Why do I need to purchase this book?
At a time when we're rethinking almost everything in our lives, Your Pandemic Puppy will recalibrate your concept of puppy rearing and dog ownership. Up to date, contemporaneous and thoughtful, Your Pandemic Puppy was written by a veterinarian with four decades of medical experience. In these pages, you'll find information on all aspects of your new puppy's physical and mental well-being, from the challenges of finding a new companion during the current COVID-19 crisis, through training and medical care. But more than just how-to advice, this book also explores what owning a puppy means to a family, and what to anticipate in the future, when you return to your former work and school schedule.This book is intended to help you have a great experience all along the way, from selecting your new puppy through adolescence. Having a new puppy or dog should be lots of fun: Here's to making that your new normal.
At a time when we're rethinking almost everything in our lives, Your Pandemic Puppy will recalibrate your concept of puppy rearing and dog ownership. Up to date, contemporaneous and thoughtful, Your Pandemic Puppy was written by a veterinarian with four decades of medical experience. In these pages, you'll find information on all aspects of your new puppy's physical and mental well-being, from the challenges of finding a new companion during the current COVID-19 crisis, through training and medical care. But more than just how-to advice, this book also explores what owning a puppy means to a family, and what to anticipate in the future, when you return to your former work and school schedule.This book is intended to help you have a great experience all along the way, from selecting your new puppy through adolescence. Having a new puppy or dog should be lots of fun: Here's to making that your new normal.
Who is this book for?
For new puppy or dog owners, breeders, rescues, and Veterinarians
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Should We Get a Pandemic Puppy?
Chapter 2 Where to Get Your Puppy
Chapter 3 Narrowing the Search
Chapter 4 Integrating Your Puppy
Chapter 5 Housebreaking and Crate Training
Chapter 6 Socialization and Training
Chapter 7 Life Skills
Chapter 8 Separation Anxiety
Chapter 9 Feeding and Grooming
Chapter 10 Veterinary Care
Chapter 11 Parasites
Chapter 12 Emergency Care
Chapter 13 Technology
Marty Greer, DVM, JD
Author, Veterinarian, Attorney, Breeder, Mother, Wife, Grandmother
Interest in canine reproduction, neonatology and behavior.
I received my Bachelor of Science in 1978 and my DVM in 1981 from Iowa State University in Ames Iowa. In 1982 I established the Brownsville Small Animal Clinic in Dr. Griffith’s practice building and in 1988, moved the practice to Lomira.
I have a special interest in Pediatrics and Reproduction. In 2002, I opened a Canine Semen Freezing Center, International Canine Semen Bank – Wisconsin (ICSB-WI/IL), and became Penn-Hip Certified.
On my first attempt at using extended semen, I bred the practice’s first litter of pups from frozen semen in 1998. The advent of in-house quantitative progesterone testing has made this process much more successful.
My husband, Dr. Daniel Griffiths, and I have two children, Katy, a Nurse Practitioner, married to Tim, an entomologist, and Karl, married to Kelly. We have one grandson. In addition, we raise and show Pembroke Welsh Corgis and Danish Swedish Farmdogs. Our family has raised 6 puppies for Canine Companions for Independence, a service dog organization.
The practice has contributed to pharmaceutical and nutritional research as an investigator for Abbott Laboratory, Deprenyl Animal Health, Pfizer, Virbac, and Hill’s Pet food Corporation. I have also been featured in articles in Veterinary Economics.
In 2005, I was appointed by Governor Jim Doyle to a position on the Veterinary Examining Board of the Department of Safety and Professional Services, where I served for 8 years.
In 2010, I graduated from Marquette Law School. I practice law part-time with my law partner, Attorney Sheila Kessler, at Animal Legal Resources LLC.
Fear Free In 2019 I became certified as a Fear Free professional. I recognized the benefit of including Fear Free practices to try to make your pet's visit to us as relaxed as possible. While there are many Fear Free practices we use, one of them is offering treats like peanut butter and chicken baby food to give your pet a distraction while we do exams and testing to reduce anxiety and stress. We know that a Fear Free experience is a benefit to you, your pet, and also our staff.
I am active in the community as a member of the AVMA, AVMLA, IVPA, NEWVMA, AAVSB, APDT, AAFP, SVME, The Society for Theriogenology, the Fond du Lac Kennel Club, The Kettle Moraine Kennel Club, the Waukesha Kennel Club, the Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club of America, Lakeshore Pembroke Welsh Corgi Kennel Club, Danish Swedish Farmdog Club, and the Lomira Area Chamber of Commerce.
I served on the Animal Welfare Committee and Education Committee for the Wisconsin Veterinary Medical Association. I am also past president of the National Animal Interest Alliance.
I have recently started working with Revival Animal Health as their Director of Vet Services.
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What motivated you to become a veterinarian?
I loved science, problem-solving, and medicine, but not sick people. It made helping people with their pets a great choice for me.
What has been your most rewarding moment as a veterinarian?
Seeing my staff and student’s eyes light up when they see what I see.
If you weren’t a vet, what would you do?
Something with food – either food science or cooking. I almost went into food technology instead of veterinary school.
What is the most exotic animal you have treated?
