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Animal Restraint for Veterinary Professionals

  • 2nd Edition - July 21, 2016
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: C. C. Sheldon, Teresa F. Sonsthagen, James Topel
  • Language: English

Learn effective animal handling and restraint techniques! Animal Restraint for Veterinary Professionals, 2nd Edition describes each procedure with two to eight photos showing t… Read more

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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!

Key features

  • 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

1. Restraint Principles

2. Knot Tying

3. Restraint of Cats

4. Restraint of Dogs

5. Restraint of Cattle

6. Restraint of Horses

7. Restraint of Sheep

8. Restraint of Goats

9. Restraint of Swine

10. Restraint of Rodents, Rabbits and Ferrets

11. Restraint of Birds

Appendix

1: Gender Names

2: Physiologic Data

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 30, 2016
  • Language: English

About the authors

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C. C. Sheldon

Dr Clarissa (CC ) Sheldon trained Veterinary technicians at Madison Area Technical College for 27 Years. Believing that medicine is a service to life she led students into the field of service medicine by hosting and recruiting students for monthly spay and neuter clinics for Dane county friends of feral, providing volunteers for local humane societies, leading weeklong service trips to Best friend Animal sanctuary, Heifer International ranch in Arkansas, The everglades outpost, spirit horse program in South Dakota and numerous sled dog races across the Midwest for over 20 years. Her joy is helping veterinary technicians use their skills to serve animals and the people who love them.
Affiliations and expertise
Program Director, Veterinary Technician and Laboratory Animal Technician Programs, Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI, USA

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Teresa F. Sonsthagen

Teresa F. Sonsthagen Senior Lecturer, Co-Director of the Veterinary Technology Program, Retired, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer, Co-Director of the Veterinary Technology Program, Retired, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, USA

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James Topel

Affiliations and expertise
Instructor, Vet Tech and Lab Animal Tech, Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI, USA