Reviews for Cancer in Dogs and Cats: Medical and Surgical Management

The average rating for Cancer in Dogs and Cats: Medical and Surgical Management based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-02-14 00:00:00 Lawrence Egbert Hold on, I know what you are thinking. Tim, you read a book on roaches. Cockroaches (as if we need to say that to avoid any confusion). For fun. And liked it. I did! It is a good book! Very well written and yes, tells you more about cockroaches than you ever hoped, dreamed, or dared to know. Since I assume you are still reading this review, here a few tidbits: - Of the about 5000 species of cockroach worldwide, only about 100 are associated with mankind. - The ancient Romans called them lucifuga, for their habit of avoiding light. - The first written use in the English language came from Captain John Smith of Pocahontas fame in 1624. - The cockroach is often the Trickster figure in Caribbean folktales. - Roaches sense approaching danger (such as a shoe) not by their antennae on their head but instad via a pair of feelers called the cerci, located on the backside near the rear of the insect, covered in hundreds of remarkably fine and sensitive hairs, each only 0.5 millimeters long and 0.005 millimeters wide. - People have gone to emergency rooms when roaches became lodged in their ear, and roaches have been known to partially consume human fingernails, toenails, and skin. Ok, yeah, sorry, the last factoid probably drove you away, unless your like that sort of thing. Seriously though, a good book, one that has a pretty even-handed approach to the subject (the author shows that it is possible) and unlike some of these one animal (or type of animal) natural history books, seems to focus both on the science and nature of the subject and the human history. If you like natural history, even the natural history of what is behind the cabinets, under the fridge, or behind the dumpster at the local fast food place, then this is the book for you. If you don't like "bugs" even a little bit, well, probably not so much.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-11-25 00:00:00 Matt Ammerman This was so fascinating I could not put it down. Actually, I put it down only to go make dinner--and naturally had a false roach sighting, an oblong lint ball near the laundry rack--then quickly finished it. The book includes memoir, science, history, and culture, all loosely braided together by the theme of cockroaches. I especially liked learning about the American cockroach in Southern African-American folklore, where it was a Trickster figure (the bug arrived on slave ships and is slyly adaptable and resourceful, besides being disruptive by the mere fact of its existence), and also about a Harvard professor who gives the author the unwanted gift of a Tupperware full of Madagascar hissing cockroaches (eek).