The Scuttling Gourmet

I wrote the first edition of The Scuttling Gourmet back in 2002, and then the second edition (an update) in 2005.

Edition three is an entire re-write, basically a new book reflecting changes in knowledge, understanding and practice over the past 5 years.

The new book is a massive 324 pages, and includes a heavy guage card cover in full colour and a central eight page spread of colour photographs.

It takes an entirely new approach, being split into chapters based on specific aims in feeding rats. These comprise:

• General principles of rat nutrition
• Understanding ingredients: Part one - cereal grains
• Understanding ingredients: Part two - legumes, meat, seeds, nuts, vegetables, fruit and herbs
• Commercially prepared mixes and reviews
• The Shunamite diet and other mixes
• Feeding for reproduction and growth
• Feeding for longevity, well-being and in old age
• Feeding for health: prevention and treatment
• Weight management
• Feeding for vitality and condition
• Feeding for pleasure, interest and enrichment
• Recipes
• Antinutrients and food to feed with caution

The book provides a comprehensive guide to wholesome nutrition for rats, and includes such topics as calorie restriction, scatter feeding, specialised diets to help in the treatment of illness, the soya debate and dietary deficiencies. It contains quotations, anecdotes and information from many sources, as well as representing many hundreds of hours of my own research and reading into the subject and it is well referenced throughout.

I have also indexed this edition, in the hope of making information easier to access in specific situations.

Finding a copy

If you would like to purchase a copy of The (new) Scuttling Gourmet it is available directly from me: email alison@shunamiterats.co.uk The RRP is £10.00 and P&P is £3.00

The Scuttling Gourmet third edition will also be available soon from The Rat Warehouse