Guest Review by Ned Gentz, MS, DVM, DACZM, Albuquerque Biological Park, Albuquerque, NM 
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Restraint and Handling of Wild and Domestic Animals is divided into three sections. Part 1, General Concepts, includes chapters on tools of restraint, rope work, chemical restraint, stress, thermoregulation, and medical problems during restraint. Part 2, Domestic Animals, includes chapters on horses, donkeys and mules, cattle and other domestic bovids, sheep and goats, swine, dogs, cats, laboratory rodents and rabbits, and poultry and waterfowl. Part 3, Wild Animals, includes chapters on monotremes and marsupials, small mammals, carnivores, nonhuman primates, marine mammals, elephants, hoofed stock, birds, reptiles, and amphibians and fish.
This book is full of information you simply cannot find anyplace else. The chapter on rope work, a dying art in these modern times, is fantastic. The chapter on chemical restraint is the finest collation about darting equipment and techniques that you can obtain, unless you take a real field course costing many times the cost of this book. The book is lavishly illustrated, with many detailed photographs to allow the reader to visualize exactly what is being discussed, which is very important in such a how-to sort of book.
Dr. Fowler is, of course, a force of nature. Triple-boarded, he is the author of Medicine and Surgery of South American Camelids (now in its second edition) and Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine (now in its fourth edition), as well as this text. He is also the founder of the American College of Zoological Medicine. When Dr. Fowler talks, folks listen. I recommend this fairly-priced book to veterinarians and non-veterinarians who have to handle or restrain animals of any type.
Blackwell Publishing (1995).
383 pages.
ISBN: 978-0813818924.
Reviewed 4/18/2001.