The Holistic Animal Handbook: A Guidebook to Nutrition, Health and Communication

by Kate Solisti-Mattelon, Patrice Mattelon, Robert Silver

The Holistic Animal Handbook is the first book to bring together practical information about diet, nutrition, and training with animal communication and emotional balancing techniques. The book guides readers into helping their companion animals themselves and encourages them to work as well with veterinarians, trainers, and healthcare practitioners. It includes chapters that explain how to prepare healthy, holistic recipes and Bach Flower Remedies for restoring an animal's emotional balance, and solutions for common behavioral and training problems. Focusing primarily on dogs, cats, and horses, but relevant to virtually all animals, the book presents a dual Healthy companion animals are better equipped to help the humans they love, just as educated humans are better able to comprehend their animals' needs.

185 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2004

About the author

Kate has dedicated her life to reuniting people and animals, helping redefine human-animal relationships. She authored the series Conversations with Dog, Conversations with Cat, and Conversations with Horse, and The Holistic Animal Handbook. Kate has been a guest speaker at the British Holistic Veterinary Conference, Rocky Mountain Holistic Veterinary Association, The International School for Professional Horsemanship in Belgium, and is a faculty member at The Lang Institute of Canine Massage in Colorado. Her writing, lectures, and workshops on interspecies communication and nutrition for dogs and cats are helping people and animals around the world; her work with veterinarians to give their patients a "voice" is helping to save animal's lives every day; and her communication with wild animals is allowing their knowledge, experience, and perspective to re-create our relationship with all beings on this beautiful planet.