#1 New York Times BestsellerIn this pathbreaking guide, two of the world’s most popular and trusted pet care advocates reveal new science to teach us how to delay aging and provide a long, happy, healthy life for our canine companions.Like their human counterparts, dogs have been getting sicker and dying prematurely over the past few decades. Why? Scientists are beginning to understand that the chronic diseases afflicting humans—cancer, obesity, diabetes, organ degeneration, and autoimmune disorders—also beset canines. As a result, our beloved companions are vexed with preventable health problems throughout much of their lives and suffer shorter life spans. Because our pets can’t make health and lifestyle decisions for themselves, it’s up to pet parents to make smart, science-backed choices for lasting vitality and health.The Forever Dog gives us the practical, proven tools to protect our loyal four-legged companions. Rodney Habib and Karen Becker, DVM, globetrotted (pre-pandemic) to galvanize the best wisdom from top geneticists, microbiologists, and longevity researchers; they also interviewed people whose dogs have lived into their 20s and even 30s. The result is this unprecedented and comprehensive guide, filled with surprising information, invaluable advice, and inspiring stories about dogs and the people who love them.The Forever Dog prescriptive plan focuses on diet and nutrition, movement, environmental exposures, and stress reduction, and can be tailored to the genetic predisposition of particular breeds or mixes. The authors discuss various types of food—including what the commercial manufacturers don’t want us to know—and offer recipes, easy solutions, and tips for making sure our dogs obtain the nutrients they need. Habib and Dr. Becker also explore how external factors we often don’t think about can greatly affect a dog’s overall health and wellbeing, from everyday insults to the body and its physiology, to the role our own lifestyles and our vets’ choices play. Indeed, the health equation works both ways and can travel “up the leash.”Medical breakthroughs have expanded our choices for canine health—if you know what they are. This definitive dog-care guide empowers us with the knowledge we need to make wise choices, and to keep our dogs healthy and happy for years to come.

On The Heels Of Her Family’s Beloved Dog’s Death, One Woman Returns To The Canines Of Her Past In Order To Imagine The Human She Hopes To Become In The Future In Her Memoir, What Is A Dog? Chloe Shaw Is In A Dog House Of Her Own Choosing. A Married Mother With Kids, The Death Of Booker, Her Children’s Eldest Family Pet, Has Left Her Reeling And Reckoning With Her Lifelong Relationship With Dogs. Unable To Shake The Feeling A Year Later, She Asks Her Family For Some Time Alone To Be With Nothing But Her Thoughts And Remaining Canines, Safari And Otter—only To Find The Dogs Of Her Past Pawing At Her Every Memory And Running, Sticks In Mouths, Back Into Her Life. What Follows Is A Meditation On One Woman’s Life Through The Dogs She's Loved And Lost. Since She Was A Child, Shaw Had Learned To Escape The Hardest Parts Of Being Human By Immersing Herself In The Lives Of Her Canine Companions, An Adaptive Attachment That Carried Her To Adulthood. Yet, In Marriage And Motherhood, Shaw Finds Herself Facing Her Most Human Struggles Yet. Her Old Ways Of “being The Dog” In The Face Of Hardship Prove Destructive, And It’s Not Until She’s Able To Love Herself And Learn From The Dogs Of Her Past And Present That Can She Truly Thrive As A Person, And Show Up For The Family Who Needs Her To Be Their Person. With Artful Prose And A Philosophical Touch, Shaw Takes Us On An Emotional Journey Anyone Who Has Ever Loved And Lost A Dog Will Connect With—and Discovers Dogs Do More Than Just Make Our Lives Better—they Quietly (and Sometimes Loudly) Pull Us Boldly Toward The Person We Were Always Meant To Be.

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