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As an accomplished doctor of veterinary medicine, Martin Goldstein is well respected for his 25 years worth of experience in the field--experience he effectively utilizes in conjunction with his expertise in holistic medicine in his new book, The Nature of Animal Healing: The Path to Your Pet's Health, Happiness, and Longevity. Goldstein begins with a broad explanation of the origins of diseases in pets, then moves on to taking action against those diseases, not only offering thorough discussions of specific ailments--including cancer, allergies, and arthritis--and the holistic medicines available to help in the healing process, but also speaking to the "dubious legacy of vaccines" as well as the questionable quality of pet food. Finally, Goldstein turns his attention to the spiritual realm, addressing both the bonds that we have with our pets--and how those bonds aid in preventing and fighting our pets' health problems--as well as dealing with the death of a beloved pet. Goldstein's expert advice, inclusion of inspiring real-life cases, and thorough resource "compendium of holistic books, newsletters, Web sites, veterinarians, and associations" make this book a valuable addition to any pet owner's library. --Julia King
Book Description
A pioneering revolutionary prescription
for the health and long life of your pets
For two decades, Dr. Martin Goldstein--America's most successful, renowned holistic veterinarian--has healed and helped his animal patients with the same natural therapies that benefit humans. The results have been so astounding that today critically sick pets are brought to him from across the country for a new chance at life and health.
In this compelling, very accessible book, Dr. Goldstein explains exactly what holistic medicine is and how it works. By treating the root of a health problem instead of its symptoms, you too can help your animal to regain and maintain its own health, as nature intended. Dr. Goldstein also shares many remarkable true stories of supposedly terminally ill animals who have recovered to full wellness. Inside you'll discover
- Why our animals get sick, even when we strive to give them the best of care
- An exhaustive A to Z guide of pet ailments--and the best course of action
- Why vaccines can do more harm than good
- The link between diet and disease--and how the right diet can not only prevent disease but reverse it
- How acupuncture, homeopathy, chiropractic, and other alternative options work--safely and painlessly--to restore true health
- Specific guidance for the use of herbs, supplements, and natural remedies
- The good news (and the bad) about cancer in animals--including extraordinary new treatments and potential cures
- Coping with the inevitable death of your pet--both physically and psychologically
And much, much more
PLUS--the ultimate resource for holistic pet care: an extensive guide to holistic product manufacturers and stores, books, newsletters, Web sites, veterinarians, and associations!
Customer Reviews:
great book.......2007-10-11
I was very pleased with the quality, condition, and quick delivery of my books, thanks!
Excellant Book!!!!.......2007-10-01
This book truly makes alot of sense,and has opened a whole different perspective in pet health for me.I found it very hard to put this book down after I started reading it.I have to agree with other readers, that, you will never look at your pet's health and well being, the same again.Every pet owner should read this book!!!! I think it would make a really great gift for others as well.
A MUST READ!.......2007-09-16
This book is very informative,if just for reccommended feeding guidelines and vaccination awareness.Every cat and dog owner needs to read this and be aware of whats in our pets food.
Real Food for Pets!.......2007-08-23
From personal experience, I know Martin Goldstein is right on with feeding pets real food.
For years, my Pug struggled with crystals in her diet...both acidic and alkaline. She was put on different Hill's Prescriptive Diet foods.
She was also going blind.
Two years ago, I thought--enough of this crappy food--I want the rest of her days (at that time I thought very limited) to have more quality. I started to feed her free-range chicken and premium canned food (because I knew it was balanced.)
She's still eating it and is now a healthy, almost 14 year old Pug! (I have since added meatloaf from free-range buffalo, brown rice and grated carrots.)
Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet
a must have for all pet owners!.......2007-07-09
Dr. Goldstein's book truly changed the way I care for my companion animals. It sheds light on a new approach to caring for your pets. I found it very readable and clear. I especially liked the information on diet, and made changes to my pets foods that have already caused positive changes in their health. I recommend it uncondtionally.
Product Description
new-looking softcover, prev owners name inside; 109 pp; radical raw diet for dogs and cats, controversial for some.
Customer Reviews:
GREAT!!!.......2007-08-29
A MUST HAVE for all raw feeders or those thinking of switching from the poisoning kibble.. Everyone should read this and IF you care for your pets you will never feed kibble again..
