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I'm a professional trainer. While the previous reviewer has your dog's best interest at heart, she is incorrect in several statements. I am NOT a veterinarian, but I have an OPINION based on my experience with the raw food diet and I am in the "dog world" where many, many other professionals swear by this diet. It is COOKED bones that are brittle and may cause intestinal damage by breaking and lodging in the dogs' intestines. Dogs/Canids/Wolves in the wild eat raw meat and bones. It is a natural part of their diet. Also, my Golden retriever had constant skin infections and inflamed joints due to the grains (usually #1 ingredient) in commercial dog foods. While salmonella and ecoli are issues to be concerned about if the raw food is mishandled, equally worrisome is kibble which has been associated with bloat which can twist a dog's intestines and may cause death, or such treats as rawhide, which may swell in the intestines and block them. In addition, I looked on the bag of what I had been feeding my dog and the main protein providing ingredient wasn't meat or meat by-products, but BLOOD. Even with so called prescription diets, the main ingredients include grains like wheat and corn or at best, rice, which canids do not eat in the wild in large quantities. Their teeth are made for meat and their guts are made for the digestion of a mainly meat diet. Dogs are predators. Predators eat meat! If you, as a normal pet owner are concerned about how to feed a natural diet, there is a wonderful BARF food supplier in Maryland, which guarantees its product, has all natural ingredients (no anti-biotics and it's ALL organic,) the bones are GROUND up preventing splintering, the company provides pro-biotics to help your dog digest the product and ships it frozen guaranteeing you will receive it frozen. All of the products they offer are guaranteed and manufactured by persons with Masters Degrees in Animal nutrition. Therefore, the average dog owner, afraid of harming their pets due to lack of nutritional savvy, can look to companies such as these for help. I am not affiliated with this or any other dog food company, but my Golden is now 81/2, infection free, her joints are no longer inflamed, she is off of Rymadyl and steroids, has had no need to visit the vet other than routine vaccinations, she still performs demonstrations and she behaves like a puppy whereas before the BARF diet, she would go lame. Also, my mentor in training is a breeder who feeds all of her show dogs the BARF diet. Many more of my breeder friends have all switched to this diet, so PLEASE! get all of your facts STRAIGHT before scaring people. All dog food purchasers, please educate yourselves on this topic. You don't have to be an expert to find a company that is. It may save your dog's life and/or increase the quality and length of it. At least give the BARF diet thoughtful investigation before you issue a blanket statement of disapproval, ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE BOOK,HAVE NO EXPERIENCE WITH THE DIET AND ARE NOT A PROFESSIONAL IN THE FIELD! By the way, the dogs I train are service dogs, and I would never put their health at risk when so many people rely on them for daily assistance, that's how much I believe in this diet, but as I said, INVESTIGATE THE FACTS before you decide for your own dog! I, as a mere trainer, can only offer you my opinion based on experience. Don't rely on me. Ask the vets, the breeders and animal nutritionists in your area...then make an EDUCATED CHOICE. You owe it to you dog.

I was very disappointed in this book. I read the reviews here and thought it would tell me how to change my dog's diet to RAW. It told me everything but that. Tom Lonsdale devoted exactly 1 page to the most important information! He simply told his story about his war with the dogfood industry and vets who support it.

I had the wonderful opportunity to meet Dr. Tom Lonsdale while he was teaching his "Raw Meaty Bones" seminar at Emory University. Tom gives excellent information that gives you very logical and scientific reasons to feed a natural diet, much like the dog's wild ancestors ate.

This book will open your eyes! It will teach you to feed your animals in a way that may have never occurred to you before. You'll be surprised how efficiently your animals will consume their meals, and how completely your animal can digest bones.

The most noticeable improvement you will notice when feeding this diet, is that "doggie breath" eventually disappears. Feeding fresh raw carcasses has an extremely beneficial effect on oral hygiene in pets.

There are many, many internet support groups for feeding your pet a "raw meaty bone" diet. You can buy this diet in any grocery store, or you may prefer to buy in bulk through a buying co-op or at a wholesale meat supplier. This is a very cost-efficient way of feeding, because your animal will consume a lot less food overall. Try to avoid the pre-packaged raw diets if you can. Although they have many benefits, they do not provide proper oral stimulation, and will not clean your pet's teeth. They also do not support local growers and businesses, which is so important in the current sluggish economy.

