For the price of a fifteen minute consultation with your vet this book provides hours of reading pleasure. In 391 easy-to-read pages you can discover masses of information not available in the libraries of veterinary textbooks. If you are a pet owner this book will likely be one of the best investments that you have ever made. Big savings in vet bills and feed bills are likely to be measurable benefits. But how can you measure the benefits of pain-free happy pets? How can you measure your feelings? -- knowing that you have done the best for the pets in your care. You can't. But you and your pets can experience those feelings -- because Raw Meaty Bones: Promote Health.

Table of Contents

Foreword 5 Preface 9 1. Disturbing the peace 11 Part I Pet Health 2. Mouth rot and dog breath 39 3. Ugly facts 55 4. Raw vs cooked food 79 5. What's in the can? 91 6. Unpleasant diseases; painful death 109 7. Foul-mouth AIDS 135 8. The right diet 151 9. The bite on veterinary dentistry 179 Part II Of, By and For the Industry 10. Misdirected science 201 11. Collaboration at every level 227 12. There's a cuckoo in the nest: a deceptive bird 245 13. Righting the wrongs: charting a new course 271 Part III Life and Death in the Wild 14. A cybernetic hypothesis of periodontal disease 295 Appendices A. Remarks made by Dr Douglas Bryden at the AVA 319 annual general meeting, 1993 B. Eating habits of captive small carnivores 321 C. Diet guide for domestic dogs and cats 327 D. Radio program transcript 333 E. Whistleblower information and contacts 337 Glossary 343 Notes 349 Acknowledgements 371 Copyright Acknowledgements 373 Index 375

About the Author

Tom Lonsdale