Animal Handling and Physical Restraint
By C. B. Chastain
1st Edition
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.
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