David’s titles have won awards in the USA from the Cat Writers' Association of America and the Maxwell Medallion from the Dog Writers’ Association of America, as well as being nominated for the Sir Peter Kent Conservation Book Prize. His books have currently sold over six million copies, and have been translated into 30 different languages. He has since become a regular contributor of articles on this subject to a wide range of newspapers and magazines in the UK and abroad, and also participates frequently in radio and television programmes. An allergic dermatitis acquired in his final year of study forced a change of career however, and so led him into the field of writing about pets and their care. Growing up in a home surrounded by pets, he originally trained to become a veterinary surgeon. David Alderton is a writer specialising in pets and natural history topics.
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