Pet Allergies

by Alfred Plechner, Alfred J. Plechner DVM, Martin Zucker

Book Overview

Seattle Times: "Superb... Provocative... A wake up call to American pet owners." Baltimore Sun: "Eye-opening!" An unrecognized epidemic of allergy and disease is ravaging cats and dogs. Why is it... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0961545208
• ISBN13: 9780961545208
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Very Healthy Enterprises
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.3" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

This book was a life saver

This book was not only a life saver but an eye opener as well. The information contained in this book describes the problems, makes you think about the causes and then helps you to find a remedy. It also makes you think a great deal about the question, "If this is what the food we give to the animals we love does to them, what is the food we are giving to ourselves and our children doing to us?" As the doctors mention in the back of the book, many of the allergies and symptoms that humans have can be so closely compared to the allergies and symptoms our animals have. A great book to buy and have on your shelf for reference and review. I have my beloved dog with me today because of this book. Thank you

Enlightening...

This booklet contains a mass of valuable and above all comprehensive information to cure allergies. The biggest merit of Plechner is surely the fact that he takes ALL responsible causes of what he calls an epidemic into account (commercial food, breeding practices, etc.). Furthermore, the autor provides a very logical and easy to follow strategy to treat allergies (and the numerous side-problemes, mostly not associated with allergy), based on what seems waterproof scientific fondations. Plechners approach owes a lot of its usefulness to its systematicity in analyzing and correcting the direct causes of symptoms instead of just treating the symptoms in an instinctive-like fashion. Definitely worth buying: a lot of wisdom for 8$...

Saved my dog's life.

Having been through every possible traditional and alternative course of treatment for my very food-allergic dog, I was at wit's end when I stumbled across this book and convinced my vet to read it too. My dog is 99% better thanks to Dr. Plechner and I honestly never thought I would see it happen. This book is revolutionary, if you ask me.

Excellent and informative

This book answered so many questions, and the explanations were so clear and succinct. All the details about adrenal insufficiency are laid out, and the best ways to find out if your dog has it, and how to deal with it. It must have helped so many owners like me with problems for which there had seemed no answer until this book came along

An important book for petowners

As far as I know, this is really the only book on this subject for laypersons. Luckily, it is very helpful, with good information on nutrition and immunological disorders as well as allergies. This book helped me understand my cat's ongoing food allergies and helped me improve her health (it is even more informative on dogs than cats). I highly recommend it for its detail and brevity; the author is a veterinarian who has specialized in this problem and seems very reliable and knowledgable. Some of his information contradicts things I have read in other pet health/nutrition books -- he recommends cooking homemade food, for example -- and there are no recipes here, only guidelines; but the author is also responsible for producing a line of anti-allergy pet food that my cat did very well on. One of the best things about this book is that it does not oversimplify the problem; he recommends consulting with a vet for complex problems. But his advice and information would definitely give you an idea of the kinds of questions to ask and the tests to ask for. Buy another book for recipes, but buy this book for scientific explanations of allergy problems in terms a layperson can understand, and for good advice on how to begin addressing those problems.