Welcome to Joan Embery's Pet Health Safety Resource Center
Pets bring joy and companionship into our lives. But pets require more than just love from us. They require a nutritious diet and an environment that is clean, safe, and mentally stimulating. Perhaps most of all, they require preventive health care to ensure a good quality of life and access to veterinary care when they are injured or ill.
This Website introduces you to a new resource that you can use to help keep your pets safe. Click on the "play" button to the right to hear a message from me. You can also download entire chapters from the new Merck/Merial Manual for Pet Health to the right.
An Important Resource for Your Pet's Safety
The Merck/Merial Manual for Pet Health covers the full spectrum of health topics for your pets. Based on the world's most-widely used veterinary manual, this book can help you keep your animals safe and healthy at all times.
Download important sample chapters to the right or Click here to learn more.
Take Special Care of Your Pets (from The Merck/Merial Manual of Pet Health.)
Table 25: Poisonous Houseplants and Ornamentals - Pets often chew on or ingest household plants, which can result in poisoning. Houseplants vary in their degree of toxicity. Inquisitive puppies and kittens tend to mouth or chew almost everything, and pets of all ages explore changes in their environment. Special care may be needed during the holidays, when pets commonly chew the leaves or ripe berries of plants that are placed in the home as decorations.
Chapter 76: Emergencies provides a complete list of what should be included in a basic first aid kit for animals.
Chapter 83: Travel With Pets describes adequate planning and preparation needed to help make traveling less stressful for people and their pets.
Important Pet Health Articles
Keep Your Furry Friends Safe During the Holidays
The Holidays are a time for sharing with family, but when your family member is four-legged, extra care is needed to protect them.
Share Love, Not Diseases
Here's what you need to know about illnesses that can be passed from pet to human.
What's Going on in Fido's and Kitty's Food Bowls?
Just like a human's nutritional needs change throughout childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, dogs and cats have specific dietary requirements based on their life stage, environment, body weight, and activity level.
In the NEWS
AVMA Responds to California Wildfires with Help and Information
(SCHAUMBURG, Ill.) October 24, 2007—The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) is helping to ensure the animal victims of the California wildfires receive veterinary medical care. . . . Click here to read the story.
Through Merial’s Paws to Save Pets tm, PetFinder.com Foundation and the American Veterinary Medical Foundation Help Clinics Aid Animals Displaced by the Fires.
(DULUTH, GA.) October 24, 2007—With support from Paws to Save Pets tm, the AVMF and the PetFinder.com Foundation are offering assistance to clinics and shelters in areas affected by the fires. Click here to download an application
About Joan Embery
Animal expert Joan Embery has championed wildlife and environmental initiatives around the world, most notably as a spokesperson for the Zoological Society of San Diego.
She has shared her passion for animals with a multitude of audiences, from children to veterinary students to corporate executives. She has appeared on hundreds of television shows, including The Tonight Show, CBS This Morning, Entertainment Tonight, and her own syndicated series, Animal Express and Animals of Africa.
Joan has led wildlife expeditions to such exotic locales as Africa, China, Nepal, India, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and the Amazon, and has authored several books.
In 2004, Joan created her own non-profit foundation,The Embery Institute for Wildlife Conservation, with the mission of connecting people to wildlife and conservation issues. Dedicated to studying, raising, training and advocating for animals of all types, Joan is the ideal spokesperson for The Merck/Merial Manual for Pet Health.