Go Ian Billinghurst!!
best place to start.......2007-07-22
this is not the end all, be all of BARF books, but it's an essential addition to your library if you have any interest in dog/cat nutrition. We have been feeding our dogs and cat a raw diet for the last 4-5 months and I couldn't be happier. Recently we lost our oldest dog (11yo/90lbs), and I am convinced this diet gave her 4 more months of happy, comfortable life. In march she began having issues with her kidneys. the vet's were at a loss, and we tried several different varietes of commercial food trying to control it. nothing worked...except BARF. Within a month of being on it everything went back to normal. My vet is not a fan of this diet (many aren't), but when he saw the lab results he couldn't agrue it wasn't working. Really up until the day she passed she was a happy, active dog, and I am so thankful we had the extra time with her. I'm not going to lie though; this diet is not cheap unless you have very good sources of "raw meaty bones". when we first started we were totally dependent on our grocery store for them, and it was costing us at least $12-15 a week, but now that we have found a BARF co-op in our area we save a lot of money (we spend about $30 a month), so it's just as cost effective as feeding Canidae or Innova (what we were feeding before the switch).
Dog owners must!.......2007-04-05
I adopted my dog after she had major hip surgery removing 2 inches of her leg bone. I wanted to put her on the healthiest diet possible and was turned on to the BARF diet. It works!!! Some vets are very shy about this diet but this is a dog's natural diet - how can it be wrong! (Except possible for tiny over-bred dogs). My dogs leg healed in no time at all, her muscle tone is great and you would never know she had 2 inches of her leg missing. Her coat is silky soft and she has had no health issues. I am tired of my dogs dying from cancer, or suffering hip dysplasia and arthristis. I've turned my whole block onto this diet and my butcher has a whole new group of customers.
Book Description
The book gives the reader specific information that they can put into immediate practice and it draws the connections between canine nutrition, health, and life stages.
Customer Reviews:
please avoid this book.......2007-06-10
for your dog's own good, please avoid this book. it is unfortunate that just anybody can and does write books these days. there is flat out misinformation in this book. here is just one example: the author recommends feeding grapes to dogs. grapes are listed on the poison list for dogs. there are others too numerous to list.
if you want to know the FACTS about canine nutritional needs, i recommend:
1) 'home prepared dog and cat diets' by donald strombeck, DVM
2) 'canine nutrition' by lowell ackerman, DVM
3) 'small animal clinical nutrition' by hand, thatcher, remillard, roudebush (this is a veterinary text book, you can find it used for a good price at amazon)
these books have good chapters on nutrition:
1) 'dr pitcairn's complete guide to natural health for dogs & cats' by richard pitcairn, DVM
2)) 'natural health bible for dogs & cats' by shawn messonnier, DVM
3) 'dog health & nutrition for dummies' by christine zink, DVM
A Dietary Gem.......2003-10-03
This book is a superb guide to everything you need to know about canine nutrition, from how the digestive system works to what should go into it. Written so that the average reader can easily understand the complex information it contains, this book gives all the facts about nutritional needs and the consequences of a poor diet. Everyone wanting to give their dog a healthier diet can benefit from reading this book and following its advice.
Instructions and recipes for creating a home-prepared diet.......2002-05-10
Feeding Your Dog For Life: The Real Facts About Proper Nutrition by canine care expert Diane Morgan is a thoughtful, "reader friendly" guide to the benefits of proper canine nutrition, a controversial field among dog owners. Offering instructions and recipes for creating a home-prepared diet that is nutritionally balanced and customized for a dog's age, breed, activity level, and health, Feeding Your Dog For Life is a superb guide for devoted dog lovers seeking the best nutrition possible for their particular animal companion at ever stage of growth and development.
Book Description
The experts at OnCallDBA and Solution Beacon collaborated to provide in depth coverage about Oracle Applications Release 11i. Topics include 11i Concepts and Architecture, 11i New Administration Features, 11i Installation, Upgrading or Migrating to 11i, Maintaining 11i, Administering 11i, Setting Up the Concurrent Manager, Using the Concurrent Manager, Workflow Setup, Using Workflow Builder, Workflow Care and Feeding, and Tuning & Troubleshooting. Co-authored by Barb Matthews, John Stouffer, Karen Brownfield and Randy Giefer, this book covers Release 11i up to Release 11.5.8, with a few Release 11.5.9 examples for good measure.
Customer Reviews:
Best Oracle 11i Apps DBA book current available for Oracle 11i.......2006-12-01
I have been an Oracle DBA for past 12 years and wanted to learn new items on what Apps DBA is about. This book covers the best details outside of Oracle 11i documentation. I like how it covers the most complex items as an 11i Apps DBA such as how to patch Oracle 11i and use the Oracle 11i Apps DBA utilities.
Book Description
The book we've all been waiting for!
Not only provides a definitive answer to the controversial question "Can cats be vegan?" (they can!), but through examples, philosophical musings, and personal stories, explains why those in the ethical vegan community MUST feed their cats and dogs a vegan diet!
