Symptoms to Watch for in Your Dog: How to Tell if Your Dog Is Sick and What to Do Next (Owner-to-Owner Dog Health Series) - Softcover

Rade, Jana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0995247404 ISBN 13: 9780995247406

Publisher: Dawg Business Publications, 2017

Synopsis

Symptoms to Watch for in Your Dog is an award-winning guide to help you better understand what your dog is telling you about their health and how to best advocate for them. Learn how to see and how to think about changes in your dog’s appearance, habits, and behavior. Some signs that might not trigger your concern can be important indicators that your dog needs to see a veterinarian right away. Other symptoms, while hard to miss—such as diarrhea, vomiting, or limping—are easy to spot but can have a laundry list of potential causes, some of them serious or even life-threatening. Symptoms to Watch for in Your Dog is a dog health advocacy guide 101. It covers a variety of common symptoms and when each of them might be an emergency. Symptoms to Watch for in Your Dog has won the following awards:

• Maxwell Award from the Dog Writers Association of America for a book on health, behavior, or general care.
• Morris Animal Foundation Canine Health Award for the best science-based book about canine health issues.

About this title

About the Author

Jana Rade is a devoted fur-mom and dog health advocate extraordinaire. And she's on a mission to help you. Jana used her intuition, passion, knowledge and resourcefulness to compile a wealth of practical information that you can use to help you navigate just about any ailment your dog may experience. This volume is the result of years of incredible and fastidious research into pet health, nutrition, training, behavior and all things dog. Jana has hobnobbed with veterinarians, whom she now counts among her friends, and scoured the globe for dawgie specialists. At first it was to help her own dogs. But she soon realized that many others were asking the same kinds of questions she had asked on her journey. In her book, Jana shares her experience and insights accumulated with her own dogs, as well as the dogs of family members and friends, who's journeys she had the privilege to be part of. Even with gravely ill dogs, the signs can sometimes be deceptively subtle. Knowing when to seek help can improve your dog's health, quality of life, and sometimes be the difference between the life and death.

Reviews

When Rade’s canine, Jasmine, became terribly ill, she agonized over whether she’d neglected any of her beloved pet’s symptoms. It led her to write this book, so that other dog owners would be aware of potential signs of sickness. “Potential” is the operative word here; one of the book’s strengths is in how it identifies observable symptoms without drawing definitive conclusions …The book begins with a good overview about how dog owners can advocate for their pet’s health. Included are helpful chapters on interacting with vets, obtaining second opinions, scheduling wellness exams, and dealing with emergencies. The bulk of the content, however, revolves around the symptoms themselves. Rade tackles them chapter by chapter, identifying each one individually, describing it in detail, and including a section titled “When is it an Emergency?” Panting and drooling, for instance, may or may not be normal behaviors, depending on the circumstances, and the author does a fine job of differentiating normal from abnormal. She goes into graphic detail about such subjects as vomit and feces, which some readers may find repellent, but it’s unquestionably highly educational. For example, “What’s in the Poop?” provides useful intelligence about the appearance, consistency, color, and content of a dog’s feces—all of which could be helpful information for a dog owner and, ultimately, to a vet. Rade writes conversationally and informally, applying wit where appropriate, and the black-and-white photographs of dogs are charming. She acknowledges the input of veterinarians as she was writing the book, which supports its credibility. As for Jasmine, the dog that started it all, Rade was told by one vet the situation was terminal, but she got a second opinion. As a result, “Jasmine recovered from that medical disaster, and others, and lived over four more happy years.”

An engaging, instructional work that could be a pet owner’s best friend.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dawg Business Publications
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0995247404
• ISBN 13: 9780995247406
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186