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'Give Your Dog A Bone' Published

Because cats and dogs have different food requirements, cats are obligate carnivores while dogs are omnivores with a carnivorous background, I decided they each needed their own book, and that I would write the dog book first. Thus was born "Give Your Dog a Bone." This book was launched at a three-day Bichon Frise conference in western Sydney on the 17th November 1993. The book was advertised in all the canine breeder magazines throughout Australia.

"Give Your Dog a Bone" proved an instant hit, with many breeders adopting its ideas. Since that time, it has been making steady inroads into the minds of breeders and dog owners throughout Australia and around the world.

By 1995, "Give Your Dog a Bone" had found its way to England where it developed a steady following due to the enthusiasm of a dedicated group of dog lovers called the "Canine Health Census" (now called the "Canine Health Concern"). This culminated with an invitation for me to be the principal speaker during a four seminar lecture tour in England in September 1997. The lectures were held at Birmingham, Bristol, London and Manchester. The seminars proved an outstanding success. They were well attended and began a strong movement of raw feeders in England. They also attracted interest in the United States.

By 1997, "Give Your Dog a Bone" was beginning to take off in the United States. Following the success of the English tour, I was invited to present an even more extensive series of seminars across the United States. The venues for these lectures included Seattle in Washington, Dallas in Texas, Orlando in Florida, Hartford in Connecticut, Richmond in Virginia, Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, Chicago, Toledo in Ohio, Bellingham in Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco and finally Honolulu Hawaii. These one and two day seminars were held in October, November and December of 1998.

The American tour proved an enormous success. It was during this US tour that I released my second book, "Grow Your Pups With Bones." This new book has formalized the concept of BARF. BARF is an acronym that stands for Bones And Raw Food. It also stands for Biologically Appropriate Raw [or Real] Food. I wrote this book for breeders and the owners of large dogs. It covers feeding to prevent and treat skeletal disease in growing pups and feeding for breeding. I am pleased to report that like my first book, it is selling brilliantly.

As a result of the US seminars and the increased book sales, a quantum leap has been made in increasing the awareness of the American dog feeding fraternity regarding raw feeding. People who feed their dogs according to this BARF philosophy have become known as "BARFERS."

There are now numerous Internet sites that deal with feeding our pets raw food. There are groups of people - numbering in the thousands - who discuss the issue daily on the net. My E-mail is constantly jammed with people requesting information and help with feeding their dogs according to BARF principles and by those wanting to buy my books.

The subjects covered include:

Modern dog feeding myths
The question of cooked or raw foods
Your dog's enemy, commercial dog foods
The common problems associated with home produced food
Basic nutrition
Food combining
Bones as dog food
Meat as dog food
Offal as dog food
Vegetables as dog food
Fruit as dog food
Grains and legumes as dog food
Dairy products as dog food
Eggs as dog food
Table scraps as dog food
Useful supplements
Feeding puppies
Feeding the adult dog
How much food to feed
Getting a dog started on this new diet
Feeding your dog vegetarian style, and;
Feeding your dog for a healthy old age.

Give Your Dog a Bone is essential background reading for my second book Grow Your Pups With Bones.