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This book will help pet-lovers enable their dogs and cats to enjoy an ideal quality of life though a species appropriate diet of raw, natural foods.
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Schultze offers no hard, convincing evidence, or argument for her beliefs. It would seem the natural food is better than the junk from the stores. But who knows? Maybe the animals who are doomed to live with man have acclimated to the commercial stuff. I would like to see real and controlled studies to see if there is any significant difference between what this book touts and doggie bisquits. Personal belief and hype just does not cut it.
Rating: 1 / 5
I agree 100% with feeding dogs and cats all natural, whole food diets and am very open-minded, always looking to learn new things about how to feed my crew. My endless research and quest for knowledge led me to this book and, after reading it, left me shaking my head in disbelief, fearing for the safety of the dogs who will be fed this diet by well-intentioned guardians.
First of all, dogs are NOT wolves – they are distant decendents thereof, and there’s a big difference. You don’t have to look far at all to find many tragic, heart-wrenching incidences of dogs dying after eating raw bones or getting sick from raw meat. The idea that dogs can not get sick from bacteria is ridiculous, and the assertion that food loses its nutritional value when cooked is false. Foods do not have to be raw to be nutritious!
My husband and I rescue dogs, and thereby have the opportunity to experience the joys and trials of helping sick, abused and elderly dogs heal on a regular basis. We currently care for a beagle/rottweiler mix with terrible allergy issues, and after much research and trial, we found that when he is fed an all natural diet of meat, fish, veggies, essential oils, the necessary nutritional supplements, Prozyme, a little fruit and a little plain nonfat yogurt, he is at his optimum condition. In fact, all of our dogs eat this diet in rotation with Wellness and Innova and are all gleaming, energetic pictures of magnificent health who never get fleas (and get no chemical flea treatments) – even our oldest seniors and sickest abuse survivors. No dangerous, questionable bones or raw meat required.
Every dog is different and has different needs, just as people do, so no food plan will ever be the one-size-fits-all ‘right’ way to do things, and anyone who says it is is full of themselves. Variety is the key to getting all the nutrients needed, just as it is for us. If dogs can enjoy optimum health without the use of risky items such as bones and uncooked meat, why use them? This book offers very little information and absolutely no evidence that the benefit of this diet is worth the potentially devastating risks.
Rating: 1 / 5
A friend explained this book to me and the way of nutrition worked for her, so i thought I would get the book and try it for my Pom who was 10 years old. Unfortunately he was too old for this method of raw food. He died shortly afterwards. But if I had a new puppy I would use the raw food method that the book explains. Too bad, but I hope this helps someone out there.
Rating: 2 / 5
this is an excellent book if you want to have very healthy cats and dogs. She gives the reasons why, then tells you how to do it.
Barrie, Santa Rosa CA
Rating: 5 / 5
The book starts with a study from the 1930′s that showed that it took four generations for cats to recover from a cooked food diet. A study that advances Lamarckian theory is an inauspicious start for any book, let alone a book that could endanger the life of your favorite friend and companion, your dog.
To a very large extent, this book bases its theories on what is “natural” for your dog, e.g. what your dog would do in the wild. Since there are no references to studies of the diet and lifespan of domesticated dogs that have reverted to a feral state, you will have to take on faith that your highly domesticated animal is either akin to a wild wolf, or that a feral dog is healthier than your animal that will probably live well over a decade. My Border Collie wouldn’t make it a week in the wild, let alone five years.
Exposure to heartworm, fluke, trichinosis, and other parasites is dangerous and a leading cause of death for any wild mammal. Exposure to e-coli, salmonella and other food-born bacteria is highly dangerous – diarrhea is the number one cause of death in human infants in the world. I won’t risk my dog’s life because cooked food is so “deadly” due to build up of “toxins” as this book proposes. I have weighed the risks and have come up “no contest” for cooked food. There are Web resources that refute the safety of giving your dog raw chicken necks, backs and wings. I feel the very real risk of choking, injury to gums, teeth, throat, stomach and intestines from long-term use of bones in the diet far outweigh unsubstantiated and anectodotal evidence that this will keep my 50 lb. animal healthier. See secondchanceranch.org/rawmeat.html for a serious debunking of these theories.
You will need to do some critical thinking about the “natural” argument. Do you think you would make it over 40 living like a caveman without sanitary plumbing and indoor heating, a clean water supply and cooked food? Believe me, in places where they don’t have it, they don’t. Do further research before exposing your omnivorous, highly domesticated mammal to this level of risk.
Rating: 1 / 5