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The Forever Dog

By: Rodney Habib, Karen Shaw Becker, Kristin Loberg - contributor
Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass, Joe Knezevich
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Summary

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 definitive, cutting-edge guide for every dog parent. 

The number one New York Times best seller and Sunday Times best seller.

Over 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 20s—and even their 30s—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.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2021 Rodney Habib and Karen Shaw Becker (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

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"Everyone who lives with dogs needs to read this book." (Alexandra Horowitz, author of Inside of a Dog and Our Dogs, Ourselves)

"If you optimize your own diet and exercise for wellness and longevity, shouldn’t you provide your dog with the same thoughtful care? The Forever Dog has solid scientific guidance from trusted experts to help your dog live a long and healthy life, disease free." (Dr Mark Hyman, multiple number one New York Times best-selling author and Pritzker Foundation chair in Functional Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine) 

"The Forever Dog is the ultimate guide to becoming your dog’s best health advocate. Its practical tips will help your dog live longer, healthier, and happier." (Sergey Young, longevity investor and author of The Science and Technology of Growing Young, founder of the Longevity Vision Fund and development sponsor for the Age Reversal XPRIZE) 

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Every dog owner needs to read this!

While I’ve been taking many steps to keep my pooch healthy and happy I gained so much more knowledge from listening to this. I love how guided it is rather than telling you what you MUST do. For someone in the UK it’s very US-centric but it didn’t find this too restrictive. I hope this book reaches all dog owners old and new - I intend to recommend it as much as I can!

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Absolutely mind blowing!

Absolutely phenomenal read. Should be a staple book for every single dog owner to own and read.
As soon as I reached then end, I restarted from the beginning, I will never tire of hearing/reading this book.
I cannot recommend this read highly enough. Truly life changing!

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Phenomenal

Absolutely brilliant and insightful. What a learning journey. I'll be recommending to all of my training clients

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Great info

makes you think 🤔 especially about plastics and other dangerous materials used for pet bowls and toys etc. feeding a natural diet already but all information is worth revisiting. A future reference book for sure.

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Please read this book ..

If you’re lucky enough to have a dog. It’s blown my mind but I can’t wait to start putting processes in place so I can give my beautiful Labradors a better chance of a long and healthy, happy life . I’m so grateful this book has been written.

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Really insightful

I already started to implement changes and only hope it’s not too late. Tho i have the hard copy and because I did find the beginning chapters a bit boring… I went to audible and I’m really pleased I did. Thank you for raking the time to share this information and to empower people like myself… now I need to find the ‘longevity junkies’ here in Portugal :/

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Best Dog Book

This is a must read for anyone wanting the best life for their dog and themselves on the journey with their dog. Such a great book. Which I’ve listened to twice and regularly revisit for Information .

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new health strategies but adapted for dogs

nice to get some help adapting what we all know from the past 5 years of health studies to our pets, comprehensive and easy to read

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Eye opening

We all want the best for our dogs. This book helps dog parents understand how they can postively influence their dog's health and happiness. Some of the suggestions for changes are very simple but also make absolute sense and had me questioning why I hadn't thought about it sooner. There is a lot to take in and the authors are clear that not all of it will be for everyone. However, it certainly encourages you to think more about the choices you make on behalf of your best friend. I would recommend this book to any dog parents.

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Exceptional

A long awaited book that explains the holistic approach to living with dogs (and cats) - science backed information from two of the world's most respected speakers on animal health..... Its a large book but if you take only one or two of the suggestions on board it will make a difference to your dogs health, happiness and longevity - a book worth it's weight in gold

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