The Naturally Healthy Dog: Real Dogs Don't Eat Kibble! [Paperback]

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.

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.

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.