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Informationen zum Autor Liz Palika is a dog trainer, journalist, and author of more than fifty books, including The Ultimate Dog Treat Book and The Idiot's Guide to Dog Tricks . She lives in Southern California. Klappentext A comprehensive! authoritative guide to everything you need to know about feeding your pet-including homemade! commercial! and raw food diets Vorwort A comprehensive, authoritative guide to everything you need to know about feeding your pet-including homemade food, the BARF diet, and conventional food-from a veteran trainer and pet book author Zusammenfassung The 2007 pet food recalls followed a multitude of pets getting sick and dying from contaminated food; now pet owners must take charge of what they feed their dogs and cats. With The Ultimate Pet Food Guide , veteran dog trainer, behaviorist, and author Liz Palika focuses on nutritional needs and covers every type of feeding, including controversial raw diets, homemade cooked food, and commercial foods. Palika also addresses introducing new foods; what ?human foods” pets shouldn't eat; free-feeding; responsibility for food safety; where ingredients come from; and red flags in ingredients. Included are over fifty veterinarian- and pet-nutritionist-approved recipes and diets tailored to special-needs pets, such as puppies/kittens and pregnant, older, overweight and/or more sedentary animals.