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The Ultimate Pet Food Guide: Everything You Need To Know About Feeding Your Dog Or Cat is a new book out by Liz Palika, that is a direct response to last year's pet food recalls, and is written to help you, as a pet owner, provide great nutrition for your four-pawed family members.
The book is sectioned into clear, concise chapters on topics like the digestive system, nutrition, commercial pet foods, home-cooked foods, raw-food diets, and supplements, and contains great recipes for you to try at home.
I found the sections on nutrition and comparing commercial foods versus home-made foods to be very informative and comprehensive, yet presented in an easy-to-read straight-forward manner.
My favorite part was on the commercially available pet foods - comparing labels and ingredients and figuring out what's really in there and what's best for your pets.
From oysters to cranberries and beyond, the recipes and supplements section amazed me: many of the recipes were mouth-watering, and the simple description of vitamins and herbs was easy to understand.
This is a great guide for anyone concerned about what our pets consume on a daily basis. Certainly with the pet food recalls and deaths from commercial food still in our minds, this book helped make sense of many issues and questions I had as a pet owner. I still feed my girls Iams kibble, even though I wish I had the time and means to make crock pot chicken and peas for them!
A quick search at Amazon revealed it's available there either new or used, and can also be found at Barnes & Noble. The author, Liz Palika, is an award-winning writer of more than fifty books, including The Ultimate Cat Treat Book, and she is the founder of Love On A Leash, a therapy dog program that brings dogs into nursing homes and hospitals. Her personal website is www.lizpalika.com
The book is published by Lifelong Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group.
I received a copy of this book in exchange for this post. My copy will be donated to Furriends Of The Cat Blogosphere, as a fund-raiser item for kitties in need.