Raw Dog Food by Carina Beth Macdonald Book Review

Pages: 86

Published: 2004

The Good: Straight to the point, easy to follow book about raw dog feeding.

The Bad: The author does not feed her dog entirely raw.

The Bottom Line: Raw Dog Food: Make It Easy for You and Your Dog by Carina Beth Macdonald is an excellent book to read if you are curious about the raw dog food diet and need a general introduction to this type of feeding style.

Raw Dog Food is mostly one person’s personal account into how to properly do raw dog feeding. Don’t worry though, the author, Carina Beth Macdonald, has had lots of experience with raw dog feeding. She has fed many dogs in the past a raw dog food diet with great success.

This fun and easy to read book covers everything from why you should feed raw, the benefits of feeding raw, how to feed raw even for puppies and senior dog citizens, supplements you should incorporate into your raw dog food diet and much much more.

Note that Carina doesn’t feed her dog all raw. So if you are a die hard hardcore raw feeder, her occasional account of an un-raw snack like a pizza crust, may irk you.

The book has 10 chapters which are:

1. Why I Started Feeding Raw Dog Food
2. A Raw Diet – What Nature Intended
3. Myths, Fears and Anxieties
4. Raw Materials
5. The Raw Food Factory
6. Putting It All Together
7. Customize Your Feeding
8. Problem Solving
9. The Straight Poop
10. Waggin’ Tale End

Our favourite chapters are #9 – The Straight Poop, which talks about what healthy dog poop should look like and what different types of dog poop means. Hint: Healthy dog poop should be light, odorless, small and quite firm. Also, it should turn white after a few days in nature, which then you can just step on it and let mother nature take it back. And #3 Myths, Fears and Anxieties, which talks about issues that people have with switching to a raw dog food diet.

This book also gets bonus points in our book as Carina uses the Vitamix to blend some of her raw dog food “glop” together! We highly recommend the Vitamix for both human and dog use.

Overall, we recommend this book to any person who is just getting into the raw dog food diet and wants to have a good overview about this style of feeding. For about $10, this book is well worth the money if it can convince you to put your dog on a raw dog food diet. Which we think it will.

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