Sheli Ellsworth is an award-winning writer who grew up on a farm in Texas. Because of the death of a pet from an undiagnosed illness, she began studying pet health desperate for answers. After a stint as a contributor to a pet health website, she began writing this book with the help of a veterinarian and her cat, Mimi. If you enjoy humor, look for her book, The Psychoanalysis of Everyday Life: Sometimes I pee when I laugh (2012). Bill Wafer graduated from Texas A&M and practiced veterinary medicine for 44 years in the White Mountains of Arizona. He has treated all sorts of animals: cattle, horses, sheep, goats, llamas, elk and pets like dogs, cats, hamsters and -a bear. "An animal group was in town doing a promotional gig. This 500- pound bear would sit on his haunches on the side of the road while his owner sat on the bear's knee and hitchhiked. Then one day he shows up and asks me to give his bear a shot of penicillin for a runny nose. I asked him who was going to restrain the bear. He went and got a logging chain and attached one end to the bear's leather collar and the other to his bumper. Up to this point, the bear had paid me no mind, so I loaded my syringe and walked up behind him and stuck him. The bear let out a squall and cried like a baby, which really made me feel bad since he'd never made an aggressive move."
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