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| Home-Prepared Dog & Cat Diets: the Healthful Alternative | 
 enlarge | Author: Donald R. Strombeck
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Category: Book
List Price: $49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 43817
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 366
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0813821495
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.70855
EAN: 9780813821498
ASIN: 0813821495
Publication Date: January 15, 1999
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Product Description
Do you quibble with the kibble that comes in a bag? Worry about the preservatives being peddled to your pet? For pet owners and veterinarians fed up with commercially prepared pet food, this book offers sound advice about nutritional alternatives. With over 200 recipes and a wealth of information about pets' special needs, it makes a healthy diet for cats and dogs easy, sensible, and rewarding. With an eye on the long-term health of pets, Strombeck outlines diets that the caregiver 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 the nutritional and dietary needs of cats and dogs, this book is an indispensable guide for all those who are particular about what they feed their pets or their feline and canine patients.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 34 more reviews...
 My dog has thrived on his Strombeck diet for 8 years September 10, 2008
My basset hound was born with an immune deficiency. To complicate matters, he ate a bunch of rocks and lost 5 of his 13 feet of small intestine to surgery when he was just over a year old. The vet prescribed a low residue diet on which he had constant diarrhea. He lost his coat and a great deal of weight before I decided to cook for him. I found Strombeck's book and have fed him the normal dog diet for the past 8 years. He is the picture of health. Skin looks great and diarrhea is controlled with the addition of Prozyme and live acidophilus capsules. The book is an indispensible part of my pet care library.
 Solid information, but could be better organized August 26, 2008
I bought this book because my eleven-year-old cat has a gastrointestinal disease. As a result, he went from 11.5 pounds to under 7 pounds in one month and refused to eat any canned or processed food. After trying many brands and watching him leave them untouched for several months, I decided to try making his food. This book gave me good, solid, safe information to use. I did find it difficult to navigate at times--the information is spread out and the cat recipes are intermingled with the dog recipes. I also found some of the nutritional information hard to follow, especially the details on the multivitamins. I ended up bringing the book into my vet to check that I was feeding my cat a balanced diet. That said, the vet completely approved and my cat LOVES the food. He actually cleans his bowl now. Finding this book has been a huge relief after watching my cat waste away.
Great nutritional resource May 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are feeding or thinking of feeding a homemade diet (raw or otherwise), and you want to understand the scientific and nutritional basis for these diets, this is the book for you.
Having read everything I could get my hands on about canine nutrition, raw diets and homemade diets, I was thrilled to find a book that explained the nutritional side of these diets. There are plenty of books that tell you what to do, but few delve into WHY.
This is not a book of stories about animals' lives changed by a miracle diet. It is a fully referenced book about the nutritional needs of dogs and cats, including the digestability and availability of nutrients in different types of foods. The author explains how this information is used by dog food companies to formulate their foods and the shortcomings of commercial foods that result. The book has an in-depth discussion the needs of dogs and cats with various medical conditions, as well as babies and seniors.
I have to admit that I have a background that made the nutritional information in the book easy to understand. I don't know how accessible some of the material would be for some readers. But even if you were to skim the technical information, you could get a lot out of this book.
The author has his own diet that he designed using computer programs that nutritionally balance the diet. Personally, I feed a raw diet, not the diet the author recommends. But his diet makes sense. Actually, this book doesn't discuss raw feeding at all. But now I have the scientific validation that what I'm feeding is correct from a nutritional standpoint. I've also made a few changes in the diet and supplements I feed based on the information in this book. I found it very helpful, and it gave me peace of mind.
Amazing book February 19, 2008
I'm surprised at the amount of complaining with the cat recipes. I found the recipes for both dog and cat to be plentiful, well written, and easy to follow. I also obtained bone meal in powder form, but is it really that difficult to read the bottle, it tells you how much to give. I have used this book since purchasing it in June 2007 and have never been happier. We were about to lose our dog to Protein Losing Enteropathy (PLE)even though she was on a bunch of stuff from the vet, and this book is what brought her back. My vet was so impressed with the book that they bought a copy for themselves. I found it easy to find the recipes I needed just by going to the index. I had no dissapointments with this book and have recommended it to several people with both dogs and cats.
 Disappointing December 10, 2007
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have several dogs, have been feeding them a raw meat diet for 2 years and have read many books on the subject. I wanted to make sure that I am including the correct nutrients so bought this book for the recipes. What a shame! All of the recipes in this book were variations of the same recipe: Cooked meat, bonemeal tablet and 1 multivitamin. Don't waste your time or money on this book. This is the first time I've ever sent a book back for a refund.
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