Tom Lonsdale is a long-practicing veterinarian, who has dedicated his life to promoting a natural way of feeding pets. I thought that Dr. Lonsdale was a very sincere, compassionate man, whose goal in teaching his diet principals, was to truly promote the best interests of our companion animals.

I will hope you will read this book, and apply the knowledge gained from it to your own animals health and well-being. I highly recommend his book!

It is interesting that the pendulum in human nutrition appears to be swinging away from manufactured foods towards much less processing. This little book makes a good case for the same in our pets.

It is a whistleblower's report on the ties that bind veterinary education and professional control these days to the marketers of pet food.
It is also a single veterinarian's attempt to present a clear argument *for* feeding the pet dog and the pet cat on a healthier diet than that offered by manufacturers of "pet food".

Recommended for its insight into the mucky politics of professional associations no less than for its good assembling of the arguments for feeding our pets more like ma nature intended.

Dr Lonsdale has a long history in studying dogs. With a phD in canines (not just a a degree), he is one of the few vets who can really be seen as objectively analytical.

This book is thoroughly researched, and is able to refer constantly to the research done by the pet food companies themselves which show the harm their own products do to our animals.

In effect, what we read in this book, is the pet food industry is really no different from the cigarette industry, except it is possibly worse. At least cigarette manufacturers have to now put on their labels the damage their products cause. Unfortunately, our governments are still hoodwinked by the pet food companies, particularly where there are large amounts of money on offer.

This book takes you down what is similar to the Erin Brockovich story. At the end of reading this book, you will undoubtedly be repulsed and disturbed by the problems caused by commercial pet foods. You will learn what to feed your dog and cat. After all, if we can feed ourselves and our families successfully, feeding an animal is really not that hard! It doesn't take rocket science to feed an animal.

What you will learn is that pet food companies take rubbish, poison, and degraded products, and attempt to turn them into a product our dogs will eat.

Dr Lonsdale has done an excellent job on this book and is to be congratulated. This book should be fundamental reading to anyone who still believes the myths of pet food company ad campaigns, and the lies of the most senior of their executives. They don't care about our pets - they simply care about their wallets and profits. And it is our pets who suffer most.

The book goes on and on about why store bought pet food isn't any good for your pet. It gives very little information about the raw bones diet. I am very disappointed! I didn't need convincing, I wanted to know some diet particulars. I know it isn't just about raw meat. They need other things as well, if only in small amounts. This book gave me no pointers or examples. If you are looking at feeding your pet a natural diet, and are looking for example diets, etc. don't buy this, unless a whole one page appendix is good enough for you.

If you're convinced that feeding commercial dog food is all you need for the complete nutrition of your dog, you will probably find this book eye-opening or, at the very least, thought provoking.

All that is lacking to give legs to Dr. Lonsdale's powerful message that feeding my dogs raw meaty bones is right thing to do is a major research study. Nevertheless, there is plenty of anecdotal evidence presented in the book along with Dr. Lonsdale's own experence as a veterinarian that are altogether compelling. He's a courageous and dedicated man delivering a message that many will resist, to the peril of the dogs and cats they love.

Raw Meaty Bones Promote Health is a fantastic book. The book is a must read not just for pet owners but for anyone interested in issues relating to the treatment of animals, the environment and the economy. The description of the collusion of vets and the pet food industry reads like a 'who done it' and is disturbingly like other big business fraud, most notably tobbacco.

Dr. Lonsdale's book, "Raw Meaty Bones" is probably the single most important piece of literature on the subject of raw feeding and the pet food industry that has been published to date.

This book offers an in depth, behind the scenes look at the pet food industry and its practices as well as the resistance of the veterinary profession to acknowledge the damage that processed foods have caused to our dogs.
Dr. Tom has, at a great personal cost, written a truly great book which deserves close attention from dog owners, breeders, trainers as well as anyone working in the animal medical care profession. It ought to be obligatory reading for veterinary students.

I highly recommend it.

Great book that is easy to read and deserves more than one read.

Should be read by pet owners and others as well.

In this world of Tyco and WorldCom and Enron we are shown the next version.
Dr. Lonsdale is to be commended for his courage in speaking the truth and taking a stand against the 'big boys'.