Animal ER

With its broad range of current and bestselling nonfiction titles -- including biography, history, essays, humor, politics, popular science and memoirs -- this series fills the need for books that appeal to men. Occasionally there are also travel, self-help, and health guides geared to today's mature reader.

Every hour and every day of the year, injured and critically ill animals are rushed through the doors of the Henry and Lois Foster Hospital for Small Animals and into the emergency ward of the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine by their frightened owners. Here, miracles are on standing order as experts in the fields of surgery, internal medicine, cardiology ophthalmology, and ontology provide care for patients of all shapes, sizes, and breeds. But what keeps everyone going are the stories of hope and healing that defy all the odds.