This book provides an up-to-date overview of the current knowledge and research concerning
domestic pets as sentinels forecasters and promoters of human health. Written by leading
specialists in the fields of medicine veterinary environment analytical chemistry sociology
and behavioral science this volume provides a comprehensive understanding of the capabilities
of pets in what regards to human health. The first seven chapters are devoted to the use of
pets as sentinels for their human companions in terms of exposure to different classes of
environmental chemicals. The following five chapters address the use of pets as models for
human diseases and promoters of human health. The final two chapters highlight the
psycho-social and psychophysiological aspects of human-animal interactions. The book offers an
integrated approach to the One Health concept providing in a truly holistic manner tools to
assess the equilibrium between the environment men and animals. This exercise will highlight
and reshape our position towards the planet that despite being a microscopic dot on a
microscopic dot lost in the unimaginable infinity of the Universe is still our own. At the end
of the day pets will always be there to help us.
