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The Benefits Of A Fresh Food Diet For Your Pet
Episode 4 • 26th January 2022 • Fangs & Fur • Fangs & Fur
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The benefits of a fresh food diet for your pet are incredible. Some of those benefits include...

  • cleaner and stronger teeth
  • better breath
  • improved digestion
  • fewer allergies
  • increased vitality
  • health skin and coat
  • easier weight management
  • improved energy
  • boosted immune system
  • less stool
  • healthier joints


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We have your attention or else we think we do.

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You may know the history, you know, now know why quibble may not be the best option.

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Today we share all of the amazing benefits of feeding fresh food or a species appropriate

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diet. We both have seen firsthand the effects of feeding a raw diet to our dogs.

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So Anthony will go over all of those today.

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Yeah, there's so many of them, too.

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So I'm going to just go over the important ones, the ones that usually people notice

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pretty soon after after transitioning to raw food.

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But stay tuned for the end of the episode where we answer someone's question.

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So we talked about this before, but cleaner, stronger teeth and better breath.

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I mean, that's one of the biggest benefits from raw food is, you know.

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I mean, we're talking about Mozzie.

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You know, he's he's ten years old and he's got perfect teeth, he's got no tartar.

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He's got I mean, he doesn't have like bad breath.

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He's got like dog breath.

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Like your typical like, Well, I don't want to say typical because your typical dog is

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being fed kibble and doesn't have and doesn't have good breath.

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But it just it doesn't smell bad.

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It just smells like, you know, like dog breath.

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You know, he's I don't I don't feed him processed food.

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He gets, he eats raw food, right?

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So. And why that is this raw food?

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Actually, you know, it contains the live enzymes and the healthy bacteria that actually

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work with the mouth, work underneath the gum line to to keep those gums and keep those

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teeth healthy. Enzymes in the probiotics, too, you know, they help eliminate plaque and

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tartar buildup. And it's kind of interesting.

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Like if you ever look at like wild dogs, wild wolves, coyotes, like if you look at their

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teeth, this is something I remember doing when I was learning about, Oh, this was like

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YouTube and all this and looking at videos and they all have like perfect teeth, you

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know? And it's it's crazy because I'll see like a two year old three year old dog in the

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shop that's been fed kibble since he was born and already has like tartar buildup.

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And it's like, Oh my gosh.

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So one of the big benefits there, no more bad dog breath in and.

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Discussing teeth, you have improved digestion, so this is the big reason why I mean, this

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is why it all started, you know, Mozzie was having months of diarrhea as a puppy and as

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at wit's end, and it's like, you know what, I'm going to do wrong food.

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We did it within 24 to 48 hours.

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He had perfect stool and and why that is how that works is, again, raw food, because it

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has these has the enzymes already there.

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So it's really helped.

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It's like it's like it helps break itself down for the dog.

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So the dog doesn't have to do as much work.

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And it's also just it's not as inflammatory.

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So, you know, it's it's stuff that's really easy to digest as it's a high bar, high

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biological value kibble was just really inflammatory, right?

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So a lot of dogs, you know, a lot of people that come into shop be like, Well, we've

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tried this kibble despicable and this kibble, but none of them seem to work.

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So we're looking to try a different kibble.

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I'm like, Well, why do we keep trying?

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Like, obviously that's not working.

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At the end of the day, kibble is kibble as kibble.

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It's all. It's all the same to to a certain point to a certain point, but it's just it's

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really inflammatory in the gut, and raw and raw food is like an anti-inflammatory, and

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it's really it really helps benefit the gut, which I'll talk about a little bit.

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But you will get improved digestion from that from from feeding raw food allergies is a

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big one. So fewer allergies on the raw food diet when processed food or when, when, when

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proteins are cooked at such high temperatures, it actually there's something called a

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process of denatured or denatured in the protein.

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And what happens is, is the protein actually changes.

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It's on a on a molecular level.

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The protein actually completely changes in the body doesn't recognize it.

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And then what happens is the body rejects it, and then it shows up as an allergy, but

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it's not an allergy, it's just it's just pure protein.

