‘Outside of a dog,’ advised Groucho Marx, ‘a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.’ Quite where that leaves books about dogs’ insides we are not entirely sure, but here are details of our favourites.

Dr. Becker’s Real Food for Healthy Dogs & Cats – Beth Taylor and Karen Shaw Becker. A brilliant explanation as to why dogs should be eating a natural diet, and with lots of recipes.

Dogs, Diet and Disease – Caroline Levin. This book explains how canine metabolism and endocrine functions work in a normal dog. A relatively plain-English guide to your dog’s innards.

Foods Pets Die For: Shocking Facts about Pet Foods – Ann N. Martin. The title says it all. Ann Martin exposes the dog food industry for what it is.

Give Your Dog a Bone – Dr Ian Billinghurst. The first popular book to promote the idea of feeding dogs raw food and meaty bones. Its author is considered one of the world’s leading experts on the subject.

Grow Your Pups with Bones – Dr Ian Billinghurst. Aimed at breeders, this book contains lots of useful information on feeding pregnant mums, new mums and puppies.

Natural Nutrition for Dogs and Cats – Kathy Schultze. A comprehensive raw feeding guide.

Pottenger’s Cats: A Study in Nutrition – Dr Frances Pottenger. Dr Pottenger discovered, quite by accident, that cats’ health degenerated unless they were fed raw food.

Raw Food for Dogs: The Ultimate Reference for Dog Owners! – Mogens Eliasen. Available online. An easy read and packed with useful information and research.

Raw Meaty Bones: Promote Health – Tom Lonsdale. Tom Lonsdale has been fighting a long and bloody battle with the various veterinary professional bodies over canine and feline diet.

Raw & Natural Nutrition for Dogs – Lew Olson. A plain-English approach to quite complicated subjects.

Real Food for Dogs and Cats – Dr Clare Middle. This book is short and well written and provides a comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide to raw feeding.

Ruined by Excess: Perfected by Lack. The Paradox of Pet Nutrition – Richard Patton. An expert in canine nutrition, Patton provides plenty of scientific evidence to back up his claims that canine health is being ruined by modern dog food.

Unlocking the Canine Ancestral Diet – Steve Brown. This book contains research into what dogs would eat in the wild and how best to replicate it using domestic ingredients.

And last but not least – Honey’s Natural Feeding Handbook for Dogs – by our founder Jonathan Self.