By Ian Billinghurst

405 Pages - Paperback

Product # 943

CONTENTS

Part One

The bones and Raw Food {‘BARF’} Programme

1. What is the ‘BARF’ diet?
   
2. Is the ‘BARF’ diet suitable for growing and breeding dogs?
   
3. The nutrients which support growth
   
4. What you will need to produce the ‘BARF’ diet
   
5. The ‘BARF diet

Part Two

Feeding for Breeding

Introduction

1. Basic nutrition for Him and Her and the kids
   
2. Before you breed you must start with healthy dogs
   
3. Breeding secrets – believe some – ignore others
   
4. What do we feed Her during pregnancy
   
5. The whelping box
   
6. Eclampsia or milk fever
   
7. Feeding the lactating bitch
   
8. Weaning the puppies
   
9. Orphan puppy care

Part Three

Bones Build Bones

Introduction

1. Correct management of pups – an overview
   
2. In the beginning
   
3. Puppy management – then and now
   
4. How bones should grow – normally
   
5. At what stage can we say this bone has become diseased
   
6. Oseochondrosis – the basic cause of skeletal disease
   
7. The role of genes in producing skeletal disease in puppies
   
8. The calcium dilemma
   
9. The ‘excess food’ way to wreck your pup’s bones
   
10. The exercise factor and skeletal disease
    
11. Old fashioned Osteochondrosis
    
12. Osteochondritis Dissecans or OCDIS
    
13. Hip Dysplasia
    
14. The Elbow Dysplasia complex
    
15. The wobbler syndrome
    
16. Panosteitis
    
17. Hypertrophic Osteodystrophy
    
18. The carpal Instability/Flexion Syndrome
    
19. Septic Arthritis
    
20. Patellar luxation or slipping patellas
    
21. Aseptic necrosis of the femoral head
    
22. The BARF programme for pups
    
23. Treating the puppy with skeletal disease

Grow Your Pups With Bones is the second book in a series dealing with feeding companion animals for maximum health. The first book in this series – Give your Dog a Bone – contains important background material and where possible should be read first.

The mission of Grow Your Pups With Bones is firstly, to show the dog owning fraternity how easy it is to produce healthy pups without the losses, headaches, and heartaches so many breeders experience, and secondly, how easy it is to grow those pups into healthy adults with a sound skeletal system.

Grow Your Pups with Bones is divided into three parts.

The first part introduced the Bones and Raw Food {BARF} diet for feeding dogs. This method of feeding dogs is the very heart of Grow Your Pups With Bone. It is based on the dietary needs of dogs as shaped by several hundred thousand years of evolution.

The second part of Grow Your Pups With Bones is about breeding. In particular – feeding for breeding. It details the practical common sense approach to producing an optimum number of healthy pups with a minimum of fuss. The BARF diet is central to this pup-producing programme.

The third part of Grow Your Pups With Bones is about growing pups into healthy adults that do not develop Hip or Elbow Dysplasia, or any of the other skeletal disease which are so common in modern dogs. Central to this third part of the book is BARF programme of diet and exercise.

The basic theme of this book, the BARF diet, has been inspired by the continuing observation that companion animals ate much better when fed their biologically appropriate diet based on Bone and Raw Foods.

Here are the books that I think every dog owner that is interested in the health and a natural diet for their dogs should own. These 5 books will forever change the way that you look at the health and care of your dogs.

Natural Nutrition for Dogs and Cats by Kymythy R. Schultze

Give Your Dog A Bone by Ian Billinghurst

The Nature of Animal Healing by Martin Goldstein, D.V.M.

The BARF Diet by Ian Billinghurst

Grow Your Pups with Bones by Ian Billinghurst