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Zusatztext "I really like the concept of looking at the whole animal from both a medical and an emotional standpoint. The New Holistic Way for Dogs & Cats offers a practical approach using mainstream and non-mainstream methods! along with valuable advice about how we can make our pets' everyday lives less stressful." —TEMPLE GRANDIN! author of Animals Make Us Human and Animals in Translation "Before the word holistic became integral to veterinary medicine and practice! Dr. McCutcheon was already there." —Dr. Michael W. Fox! veterinarian! animal behaviorist! and author of The Healing Touch for Cats and Dog Body! Dog Mind "Dr. Paul McCutcheon is always ahead of the pack when it comes to the health and wellness of animals. This book is just another example of this extraordinary veterinarian's forward thinking." —Ann Rohmer! host of Animal House Calls "Dr. McCutcheon has looked at the problem we all face—stress—and put together a wonderful discussion of how it relates to our relationship with our animal companions! [as well as] protocols to deal with it." —Carvel G. Tiekert! DVM! founder of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association Informationen zum Autor PAUL McCUTCHEON, DVM, is the founder of Toronto's East York Animal Clinic, serving 5,000 patients, and a former director of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association and the Human-Animal Bond Association of Canada. Dr. McCutcheon penned the "Ask a Vet" column for Chatelaine magazine and has contributed numerous articles to Pets Quarterly, Dogs Annual, Alive Magazine, Health Naturally, California Veterinarian, Canadian Veterinary Journal , and the Journal of the International Institute of Stress . He hosted the popular Canadian television series Perfect Pet People and the radio show People and Pets. SUSAN WEINSTEIN is a writer with a special interest in animals and health care. Recent articles have appeared in The Whole Dog Journal and Dogs! Dogs! Dogs! Based in Eastern Ontario, she has worked with Dr. McCutcheon as a client-collaborator since 1988. Klappentext Stress. It's the single! universal cause of both wellness and illness. While this theory is widely supported in the human medical community! it's still controversial among veterinarians. Dr. Paul McCutcheon examines the all-important health-stress connection while drawing upon the latest scientific thinking and combining it with a comprehensive! preventive! and holistic philosophy of pet care. So if you're among the millions of caring! responsible pet owners who visits the vet more often than your own doctor but still wonders what more you can do for your dog or cat! The New Holistic Way for Dogs & Cats is the next best thing to a consultation with Dr. McCutcheon. If only he saw human patients in his practice! too! An Integrated Approach to Pet Care When an aging Rottweiler called Liberty first walked into my clinic, her tragic past was years behind her. Surgery had helped repair her broken bones so she could live a normal life, and the people who adopted her after she was rescued made her life wonderful. But as she got on in years, arthritis set into her old injuries and she needed additional support that mainstream veterinary medicine could not provide. So her people, Maria and Catherine, brought the valiant old gal to me, hoping I might be able to offer her something more. Years earlier, when she was three, Liberty had been thrown out of a moving van onto one of the busiest highways in North America. Although she broke a leg in the fall, the young Rottweiler managed to get off the road and run for hours before animal rescue workers finally tracked her down. When they found her, she was exhausted and confused. According to the people who eventually adopted her, this extraordinarily gent...
