If dogs could talk what would they say is the best diet to keep them in tiptop condition? Would they recommend a selection of cans and packets or would they recommend a fresh rabbit and half a chicken?

In Work Wonders: Feed your dog raw meaty bones Dr Tom Lonsdale inspires us to see a dog's dietary needs from a dog's perspective taking account of Nature's teachings, easily understood science and sound common sense.

Eight easy-to-read chapters lead us through the practical essentials of dog feeding including how to source, store and prepare raw food. Risk management is dealt with in Chapter 5. In Chapter 6 we learn about the junk-food induced diseases afflicting modern pets and in Chapter 7 the epidemic of canine oral disease and 'dog breath' is explained.

The first seven chapters of Work Wonders empower readers to transform their dogs' health. Chapter 8 tells of ways to make the world a better place for dogs and humans too.


READERS SAY:

I have a 2 1/2 yr old Beagle who has never tasted dog food and has been on a raw meaty bone diet since day one (we brought him home from the breeder at 16 weeks old). I purchased your book Raw Meaty Bones about the time I got my beagle along with other publications . . .
I just finished reading your new book Work Wonders and it is a masterpiece. Sometimes I run across dog owners who think feeding raw bones is a joke but with your new book I can now refer them to an easily understood book that makes sense.
Gary Humlack
October 2005

I would just like to say that Work Wonders is an excellent book and I will now give a copy to all new puppy owners to help them see how easy it is to follow a raw diet. It is short and to the point, making it an easy read, whereas most other books on raw feeding are over long and over complicated. Work Wonders is in my opinion THE best book available on raw feeding at this moment.
Isobel Wilson
Labrador Breeder
Caithness, Scotland, UK
April 2006

This is a short, and easy to read book about feeding raw to your dog. I have fed this way for many years (I have a kennel of 20-something German Shepherds). This book managed to change over both my Mother (who thinks any info I give her is suspect) and my sister (ditto) to feeding raw. Kudos on the book!!! It's also great to loan puppy people during that "teachable time" between choosing their puppy, and actually taking the puppy home. Much easier to read than Billinghurst.
S Waldorf
“Konigsdorf Shepherds” (NY) June 2007


About the Author:

In 1972 Tom Lonsdale graduated from the Royal Veterinary College, University of London. After working as a volunteer in Nairobi, Kenya he entered the London School of Economics to study social sciences. Tom hoped to find clues on how the veterinary profession could better serve the global community. But another ten years elapsed before the clues, always present, became obvious.

From 1975 to 1980 Tom worked in a number of veterinary practices in and around London. In 1980 he emigrated to Australia and the next year started the first of a small group of veterinary practices on the outskirts of Sydney.

By the mid 1980s Tom noticed that pets that had been brought to the veterinary practice as young animals were showing signs of premature aging and chronic ill-health — in particular the pets suffered from foul breath and rotting teeth and gums — directly attributable to a diet of processed food. A little extra thought led Tom to the realization that the veterinary profession was ‘living a lie’. Instead of standing up for pets and their owners the profession had become a marketing arm of the pet food industry.

In 1991 Drs Breck Muir and Alan Bennet joined Dr Lonsdale in what became known as the Raw Meaty Bones Lobby. The three vets campaigned for a healthier diet for pets, an end to unnecessary dental procedures and an end to the veterinary profession’s cooperation with the artificial pet food manufacturers — this, they argued, was the better way for the veterinary profession to serve the community.

In August 2001, with the help of two editors and a team of lawyers, the book, Raw Meaty Bones: Promote Health, was published.

The ‘easy reader’ Work Wonders: Feed your dog raw meaty bones was published in 2005

These days Tom lives on the outskirts of Sydney. He writes articles and gives talks to encourage people to take up the struggle for the benefit of pets, pet owners and the wider community.

There’s a diet guide, TV shows, newsletters, books and articles at www.rawmeatybones.com