Dr Becker's Real Food For Healthy Dogs and Cats: Simple Homemade Food

Good book for all the people trying to improve their cat and dog health.

Este libro tiene todo lo que necesita saber para comenzar a alimentar con alimentos frescos.

Lots of information and recipes for pets. Can't wait to get her 3rd book.

If you’re looking for recipes and don’t need to know if your pet’s nutritional needs are met, look elsewhere. This book teaches you exactly how much micronutrients, macronutrients & vitamins your pet needs.Yes there are recipes in the book, but since pets vary in size, age and needs, you need to build the recipes yourself according to your specific pets needs. It gives you the “recipes” or “building blocks” for veggie recipes, meat recipes and supplement recipes and you combine them to your pets needs and insures that all needs are met by varying the recipes on a weekly basis.I’ve purchased several dog cookbooks and had yet to find one that covered all nutritional needs, until I found this book. In fact, this book actually helped me calculate just how many important nutrients that are lacking in the recipes in those other pet cook books.But as other reviews state, you actually have to read the whole book and take notes, before you can start making food. To make recipes, you do have to flip back and forth between the meat recipes and veggie recipes, which can be frustrating for some. You also have to buy a small arsenal of vitamins, bonemeal and oils, but worth it to know that everything is covered in the right amounts together with the foods. The biggest minus has nothing to do with the book, but the fact that I realized that I need to buy a chest freezer to fit 1 months worth of food for my giant dog. Oh well.In summary, you’ll get cooked recipes, raw recipes and supplement recipes. The recipes don’t include grains or legumes, which for some are up to debate whether are not are needed. However, it suggests you add taurine which there’s not in grain free diets, so nutritionally your pet should be covered, especially if your concerned about heart diseases like DCM.

A book that everyone should read.

Even though it’s a relatively small book, it manages to go through most - if not all - aspects of nutrition, including recipes, supplement considerations, discussion about the necessity of feeding bones vs bone replacement etc.I’ll keep referring to this book when making food for my cat.