There’s a real health epidemic affecting our pets. Too many dogs and cats get sick and die before their time. That’s what health writer Martin Zucker learned from veterinarians and breeders while researching five different books on pet health.In 1984 Zucker teamed up with Louis Gottlieb, a businessman with many years of experience in the pet industry, to create Dr. Goodpet Laboratories, a part of their family-owned and operated company Very Healthy Enterprises, Inc.