Veterinary Medicine: Client Education and Pet Care

American Animal Hospital Association -- This site provides advice on choosing and caring for dogs, cats, birds, exotics, and small mammals. There is much general information, including information on characteristics specific breeds.

American Veterinary Medical Association -- Health information, brochures, safety information, and an FAQ are available.

Owning a pet comes with many responsibilities. Aside from providing food and shelter, you must ensure their health and care needs are met. These can lead to huge expenses. By understanding the different types of expenses, taking preventive actions, choosing the right pet insurance plan and finding creative ways to reduce daily expenses, pet owners can save money while effectively caring for their pets.

Pets bring joy to their owners, filling their homes and lives with an abundance of energy and companionship. But it’s also important to recognize pet ownership encompasses more than evening strolls and furry cuddles: It’s a financial and emotional long-term responsibility. Outside of providing food and shelter, pets require routine healthcare and pet insurance, care providers and groomers, supplies, training and more. Delve into the costs, commitment and expectations of responsible pet ownership to determine if having a pet is a good choice for you and your lifestyle.

American College of Veterinary Surgeons -- Provides background, clinical signs, risk factors, diagnostic procedures, and when to seek professional help for many conditions. Aimed at clients, but offers a good overview.

Doctor's Foster & Smith, Inc. -- This commercial site offers many articles on different types of pets, epsecially on pet diseases and conditions.

Purina provides many of short snippets of basic information on choosing, feeding, and caring for a dog or cat. The sections on breeds is especially good. The reading level is at the 6th grade level (like Reader's Digest), making is accessible to all. The health information sections frequently refer the reader to their veterinarian -- as is usually appropriate.

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American College of Veterinary Surgeons -- Provides background, clinical signs, risk factors, diagnostic procedures, and when to seek professional help for many conditions. Aimed at clients, but offers a good overview.

VIN -- This outstanding, ad-free site offers extensive, dependable, and high quality online pet health information for client education. Keyword search is a good way to search Veterinary Partner, but there are guided tabs (behavior, health, diseases, drugs, pet corner) and links to species.

This link searches the library catalog for the subject heading "Veterinary Medicine Practice".