Better Food for Dogs: A Complete Cookbook and Nutrition Guide Book

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Canine Diet

Dogs and Humans: Similar yet Different

Diet and Health

Table Scraps as Dietary Enhancements

Does Price Determine the Quality of the Food? / Identifying Good-Quality Processed Foods / Commercial Foods and Home-Prepared Diets / A New Breed of Commercial Dog Foods

Know Good Health When You See It / Problems Associated with Low-Quality Diets

Myths About Dogs and People Food

A Potential for Contamination / Other Potential Risks / Bones as Raw Food

No Doggie Vegans

Dogs Like Routine

Obesity / The Immune System / Greasy Coat, Dandruff and Doggie Odor / Chronic Ear Infections / Gastrointestinal Problems / More Diet Related Diseases / Behavioral Problems

Chapter 2: Better Food for Dogs

Diet Formulation: A Sensible Approach

Monitor the Diet / Make It Tasty / The Joys of Home Cooking / Kilocalories / Seal of Approval

The Essential Nutrients

Proteins / Sources of Protein / Carbohydrates / Sources of Carbohydrates /Feeding Carbohydrates / Mix Well for Optimum Health / Fats / Omega-3s / Water

Multivitamin-and-Mineral Supplements / Bonemeal / Salts / Vitamins / Macro- and Micronutrients / A Fine Balance / Beyond Nutrition / Minerals

Specialized Nutrition Plans

When Is Your Puppy Mature? / Puppy Nutritional Requirements / Energy Requirements for Puppies Compared with Adult Dogs / Puppies and Home-Prepared Diets / Choosing the Best Food / A Plump Puppy May Not Be a Healthy Puppy / Just Enough of a Good Thing / Watch and Adjust

Chapter 3: Making It Work

Supporting Wellnesss

Dogs and New Foods

Introducing a Home-Prepared Diet / Assessing the Diet / Weighing Results / Checking Weight

Complete Blood Count (CBC) / Chemistry Screen / Know Your Dog As You Know Yourself / Urine Test / Touch and Grooming for Wellness / Keep Your Eye on the Doogie Doo / Your Dog's Teeth / Feeding Bones / Exercise

Food Intolerance and Allergies / Foods that Are Known to Be Toxic to Dogs / Toxic Foods / Other Potential Problem Foods / Poisoning and Other Related Emergencies / Food Safety / Choking / When Your Dog Throws Up / Eating Grass

Chapter 4: Recipes Basics

Using the Recipes

Start with Your Dog's Weight Class

Why Weight Matters / Follow the Instructions / Vary the Ingredients

Essential Information / Vegetable-and-Fruit Mix / Cooking Meats and Fish / Cooking Carbohydrates

Chapter 5: Meals

Chapter 6: Cookies

Chapter 7: Adding Essential Nutrients

The Supplements

Using the Charts / Half per Meal / Bonemeal / Multivitamin-and-Mineral Supplement

Resources

Reading List

Index