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Author Chastain, C. B., author.

Title Animal handling and physical restraint / C.B. Chastain, Emeritus/Adjunct Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO ; line drawings by Lynn Vellios
Published Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 384 pages) : illustrations
Contents Safer animal handling and physical restraint -- Animal behavior -- Containments for household, yard, and laboratory animals -- Dogs -- Cats -- Other small mammals -- Companion birds -- Reptiles -- Containment for ranch, farm, and stabled animals -- Ropes, knots, and hitches -- Horses, donkeys, and mules -- Cattle -- Small ruminants -- Swine -- Poultry
Summary "Proper handling and restraint are essential to the welfare of captive animals, allowing them to be examined, groomed and treated in ways that contribute to their optimum quantity and quality of life. The aim of the book is to prepare future or current veterinarians and veterinary technologists, technicians/nurses, and assistants to be able to handle animals more safely and gain the confidence of animals and their owners. In turn, they will be able to instruct owners in proper animal handling methods, reducing the risk of physical injury or mutual infectious diseases. Throughout the book, the author emphasises that each animal is an individual and each handling environment provides its own advantages and disadvantages: handling an animal safely, humanely and efficiently requires practical knowledge of the species' normal behaviour. This is explored in detail in each of the species-based chapters, which cover proper handling of domestic household and laboratory animals, as well as farm and ranch animals where safe handling aids the producer in both humane practice and greater profitability. After reading this book, the practitioner or student will be versed in the most basic part of the art of veterinary medicine: the safe handling of animals."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text in English
Print version record
Subject Animal immobilization.
Animal handling.
Veterinary medicine.
Veterinary nursing.
Moving and Lifting Patients -- veterinary
Immobilization -- veterinary
Animal Technicians
Veterinary Medicine
Restraint, Physical -- veterinary
veterinary medicine.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Animal Husbandry.
Animal handling
Animal immobilization
Veterinary medicine
Veterinary nursing
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315153315
1315153319
9781498761949
1498761941