BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Shelter Medicine: Principles of Health and Welfare in a Multi-animal Environment
By Rachel Dean, Margaret Roberts and, Jenny Stavisky
Learn effective animal handling and restraint techniques! Animal Restraint for Veterinary Professionals, 2nd Edition describes each procedure with two to eight photos showing the exact steps needed to achieve safe restraint. A chapter is devoted to each domestic animal species, including cats, dogs, cattle, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits, rodents, ferrets, and birds. New to this edition are updated photographs showing the latest and greatest restraint procedures for all types of animals. Written by expert veterinary technician educators C.C. Sheldon, Teresa Sonsthagen, and James Topel, this practical guide also includes a chapter on knot tying!
Step-by-step guidelines make it easy to understand safe, proper restraint procedures.
Over 500 full-color photographs illustrate restraint procedures.
A clear, non-technical writing style along with descriptive photographs simplifies animal restraint concepts.
Comprehensive coverage in each chapter includes normal and abnormal behavior characteristics, precautions, special handling, restraint devices, and descriptions of medical procedures — such as venipuncture — for which special restraint procedures are necessary.
Restraint Principles chapter summarizes the considerations for restraint, animal safety, circumstances for restraint, the effect of restraint on animals, and complications.
Knot Tying chapter presents basic types of knots that may be used to safely restrain larger animals.
Table of Contents
What is shelter medicine?
• Top tips for a shelter medicine vet
Ethics and animal welfare
• Using the ethical framework to make decisions
Pragmatic decision-making in the charity situation
• Dealing with the elderly thin cat
• Dealing with the elderly dog
• Dealing with heart murmurs in dogs and cats
• Dealing with the itchy dog: is it atopic dermatitis?
Population control and management
• Setting up a population control program
• TNR/CNR checklist
• Euthanasia and shelters
Optimizing neutering programmes
• General anaesthesia protocols for early neutering
Shelter metrics
Principles of infectious disease and transmission
Biosecurity in shelters
• A brief overview of disinfectants
Shelter design and the flow of animals through a shelter
Preventive medicine in the shelter environment
• Intake assessment for animals entering shelters
Diarrhoea in the dog in the shelter environment
Diarrhoea in the cat in the shelter environment
Respiratory disease in the dog in the shelter environment
• Rehoming a coughing dog
Respiratory disease in the cat in the shelter environment
• Rehoming a snotty cat
Skins diseases in shelter animals
Managing FeLV/FIV in the multi-cat/shelter environment
Managing feline coronavirus and feline infectious peritonitis in the multi-cat/shelter environment
• Toxoplasmosis
• Exotic diseases in shelters
• Zoonotic diseases in shelters
Behaviour and stress management in the shelter environment
