Field Guide: Dog First Aid Emergency Care for the Hunting, Working, and Outdoor Dog

This is exactly what I was looking for. Other first aid references just give you only very basic info and tell you to take your dog to the vet. I needed something that would be a resource for emergency medicine, so that I could provide first-level treatment for my dog that would buy me some time to get to the vet. This one is designed for people who need to treat hunting dogs out in the field where help may be quite a ways away, so it's just what I needed. This book is tiny and portable but packed full of excellent info. It tells you how to deal with torn dewclaws and open wounds and just about anything you could hope for. It also has a very useful human-medicine dosage chart in the back. This is great as part of your dog's first-aid kit.

I wanted a guide for what to do if going to the vet is not an option like on a backpacking trip. This is perfect. Also has a handy medication dosage chart listing types of meds you can give the dog and the dose. My vet tells me many people give their dogs human meds and make things worse so this chart is really great. Also explains what to do for cpr broken bones snakebites and other problems. Of course for many ailments you should go to the vet but if you are in thenmiddle of nowhere and days to the nearest vet then you need to know how to deal with the problem on your own. This book assumes you are unable to get to the vet so tells you what to do. Excellent resource. My only complaint is I wish I could get this book also in a chart form or smaller print as it is 95 pages and I am always looking to lighten my pack! But I am just whining. The important info is well worth the few ounces it weighs.

Being a nurse, I take the proverbial "be prepared" to extremes, but when you are camping hundreds of miles away from the nearest emergency health care facility, you must be educated to handle most emergencies of your family members.Well, DON"T FORGET THE DOGWe just adopted a wonderful black labrador, and being a busy outdoor kind of family I needed a concise, handy, well rounded emergency care manual for my little boy, Abbott. I researched and decided on this pocket field guide that is perfect for carrying on your outdoor excursions. I am pleased with the content and find the directions easy to follow, even for a lay person uneducated in medicine.Hopefully, my dog will never need emergent care, but I feel better knowing and gathering the knowledge needed to be there for him if the need becomes reality. Buy this book and put together a first aid kit for your dog. His life could depend on it.

I keep this book and several others in my library of dog First Aid. This one of two books that I take in my hiking and doggy parkour kit. It is very realistic about what can happen in the field far away from a vet office or the comfort of one's home. It is "bare bones" so it can fit into a backpack or doggy first aid kit. So it may not be as detailed as some books but it does have several useful diagrams and practical "in the field" advice, especially for treating larger dogs.I like the way that it is laid out with each medical issue having a section on "Field Treatment", "Note" and where appropriate "Warnings". For the hiker and hunter the section on Leghold and Head Traps is an important inclusion which is not commonly found in common "pet " first aid books.I have been looking for an updated version. This one was originally published in 1994 and this version is the second edition dated 2007. When they publish an updated version I will buy that one too.Recommend for anyone taking their dog into the field.

This book covers a LOT of real-life scenarios. You can get it new or used (I got it used) and I showed it to my Vet and he approved of the purchase too. Nuff said in my book - my Vet has over 35 years of experience - in a rural setting so you KNOW he's seen it all. I would give this and a Furminator to friends who adopted furbabies for the 1st time. Money well spent, and at a very reasonable price for what you get. Good solid get your pet to the Vet ALIVE information.

Gave this as a gift for my husband for when he plans to hunt this fall with our pup. Added it to our pet med kit, fits perfectly in the kit and he was excited about how useful it looked for hunting dogs especially. Hope he doesn’t have to use it much, but nice to know he has it if needed!

I felt like I was in Vet School when I first started flipping through. I'm about to become a full time RVer with my boyfriend and two dogs. I'm sure any problems we run into while on the road won't be problem. It also has an awesome chapter on allergies which helped us with our 5 year old pit bull who is allergic to fleas! As we learned from the book and confirmed by our vet. I also wasn't expecting it to be pocket size either. The dogs can carry it themselves in their packs :)

anyone taken there dog in the field needs this book.