Grow Your Pups with Bones

By Dr Ian Billinghurst

405 Pages - Paperback

Grow Your Pups With Bones is the second book in a series dealing with feeding companion animals for maximum health.

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.

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 introduces 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.

Contents of Part 1 - The bones and Raw Food (‘BARF’) Programme:
What is the ‘BARF’ diet?
Is the ‘BARF’ diet suitable for growing and breeding dogs?
The nutrients which support growth
What you will need to produce the ‘BARF’ diet
The ‘BARF diet

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.

Contents of Part 2 - Feeding for Breeding
Introduction
Basic nutrition for Him and Her and the kids
Before you breed you must start with healthy dogs
Breeding secrets – believe some – ignore others
What do we feed Her during pregnancy
The whelping box
Eclampsia or milk fever
Feeding the lactating bitch
Weaning the puppies
Orphan puppy care

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 the BARF programme of diet and exercise.

Contents of Part 3 - Bones Build Bones
Introduction
Correct management of pups – an overview
In the beginning
Puppy management – then and now
How bones should grow – normally
At what stage can we say this bone has become diseased
Oseochondrosis – the basic cause of skeletal disease
The role of genes in producing skeletal disease in puppies
The calcium dilemma
The ‘excess food’ way to wreck your pup’s bones
The exercise factor and skeletal disease
Old fashioned Osteochondrosis
Osteochondritis Dissecans or OCDIS
Hip Dysplasia
The Elbow Dysplasia complex
The wobbler syndrome
Panosteitis
Hypertrophic Osteodystrophy
The carpal Instability/Flexion Syndrome
Septic Arthritis
Patellar luxation or slipping patellas
Aseptic necrosis of the femoral head
The BARF programme for pups
Treating the puppy with skeletal disease

Dr. Billinghurst's most important and internationally influential piece of writing is the book “Give Your Dog a Bone.”
Because cats and dogs have different food requirements, (cats are obligate carnivores while dogs are omnivores with a carnivorous background), he decided they each needed their own book, and that he would write the dog book first. Thus was born “Give Your Dog a Bone.”
Launched 15 years ago at a 3 day Bichon Frise conference in western Sydney on the 17th November 1993 and 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 overseas. To date nearly fifty thousand copies of this book have been sold.

“Give Your Dog a Bone” is the book that began the worldwide BARF dietary revolution for pets and remains 'the book' to read on the subject of BARF. It remains the practical common sense way to feed any dog for a long healthy life.
Some say that “Give Your Dog a Bone” has become their “Bible.”

"Give Your Dog a Bone" is essential background reading for Dr. Billinghurst's second book “Grow Your Pups With Bones.”

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