Kriser's Gives Royal Honors To Oprah's Vet

Dr. Barbara Royal, who recently spoke in Park Ridge, cares more about spreading her message of alternative veterinary medicine and nutrition than profits from her new book.

  Like any author making her pitch, Dr. Barbara Royal was thrilled when Amy Gonka offered to buy six copied of her new book “The Royal Treatment: A Natural Approach to Wildly Healthy Pets.” But it wasn’t the financial aspect of inching ahead in a tough book market that made veterinarian Royal beam as she signed the books for Gonka. The book buyer had traveled all the way from Hanover Park to meet Royal in her signing Saturday at Kriser’s pet store, 168 N. Northwest Hwy.  “I don’t expect to make money,” Royal said of her debut book, published by Simon and Schuster. “But what I want to do is make a difference, to teach this kind of medicine at veterinary schools. For me, it’s like a detective (to solve a pet’s ills). It’s keeping the mind …

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