Raw Meaty Bones Promote Health [Paperback]

Tom Lonsdale (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2001

For the price of a fifteen minute consultation with your vet this book provides hours of reading pleasure. In 391 easy-to-read pages you can discover masses of information not available in the libraries of veterinary textbooks. If you are a pet owner this book will likely be one of the best investments that you have ever made. Big savings in vet bills and feed bills are likely to be measurable benefits. But how can you measure the benefits of pain-free happy pets? How can you measure your feelings? -- knowing that you have done the best for the pets in your care. You can't. But you and your pets can experience those feelings -- because Raw Meaty Bones: Promote Health.

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Congratulations! Your book reads superbly... I've just read it tonight, in a single sitting. -- Mark O'Connor

Good news there is a book off the press. It's called Raw Meaty Bones. It is a FANTASTIC read. -- Catherine O'Driscoll, Canine Health Concern

The wealth of information on health and other matters makes it deserving to be on the "must read" list. -- Linda Johnson, Journal of the Victorian Canine Association

About the Author

Tom Lonsdale

Product Details

• Paperback: 389 pages
• Publisher: Dogwise Publishing (August 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0646396242
• ISBN-13: 978-0646396248
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #396,074 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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93 of 98 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An educated and logical way to feed pets!, December 9, 2003

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JC "stormgategsd" (Atlanta , Georgia) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Raw Meaty Bones Promote Health (Paperback)

I had the wonderful opportunity to meet Dr. Tom Lonsdale while he was teaching his "Raw Meaty Bones" seminar at Emory University. Tom gives excellent information that gives you very logical and scientific reasons to feed a natural diet, much like the dog's wild ancestors ate.

This book will open your eyes! It will teach you to feed your animals in a way that may have never occurred to you before. You'll be surprised how efficiently your animals will consume their meals, and how completely your animal can digest bones.

The most noticeable improvement you will notice when feeding this diet, is that "doggie breath" eventually disappears. Feeding fresh raw carcasses has an extremely beneficial effect on oral hygiene in pets.

There are many, many internet support groups for feeding your pet a "raw meaty bone" diet. You can buy this diet in any grocery store, or you may prefer to buy in bulk through a buying co-op or at a wholesale meat supplier. This is a very cost-efficient way of feeding, because your animal will consume a lot less food overall. Try to avoid the pre-packaged raw diets if you can. Although they have many benefits, they do not provide proper oral stimulation, and will not clean your pet's teeth. They also do not support local growers and businesses, which is so important in the current sluggish economy.

Tom Lonsdale is a long-practicing veterinarian, who has dedicated his life to promoting a natural way of feeding pets. I thought that Dr. Lonsdale was a very sincere, compassionate man, whose goal in teaching his diet principals, was to truly promote the best interests of our companion animals.

I will hope you will read this book, and apply the knowledge gained from it to your own animals health and well-being. I highly recommend his book!

123 of 135 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Response To Previous Review, October 2, 2003

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SpiritJourney (Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Raw Meaty Bones Promote Health (Paperback)

I'm a professional trainer. While the previous reviewer has your dog's best interest at heart, she is incorrect in several statements. I am NOT a veterinarian, but I have an OPINION based on my experience with the raw food diet and I am in the "dog world" where many, many other professionals swear by this diet. It is COOKED bones that are brittle and may cause intestinal damage by breaking and lodging in the dogs' intestines. Dogs/Canids/Wolves in the wild eat raw meat and bones. It is a natural part of their diet. Also, my Golden retriever had constant skin infections and inflamed joints due to the grains (usually #1 ingredient) in commercial dog foods. While salmonella and ecoli are issues to be concerned about if the raw food is mishandled, equally worrisome is kibble which has been associated with bloat which can twist a dog's intestines and may cause death, or such treats as rawhide, which may swell in the intestines and block them. In addition, I looked on the bag of what I had been feeding my dog and the main protein providing ingredient wasn't meat or meat by-products, but BLOOD. Even with so called prescription diets, the main ingredients include grains like wheat and corn or at best, rice, which canids do not eat in the wild in large quantities. Their teeth are made for meat and their guts are made for the digestion of a mainly meat diet. Dogs are predators. Predators eat meat! If you, as a normal pet owner are concerned about how to feed a natural diet, there is a wonderful BARF food supplier in Maryland, which guarantees its product, has all natural ingredients (no anti-biotics and it's ALL organic,) the bones are GROUND up preventing splintering, the company provides pro-biotics to help your dog digest the product and ships it frozen guaranteeing you will receive it frozen. All of the products they offer are guaranteed and manufactured by persons with Masters Degrees in Animal nutrition. Therefore, the average dog owner, afraid of harming their pets due to lack of nutritional savvy, can look to companies such as these for help. I am not affiliated with this or any other dog food company, but my Golden is now 81/2, infection free, her joints are no longer inflamed, she is off of Rymadyl and steroids, has had no need to visit the vet other than routine vaccinations, she still performs demonstrations and she behaves like a puppy whereas before the BARF diet, she would go lame. Also, my mentor in training is a breeder who feeds all of her show dogs the BARF diet. Many more of my breeder friends have all switched to this diet, so PLEASE! get all of your facts STRAIGHT before scaring people. All dog food purchasers, please educate yourselves on this topic. You don't have to be an expert to find a company that is. It may save your dog's life and/or increase the quality and length of it. At least give the BARF diet thoughtful investigation before you issue a blanket statement of disapproval, ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE BOOK,HAVE NO EXPERIENCE WITH THE DIET AND ARE NOT A PROFESSIONAL IN THE FIELD! By the way, the dogs I train are service dogs, and I would never put their health at risk when so many people rely on them for daily assistance, that's how much I believe in this diet, but as I said, INVESTIGATE THE FACTS before you decide for your own dog! I, as a mere trainer, can only offer you my opinion based on experience. Don't rely on me. Ask the vets, the breeders and animal nutritionists in your area...then make an EDUCATED CHOICE. You owe it to you dog.

51 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Easy way to change your world, December 13, 2004

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S. Robertson (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This book is a true eye-opener and paradigm shifter.

For years I fed my dogs the "expensive" dog food from the vet, but they still had horrible skin problems, disgusting breath and nasty teeth. I felt so guilty about not feeding my dogs the 'natural' way (blending, cooking, mixing, grating, chopping veggies and meats every week, yuk!), that I had all but resigned myself to overpaying for bags of grain and sugar(aka:kibble) for my dogs.

After doing research on canine diets throughout history I discovered a new book,"Raw Meaty Bones" by Dr Tom Lonsdale. "This is it!", I thought. How could it get any easier? Buy a chicken at the store, throw it on the ground, let my dogs enjoy. They loved it, I loved it, and they haven't had to have their teeth cleaned in over two years. The vet keeps patting me on the back for brushing my dogs' teeth. Are you nuts? No way, I just feed them their natural carnivore diet of meat and bones.

And to the people who start screaming hysterically about not feeding dogs bones--who are you kidding? Honestly, what do you think companion animals have eaten since they were first domesticated? Huh? Whatever they were given, found, or killed themselves. Kibble is a modern invention, just like processed human foods, and both are high dollar industries with much to lose should we all wise up.

Do yourselves and your animals a favor--read Tom Lonsdale's book, and give your dog (and cat) a bone (a big, raw meaty one) today.