Veterinary disclaimer

These books are educational material. They are not a diagnosis, not a prescription, and not veterinary care.

What we do

We publish home-cooked recipes and therapeutic starting formulations for dogs and cats. Each recipe names real ingredients in cooked gram weights, states its calorie content, and states the nutrient targets it was built to meet. The formulations have been reviewed by a licensed veterinarian.

What we do not do

We do not know your animal. We cannot tell you what is wrong with them, and we do not tell you how to treat it. Choosing and adjusting a therapeutic diet for a diagnosed patient is the practice of veterinary medicine, and it belongs to the veterinarian who has examined your animal and seen their bloodwork.

Volume Two is written to be handed to that veterinarian. Its supplement amounts are deliberately left blank because the correct amounts depend on the product you buy, your animal's condition, their lab values and their medications — facts a book cannot know. A recipe fed without that step is not a lighter version of the diet. It is an incomplete one.

Diets that are deficient on purpose

Twelve of the fifty formulations in Volume Two are deliberately below an AAFCO adult maintenance minimum in one nutrient — phosphorus in kidney disease, copper in copper-storage liver disease, protein in advanced canine kidney disease. Lowering those nutrients is the treatment. It also means those diets are not complete and balanced for a healthy animal, must not be fed to your other pets, and require ongoing veterinary monitoring.

Not covered

Nothing in these books is formulated for puppies, kittens, pregnancy or lactation. Growth and reproduction have different and higher requirements, and an adult maintenance diet can fail a growing animal badly.

Supplements are not optional

A diet of meat, a starch and vegetables is reliably short on calcium and several trace minerals, and in cats on taurine. Every recipe in both books specifies supplementation. Feeding a recipe without it produces a deficient diet, and calcium deficiency in particular causes skeletal damage.

If something is wrong

Contact your veterinarian, not us. A cat that has not eaten for 24 hours, an animal that is vomiting repeatedly, laboured breathing, straining to urinate, collapse or yellow gums are all reasons to be seen the same day.

Liability

To the extent permitted by law, no liability is accepted for outcomes arising from the use of this material. Using these formulations without veterinary review is outside the intended purpose of the books and is done at your own risk.

Questions

If anything here is unclear before you buy, write to us and we will answer it plainly.