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So all these dogs that have these allergies, it's not.

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I've had dogs that were like, say, allergic to chicken, chicken kibble, and then

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eventually we transition the raw food and six, six or seven months goes by and we we say,

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Hey, let's try chicken and we do it, and there's no problem with it.

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So it wasn't really an issue with the protein itself.

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It was just the way it was processed.

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But there's also, you know, just with with allergies in general, just raw food.

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It's just it's it's so good for the gut and that's that's where these allergies stem

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from. And so just making sure that there's a healthy gut flora, healthy bacteria in the

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gut and making sure that the gut is not inflamed, leaky gut is really common in dogs in

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the U.S. because of the inflammatory, dry pet food.

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So. And this can be it can be the culprit for a lot of dogs that have allergies or

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so-called allergies, but it's really just leaky gut, which is a curable thing.

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You have increased vitality.

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I mean, on a raw diet, your pet is not only meeting AFCO requirements, a lot of these pet

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foods, raw pet foods are trying to meet the NRC standards, which are a lot higher than it

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goes. And you're just going to have.

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You're going to have whole food, vitamins, minerals, nutrients and there's going to be

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way more. I don't want to talk too much about this.

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I'm talking about a couple points here, but your dog's going to have a healthier energy.

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At raw food consist of a balanced omega three to omega six fatty acid ratio, which just

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kind of helps regulate inflammation in general because it's mostly moisture, right?

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It's a lot of moisture. So it's going to help keep the skin, keep the body hydrated,

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which is so important for for the skin and keeping those hair follicle molecules

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moisturized from the inside out keep them nourished.

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So a lot of raw pet foods will put in some kind of like oil, like cod liver oil or salmon

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oil or something like that, which is in a way more stable because it's frozen, it's way

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more stable than like these.

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We don't even sell shelf stable fish oil because it's most of it's rancid before it even

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would get to us. Weight management So like, we see a lot of dogs that come in and I can

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usually tell when they come in the door if they're fed kibble or not, because they're

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usually extremely bloated, if they're on dry pet food.

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So usually with the raw diet, you'll see a dog because you have these, you know, it's a

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it's a very low amount of carbohydrates in the diet, and so you'll see them hit their

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optimal weight. Not like it incredibly fast, but eventually they will meet their their

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optimal weight, which is where they should be, which is incredibly important for their

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longevity, proved energy.

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So I always make this analogy that when you feed your dog dry pet food, it's like

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throwing. It's like throwing kindling on a fire and just watching it explode.

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You know, you're kind of spiking.

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They're spiking and crashing all day as a as a sugar levels are dropping or increasing

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and dropping all day, and it causes so many behavioral issues.

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We work with a lot of trainers that really push raw food on their on their clients

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because they know that the dogs have a much healthier energy when they're federal diet.

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I always tell people I imagine eating like three donuts for breakfast, a donut for lunch

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and a donut for dinner. Like you're going to you're going to be irritated.

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You know, you're going to be tired, eventually anxious, like it's going to cost some

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behavioral issues. So raw food is it's like throwing a big oak log on a fire and just

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having a nice, healthy energy.

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A boosted immune system is another really awesome benefit of eating raw food.

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You're feeding the microbiome, you're feeding that healthy bacteria, the good bacteria in

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their gut. 80 percent of the immune system is in the gut.

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So if you have a healthy gut, you have a healthy immune system.

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Let's poop and not as smelly, too.

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I mean, you have you have a better.

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It's it's yeah, it's crazy, which is it's good on so many different levels.

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I get sent pictures of people's dogs poop all the time.

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I never thought at this age I'd be getting any

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Age you really do. Sometimes I'm like, Who's you know, looking at?

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And he's like,

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You know, it's exciting.

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You know, it's exciting. Dogs group, you know, a dog will, you know, have, you know,

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months of diarrhea, and all a sudden they want to.

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I don't know what to do anymore, like, well, let's put them on some raw food.

