Dr. Alice Says: Healthy Horses Seldom Burp! [Paperback]

Don Blazer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1999

This book provides everything you need to know to keep your horse healthy and happy. Once you've got a horse, what exactly is it you've got. For example, if your horse were missing a single chromosome, he wouldn't even be a horse. But then, what would he be? What gives your horse is power, and when is he moving right or wrong? Can his dogs bark, and if he has a vocabulary, is he or isn't he talking?

Healthy Horses Seldom Burp! provides accurate, dependable coverage of horse shoeing and hoof care to skin and teeth, the purposes for bandages, the value of gelding, instructions for taking your horse's vital signs and a handy reference for annual health protection. In addition you'll find lively and enlightening information on how to detect and deal with everything from thrush, ringbone, sidebone, lameness to laminitis, strongles poison plants, inflammation, worms and colic.

Dr. Alice M. Blazer, DVM and certified acupuncturist explains all the medical conditions so well, both you and your horse will know why horses seldom burp.

Never stuffy, never pompous, never too technical, this book will be read again and again and will be the reference you grab everytime you have a question.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Here, at last, is a serious book on horse health care you're actually going to want to read. In fact, it's a safe bet you'll read it again and again. Healthy Horses Seldom Burp is like no other. It provides accurate, dependable coverage of everything from shoeing and hoof care to skin and teeth, the purposes for bandages, the value of gelding, instructions for taking your horse's vital signs and a hand reference for annual health protection. In addition, you'll find lively and enlightening information on how to detect and deal with everything from thrush, ringbone, sidebone, lameness to laminitis, stangles poison plants, inflammation, worms and colic.

Often very funny, this book offers a view with a twist to the standard reports on emergency first aid, feeding, winter and summer care and how to reduce the horse-fly population.

All medical, nutritional and health care information is validated by Dr. Alice M. Blazer, veterinarian and certified acupuncturist. You'll find her advice often reflects the prevailing opinions of practicing veterinarians, yet frequently takes on a more common sense horseman's approach to keeping horses healthy and happy.

From the Inside Flap

Dr. Alice M. Blazer has wanted to doctor horsesfor as long as she can recall. So she got a Beachelor of Science degree from the University of California at Davis aong with the "highest honors" and the university medal for the highest scholarship.

Dr. Alice was granted her doctorate in veterinary medicine from UCD with highest honors, being first in her class, and was awarded the School of Veterinary medicine medal.

Sticking horses with western meedles is good medicine, but being able to also stick them with eastern needles makes medicine even better. So Dr. Alice became certified in veterinary acupuncture by the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society.

With all those needles, a stethoscope, x-ray machines, floats, hoof testers, and bottle of pills, tablets and capsules, when Dr. Alice arrives in the pasture, horses get better, and in this book, she explains how and why.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Success Is Easy (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966012720
• ISBN-13: 978-0966012729
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #683,009 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for Inexperienced or Professional Horse People, July 31, 1999

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This review is from: Dr. Alice Says: Healthy Horses Seldom Burp! (Paperback)

When I first heard the title of Don Blazer's new book, "Healthy Horses Seldom Burp!", and knowing Blazer's off the wall sense of humor, I wasn't sure what to expect. I knew it would be interesting and I wasn't disappointed. I highly recommend "Burp" to anyone who owns, cares for, or is contemplating purchasing a horse. "Burp" is entertaining and informative. Blazer has a unique way of delivering material which is normally dry and way too technical. Some books on conformation, hoof ailments, nutrition, deworming, genetics...health topics, should include a box of "No Doze". "Burp" is not boring or dry and you don't need an interpreter to get through the book. Dr. Alice M. Blazer, a veterinarian and certified acupuncturist (also Don's Blazer's better half), provides health care and nutritional information to keep horses happy and healthy. Dr. Alice's natural use of humor to get the nasty technical mumbo jumbo to where it's understandable is refreshing. The Blazer's have collaborated to produce an educational book that is actually fun to read. I normally wait for books to become available on tape, and I intended to read the first chapter or two, but ended up reading the entire book in one sitting. Marilyn Short, Editor of The Alamo Area Horse Gazette