The Mercury Cougars – the cubs were patients at Iowa State for declaws when we were students. They were declawed so they could pose on the Mercury cars in the showrooms. Can you imagine having big cats in car dealerships today? Oh, the liability!!!
What animal scares you more than any other?
Spiders.
What do you see as the greatest danger to household pets?
Their neighbors who turn in owners of multiple pets without substantial reason to do so. And the consequences that follow.
What do you consider your greatest accomplishment?
Raising 2 healthy children to adulthood to become self-sufficient, kind, contributing members of our society.
What do you do in your spare time?
What spare time? Oh – cook, knit, shop. No vacuuming.
What is your favorite comfort food?
Macaroni and cheese – with great cheddar cheese. And a great beer to wash it down.
What is your biggest pet peeve?
Eating at a chain restaurant.
Name 5 things people might be surprised about if they knew it about you?
1. I am a serious foodie.
2. I like to re-purpose everything I can.
3. I lived in Arizona for 4 years as a kid and always expected to live there. Missed the turn when I left Iowa and ended up here 40 years ago.
4. I do own clothes that are not surgical scrubs.
5. I do sleep.
Canine Reproduction and Neonatology
Winner of Dog Writers Association of America's Dogwise Best Book Award
This book focuses on the veterinarian’s responsibilities for managing the problem pregnancy, insemination, collecting, storing and shipping semen, and all of the diseases and vaccination protocols that may involve the bitch and the stud dog. It is also a very practical guide for the non-veterinarian breeder and kennel owner.
The book provides step by step guidelines for husbandry and nutrition as they relate to the bitch and her puppies, an excellent and concise description of breeding genetics and the implications of that knowledge for long term preservation of the breed line, and it focuses squarely on the relationship that must exist between the veterinarian and breeder clients.
This practical guide is the ideal resource for veterinarians as well as for breeders, kennel operators and others with a financial or humane interest in the breeding and maintenance of dogs.
Endorsements by Veterinary and Animal Professionals
No matter your stage in life, COVID-19 has changed much of how you move in your world. COVID-19 is the first infectious disease in recent history that has affected all the world’s populations at the same time. And just as seasons in nature bring dramatically different weather, seasons in life are when we tend to change habits – to use a gardening analogy, it’s when we re-pot ourselves. Family and friends who haven’t connected in years have reached out to each other and renewed their bonds. Neighbors are helping neighbors. Shelters are emptied by folks who’ve never fostered before. We’ve discovered that it’s entirely possible and possibly better (more efficient and less costly) to work and learn online. We have learned to lean in and nurture the things that are rock solid yet bear fruit: family, friends, faith, and our beloved pets.
People are discovering that their pets are greater than they even imagined. We are forming bonds with our pets to be celebrated, protected, and nurtured. Veterinary practices see that telemedicine can work, have discovered new efficiencies, and see just how important the emotional wellbeing of animals is. Fear Free Veterinary Care is an essential part of this emotional wellbeing, for you and your dog.
“Your Pandemic Puppy” will help you navigate through finding a new puppy, establishing veterinary care that suits you and your pet’s’ needs, feeding, training, and all the steps of raising your puppy though adolescence. No matter if this is your first or your tenth puppy, with the changes of COVID-19, you will find this book to be thoughtful, meaningful, insightful, and enlightening.
Marty Becker, DVM
Dr. Marty Greer has created a timely guide to acquiring, raising, and training a new puppy or dog during the COVID-19 restrictions. Dr. Greer’s excellent explanations and suggestions will help you develop a very special Human-Animal Bond, with a high quality, happy experience as you integrate your new companion into your life.
Alice Villalobos, DVM, FNAP
President, Society for Veterinary Medical Ethics
Fellow Emeritus, National Academies of Practice
Past President, American Association of Human-Animal Bond Veterinarians
International Association of Animal Hospice and Palliative Care
Director, Pawspice & Animal Oncology Consultation Service, CA
Fear Free Advisory Group
Advisory Board, Grey Muzzle Organization
Founder, Peter Zippi Memorial Fund for Animals
Board of Directors, Animal Health Foundation of the SCVMA
BabelBark Advisory Board Member
2020 Shomer Ethics Award Recipient
www.pawspice.com
Your Puppy Pandemic would make a great gift or Christmas stocking stuffer for anyone planning to acquire a new puppy or dog. And while its insights and recommendations have special value for people working from home during the pandemic, this handbook would help anyone seeking guidance about how to select, raise, care for and build a life-long bond with a canine companion.
Patti Strand — NAIA President
Patti is a recognized expert and consultant on contemporary animal issues, most notably responsible dog ownership and the animal rights movement. She often appears on radio and television and her articles on canine issues, animal welfare, public policy and animal rights have appeared in major US news publications and in trade, professional and scientific journals. Patti and her husband Rod co-authored The Hijacking of the Humane Movement: Animal Extremism in 1993, the first US book exposing the extremism of the animal rights movement. Patti has been a Dalmatian breeder and enthusiast since 1969, is an approved AKC judge and was a member of the AKC Board of Directors from 1995 through 2011. She holds a degree in political science from Portland State University.
