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Give Your Dog a Bone: The Practical Commonsense Way to Feed Dogs for a Long Healthy Life (Revised) Paperback – Jan. 1 1993

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Give Your Dog a Bone by Ian Billinghurst is a runaway best seller based on the concept that a natural, raw food-based diet is best for your dog. Learn how to feed your dog(s) for maximum health, low cost and low environmental impact using raw, whole foods. This book contains valuable nutritional information for anyone who is involved with dogs, including vets, vet students, breeders and dog owners.

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Warrigal Publishing
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Jan. 1 1993
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14.22 x 2.03 x 20.83 cm
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0646160281
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978-0646160283
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Warrigal Publishing; Revised ed. edition (Jan. 1 1993)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0646160281
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0646160283
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 454 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.22 x 2.03 x 20.83 cm

Best Sellers Rank: #137,859 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #20 in Animal Husbandry in Professional Science
- #98 in Pet Food & Nutrition
- #137 in Animal Husbandry (Books)

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Better health for puppy

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 11, 2022

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Well written was easy to read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 25, 2020

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This booked was great and gave me a lot of information on how to feed my dog to live a long and healthy life.

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Sti Wubbies

its ok

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 7, 2020

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redundant

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K.U.

Get started on raw feeding

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 29, 2016

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Great book that summarizes the benefits of feeding your dog a raw diet. This is the one that convinced me to give my puppy raw food and I am very happy with the choice I made.

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Lorne W

As described!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 5, 2018

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Very useful information!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 29, 2015

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Very informative

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Nicolas

Needs presentation improvements, but great reading

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 23, 2003

Dr Billinghurst's book indeed suffers from a pretty bad presentation and the Dr's tendency to be a little redundant, but let's face it : the information inside the book will hit like a freight train, anyone who has been feeding kibble for years thinking it was the right thing to do.
I was one of those, I am a University Professor and like to think of myself as rather smart, besides I have been competing and breeding rottweilers at the highest levels since 1995 and feel I know lots of things about dogs... and yet this book really pointed at how stupid and naive I had been, feeding my dogs industrial kibble and not seeing for what they were, the warning signs that my dogs needed something else.
I didn't hesitate for long after reading that book, I made the switch to Dr Billinghurst's BARF Diet and my dogs have never been so great !
There are probably better books in order to have details on feeding ammounts, precise meal suggestions, etc. But Dr Billinghurst's book is a great starting point because it will really change your outlook on dog feeding.

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Keith McNab

The groundbreaking B.A.R.F. book...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 25, 2003

Yes, it is terribly written. It is also confusing - often contradicting information is presented. BUT this is the book that got tens of thousands of people taking a very hard look at how they have been feeding their dogs, and coming to the conclusion that a commercial diet is by far from the best choice, and in fact raw, natural foods are the best choice for dog nutrition.
For those curious about getting started in changing their dogs' diets, I would recommend Kymythy Schultze's "Ultimate Nutrition" and Carina MacDonald's "Raw Dog Food" before recommending Billinghurst's "GYDAB".
But I would buy this little book too, as it's surely the "Grand Daddy of them all."

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Jayne M.

A must read for all dog owners or prospective owners

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 9, 2022

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Very very thorough and informative, researched by a long time vet. My only caution would be, a few foods are mentioned which have been recently purported to be toxic to dogs - chocolate onions and raisins. I have to say all my previous dogs were fed cooked onions in scraps and possibly ended up eating the odd bit of dried fruit, with no issues, but I do try to avoid them nowadays, along with grapes. Other than that I think this common sense approach to dog diet is a great reminder that dogs managed for tens of thousands of years without us! This book, along with another website, have been a God send - as my dog was constantly begging for food and getting fat due to not getting the right nutrition and not being satisfied with commercial food. I knew it wasn't right but didn't know what else to feed her. I know now and she has so far not had a recurrence of an anal gland problem which cost us a lot of money at the vet. Well worth buying this book!

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CJM

Buy this book and improve your dogs health.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 9, 2015

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When my dog was diagnosed with allergies to just about every filler used in commercial dog food together with numerous pollens and plants, my vet suggested raw feeding. A friend who raw feeds recommended this book to me and it seemed to me that the author was talking a lot of sense. After having read this book and seeing what raw feeding has done for my dog, I would never go back to commercial dog food. One year on my dogs allergies are under control and for the first time in his life he likes his food, (and he's five years old). His teeth are clean, his coat is shiny and I feel much better knowing that I am giving him a diet more suited to him.

Although the author has been criticised for repeating himself throughout the book, I find that useful because there is a lot to take in and it would be easy to forget something important that had been said earlier in the book. Also, it is laid out so that it is easy to find things quickly for reference without rereading the whole book and therefore some things need to be repeated as they are relevant to numerous sections. The book is very comprehensive and covers the principals behind raw feeding, feeding dogs at various stages of their lives, puppies, adults,senior dogs and gives examples of daily feeding menus amongst other topics.

Sourcing raw meat for dogs is becoming easier all the time as numerous companies are springing up supplying reasonably priced frozen raw meat ready mixed but you do need a good book, such as this, to make sure you are giving your dog a balanced diet.

Don't let the price of the book put you off, you'll save far more than that in the future on both food and vets bills, as raw fed dogs are generally healthier than their commercial fed friends. Although my dog was diagnosed with some pretty serious allergies early last year, which normally would have had me back and forth to the vets for treatments over the last year, it's not been necessary to go to the vets since shortly after starting raw feeding.

I would thoroughly recommend this book.

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AMAZONIAN💃💃💃

More of a basic beginner’s guide.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 8, 2020

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This book is very basic if you want to start raw feeding your dogs. I personally found the contents outdated and not up to speed with recent studies and findings on dog nutrition.

It’s so important that dogs get a complete, balanced meal and I feel this book fails to emphasise this. I found YouTube videos on this subject more educational, especially by Dr Karen Becker and Rodney Habib.

3 people found this helpful

Vivs

The use of Desiccated Liver with Brewers Yeast

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 19, 2015

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For an almost perfect Vitamin B Complex combine the Desiccated Liver with the Brewers Yeast on a 2:1 ratio.

My husband, Arthur Fairhurst, like yourself, has made a life-long study of supplementing the body with additional nutrients for Bodybuilders and Spots People.

With his expert knowledge he put together a dietary plan for Ben. Ben was my Uncle"s Golden Retriever. My uncle passed away and we took Ben on, aged 9. His coat had lost its colour, he was lethargic and sad. After a number of months on his new regime the colour came back to his coat, he became full of life again and lived until he was over 15 years of age.

Good nutrition does work! Whether it be for animals or humans. Do feed yourself and your pet correctly

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Micky E

don't listen to the vet. give it a go.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 27, 2016

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I have read a few books now on the BARF diet before starting my GSD on raw. This is an excellent read. If you're in any doubt about the raw food diet, read the book and try it out. It works for my lad who was scratching and chewing non stop. His skin has settled and he is calmer. Vets may not like the diet because it loses them work. My vet was more than happy for my boy to eat kibble and take steroids at £70 a visit. He hasn't needed a vet for months since starting the BARF diet.

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