Home-Prepared Dog & Cat Diets: the Healthful Alternative [Paperback]
Author: Donald R. Strombeck | Language: English | ISBN: 0813821495 | Format: PDF, EPUB
Home-Prepared Dog & Cat Diets: the Healthful Alternative
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With an eye to the long-term health of pets, Dr Donald Strombeck outlines diets that the care giver can prepare at home or in the clinic. He offers nutritional and dietary guidance for animals with particular problems, from obesity, allergies, and gastrointestinal complaints to diseases of the kidney, pancreas, heart and joints. Each recipe includes nutrient content for proteins, fats and calories and all rely on unprocessed foods that are widely available and marketed for human consumption. Full of useful information about nutritional and dietary needs of cats and dogs, this book will be an indispensable guide for all those who are particular about what they feed their pets or their feline and canine patients.
Books with free ebook downloads available Home-Prepared Dog & Cat Diets: the Healthful Alternative - Paperback: 366 pages
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1st edition (January 15, 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0813821495
- ISBN-13: 978-0813821498
- Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 5.8 x 9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #450,234 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #18 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Pets & Animal Care > Cats > Care & Health
- #57 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Pets & Animal Care > Dogs > Care & Health
- #98 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > veterinary Medicine > Small Animal
If your dog (or cat) is suffering from GI tract problems and/or food allergies, this may be a book for you. If you are convinced that raw meat is the only way to go, you might want to stop here. But if you find the thought of feeding raw meat a little terrifying, the book is chock full of recipes for dogs and cats - including some vegetarian alternatives.
Flipping through it upon receipt, I was surprised to read that "ethoxyquin is safe as well as effective...has a very wide range of safety...[and] more so than any other antioxidant, has anticancer properties." Checking the author's bio, I found out that he "is widely published and has received numerous awards, including the Ralston Purina Award for research excellence in small animal diseases..." "Terrific," I thought, "an apologist for the pet food industry." NOT what I was looking for...
Reading further, however, I discovered Dr. Strombeck laying out his expose of commercial pet foods in a dry, clinical style that was actually a refreshing change from the strident and at times self-righteous indictments of the whole foods and holistic alternatives literature. Here is a lot of the same information expressed in a way that not only you can understand, but that your very straight-laced conventional veterinarian might actually consider.
The book is full of recipes that seem easy to prepare with one exception: unless you have a large animal, or are prepared to cook in larger batches, you will be trying to figure out how to measure 1/5 of a vitamin tablet or 1/10 of a teaspoon of salt (at least the recipes don't call for ethoxyquin). And, returning to that dry, clinical style, keep a dictionary handy unless you already know that "borborygmus" is basically those gurgling sounds in the gut.
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