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by Jana Rade (Author)
Symptoms to Watch for in Your Dog is an award-winning guide to help you better understand what your dog is telling you about their health and how to best advocate for them. Learn how to see and how to think about changes in your dog's appearance, habits, and behavior. Some signs that might not trigger your concern can be important indicators that your dog needs to see a veterinarian right away. Other symptoms, while hard to miss, such as diarrhea, vomiting, or limping, are easy to spot but can have a laundry list of potential causes, some of them serious or even life-threatening. Symptoms to Watch for in Your Dog is a dog health advocacy guide 101. It covers a variety of common symptoms, including when each of them might be an emergency. Symptoms to Watch for in Your Dog has won the following awards:
- 2017 Maxwell Award from the Dog Writers Association of America for a book on health, behavior, or general care.
- 2017 Morris Animal Foundation Canine Health Award for the best science-based book about canine health issues.
Author Biography
Jana Rade is a devoted fur-mom and dog health advocate extraordinaire. And she's on a mission to help you. Jana used her intuition, passion, knowledge and resourcefulness to compile a wealth of practical information that you can use to help you navigate just about any ailment your dog may experience. This volume is the result of years of incredible and fastidious research into pet health, nutrition, training, behavior and all things dog. Jana has hobnobbed with veterinarians, whom she now counts among her friends, and scoured the globe for dawgie specialists. At first it was to help her own dogs. But she soon realized that many others were asking the same kinds of questions she had asked on her journey. In her book, Jana shares her experience and insights accumulated with her own dogs, as well as the dogs of family members and friends, who's journeys she had the privilege to be part of. Even with gravely ill dogs, the signs can sometimes be deceptively subtle. Knowing when to seek help can improve your dog's health, quality of life, and sometimes be the difference between the life and death.
