The Ultimate Pet Food Guide: Everything You Need to Know about Feeding Your Dog or Cat

The Ultimate Pet Food Guide: Everything You Need to Know about Feeding Your Dog or Cat

by Liz Palika
The Ultimate Pet Food Guide: Everything You Need to Know about Feeding Your Dog or Cat

The Ultimate Pet Food Guide: Everything You Need to Know about Feeding Your Dog or Cat

by Liz Palika

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Overview

The 2007 pet food recalls followed a multitude of pets getting sick and dying from contaminated food; now pet owners must take charge of what they feed their dogs and cats. With The Ultimate Pet Food Guide, veteran dog trainer, behaviorist, and author Liz Palika focuses on nutritional needs and covers every type of feeding, including controversial raw diets, homemade cooked food, and commercial foods. Palika also addresses introducing new foods; what “human foods” pets shouldn't eat; free-feeding; responsibility for food safety; where ingredients come from; and red flags in ingredients. Included are over fifty veterinarian- and pet-nutritionist-approved recipes and diets tailored to special-needs pets, such as puppies/kittens and pregnant, older, overweight and/or more sedentary animals.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781600940712
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 04/01/2008
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 1,136,542
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Liz Palika is a dog trainer, journalist, and author of more than fifty books, including The Ultimate Dog Treat Book and The Idiot's Guide to Dog Tricks. She lives in Southern California.

Table of Contents

Introduction     xi
The Digestive System of Dogs and Cats: What We Feed Them Does Matter     1
The Basics of Nutrition     17
The Big Debate over Commercial Pet Foods     39
The Old Is New Again: Home-Cooked Foods     67
All about Raw-Food Diets     99
All You Need to Know about Supplements     123
As You Begin Making Changes     139
Feeding Puppies, Kittens, and Their Mothers     153
Recipes for Active, Performance, and Working Dogs     179
Recipes for Pets with Special Needs     195
Celebrations, Snacks, and Training Treats     231
Food Values     251
Bibliography     261
Index     265
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