Exotic Animal Medicine for the Veterinary Technician [Paperback]

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Product Details

• Paperback: 520 pages


• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 2 edition (May 4, 2010)


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 0813822068


• ISBN-13: 978-0813822068


• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 1 x 10.9 inches


• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  

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Customer Reviews

Dr. Ballard has done an exceptional job of putting together a text for veterinary technicians interested in exotic animals. I am the program director of a veterinary technology program in Michigan and after reviewing this book, I immediately incorporated this text into our Exotic Animal Course. A great text for students, technicians and anyone interested in the health and management of exotic species.

This is a great book and I recommend it. My husband and I teach a college course to veterinary assistants (and technicians, if interested) on exotic pet care. We are using this book as a textbook even though it is geared towards technicians. For the purposes of our course, we are toning down the anatomy and physiology, and the diseases sections to make the information less technical.
I do have one suggestion: if there is another edition, sections on degus and aquarium fish would be helpful.
I also have a concern: we do not consider skunks or prairie dogs to be exotic pets; they are wild animals or wildlife. We believe this because skunks are rabies vector animals and, even if vaccinated against rabies, will not be considered protected from rabies by DPH; thus whether a person is bitten by a vaccinated "pet" skunk or an unvaccinated skunk, the skunk will be euthanized. As for prairie dogs, their history is a bit complicated. They were illegal to own for a period of time (due to linkage to a monkeypox outbreak)and now a person has to get a permit to own one. We have distinguished between exotic pets and wildlife in our course, that is, between animals that are legal to own and mostly captive-bred and animals that are wild and mostly illegal to own.