of procedures that help to benefit the exotic animal by trying to find out the source of their problem in order to get them healthy and happy again.
I personally did enjoy reading this book as I felt it was very accurate in most aspects, although each veterinarian has their own preference on how to do procedures, like where they prefer to draw blood from and what premedications are more likely to be used than others. I thought it was very knowledgeable to learn about the different husbandries, care, and handling requirements that are put into the three very different species included within this book. I felt the book did have some weaknesses unfortunately. There were multiple spelling errors within just a single chapter and there was one paragraph where the last sentence was combined all together like one big word. Aside from spelling errors, I did appreciate the way that this book was set up. Each species talked about the different breeds within that species and what specific housing requirements some breeds shared while others had different needs. The author kept the basic biological traits of the breeds in a chart at the bottom of the pages to keep it separate from the rest of the information for it to be easily accessed. Overall, the book had multiple spelling errors that could have easily been caught if read over carefully, but this book was set up professionally and neatly and included important information that is very helpful in the veterinary field of exotics.
I personally did enjoy reading this book as I felt it was very accurate in most aspects, although each veterinarian has their own preference on how to do procedures, like where they prefer to draw blood from and what premedications are more likely to be used than others. I thought it was very knowledgeable to learn about the different husbandries, care, and handling requirements that are put into the three very different species included within this book. I felt the book did have some weaknesses unfortunately. There were multiple spelling errors within just a single chapter and there was one paragraph where the last sentence was combined all together like one big word. Aside from spelling errors, I did appreciate the way that this book was set up. Each species talked about the different breeds within that species and what specific housing requirements some breeds shared while others had different needs. The author kept the basic biological traits of the breeds in a chart at the bottom of the pages to keep it separate from the rest of the information for it to be easily accessed. Overall, the book had multiple spelling errors that could have easily been caught if read over carefully, but this book was set up professionally and neatly and included important information that is very helpful in the veterinary field of exotics.
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