The Ultimate Pet Health Guide: Breakthrough Nutrition and Integrative Care for Dogs and Cats Paperback – August 15, 2017

I have had more than one occasion to recommend this book to people in stores, family, even my vet and local animal rescues! My new kitten loves the first recipe with chicken, chicken liver and green beans. I overheard a lady in a store that was upset because her vet had recommended a VERY expensive food for her cat's pancreatitis and I told her about the recipe for just that condition in this book. She was relieved because I had just saved her a LOT of money! Shortly after getting this book my daughter's dog got sick and we started using one of the recipes in this book. She's getting better! I highly recommend this book. This year alone I lost two of my most beloved dogs and I'd bet my social security it was largely due to kibble, even though I bought what research had told me was pretty good stuff for them. I am devastated! I saw the infomercial on this book and ordered it right away. You have to buy a lot of supplements in the beginning, but once you get past that (they last forever), the food you put in each recipe actually ends up costing far less than the pet food in the stores. And pet food, whether canned or dry, cat or dog, is COSTING MORE AND MORE! I thought I couldn't afford to feed my pets like this. I was wrong. And I sleep better knowing I'm giving my fur babies food that really is healthy and safe!

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I was disappointed in the book as I purchased it for my granddaughter to help her care for her puppy. It reads like a college textbook and doesn't address the information she was seeking except for a small paragraph.

This is an excellent book on pet health. The author uses both conventional and naturopathic treatment methods so he is extremely knowledgeable about nearly everything re: pet health and creating longevity with pet lives.

The book was good enough to add to my pet book collection. However, my review is about something other than the information in the book as it is about the printing. The paper is cheap and the ink is far too light. Perhaps the printer was low on ink. I have good eyesight but this is way too strenuous to read for more than a few minutes. What a disappointment!

I have several books on dog and cat care and didn’t really need another book, but this particular book had much more information about little know things I could do to keep my furry family as healthy as possible in their senior years. For instance, I never knew I could crush up a multi vitamin and add it to my dogs food. I have 2 dogs, both over 70 pounds and over 13 years of age. I started to supplement their diet of grain free canned food, slightly seared raw meats and fish (I only cook the outside of the meats and leave the center raw so they will eat it) and noticed that along with their fish oil tablets, cosequin tablets and now the vitamins, my girls are still doing pretty well, when at the same time, I have 3 friends and family members who lost their dogs, who were also the same age, to cancers. I’m pretty happy overall with this veterinarian’s insight and experience he shares.

This book brings together many alternative treatments for pets, with emphasis on the more common chronic diseases, including allergies, GI inflammation, arthritis and cancer, as well as others. It is particularly useful in that it provides very specific advice on how to use some of the treatments, when not to use them, and suggested dosages, all to be reviewed with your veterinarian. The model behind it...that traditional medicine, evidence based, medicine is outstanding at addressing acute diseases, but alternative and more ancient models of medicine has something to offer with chronic diseases, makes a great deal of sense. My one criticism is that the book would have been doubly useful if there were some attempt at assessing the efficacy of the different treatments. I know there's nothing formal available for most of them, but at least a rough grouping into say 3 categories...(1) considered useful by many veterinarians; (2) controversial; (3) little evidence for usefulness would have been very helpful. I'd put chiropractic medicine and acupuncture in the first category; and homeopathic medicine in the third.

Thank you for writing this book Dr. Richter!!!! More than I hoped for. Perfect layman book to help navigate medical appointments with our veterinarian. This book goes over the ailments your dog and cat can have so you know what to expect from your vet and how best to approach each situation. I am really excited to try the recipes and learn what herbal remedies can help each of my dogs. This book lists what herbs, supplements and probiotics are best for each medical situation. Love this book!!! It’s going to help me be the best pet mom I can be. Very grateful to own such a book!!! (Yes it is a bit medical so if you are looking for something with less medical terminology you can ignore those parts and get straight to learning about the herbal and supplemental treatments towards the back. Worth every penny just to get the homemade recipes!!!)