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My 7yr. old Blue Heeler, Desi,was diagnoised with a Toxic Liver and my Vet suggested I either put him down or immediately start him on Steroid shots and antiboitics and he would at least have a 10% chance of pulling thru it. I did not take his advise on either count. Instead I bought this book, immediately started my Dog on an herbal liquid Liver Detox and a raw or slightly cooked meat & vegetable diet. My Dog was also anemic and had not been eating his hard processed dog food anyway. I was mixing my own concoctions for a few days until this book arrived and I was able to use some properly balanced meal ingredients. Within 7 days of using the Liver Detox and raw meat diet, Desi was acting as if he was starving to death but I could only feed him small meals until he was used to eating more. Within 10 days of this Natural, chemical free treatment Desi is eating properly, has much more ambition and is probably 95% back to being his self. I will continue to prepare these healthy meals for him for the rest of his life and in a couple weeks I will take him back to the vet to have his liver tested again, I think my vet will be surprised that Desi is even alive! Thanks for writing this book Dr. Pitcarin!Read full review
Dr. Pitcairn's veiws on nutrition are right on! for the most part. According to all the research I have put into my dog's need's nutritionally. I agree with him on 99% of his reccomendations. I fell short on 2 of his theory's, one with his view on feeding grains. As it is well recognized that dogs do not require grains as part of their diet. And if you look at the ingredients of most good as well as bad, dry dog food they are mostly containing grains for use as fillers (making the dog food companies rich). Secondly,I also do not agree with his theory on added Calcium. If you read any canine nutritional books you will see that if the dog's diet is well balanced no added calcium should be supplemented when feeding a homecooked diet. As a matter of fact it will cause more harm then good. My advise is get yourself a text book to read along with Dr. Pitcairn's book and you will have the perfect diet! By the way love his name... Pit-cairn he could be a designer dog breed (Pit Bull and Cairn terrier mix). Keep reading, our dog and cat friends deserve the best.Read full review
There are three editions to this book; I own two of them. Each edition just gets better and better! This book is very thorough concerning dogs and cats, their needs, behavioral and physical issues, and natural alternatives for treatment. Those natural alternatives include nutrition, homeopathy, herbal remedies, and more. While this book has been extraordinarily helpful with day-to-day issues, what makes me thankful for this book is that by using the nutritional information (and then "cooking" for my pets) I have literally saved the lives of three of my pets. The first one, Roxie (white cat with black spots), is the reason why I bought the book. She lost 25% of her body weight in two weeks and her bloodwork showed a very high white blood cell count. What was even more strange is that apparantly there are two kinds of white blood cells, and she had very few (less than 20%) of the kind that are supposed to make up 80% or more of the white blood cells. We even took her to an oncologist, who couldn't identify what was wrong and told us chemo was an option if they did exploratory surgery and found something treatable. Oh, and there was a very good chance she wouldn't survive the surgery. So I got this book, and without "diagnosing" her I began "cooking" all her meals (I say "cooking" because there wasn't any heat involved). This book gives lots of recipe options, even including vegan recipes, so that you can find the right recipe that fits into your budget. Based on the homepathic emphasis in the book, I also called a homeopathic vet in Colorado (she ended up having about 2 doses of a rememdy). Roxie got sick at 2 1/2 years old and the oncologist and my vet said she had about 2 weeks to live. That was over 12 years ago, and she's still going strong! She doesn't live like a weakly or sickly cat - she is heathy and active. Oh, and I only had to "cook" for her for about a year - after that I was able to switch her to a high quality, no by-products kibble. Two of my dogs have also been saved out of life threatening situations through using this book - I won't tell their stories because I think you get the idea! Currently I am using this book to treat a young dog with heartworm. While she still may need the traditional arsenic based treatment (it is very hard to treat heartworm), this book has helped me build up her immune system so she will have a much better chance of surviving traditional heartworm treatment and she is much more likely to need fewer treatments than the 3 originally recommended. Thank you Dr. Pitcairn!Read full review
I have loved this book for 30 years and made my own dog and cat food from the recipes. I loved it so much that I loaned it to someone and had to buy another (this one).
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This book has so much information about natural remedies and first aid recipes and so much more. I have had this boat previously and it got lost I had to immediately replace it
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