I didn’t start this website thinking that I would be writing about natural dog food, massage, alternative remedies, and so on. But these topics are just naturally flowing from the focus on training our dogs. There are so many interconnections! I’m please to announce an ebook that I edited from writings I got from an online friend of mine, Rebecca Simon. She’s allowing me to offer the ebook at a very low price. I’m doing this to get the information out there. It’s immediately downloadable.

You can tell from the page where I describe the ebook whether you’d be interested. I’m sure it’s too alternative for some people, but if you’re reading this website you’re already interested in what’s effective, whatever the traditional wisdom has been!

Here are some tips from “The Natural Dog.”

[1] The day you get your pup and every day thereafter scour the floor for little items that your puppy might pick up on and swallow: pieces of string, coins, paperclips, pins and needles, dental floss, rubber bands, jewelry, children’s toys and clothes, nails and screws, thread, game station items like Playstation controls and cords, bits of food, napkins and tissues, rags and sponges, remote controls, batteries, etc.

[2] : What types of cleaning products do you use? Have you ever used a cleaning product that made you cough or was so strong you couldn’t stand to be nearby until it dried or dissipated? Consider that same cleaning product from your dog’s perspective.

[3] There’s evidence that suggests that annual vaccinations may not be needed – and in fact, some people suggest that continuing with them may in the long run do more harm than good.

To find out more about “The Natural Dog,” see my webpage where I give the full description….
http://training-dogs.com/natural-dog-ebook.html

It’s only $7, via PayPal

[tags]dog ebooks, dog health[/tags]

“Don’t let your dog die young!” is the ominous subtitle of Dog Food Secrets, an 82-page downloadable ebook by Andrew Lewis. It didn’t surprise me to see this grim warning after having read the sales page for the ebook, with bright red headlines warning “Commercial Dog Food is Killing Your Dog,” “Is Your Dog a Cannibal? Think Again…” and more.

(I am no stranger to the horrendous ingredients in much commercial pet food, and I’m careful to feed the higher quality dry dog foods to my own dogs. At times I’ve prepared much or even all of their dogfood, though I’ve been lazy about this lately. I got this ebook partly to reconsider making more of my own dog food again.)

As I opened Dog Food Secrets, I wondered what would the ebook be like? Would it be something I could recommend to my readers? I hoped so, as the need for reliable dog food information is great. Often ebooks are not written by the same person who creates the sales page. If the ebook carried on in the same vein, I wasn’t sure how effective it would be in helping people make the switch to healthier dog foods. Changing any habit takes some time.

I was encouraged by a sentence near the start of the book: “Just as you seek balance in your dog’s diet, we sought the balance in the available research, and present it to you here, in the most concise fashion.”

And I did feel that the ebook succeeded quite well in that promise. The first half of the book is a concise and clearly written overview of canine nutritional needs, and then it’s followed by a variety of dog food recipes you can cook at home. The ebook ends with useful data in Appendices, such as feeding recommendations.

You can get Dog Food Secrets here. I’m glad I did.

I must admit that I am an ebook addict! With no desire to give up my addiction. Combine that with being fascinated by all aspects of dog training, and you can see why I review so many dog training ebooks.

Some are great, some are junk, and I expect to be reviewing plenty more of them in the future.

With an ebook, you can download it immediately. You can read it on your computer or print it out. Since I am always reading whatever is in front of me, I am quite happy to read on my computer. But I realize many people aren’t, and you can print out whatever parts you want. This is a feature I really like; often I only print out a few pages.

I don’t think ebooks will ever replace physical books. But if you live in a place where it isn’t always easy to get the physical products quickly, or if you want information right now as we so often do when dealing with dog training problems, then ebooks are great! Almost all use the Adobe Acrobat .PDF format.

[tags]dogs, dog training ebooks[/tags]