The fur-and-feathers Oliver Sacks New York Times, pioneering veterinarian Nicholas Dodman recounts his riveting stories Judith L. Rapoport, MD, author of The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing of treating animals with all-too-human problems in this fascinating read for anyone who wants to know how the animal mind works Stanley Coren, author of The Intelligence of Dogs.Internationally renowned veterinarian Dr. Nicholas Dodman breaks new ground with the practice of One Medicine, the profound recognition that humans' and other animals' minds and emotions work in similar ways. Racehorses with Tourette's Syndrome, spinning dogs with epilepsy, cats with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, feather-plucking parrots with anxiety, and a diffident Bull Terrier with autism--these astonishing cases were all helped by One Medicine. Traditional treatments did not cure the behaviors because they treated the symptoms as disorders of the body, rather than problems of the mind. This book itself is powerful medicin