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| Home-Prepared Dog & Cat Diets: the Healthful Alternative | 
 enlarge | Author: Donald R. Strombeck
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 36937
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
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Pages: 366
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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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 One of the top ten authoritative sources for home cooked pet diets May 24, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Donald Strombeck,DVM,PhD wrote this sensible, uncomplicated book in 1999 and his research, recommendations and dozens of home cooked recipes for dogs and cats in health and illness are widely accepted as balanced and complete by conservative veterinarians. This is thus a reliable and comfortable place to begin for the pet owner and veterinarian who feel insecure about feeding from scratch and/or moving to raw diets. It should be read in its entirety one evening, not bought simply to choose a recipe and feed it to a pet. Most recipes have 6 or 7 easy to find ingredients, including a vitamin-mineral pill and a bone-meal tablet. All have been put through a nutritional computer program. It is all a pet owner ever needs to know to feed a pet for a long healthy life. After gaining courage from a few months of cooking from this book, many pet owners will experiment further, join pet nutrition email groups, enjoy giving their pets more exotic and varied ingredients and supplements, not because this book isn't sufficient for their pets but for the same reason most of us don't use a single people cookbook for life; because cooking for furry companions is interesting and fun.
 Dog & Cat Diets May 13, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Throughlly researched, the book address health problems of cats and dogs. I would have enjoyed seeing more actual recipes. I had a little trouble distinguishing the discussions for dogs and the discussions for cats.
Review for Dog & Cat diets May 13, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
There is a lot of good information and education about making your pet a diet from home and it also addresses key issues that need special attention. My dog has skin and gi allergies and we are using an approach of part IVD cannned duck & potato and part additional home made adding rice, veggies, pumpkin etc. I am a little unsure how much of the bone meal, vitamins etc. to use when doing a combination of purchased vet food and home cooking so have been experimenting. That a would a good section for the author to add next time. Being that we are down to the duck,venison,rabbitt and find it hard to get without buying the canned vet brand.
 Vitamins hard to understand May 10, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I think over all this book gives a lot of useful information along with recipes that are easy to make with everyday ingredients. My big complaint is the vitamin dosages, they are very hard to figure out. I have a 70# German Shepherd and a 5# Papillon. The charts only go down to 10# with the smallest dose being 1/5 of a vitamin pill, now I would have to halve that. The charts of calorie needs is pretty hard to digest also. You have to be really committed to making your own pet food because although this book has great information some of it is hard to get at. As for being a dry read I don't see a problem with that, after all this is a text book not a novel, so you get more good information because space is not taken up with cute stories and such. I would love to see an updated version of this book being as how it is [...], things change in that length of time and this subject matter needs to be current.
Very good, but read lots of other sources and analyze recipes April 22, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I like the fact that this was written by a veterinarian that studied animal nutrition for himself and did not stick to the "party line" taught in veterinarian school that a couple of the commercial pet food brands are the very best you can feed your pets. Also, his recipes are simpler than some others I've seen and for the most part he does not advocate possibly dangerous or allergy-producing ingredients I've seen in some other recipes, such as alfalfa or garlic. However, before starting to feed your pet a home-made diet, I would read lots of other sources of information and analyze the recipes for nutrients yourself.
I don't have a dog, so I concentrated my reading on the information for cats. I do have a couple of problems with the recipes in this book for cats. First, the recipes rely heavily on clams as a source of taurine, but Strombeck does not specify the type of clams other than saying they are "chopped, in juice." I assumed canned ones would be what is to be used, but I think this must be an incorrect assumption. From what information I could find about clams, fresh clams appear to have a good bit of several nutrients, such as vitamin A, iron, potassium and phosphorus. However, apart from very small amounts of protein and iron, canned clams appear to have virtually no nutrients left in them. Also, if you are using 1/5 of a human vitamin as he says to use, this may leave the food short on some nutrients such as iron, thiamin, niacin, folic acid - even taking into consideration in the amounts that might be in the other ingredients. So one must carefully check the actual levels of nutrients in each multi-vitamin to determine actual levels and whether 1/5 will meet the nutrient needs of the animal. It may be necessary to look at high-potentcy or pre-natal vitamins. The final issue I have with the recipes is that some of the cat food recipes call for canned sardines in tomato sauce. Perhaps the small amount in these sardines wouldn't be harmful, but I wouldn't chance it. Tomatoes can be deadly to cats because they are from the nightshade family. [...]
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