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5.0 out of 5 stars
Keeping Yourself Educated, Jun 2 2006
Am on my 3rd copy as they keep getting loaned so I buy another. Dr. Kellon's books are ALL extremely useful and valuable. If you need specific diagnosis & vet care, CALL YOUR VET - this is a guide to educate owners and it does so with amazing results!!!! The result is you can be a part of the problem by not knowing or a part of the solution and be a team with your veterinarian.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting and useful, but very incomplete information, Nov 12 2002
By A Customer
This book has some useful information in it, about diet, vitamins and supplements for your older horse, and gives a nice (though not in-depth) overview of some of the health concerns for older horses. However, it is shockingly incomplete in some areas. For example, I bought the book in part because it has a whole chapter on arthritis, a problem for my own older horse. But in this entire chapter, not once were any of the current injection treatments (either the intramuscular or intravenous ones such as Adequan or Legend, or the hyaluronic acid & steriod joint injections) even mentioned, let alone described and discussed. Treatments such as oral joint supplements, regular exercise, treating arthritis with ice, etc., were presented; this is useful information as far as it goes, but of limited value to a horse such as mine who is already exercised regularly and already on oral joint supplements, and still suffering from arthritis. The author clearly prefers natural and alternative treatments over traditional ones throughout the book; this would be fine if both the 'natural' and 'traditional' treatments were still covered and discussed. But to not even mention the most common current veterinary treatments for arthritis is an inexplicable and glaring omission, and it made me wonder just how incomplete and selective all the other chapters are in the information they cover. Also, while this book is over 300 pages which sounds like a lot of information, there are huge margins on each page and big spacing between the lines, and it is heavily padded with redundant or unnecessary text. (For example, do we really need a one-and-a-half page lecture on what happens if we don't take good care of our automobile as it gets older, to understand that good preventive care of a horse helps it age well? Often the author uses a whole page to say what could be said in one sentence. One gets the impression this was a deliberate strategy used to reach the target number of pages. After all, you can charge more $$ for a fat book than a skinny one.) So it really doesn't have as much information as the number of pages suggests.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
10 years is old?, Jul 1 2002
By A Customer
Ok, first off, 10-15 is not old. IF it was old, then why would the proffesional hunter- jumpers be using horses in that age range? I have an 11 year old ex racehorse, who still thinks he's 4. My horse is still going strong and is learning a lot. If he is so old and decrepi, then why would he still be so rambunctious, even if I ride him for an hour and a half 6 out of the 7 days a week? So to all of you who have a horse this age, don't buy this book because your horse isn't old!(Unless it has injuries that make it seem old)
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