Discusses relative merits of meat vs. vegan diets from a number of perspectives (ethical, health, environmental, etc.), and gives practical advice for making a successful switch for your cats and dogs.
Customer Reviews:
I wasn't sure what to expect.......2007-07-17
I picked up this book originally simply because I don't just believe hearsay, I must be given and argument that I feel is worth my time. I was apprehensive, as would be expected. Why do people go about spewing information that they simply heard from somebody that is not an expert? While Gillen is not a DVM, he sells vegan cat food for a living and at this point in time probably has many cats living with him. Note: Living. They are vegans (or mostly, considering the story of his male cat with ailments unable to be treated at the time he wrote the book.) and ALIVE. Seems as though this guy might have some experience, rather than just one observation of a cat chasing a feather on a stick therefore leading one to the conclusion it is a vicious carnivore that can only be sated with meat.
I once believed that cats were doomed to eat meat forever, and so I have been reluctant to adopt one myself. Yes, I would not have a cat simply because I cannot support even the smallest corners of the slaughterhouses. Now I'm convinced that I can save a kitten's life and farmed animals as well.
I highly recommend this book to all vegans, all pet-lovers, and especially those vegan pet lovers that are still sitting on the fence. This book even sites PURINA for an argument pro-vegetarian cat food.
Also, vegans, why isn't your dog a vegan yet? That's not even worth writing a book about. Dogs make better vegans than humans because they don't complain and their food is already balanced to be healthy. If you're a vegan, your dog can be too, it doesn't make sense otherwise. I don't have a vegan dog, but I know a couple, and they have better breath too. ;)
Scientifically unsound, ethically questionable........2007-04-24
There's a great deal of preaching but very little science in this book. Mr. Gillen cannot cite a single controlled study that conclusively demonstrates that a vegetarian (or vegan) diet supplemented with additives (taurine, in this case) is safe and healthy for cats. While it is possible with the correct knowledge and ingredients to formulate a diet for cats that excludes meat products, in the hands of a careless or uninformed person such an attempt will only lead to illness, blindness and an early death for a cat.
Mr. Gillen makes quite an issue of the fact that his stand on vegetarianism is a moral decision. For a moral choice to be genuine, it must be voluntary, and it appears that Mr. Gillen has yet to find a cat that has made the same moral choice he has. Forcing an animal with over fifteen million years of carnivorous evolutionary behavior built into its system to accept a diet that is completely unnatural to its physiology is is no moral triumph; it's simply another instance of anthropocentric totalitarianism - of trying to make animals more like US because WE believe we're the inherently superior organism.
Mr. Gillen would serve the ecosystem better if he would concentrate his efforts solely toward humans, and leave the smaller animals to make their own moral decisions.
Can't convert humans? Then coerce a helpless animal..........2007-03-19
Overall, this is probably the best psychotherapy book around for Vegans who need to redirect their frustrations from humans (who have a choice in their eating ethics) to their pets (who don't). Jed has written a reasonably sound guide that enables any conscientious food-fascist to coerce his or her pet into accepting meals that they would never even SNIFF if they were given a choice.
If you harbor a need to bully a helpless animal into accepting a completely unnatural diet in order to compensate for your feelings of inadequacy at being unable to convince anyone else in your life of the superiority of the Vegan lifestyle, this is the book you've been waiting for.
Check with your vet first.......2007-02-01
.. and he or she will tell you that cats are indeed obligate carnivores. I wholeheartedly agree with the reasoned points in the review titled "Well-intentioned but wrong-headed" (or something to that effect): while vegans (and vegetarians) may be conflicted about feeding meat to their cats, you are doing your cat/s a great disservice by depriving them of meat. Supplementing a cat's vegan diet with taurine will still not address their nutritional needs: cats need a very high-protein (animal protein), low carbohydrate diet, and a vegan diet cannot provide this, even when supplemented with taurine. I am no fan of factory-farming, and am a strict vegetarian, but compromising a cat's health is not an acceptable form of protest against the pet food- and meat-production industries. I'd recommend purchasing free-range organic meat and preparing your own cat food (see "The Natural Cat" for recipes), rather than depriving cats of the animal protein they must have in order to be healthy. That our cats need meat is an uncomfortable contradiction for vegetarian/vegan cat owners, but given the incredible problems with cat overpopulation, abuse, and neglect in this country, I believe taking in, and caring well for cats is the ethical choice, even if they need to eat meat.
