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Real Dogs Don't Eat Kibble! (Naturally Healthy Dog)

Real Dogs Don't Eat Kibble! (Naturally Healthy Dog)
By Sandra Bailey

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Could you be unintentionally killing the dog you love? Are you doing everything you can to insure that your dog will live a long, healthy and happy life? Have you been misled into damaging your dog's health and immune system? Why is your dog not healthy today? As your dog's guardian, you have the power to reverse the damage that has been done and improve your dog's health naturally.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #177385 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-11-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 178 pages

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About the Author

Sandra got her first dog at age 14, and when she picked out the runt of the litter, and her Mom asked why, she said, ?Because she looked like she needed me.? And that began her love affair with dogs and she has had dogs for over 50 years. Sandra became involved with the Papillon breed in the late 1970?s. Sandra lost her first Papillon at the young age of nine years, and that began her study in nutrition and alternative health care. She felt that there was a better way to care and support our dogs, improve their immune systems and extend their lives as long as possible. She is a member of the National Center for Homeopathy and a Professional Member of the Animal Wellness Association. Sandra has shown Papillons for over twenty years, and has become more and more involved in various aspects of the canine world. She currently has three Papillons, Digit, Pip, and Squeeze, but does not breed them because she readily admits that she would not be able to part with any of them. Since her retirement from Human Resources work in the corporate world, She has set up a doggie daycare and overnight stay in her home, called Digit and Pip's Doggie Daycare. Her overnight doggie guests sleep in her bedroom with her and her dogs. Where else? The author is currently working on the next book in the Naturally Healthy Dog Series, plus articles and reports. So stay tuned.

Customer Reviews

Easy Read, Very Informative4
If you are interested in the BARF diet, this is an excellent book. It's an easy read, which is nice. The author gives good advice and shares her learning experience. Great book for someone starting out with a raw or barf diet.

Real dogs dont eat kibble.5
I found this book to be insightfully, easy and fast read. It gave me more insight into feeding a raw natural diet to ones carnivore dog. The author has listed contact information, website for various manufactures from Raw foods to yes even commercial pet food but only the high quality ones. Even gives good advice on keeping a journal. I have been researching raw feeding for about a year now and something that seems very debated is if you should or need to feed supplements. There are some raw feeders that don't feed any, others that give one or two like fish oil and others that give a lot. This book was defiantly insightful on supplements even though I don't think I will be feeding any and if I do it'll only be 1, maybe 2. I would recommend this book to anyone who is intresting in learning more about Raw feeding.

Not what I expected2
I think that the author of this book seems like she cares alot about animals and that is really cool. I think that I just expected more about diet and less about other types of supplements and homeopathic medicinal theory. I really don't think that this book is accurate in some areas. She actually says "although the jury is still out on whether the body can replenish enzymes or not, the common belief is that it cannot." This just isn't true. Enzyme production occurs throughout life. And I've never heard anyone suggest that we "run out" of enzymes, a fact that she says some nutritionist believes. To me this just sounds ridiculous, some type of new fear mongering some goof ball thought up to get housewives scared and buying his or her new product that will help restore enzymes....total quackery.
She also states that dogs are carnivores and then two pages later says they are omivores (page 4 and 6, this can be seen on the "look inside" feature). This type of stuff irritates the heck out of me. I don't pay my hard earned money to read quackery and poorly edited work. Dogs are categorized as carnivores and just because they can eat an apple doesn't mean they are omnivores.
The author, it seems, has some very valuable knowledge and experience in feeding dogs a raw diet however she chose to waste the paper used for this book to tell us things like "Peas are high in magnesium" and other intellectual gems like if your dog is losing weight feed him more. Really?! Duh!
Its a little sad because I imagine the author could actually write a nice full book detailing a raw food diet (which was what I expected) but instead decided to share with us some of the silly notions of homeopathy and other fluffy, relatively useless information. Honestly, most the people that are educated enough to be interested in a raw food diet are not the type of people that need be told that carrots are a "leading source of beta-carotene." what does that even mean anyway? leading? as in "a leading role?" best-selling? what? useless.
Anyway, this book is not TOTALLY terrible, there is enough information that I felt comfortable starting my dog with some raw food. So I guess in that way this book helped, but not much.
There is a section about organizations or where to buy raw food, but to be honest I couldn't finish the book. It was all too patronizing and retarded for me.
On the good side, I think her heart is in the right place and her mind is as well, but just needs to revise and supplement this book with a little more science and evidence and less indoctrinated BS from her homeopathic buddies and gurus.
Also this book is double spaced so even less info than you would think. Unfortunately this was the only book I have read about this subject, so I don't have any recommendations, but I know I will be looking at buying another book.