GIVE YOUR DOG A BONE
Give Your Dog a Bone
The Practical Common-sense Way to Feed Dogs for a Long Healthy Life.
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.
The book contains valuable nutritional information for anyone who is involved with dogs, including vets, vet students, breeders and dog owners.
This is how the book is described but I have a different view.
This book by Dr Ian Billinghurst (Australian Vet) is an absolute “Must Buy” for anyone who has a dog or even contemplating getting a dog.
If you have invested in a dog then you must invest in this book. Its perfect for Puppy buyers and also those with Geriatric Dogs and all those in between.
Ian Billinghurst has actually written 4 books and I honestly suggest you invest in all 4.
What this book teaches is so simple and Dr Ian starts from the beginning talking about the advent of commercial pet dog food and what relation it has had on the health of our pet dogs.
In “Give Your Dog a Bone” he talks about how he has seen a huge increase in sick dogs needing to see a Vet more often than not.
He puts this purely down to the dog’s diet in most cases.
The book teaches you how simple it can be to change your dog’s diet. It is not complicated like a lot of people think.
Now, it is even easier to feed a raw diet than it was back in the 90’s.
The reason I first got hold of this book was due to one of my dogs called Lucy. She was a rescue Kelpie X Alsatian. I got her as a 2-year-old, and I was her 5th home! She had 9 pups when she was 10 months old and luckily was in the rescue whilst she was pregnant. The reason she was taken back to the rescue, was due to the fact she was very active and could scale a 6 ft fence easily AND even one excuse was she wagged her tail too much!!!
Anyway, I was lucky enough to secure her as my own. We had visited the rescue along with my Rescue Dachshund Rusty. We were trying to find a dog Rusty could live with. Rusty basically hated all dogs and people. He loved our cats though. We were going to look at a long-nosed dog (Greyhound) as the rescue suggested my Dachshund would get on with her. We got it very wrong, and Rusty took an instant disliking to her.
Now this Dog Rescue Charity was a little different to other rescue places as most of the dogs were not kenneled through the day, they had four large paddocks to roam in. Each paddock was fenced with 5ft fencing.
You get where I am going here!
Suddenly out of nowhere Lucy jumped over the fence and into the meet and greet paddock. She ran straight up to Rusty, and they were instant friends.
We took Lucy home that day and she lived to the ripe old age of 23!!!
Lucy at the age of 12 suffered a stroke and the vets at the time suggested we let her go. I was determined to find a solution for her.
Now this was the time before the internet so “Word of Mouth” or the library was our reference points.
I had started researching food and nutrition to help Lucy as well as Physical Therapy. I was making up a cooked version of what Dr Ian actually suggested.
Lucy started to thrive and learnt to walk again.
I found out about the book “Give Your Dog a Bone” and sent away for it. This was the time when we wrote letters and enclosed a cheque!!! Don’t laugh.
All I can say is that once I received my book from Dr Ian Billinghurst all my dogs started to thrive. I had Rusty the red mini smooth Dachshund, Lucy the Kelpie x Alsatian, Gina another red mini smooth (who hated cats) and BB my standard Poodle at the time.
You may ask why Dr Ian Billinghurst advocates good nutrition. Well Dr Ian graduated as a Nutritionist for animals in 1966, then became a Vet in 1976. So Dr Ian has much more training on nutrition than most vets get in their degree.
Go read the book and come back to me with your views.
I hope you will understand why Ted & Co came about. Its all about offering good nutritious treats and supplements.
Get your Book Today, you will not regret it and your dogs will thrive.