Way too self righteous.......2006-11-23
I've been a vegan for about 15 years and recently started my new kitten on a vegan diet. I was hoping for a book that explained a cat's dietary requirements, gave pros and cons about feeding a cat a vegan diet, and offered tips on making it work. Instead I found a moralistic, argumentative book that was not very helpful. Not a lot of practical information, a lot of questionable premises, and a lot of dishonesty in the arguments. For example, he quotes a well known "natual healing" vet to bolster his arguments, but doesn't mention that this vet, in the book he quotes, specifically says that he does not support a vegan diet. Mostly this is an book about animal ethics based on the author's understanding of logic. The author paints himself as an alcoholic who doesn't care much about health, and while he makes a lot of assertions about the diet being healthy, he doesn't point to a lot of evidence to back it up. In fact, he's rather dismissive of the whole idea of gathering evidence, speciously contending that this necessarily involves cruel cats-in-cages kind of studies. Plus, the author is very condescending and insulting in tone toward people who hesitate and deliberate over the option. At the end he asks people to "meet me halfway," but he's consistently critical of people who make compromises.
Product Description
The word BARF stands for Biologically Appropriate Raw Food, or Bones and Raw Food. The BARF Diet presented in this book is a simple, practical and commonsense alternative to the health destroying processed pet foods.
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Feeding Dogs & Cats
Lon D. Lewis
Manufacturer: Mark Morris Associates
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Book Description
With simple directions and tips on how to dye, paint, spin, and knit yarn to create authentic socks, this book offers all the information necessary to fashion socks with personality. Included are innovative patterns and tips for knitting socks with customized fit—even for all ten toes. Safe and easy directions are given on dyeing yarn from pour-dyeing methods to dyeing with Kool-Aid. With photos and illustrations of finished examples, sock patterns such as newborn socks and magic genie toe socks, and advice on how to create one-of-a-kind projects, it will appeal to all levels of knitters and spinners.
Customer Reviews:
The Twisted Sisters Sock Workbook.......2007-08-09
The directions for mixing dyes and using them to dye and paint roving and yarn are excellent. They are clearly written and illustrated. The directions for socks are equally well written and easy to follow. The photographs are wonderful and make me want to make almost all of the projects!
Great Photography, Spinning Section Could be Stronger.......2007-04-10
This book lived up to my expectations in some areas, but not others. I don't really blame it for coming a bit short because it tries to do so much. It aims to be a guide through the process of dyeing, spinning, designing, and knitting socks. I found the dyeing section highly useful. The differences between hot pour and cold pour dyeing are clearly discussed with large, clear step by step photos. In general, the photography in this book is one of its best attributes. I also learned a lot in the section discussing how to manipulate a painted roving to obtain a wide variety of effects in the finished yarn. I was a bit disappointed in the scant coverage of the technical aspects of spinning. Vogel prefers singles or 2-ply yarns, while I was looking for advice on how to spin a sturdy 3-ply for durable socks. The sock knitting section contains pretty standard info, but may be more complete than other books. Short-row, heel flap, and several types of afterthought heel are discussed, with information on mending and reknitting each type.
Another frontier.......2007-03-09
This book is like playing a video game where you reach higher and higher levels. It is an adventure in new experiences, and takes sock knitting up a notch. All I need to do now is raise and sheer my own sheep to spin the yarn and I've come full circle! This is a must-have for the adventurer.
A Great Reference Book.......2007-01-14
As a spinner, dyer and knitter of socks, I find this book an excellent addition to my library. It is easy to follow and well illustrated, with good information about the wool to choose for spinning. Lots of great ideas for dyeing and keeping colours alive and easy instructions for newcomers to sock knitting.It has my recommendation anytime.
For those of us who spin, knit, dye... but still don't knit socks!.......2007-01-07
I spent a few days in bookstores picking up every single book on spinning, knitting and dyeing because I wanted to dye a silk/ wool blend i created and wanted specifically to knit socks... a problem i have had!
This is a TREASURE of a book and one that will be very well worn!
Although the book is not thick it is well worth the price. You will learn about dyeing roving to create gorgeous yarns, a Kool aid technique, some hints and tips on making the dye process easier.. and then the piece de resistance... how to make PERFECT Socks!!
The chart on gauge, including Wpi and what needle is best for that, and the detailed chart on sock guage.. it is a wonderful thing.. and something i did not find in internet searches.
It is fun, colorful and very inspiring.. and a definite must have to add to your knit or spin library! I only wish I could sit and spin or knit with these gals... what talent..and gorgeous socks fall from their needles.. I think NOW i can finally knit socks well and definitely without second sock syndrome!
See my first fiber spun in many years at [...]
When i get the rest of the yardage complete ( 325 yds) will be knitting socks!!
GET THIS, you won't regret it!
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