Take care of your pet naturally!

- Functional nutrition and diet recipes

- Commercial pet food: recognizing the good, the bad, and the unhealthy

- How diet and protein levels specifically affect your pet's health and behavior

- Judicious use of herbs and medicines

- How to detect if your pet is feeling pain and where

- Noninvasive, nonsurgical treatments for genetically flawed hips and other arthritic joints

- How to know if your pet is happy

- How to clean your dog's, cat's, or rabbit's ears--the right way!

- Pet supplements explained

- Which vaccines to give or not give your pet

- Evolutionary insights into your pet's behavior

- Getting your new puppy off to a perfect start

- How acupuncture works

- Geriatric wellness and end-of-life care

These pages shimmer with ingenious advice that combines common sense with holistic medicine and the best of modern science. A passionate, dedicated, and innovative veterinarian with a background in zoo and wildlife medicine, Dr. Royal empowers animal lovers to lift their pets into a realm of natural health and happiness that will be palpable from shiny coat to bouncy step.