Canine and Feline Behavior Therapy (2nd Edition)
Author: Benjamin L. Hart
Binding: Hardcover
Price: $56.99
Behavior medicine is perhaps the most rapidly emerging discipline in animal health care. Small animal practice is reaching the point where most practitioners are expected to offer their clients help in the behavioral area. Canine and Feline Behavior Therapy, Second Edition offers practical advice from board-certified specialists applicable to any small animal practice. This edition includes revisions based on major advances in the clinical animal behavior field and is written at a level to appeal to veterinary students, canine and feline practitioners, and veterinary behaviorists. · Long awaited new edition of this classic behavior book · Revisions reflect major advances in the field of clinical animal behavior · Provides advice applicable to any small animal practice · Written at a level that appeals to students, practitioners and specialists alike 
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Prairie Dogs: Communication and Community in an Animal Society
Author: C. N. Slobodchikoff
Binding: Hardcover
Price: $35.83
Constantine Slobodchikoff and colleagues synthesize the results of their long-running study of Gunnison’s prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni), one of the keystone species of the short-grass prairie ecosystem. They set their research in the context of the biology of the five Cynomys species found in the United States and Mexico, and detail their investigation into the prairie dogs’ sophisticated system of barks, yips, and chirps, which Slobodchikoff argues represents a referential communication capable of fine distinctions among predators. Seen as vermin that spoiled valuable rangeland, prairie dogs were long the subject of eradication campaigns and are now threatened by habitat loss and the loss of genetic diversity. The authors hope their research will help to pull the prairie dog back from the brink of extinction, as well as foster an appreciation of larger c
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Adoptable Dog: Teaching Your Adopted Pet to Obey, Trust, and Love You
Author: John Ross
Binding: Hardcover
Price: $14.00
At last, an indispensable guide to the unique needs of the 2.5 million dogs adopted every year in America. Unbelievably, there has never been a comprehensive training-and-care guide written for the adopted or "pre-owned" dog. Manuals abound for the puppy, even for the needs of the adult or mature dog, but Adoptable Dog promises to be the standard work for this exploding population. John Ross and Barbara McKinney, authors of the best-selling Puppy Preschool, provide a biscuit-to-basket guide for every kind of adoptable dog-the older puppy, the overactive or unhousebroken adult dog, the shelter pooch, or even the mature canine in need of one last, loving home. The authors provide reliable advice on: • determining which dog is right for which home; • finding and using reputable breed associations, rescue organizations, and pounds; • helping the dog to get along
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