Grow Your Pups with Bones: The BARF Program For breeding Healthy Dogs And Eliminating Skeletal Disease (Paperback)

by Dr. Ian Billinghurst (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 406 pages
• Publisher: Dr. Ian Billinghurst (August 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0958592500
• ISBN-13: 978-0958592505
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #512,239 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Dissapointing, August 23, 2007

By	MontiChino (Australia) - See all my reviews

Billinghursts STYLE of writing is fun and exciting, but the book itself is long and tiresome, and very, very repetitive. There are some big flaws in this book as well, for starters it suggests feeding grapes or saltanas to dogs, which are TOXIC to dogs! Also, it really pushes on feeding flax oil, when fish oil is clearly a better option for dogs.

I bought this book after buying "Give Your Dog A Bone" for my sister, who read it and passed it on. It had quite a bit of interesting information between the covers, however, this book is plain and simple boring in comparison. I expected a lot more, it spends 405 pages discussing what could be said in about 20, and most of it isn't relevant to the average person bringing up a pup.

There is a fair bit of interesting information in this book, but the majority of it is simply not worth reading, and not once does he back up his claims with solid, scientific studies.

I would suggest, if you can, borrow a copy, flip though and perhaps read the first chapter, then give it back. If you must buy a book, go with his first book, Give Your Dog a Bone, or even The Barf Diet (everything in the other two books only without the extra rubbish!). Also, there is a LOT of information on the web, do the research and draw your own conclusions.