This comprehensive guide to pharmaceuticals for treating small animals covers principles of drug therapy, the use of drugs on the basis of therapeutic category, and the use of drugs from a body systems approach. Includes information for designing and modifying dosing regimens, identifying factors that cause drugs to fail, and anticipating adverse drug reactions.--From publisher description.

Revised edition of: Small animal clinical pharmacology and therapeutics / Dawn Merton Boothe. c2001.

pt. 1. Introduction to drug use in dogs and cats -- pt. 2. Drugs targeting infections or infestations -- pt. 3. Drugs targeting body systems -- pt. 4. Drugs acting on the nervous system -- pt. 5. Drugs targeting inflammation or immunomodulation.