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The Veterinarians' Guide to Your Cat's Symptoms
The experts reveal how to interpret and understand your cat's symptoms
and what steps to take to ensure its health.
This comprehensive and practical book is designed to assist cat owners in understanding their pets' bodies and health based on signs and symptoms of disease, and in determining the most common medical problems that might cause particular symptoms.
Adopting the "decision chart" format from popular symptom guides for human ailments, such as the American Medical Association's Guide to Your Family's Symptoms and Take Care of Yourself, five leading veterinarians have designed a user-friendly chart system that will guide a pet owner from noting the symptom and observing the cat's behavior to understanding the associated signs of an illness, the possible conditions, and the best steps to take. Filled with more than 150 charts in an easy-to-follow two-color format and medical drawings, The Veterinarians' Guide to Your Cat's Symptoms is the indispensable reference for cat owners. It not only considers the problems of sick and injured pets, but also addresses the needs of healthy animals. It has all the information a cat owner needs:
¸ What a healthy cat should look like
¸ Flow charts to the 200 most common symptoms
¸ Behavioral issues, such as spraying and clawing
¸ Emergency first aid, including transporting an injured cat
¸ A glossary of veterinary diagnostic tests and medical terms
With this unique combination of medical information and advice, plus an innovative chart system, The Veterinarians' Guide to Your Cat's Symptoms will ensure that your cat really does have nine lives.
and what steps to take to ensure its health.
This comprehensive and practical book is designed to assist cat owners in understanding their pets' bodies and health based on signs and symptoms of disease, and in determining the most common medical problems that might cause particular symptoms.
Adopting the "decision chart" format from popular symptom guides for human ailments, such as the American Medical Association's Guide to Your Family's Symptoms and Take Care of Yourself, five leading veterinarians have designed a user-friendly chart system that will guide a pet owner from noting the symptom and observing the cat's behavior to understanding the associated signs of an illness, the possible conditions, and the best steps to take. Filled with more than 150 charts in an easy-to-follow two-color format and medical drawings, The Veterinarians' Guide to Your Cat's Symptoms is the indispensable reference for cat owners. It not only considers the problems of sick and injured pets, but also addresses the needs of healthy animals. It has all the information a cat owner needs:
¸ What a healthy cat should look like
¸ Flow charts to the 200 most common symptoms
¸ Behavioral issues, such as spraying and clawing
¸ Emergency first aid, including transporting an injured cat
¸ A glossary of veterinary diagnostic tests and medical terms
With this unique combination of medical information and advice, plus an innovative chart system, The Veterinarians' Guide to Your Cat's Symptoms will ensure that your cat really does have nine lives.
192 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1999
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July 8, 2023
I found this guide important so I could tell whether something is harming my pets or whether they are just playing a joke on me. (My cats love to do that to me in the worst way.)
I actually highlighted a number of parts of it, for example: "It is foolish and dangerous to waste precious time trying to give first aid, and often whatever measures are taken won't help and may harm a cat."
This book was helpful to me in that it told me that a cat can have hydrogen peroxide. Who would have known? I had no clue before reading this book.
I found the drawings in it helpful, as well.
FeLV, FIP, FIV, and FLUTD are problematic worldwide, and so I didn't give it that many stars because I am regretful over the amount of life lost to these currently intractable diseases.
Can they be resolved soon? Matilda and I hope so. Cora, my other cat, is outside taking a walk.
I actually highlighted a number of parts of it, for example: "It is foolish and dangerous to waste precious time trying to give first aid, and often whatever measures are taken won't help and may harm a cat."
This book was helpful to me in that it told me that a cat can have hydrogen peroxide. Who would have known? I had no clue before reading this book.
I found the drawings in it helpful, as well.
FeLV, FIP, FIV, and FLUTD are problematic worldwide, and so I didn't give it that many stars because I am regretful over the amount of life lost to these currently intractable diseases.
Can they be resolved soon? Matilda and I hope so. Cora, my other cat, is outside taking a walk.
June 21, 2022
I think this book, The Veterinarians' Guide to Your Cat's Symptoms, is very informative and a must read for any cat owner. Some of the information I already knew about, but this would be a good book to refresh with or for someone who is new to adopting cats in their homes!
October 30, 2024
Very Detailed
This book was amazingly thorough and had so much detail for being relatively short. I definitely feel better prepared for when my cats become ill!
This book was amazingly thorough and had so much detail for being relatively short. I definitely feel better prepared for when my cats become ill!
April 14, 2017
I probably should have gotten this in paper format rather than MOBI. The list of symptoms would be a lot easier to reference in an emergency.
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