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Dr Becker's Real Food For Healthy Dogs and Cats: Simple Homemade Food

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Based on the ancestral diets of dogs and cats, this book provides a rotation plan and recipes for a meat-based diet that includes appropriate levels of vegetables, fruits and supplements to complete the diet, analyzed to make sure that nutrition needs are met. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Natural Pet Productions


Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 28, 2018


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 188 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0982533152


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 54


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.2 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.43 x 9 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #100,308 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #39 in Pet Food & Nutrition #4,803 in Cookbooks, Food & Wine (Books)


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  • Teaches you your pets nutritional needs.
Format: Paperback
If you’re looking for recipes and don’t need to know if your pet’s nutritional needs are met, look elsewhere. This book teaches you exactly how much micronutrients, macronutrients & vitamins your pet needs. Yes there are recipes in the book, but since pets vary in size, age and needs, you need to build the recipes yourself according to your specific pets needs. It gives you the “recipes” or “building blocks” for veggie recipes, meat recipes and supplement recipes and you combine them to your pets needs and insures that all needs are met by varying the recipes on a weekly basis. I’ve purchased several dog cookbooks and had yet to find one that covered all nutritional needs, until I found this book. In fact, this book actually helped me calculate just how many important nutrients that are lacking in the recipes in those other pet cook books. But as other reviews state, you actually have to read the whole book and take notes, before you can start making food. To make recipes, you do have to flip back and forth between the meat recipes and veggie recipes, which can be frustrating for some. You also have to buy a small arsenal of vitamins, bonemeal and oils, but worth it to know that everything is covered in the right amounts together with the foods. The biggest minus has nothing to do with the book, but the fact that I realized that I need to buy a chest freezer to fit 1 months worth of food for my giant dog. Oh well. In summary, you’ll get cooked recipes, raw recipes and supplement recipes. The recipes don’t include grains or legumes, which for some are up to debate whether are not are needed. However, it suggests you add taurine which there’s not in grain free diets, so nutritionally your pet should be covered, especially if your concerned about heart diseases like DCM. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2024 by patricia

  • wow, very complete book, kindle version works 100%
Format: Kindle
Prior to purchasing this book i read a ton of reviews and got a bit discouraged, so i decided to start slow and get library books. I read them and ended up using one of them. Hungry for more information after trying to formulate my own meals i decided to read the sample of this book was a great sample by the way i was hooked and ended up purchasing the kindle version regardless of warning (quality issues reported) because i simply could not wait the shipping time and I’m so glad i did, because i found NO issues after reading 100% of the book in fact you can maximize each graph to view it on a whole separate page which is nice. Book does have a-lot of information so i would suggest to have something handy to take notes, because you will need all your notes to make your balanced meal. I did not take notes at first and after finishing it i had to go back and take notes. Ive only read this 4th edition and it seems to be more flexible with ingredients than other versions. At first will be a bit overwhelming but it all makes sense once you finish the book. Remember take notes very important, and re read as needed the second or third time will make sense specially for the nutrients. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2023 by sleepingbeba

  • Wonderful
Format: Paperback
Love this book. I was looking for AAFCO approved recipes; something that mirrored Darwin & Viva commercial diets. All I found on the internet were formulas that were extremely high in carbs. They give you a recipe for vitamin power that goes with all the recipes. Beef, chicken, turkey, with bone or bone supplement & just liver, or liver, heart, & gizzards with the poultry. Thirdly recipes for fruit/veg mix that you mix with your meat 1:3. Then add in fatty acids, eggs, & sardines on some days. It's very through. Some have complained it's difficult, but it isn't. Just read it through. It's only 185 pages with lots of picture & graphs. Then read through & highlight & take notes as you will have decided which recipes are right for your dogs/cats after the 1st read through. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2026 by veggie nurse

