Throw Me a Bone: 50 Healthy, Canine Taste-Tested Recipes for Snacks, Meals, and Treats: Amazon.ca: Cooper Gillespie, Susan Orlean, Sally Sampson, Cami Johnson: Books

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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Book, Mar 7 2004

By	"copleycat" (Portsmouth, NH USA) - See all my reviews

Cooper Gillespie, an adorable Springer Spaniel, is quite the food connoisseur. With a help from his owner, Sally Sampson, he's put together 50 recipes for dogs, his favorite dog related quotes, and photographs. The book was beautiful and well written, but its recipes are high in fat and are not nutritious to a dog. For a treat served scarcely, these recipes are divine to a dog's taste buds.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Great Pictures, but skip the recipes, Dec 27 2003

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Though I throughly enjoyed the photographs in the book and the writing style, and highly advise people to take control of their canine's (and feline's, for that matter) diet, I wasn't particularly enthused by the recipes in this book.
Often excessively high in fat, and regardless of the nutritionist involved in the recipes, these foods will improve your dogs mood, but not his overall health. The best diet for a dog is obtained through a balanced diet of phosphorus to calcium (protein to bone) comparable to what dogs would have eaten in the wild. Although certainly heads and tails above kibble (as is almost anything), I felt that this book didn't give enough information or research into the nutrition requirements of dogs.

To get the best information, and certianly if you're going to go to the trouble of preparing foods for your dog, then I suggest any of a plethora of books on the subject. "Give your dog a Bone" by Ian Billinghurst, or any of Billinghurst's books, Natural Nutrition for Cats and Dogs by Kymythy R. Schultze, or Raw Meaty Bones Promote Health by Tom Lonsdale. Any of these books will help you plan an effective road to health for your dog without catering to the coffeetable book set. (Although I still LOVED the pictures in this book)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great recipes, Dec 11 2003

By	tzefirah "tzefirah" (Media, PA United States) - See all my reviews

I'm giving this dog cookbook the full 5 stars, even though I'm getting rather sick of books "written" by people's pets. The photographs are worth the price alone, but the recipes are fabulous and healthful. There's also a Table of Equivalents included in the back. There are also marvelous quotations sprinkled throughout of famous people's feelings about dogs.

I'm giving this book as a gift, too.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect!!!
Between the recipes, photography, quotes and writing, this book is a perfect gift for anyone interested in dogs. Read more

Published on Nov 26 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars Can't wait to dig in!!!!!!!
A funny, charming and delicious book. Nothing rrruffff about it. Gillespie and Sampson have completely won me over with their narrative and recipes.

Published on Nov 19 2003

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Published on Nov 7 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars Super Dogs!
The photographs of the dogs are wonderful. Cooper Gillespie is the adorable spaniel not the photographer. Read more

Published on Oct 30 2003 by Lynda J DeMoss

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