Small but mighty! The pet handbook for your pocket! "PetSkills" provides you with the essential facts about pet medicine: clear, practical, and quick to reference – covering handling and diagnostics, therapeutic principles, anesthesia, emergencies, and surgical procedures. The author has extensive experience with pet patients as well as in training and education, and is familiar with the specific questions and peculiarities. She describes the problem-oriented differential diagnostic approach based on the most common key symptoms and also presents a species-specific overview of diseases and therapies. From mice and hamsters to chinchillas and gerbils, as well as rabbits, guinea pigs, and ferrets, this book offers particularly relevant practical instructions for dealing with these patients.