Karen Shaw Becker – författare

In this beautifully illustrated guide, the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Forever Dog show how to create a thriving, sustainable lifestyle and environment to help your dog live a longer, happier, and healthier life.In The Forever Dog, Rodney Habib and Dr. Karen Becker explained that your dog’s longevity starts with proper pet nutrition. In The Forever Dog Life, they offer simple ways you can help your dog live longer and better from the inside-out and outside-in, including easy-to-follow tools, recipes, and tips.Learn to prepare healthy, homemade meals your dog will love, with more than 120 nutritionally packed dog food recipes for delicious bowls, fresh food toppers that supercharge any type of pet food, and nourishing broths and stews that entice the pickiest of eaters. And don’t forget DIY training treats, cookies, jerkies, and chews. Accompanying the recipes are science-rich tips for the best ingredients, food hacks, and tools to use in the kitchen.But food is only one aspect of a dog’s good health. The Forever Dog Life teaches you how to create a non-toxic home that is as healthy as possible, with practical instructions for your own DIY cleaners, natural disinfectants, and lawn care solutions that can easily replace hazardous chemical-based products. Also included are all-natural recipes for body care and natural pet care, including shampoos and conditioners, skin rinses, oral and ear care, and chemical-free flea and tick solutions. Habib and Becker make it easy to incorporate their science-backed tips into your home, so your dog (and cat!) can live a long, happy, and healthy life.Filled with wonderful stories and fantastic canines, The Forever Dog Life makes the world a safer, healthier, and happier place for animals. Backed by science and filled with photographs and four-color instructions, it is the ultimate handbook for dog wellness to help your dogs and cats live their best life. This comprehensive guide to dog and cat health delivers practical, science-backed solutions for a healthier life:Homemade Pet Food: Master more than 120 recipes for complete meals, nutrient-dense toppers, and nourishing broths that even the pickiest eaters will love.Healthy DIY Treats: Go beyond the bowl with easy, wholesome recipes for training treats, cookies, jerkies, and chews that replace store-bought junk food.Non-Toxic Cleaning: Swap hazardous chemicals for simple, effective DIY cleaners, natural disinfectants, and lawn care solutions to create a safer home environment.Natural Grooming Solutions: Care for your pet from the outside-in with all-natural recipes for shampoos, conditioners, and chemical-free flea and tick solutions.Science-Backed Longevity Tips: Implement the LIFE strategy (Lifestyle, Ideal microbiome, Food, Environment) to support your pet’s health and extend their happy years.

In this pathbreaking guide, two of the world’s most popular and trusted pet-care advocates reveal new science to teach us how to delay ageing and provide a long, happy, healthy life for our canine companions. The #1 New York Times Bestseller and Sunday Times Bestseller‘Everyone who lives with dogs needs to read this book’ ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ, author of Inside of a Dog and Our Dogs, OurselvesOver the past few decades, many dogs have been getting sicker and dying prematurely. Why? Rodney Habib and Dr Karen Shaw Becker have galvanized the best wisdom from top geneticists, microbiologists and longevity researchers across the globe to answer this question. Now, they will provide the practical, proven tools to protect our loyal four-legged friends, interviewing people whose dogs have lived into their twenties – and even their thirties – along the way.The Forever Dog plan focuses on the latest scientific research surrounding food and nutrition, movement, environmental exposure and stress reduction, from the pros and cons of various types of pet food – including what commercial manufacturers don’t want us to know – to the role our own lifestyles and vets’ choices play.This definitive dog-care guide empowers us with the knowledge we need to keep our dogs health and happy for years to come.