The definitive guide to feeding your dog a balanced, nutritious, and
home-cooked raw diet--from the founder of a natural pets product company
with over thirty years of experience
Many people want to prepare their dog's meals at home, but feel it is
too complex. Raw and Natural Nutrition for Dogs provides a road map to
the essentials of canine nutrition, written in easy-to-understand
language.
Pet owners seeking to give their dogs a better coat, better skin, and
healthier teeth and gums, as well as longer lives and more stable
temperaments, will benefit not only from the background data in this
book, but also the step-by-step instructions and recipes for preparing
these diets. The book includes charts with the recipes, instructions on
keeping diets simple and balanced, guidelines on preparation,
suggestions for finding ingredients, and how much to feed a dog by body
weight. There are recipes for healthy adult dogs, as well as guidelines
for puppies, senior dogs, and dogs with health conditions including
pancreatitis, renal problems, gastric issues, allergies, heart disease,
liver disease, and cancer.
Tracing the history of feeding dogs, the author shows when commercial
dog food rose and took hold of the market. She discusses canine
nutritional needs and provides research on how home-prepared foods can
meet pets' needs better than commercial, processed dog food. Written
with thorough information for the seasoned raw feeder, this guide can
also be easily followed by any newcomer to home-feeding.
This revised edition includes new information on special care and
feeding of pregnant, newborn, performance, and toy breed dogs as well as
senior dog considerations and the safety of the raw food diet for dogs.
