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As part of PetHobbyist.com's annual Chat Week, DogHobbyist.com welcomes Caroline Levin as our special guest on Saturday, December 14, at 8 PM Eastern, for a discussion of holistic approaches to canine diseases.

Caroline Levin’s experience in healthcare began as a registered nurse. She specialized in such fields as ophthalmology, family practice nursing, and endocrinology. After a decade of nursing, Levin left this field to manage an ophthalmic veterinary clinic in Portland, Oregon. It was here that she realized the desperate need blind-dog owners had for educational material. Since then, she has written the first two works on this topic: Living With Blind Dogs and Blind Dog Stories.

Periodically, Levin’s readers contacted her with questions about canine diabetes and its related problems. She realized that there was a need for educational material on these topics, too. Levin scrutinized the current literature and talked with dozens of experts. She drew on her own nursing background, as well. What began as a small diabetes text evolved into a dissertation on immune disorders, metabolic disease, endocrine problems, and canine nutrition — her third book, Dogs, Diet and Disease: An Owner's Guide to Diabetes, Pancreatitis, Cushing's Disease and More, and winner of the Maxwell Award for “Best Healthcare Book 2001.”

At the conclusion of that project, Levin was approached by yet another of her readers who explained the need epileptic-dog owners had for educational material. Levin responded to the request by writing Canine Epilepsy.

Caroline Levin is also an award-winning dog trainer. She has an in-depth understanding of canine behavior and the methods used to successfully train dogs. She shows her dogs in AKC obedience trials and the new sport of musical canine freestyle. Levin is frequently requested as a guest speaker and has written for a variety of publications.

Caroline's website is http:/www.petcarebooks.com. All her books are available there.

How to Attend

This event will be held in the Dog Den chat room. There are two ways to access the chat room. The first is simply to follow this link: The Dog Den. There is no registration required and there is nothing to download or install. The room does require you to have java enabled in your browser settings. We strongly suggest you access the room before the chat, so you have time to address any access difficulties you might have. You might want to drop by our regular weekly Holistic Dog Care chat on Sundays at 9 PM Eastern time as a test run.

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