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And all of a sudden, the dog is completely changed and a lot of different ways and better

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ways. But one of the big ones is just improved stool, which makes sense because you're

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feeding a diet that's got everything that they need and nothing that they don't.

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So they don't have all these fillers in there and all this crap and all this inflammatory

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food. It's just it's way more digestible.

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So they're just absorbing more of the food and utilizing it.

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Which will help, like a lot of people's dogs have like I don't know if I don't know this,

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but like a lot of people will have to take their dogs into, like get their get their anal

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glands expressed.

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I had to do that for Foxy several times.

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Yeah, but they didn't knock her out.

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Yeah, when she was on kibble.

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Yes. Yeah. Which we got lucky because usually, I mean, once that happens a few times,

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like it's a slippery slope.

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You know, with with with these stools, when they're eating raw food, their stools are a

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lot more solid. So it actually slowly secretes those glands every time they go.

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So it's they don't build up and then you're just going to have healthier joints.

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I mean, you're just again because you're not feeding this inflammatory food.

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You know, you have you have really sustainable omega 3s in their diet.

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It's not. It's reducing inflammation in their bodies.

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You're also naturally find things like glucosamine.

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You can draw in and collagen that are just naturally found in raw pet food, which are

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extremely, extremely beneficial to their to their joint health and skeletal health.

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So well, and it's wild to me.

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Those are my top benefits. But there's more.

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No, I know. But even as I hear and you've been saying this to me for years now, but just

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hearing it like. It's every single one of those you can apply to, you know, yourself as

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well, so it's like all of the things, you know, if you just make those little shifts in

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in your everyday diet.

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Yeah, we see this, we see this a lot.

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People like it

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Works both ways.

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People will they see they see the results in their dog when they're when they like all of

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a sudden, like two weeks passes and their dog's a whole different dog.

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And they're like, Oh my gosh, like we.

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This happens with just just by changing their diet.

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And then I'm like, Yeah, yeah.

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And then and then they start doing the same thing.

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They start trying to eat more fresh food and less processed, less processed food.

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And it gosh, I mean, it's it makes a huge difference.

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So I know for me personally, it's the energy.

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I mean, I already have a lot of energy after I work out, but then removing and eating

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clean, it's it's wild to see.

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Yeah, it's amazing what happens when you feed a species, but they've evolved to eat.

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You know what we call a species appropriate diet.

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Everything just kind of comes together.

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Well, thank you so much for listening.

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We do have one question that has come in.

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So what are you saying that treats are a no go?

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And if so, what can I give my dog as a treat if we're going out to the park or.

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Yeah, no. I think treats are fine.

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I I like to stay on brand.

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You know what I mean? Like, you know, I we do a lot of freeze dried.

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I think the simpler the treats, the better.

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I think, you know, we have these things like like milk bones and these other treats,

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which are just a bunch of garbage like.

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Dental, choose all these dental chews out here, you know, as you go to target.

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I had to like put my blinders on as I go past the pet food section.

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They're just they have so much crap in them.

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There's so much, just carbohydrates and sugar and synthetics and just a lot of

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preservatives, just a lot of bad stuff.

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And you know, I just think, you know, dogs and I see it all the time in the shop we sell

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like Girls Gone Raw Pet Health.

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If we sell a lot of just like single ingredient treats and chews which are so beneficial

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to them, they provide so much good nutrients.

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And then also they love it.

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It's like the simplest thing just to have.

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She's got these like pork and apple bites and all it is.

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It's just like pork in apple.

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That's all it is. And dogs go.

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It's like, it's like crack for dogs, like they love it.

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And it's like, Why can't we just like, stick to this kind, you know?

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Or like she does like a pork loin bacon, which is just pork?

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Dogs like simple things.

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I would just say, keep it simple.

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Like, I like this.

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I treats are fine, but like we sell like dehydrated duck or, yeah, dehydrated duck hearts

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and turkey hearts and beef hearts that are like cut up beef, liver and spleen and all

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this stuff that it just looks like jerky.

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It's not intimidating, just like a little piece of beef jerky or whatever, and it

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provides a lot of good nutrients to your dog and they go absolutely crazy for it.

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