[Veterinary Textbook]Ferrets, Rabbits, and Rodents 4th Edition by Katherine Quesenberry DVM MPH Diplomate ABVP, Christoph Mans Dr Med Vet, Connie Orcutt, James W. Carpenter MS DVM Dipl ACZM

This comprehensive veterinary textbook helps readers understand how to treat a wide variety of small mammals. Ferrets, Rabbits, and Rodents: Clinical Medicine and Surgery, 4th Edition is an essential educational resource. Covering the conditions most often seen in veterinary practice, this highly readable text discusses topics such as preventative medicine, disease management, ophthalmology, dentistry, and zoonosis. More than 700 full-color photographs and illustrations highlight radiographic interpretation as well as diagnostic, surgical, and therapeutic techniques. This fourth edition also features new text on degus (large rodent species); new text on prairie dogs; and expanded educational content on surgical procedures, physical therapy rehabilitation and alternative medicine for rabbits, neoplasia in rabbits, and zoonotic disease. With expert contributors from around the globe, Ferrets, Rabbits, and Rodents is the authoritative reference guide for small mammal care studies.

• Logical organization lays out sections by different animals and organizes parts within chapters by body system ― making it quick and easy to access important information.
• Veterinary reference section includes educational data on formularies and dosages for a wealth of species including ferrets, rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamsters, rats/mice, prairie dogs, hedgehogs, and sugar gliders.
• More than 700 photographs and illustrations highlight key concepts such as radiographic interpretation and the main points of diagnostic, surgical, and therapeutic techniques.
• Chapter on ophthalmology provides an area of study that is difficult to find for ferrets, rabbits, rodents, and other small mammals.
• Chapter outlines offer an at-a-glance overview of the chapter contents at the beginning of the chapter.

• NEW! Coverage of surgical procedures has been further expanded in this edition. Educational guides on surgical procedures are presented in a separate section and shown step by step through color photographs and radiographs, accompanied by line drawings.
• NEW! Additional information on physical therapy rehabilitation and alternative medicine for rabbits discusses chiropractic care and acupuncture.
• NEW! Expanded content on neoplasia in rabbits incorporates text on lymphoreticular disorders, thymoma, and other neoplastic diseases of rabbits.
• NEW! All new chapter on prairie dogs has been added.
• NEW! All new chapter on degus (large rodent species) has been added.
• UPDATED! Chapter on zoonotic disease has been updated to further cover specific zoonotic diseases in addition to addressing the increased potential for disease transmission from animals to humans.
• NEW! Global author perspective incorporates the expertise of authors practicing outside of North America.
• UPDATED! Photographs show the diseases and disorders that are more commonly seen in practice.