“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.