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First Aid for Horse and Rider
Emergency Care for the Stable and Trail
By Nancy S. Loving, DVM & Gilbert Preston, MD
With simple language and a quick-access format, this book provides advice from both a DVM and an MD about handling all the common injuries and condition that can arise when people and horses come together. It opens with an essential chapter on what to do when both horses and riders are injured.
For horses, it covers animal/insect bites, wounds and bleeding, bone injuries, eye conditions, heat stress, allergic reactions, hoof problems, acute lameness, and more.
For riders, it covers CPR, head injuries, lighting injuries, bone and joint injuries, and many other conditions.
This is the long-awaited how-to handbook for treating riding injuries in the field for both rider and horse, with step-by-step instructions for the most common injuries and what to do until help arrives. First Aid for Horse and Rider is essential for every tack room and cantle-bag.
About the Authors
Nancy S. Loving, DVM, owns Loving Equine Clinic in Boulder, Colorado. She is the author of numerous books, and articles including All Horse Systems Go: The Horse Owner's Full-Color Veterinary Care and Conditioning Resource for Modern
Performance, Sport and Pleasure Horses.
Gilbert M. Preston, MD, is the author of the FalconGuides book Wilderness First
Aid. He works in Butte, Montana.
First Aid for Horse and Rider
By Nancy S. Loving, DVM & Gilbert Preston, MD ISBN 978-1-59921-293-7 o $12.95 o Paperback o 4 ¼ x 7 o 192 pages o June, 2008 The Lyons Press is an imprint of The Globe Pequot Press / www.globepequot.com Please send two copies of reviews or listings.
Horse Journal(tm) Guide to Equine
Supplements and Nutraceuticals
By Eleanor M. Kellon, V.M.D
Foreword by Cynthia Foley
From Horse Journal(tm), the most trusted publication in the equestrian world, here is an all-new, up-to-date guide to the vast array of equine supplements and nutraceuticals on the market today.
Horse Journal(tm) Guide to Equine Supplements and Nutraceuticals is the only book of its kind. Complete with comparative charts, useful sidebars, and practical insights, it guides you in making decisions about optimal nutrition and preventive care for your horse, as well as natural supplements for performance. Dr. Eleanor Kellon, a founding editor at Horse Journal, believes that herbal and proper nutritional support can help horses that suffer from allergies, insulin resistance, laminitis, weight problems, tendonitis, and ligament ailments. This essential new volume fills a long-standing gap in horse care.
Chapters include subjects such as anti-inflammatory medication, laminitis and insulin resistance, hoof, immune system, muscle and joint support, feeding senior, pregnant, lactating and growing horses, skin and coat supplements and much more. This new title is a comprehensive, up-to-date volume that makes sense of the dizzying array of nutraceutical products available to horse owners today.
About the Author Eleanor M. Kellon, V.M.D., has been the veterinary editor of Horse Journal since its inception. Her articles have appeared in Equus, Perfect Horseman, Hoofbeats, and The Chronicle of the Horse. Dr. Kellon is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School and completed a three-year internship and residency in large animal medicine at New Bolton Center. She lives in Ephrata, Pennsylvania.
Horse Journal(tm) Guide to Equine Supplements and Nutraceuticals
By Eleanor M. Kellon, V.M.D ISBN 978-1-59921-178-7 o $29.95 o Paper Over Board o 8 ½ x 11 o 304 pages o July, 2008 The Lyons Press is an imprint of The Globe Pequot Press / www.globepequot.com Please send two copies of reviews or listings.
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