Dog Health Care: 7 Simple Ways To Keep Your Dog Healthy is a nonfiction animal health/wellness book written by Rachele Baker, D.V.M. While most dog owners are well aware of the importance of providing their furry friends with regular veterinarian checkups, many aren’t aware of the steps they can personally take to ensure the optimal health of their dogs. Baker is a dog lover, author and a veterinarian in practice in California since 2001. Her book covers the nutritional needs of dogs and demystifies the language found on many dog foods. She discusses the differences in feeding needs for dogs at all stages of their lives. Baker also shares strategies for helping one’s dog maintain a healthy weight and gives ideas on how to make exercise a fun and healthy experience for both the dog and her human companion. She also discusses dental care, fleas and ticks, and necessary vaccinations. Baker also provides two bonus chapters and a Cheat Sheet that give condensed information on the 7 ways to keep your dog healthy.

Dr. Rachele Baker’s Dog Health Care is an informative and accessible guide that should be on every dog’s owner’s bookshelf. I was especially interested in her advice on nutrition, weight control and exercise options. My Labrador retriever loves her food, as all Labs do, and keeping her both satiated and trim is an ongoing challenge. I’ve started following some of the author’s suggestions and have been pleased with the results. The information she provides on ticks is also invaluable as ticks seem to be everywhere and impossible to avoid. I appreciated Baker’s conversational style, choice of essential topics and down-to-earth attitude. Dog Health Care: 7 Simple Ways To Keep Your Dog Healthy is highly recommended.

Dog Health Care: 7 Simple Ways to Keep Your Dog Healthy by veterinarian Rachele Baker is exactly what the title says; a manual for dog health care. It is written with the knowledge of a professional veterinarian and is filled with useful information and interesting facts. Chapters are devoted to nutrition, weight management, exercise, dental care, and veterinary visits. Baker also includes sections on diseases and parasites dogs face daily. There are detailed descriptions of different ticks, covering everything from what they look like to their life cycles and breeding habits. There are also a couple of bonus chapters with tips for giving your dog medications and information you should take to veterinary visits. Learn how to calculate your dog’s ideal weight, what foods make great, healthy treats and how to trick Fido into swallowing that dratted pill.

This book gives readers a very informative look at dog health care. The chapters are very in-depth and well written. Rachele Baker, an actual veterinarian, provides readers with useful, practical material. Any dog owner needs to know the things she talks about. The extra information on ticks and vaccinations is also helpful. The chapter on exercise is one of my favorites. Baker gives dog owners some fun suggestions for dog exercises for all kinds of owners, whether exercise buffs or the less fit. The dog dancing was a particularly neat idea, one I’d never heard of before. This book is a nice addition to any pet care collection and anyone who owns a dog would benefit from reading it.