This is the veterinary book for pet owners and lay persons who live in and/or travel to remote areas with their pets. It is written for cruising sailors and RV boondockers and anybody who finds him or herself in that uncomfortable position of trying to determine if a health issue warrants a change in plans and a journey in search of professional help. This is the book, unlike any other, that helps you care for the health of your dog or cat and helps you try to determine when a health problem is serious when there is nobody around to ask.
     There are other books out there but this one, rather than trying to be comprehensive, attempts to leave out the rare and the unusual, and keep to the problems you are more likely to encounter, and tries to include those that may be unique to cruising and to the remote or wilderness environment.
     Unlike many pet reference sources, Wilderness Veterinary Companion for Cruisers goes a step further and provides treatment information, a drug formulary with drug dosages, and recommendations of medications and supplies to have on-hand, most of which are readily available over the counter in many countries. In addition the drug formulary can be used when you have an appropriate drug on hand in your human medical kit, but do not know a proper dosage for your cat or dog.
     The book rates the procedures according to user skill level and/or risk, and rates the supplies to have on hand according to user skill level and trip duration. It also now contains a very useful chapter on how to prepare your dog or cat to meet the pet import requirements for many countries.