  • Good information - but still confusing
Format: Kindle
This book has very good information and the recipes are simple to make. But.... I am not clear on the supplement part. Yes, she tried to adjust for Sardines, no Sardines, eggs, no eggs - but it would really help to have the supplements combined with the recipes, so you have a full recipe with everything you need. The feeding schedule is not as easy as it looks. My cat does not eat a lot fo food at one time. We tried the 2 meals per day without success - she only eats a few bites and goes and plays, sleeps, plays some more and comes back for a couple more bites. She does not eat much in general. She is the perfect weight for her size and age and is very active - we take her out 2x a day on a leash and she runs and climbs. I always wanted to try raw feeding, so at least I made it to raw freeze dried, but I have to feed her about 5x a day and no more than maybe a teaspoon at a time. Which I do not mind the least as I work from home. I also would not mind making these recipes and just splitting the portion up into small sizes. But the adding of supplements makes this complicated. Mine is not fond of eggs or sardines - so supplements have to be added. I was trying to find a holistic vet down here in Miami - impossible. The vet I had, who had no problem with feeding raw, unfotunately left and the one that came after her tells me that kibble is good for her teeth - he is young and not too long out of vet school. So no help on that front either. Very long story short, I like the information in this book, but I am missing the complete recipes with everything included. So I would give 5 stars for information, but 3 stars for organization and complete recipes. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2018 by Karin F Costa

  • This is a good book
Format: Paperback
I really wanted to do some justice to this book because I went through the reviews before buying and found plenty of complains about how convoluted the book is and how is supposedly quite difficult the implement. Main complains were the reader has to jump from section to section to be able to use it in a practical sense. While there is some truth to that once you understand the principal of how the author is building the food mixes then is quite straight forward. You only have to choose your recipe, know how much you need to feed your pet and everything else is spelled out. The se one complain I remember is about vitamin and mi erales supplementation. Plenty of people complained about how impractical would be to home make your own pet supplement. As matter of fact is not difficult. The book tells you which supplement brands they used. All you would have to do is buy and crush tablets and that is it. The only thing that was initially confusing is seeing food proportions both in cups and pounds but once you realize the author is just equating tow ups to one pound then you don’t need to pay attention to the cups measures (unless you want to be confused) ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2023 by Manuel Carrasco

  • Did Not Answer the Question Which Prompted My Purchase
Format: Kindle
While this book contains a wealth of information and tables on different ratios of various elements of a health ancestral diet for dogs and cats to aid pet owners who may desire to create home made food for their pets, I found it very confusing to the point of being off putting. I was looking for a simple to follow recipe I might be able to follow to make a home made diet which would assure my pom-pug who seems prone to making struvite bladder stones even on the Instinct Raw Bites I had recently been feeding and also earlier on the Fresh Pet food I had her on before. I wanted an answer since she appears not to do well on (or like) the prescription canned CD and SO foods I've now got her on. The book didn't help solve my dilemma. It did do a very good job of making a healthy homemade diet seem so complex that it turned me away from that as my solution. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2023 by N. J. Gill

  • Dr Becker Cares when Others won't Stand Out for Basic Integrity!
Format: Kindle
The Best on Pets Diet. Why What When & How. All You Need to have the Best Healthy Safe Cat or Dog nutritionally speaking! Recipes Rock basic and pointed. Looking forward to Updated 2019 Version as price point on this old hard copy is ridiculously being exploited because it's out of print. Thankful for Kindle version! Just Make Sure it ALL Downloads!!! Yeah Go Amazon!!!!! Pet Fooled Also by same Author Eye Opening American Pet Food Companies could do better; don't be naive anymore! It's easier than you think to steward that pet & cheaper than elder years illness/misery. Yeah! We use it. We love it! Pets absolutely are Smarter-Healthier-any areas of concern Improved Immediately ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2018 by Rhonda123

  • Short but dense with lots of great content + actual recipes with proper portions of each ingredient.👍
Format: Paperback
One of the best books on the market. It's a short read, unlike some of the other authors, and it is dense with very good content. Having actual recipes along with proper ingredient portions is great. If you are like me, you probably own few books on raw feeding, and I judge that a lot of them are great at explaining the concept and health benefits of raw, but most are weak at providing actual recipes with ingredients and portion sizes. Additionally, I appreciate the proposed diverse protein schedule. It's so easy to just feed the same recipe over and over and forget about how important it is to change up your protein base. For seasons raw feeders; you will not find anything revolutionary in here, however, it's a great reference for checking if you are feeding proper portion sizes for each of the ingredients. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2018 by G

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