Dr. Becker's Real Food for Healthy Dogs and Cats

Great if you are serious in giving your pooch/cat the best chance! I have just lost Westie at almost 22 years of age (normal life span 12-16 years) that always had home prepared food. Once you get the principal the rest soon becomes a habit and small effort for the huge benefits! I also found it that once all the components are bought it is not more expensive than chemically enhanced shop bought food overloaded with carbs and lacking in nutrients for healthy fur! Effort is minimal as larger quantity can be prepared, portioned and frozen. Check on line for organic meat suppliers! I believe in loving my pets as much as they love me!

This book is incredible. I wish there was one like it for humans, haha! At first glance, it is a little overwhelming with all the charts, and the idea that there are several components to each meal that you have to combine together each time, but 15 minutes into it, I realized that it is something I can really do and so can you! Obviously I've tailored it to be as convenient as possible for me, but honestly, I love the idea that my dog is getting all the nutrition he needs and none of the junk that normal dogs in the wild don't eat. A newish pet owner, I never really did understand why there were grains and potatoes in dog food since I couldn't imagine a dog eating potatoes and grains in the wild, but since it is literally almost the only option out there for dog good, I would buy it. However, my dog developed a fungal skin condition and after googling it (google!), I came across Dr. Becker's article on dog fungal infections and how diet is really the main thing to change. And then began my homemade dog food journey. 2 weeks later I have seen some improvements, but it's not completely gone. I think it will be a slowish process, and hopefully the probiotic I added in will really make a difference. The one amazing thing I did notice the NEXT DAY after getting him off of processed dog food (and he was on Blue Grain Free!) is that his eyes were immediately brighter and clearer. I didn't really they weren't bright and clear until then. He used to have pretty regular eye gunk (gross - sorry), but in 2 weeks I have only seen it once now. Also, his fur is much softer AND his skin is actually normal skin tone now. Again I didn't realize he was pink all over and that was abnormal until I saw the normal skin tone after he got off of the processed food. Of course, I read Dr. Becker's article about dog fungal infections and she said some dog's are reacting so badly to their food that they're pink from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail, and I was like, hm, glad my dog doesn't have that. Lo and behold, he did, but I didn't realize it until after it was gone. While it may sound like I am the most unobservant pet owner ever, honestly these are very subtle changes and you would never know it till after. I have taken him to the vet regularly for check ups and my vet never mentioned these things either. In fact when I brought up the dark spots that now progressed into full blown fungal infection, the vet or vet tech (I can't remember) told me they were freckles. Helpful. Also, please don't be overwhelmed by the vitamin powder you have to make. At first I tried to find one I could buy, but since all the products that I found didn't give amounts of the vitamins, I just bit the bullet and made it myself because if I was going to go this far, might as well go all the way and make sure he is actually getting vitamins. You can find all the vitamins on Amazon, and while Dr. Becker says just throw them in a blender in the capsule form, I prefer to minimize the steps (why blend and then sift out the capsules?) and just opened the capsules and dumped out the powder. There aren't really that many capsules to break open - I think it took me less than 15 minutes. Buy a cute little mason jar and a measuring spoon and you're good to go! Honestly, this is THE best book on pet nutrition, the end.

An excellent book for anyone interested in having a healthy and long lived pet. It's a little overwhelming initially but well worth the time and effort to read over and over. I started with the fruit & veggie mixtures. As we are already feeding our Yorkies excellent and complete raw food I can go slow making my own and they are still receiving absolute benefits. Next step - finding and gettin comfortable with the supplements then putting it altogether. So far the pups have enjoyed and reflect the quality of food they receive. Love this book and the seller derived on time and as promised.

for my first time ever owning a pet, I knew I would need some insight how to care for my 2 bichon pups I bought 2 so that they would never be alone. they are brothers of the same litter and do everthing together. they play together, talk with each other,sleep together and eat their meals from the same dinner plate. I think my boys had a very good understanding to a human relationship,and encouraged me to be patient with them through there very first puppy period to now teenagers and what a glorious relationship that we share together. everything I do for buddy and toby ido for them is for my love and affection for them giving me their quality tim and attention. I am very careful to follow the rules to diet,exersize and my regular follow-up appointments with my holistic vet. my vet tells me and shows me the wonderful spirit of my pets and claims whatever I am doing for my boys thay are extreamily healthy. I get regular emails from dr.becker and I learn so much more from her teahing...thankyou dr. becker and GOD BLESS.............Robert hosty

Very interesting and easy to understand