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The Raw Dog Food Truth
Pets with allergies, skin issues gut issues, and behavior issues can live better lives by eating a species-appropriate diet. Find out the dangers of kibble and cooked foods. Your Pet's Health Is Our Business "Friends Don't Let Friends Feed Kibble"
The Raw Dog Food Truth
Dangerous Drugs vs. Natural Healing: What Labrella Doesn't Want You to Know
We explore how dogs become addicted to chemicals and additives in processed pet food, and why some initially resist raw diets despite these being healthier options. Patience during the transition from kibble to raw food leads to remarkable health improvements that pet owners consistently report.
• Dogs often reject raw food initially because they're experiencing withdrawal from chemical additives in kibble
• With persistence, dogs transition to raw food and show dramatic improvements in coat quality and body composition
• The dangerous arthritis medication Labrella has been linked to over 33,000 adverse effects and almost 4,600 dog deaths
• FDA has warned veterinarians about Labrella's risks and cited Zoetis for misbranding and false advertising
• Independent research shows Labrella is 25 times more likely to cause musculoskeletal problems than other arthritis medications
• Addressing inflammatory conditions through proper nutrition may eliminate the need for risky pharmaceutical interventions
• The most effective way to improve pet health is to remove "addictive cakes, chemicals, and cookies" found in all kibble foods
Visit rawdogfoodandcompany.com, where your pet's health is our business, or consult with Dr. Jasek at ahavet.com for guidance on healthier alternatives to conventional treatments.
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Oh snap. Well, hello Raw Feeders. I'm Deedee Mercer-Moffitt, ceo of Raw Dog Food Company, when your pets mouth is our business and we're friends. Like my friend Dr Judy Jason, she don't let friends feed kibble now, do you?
Speaker 2:Nope, not in this part of Tennessee and not part of Tennessee. We're moving to neither. Yeah, we're moving.
Speaker 1:We're moving, scurrying on down the road, moving on up, man, moving on up. You know I have a customer, um, that I that I met here out, um, on the green belt, and he has a german shepherd and it was the german shepherd in the beginning was not grabbing, wasn't just like gobbling the raw food down. Why, we always know this? Because there was a little candy in his food, little cakes and chemicals right All mixed in there to make this dog want to eat it. And it was eating around the raw.
Speaker 1:And I said listen, your dog has got some serious addictions going on here. He said well, I don't want my dog to be addicted. I said pull it out. And now he is just like raving. He's like my dog loves raw. And he's like look at my dog, this coat, because I saw this dog prior to him get looks amazing, the body composition amazing and he's so happy about it. But it's when you don't give it a good try, you know, or you don't wait it out, because he could have said my dog just won't eat this. I said there's not a dog alive that won't eat raw food. People are going to argue with me. Send them day at Deedee's house, I'll show you, but they are made to eat this, dr Jasek. So you're telling me that you have addicted your pets so badly that they just don't even recognize real food? That's really what they're saying to me, yeah.
Speaker 2:They don't know what it is. They, they don't know, they don't know what it is, you know. It's like I hear these stories about people that have been, like you know, starved, like you know, for whatever reason, they've been kept away from food, prisoners of war and and that, and they get out and they eat like real food and they like die. I mean, they, their bodies, just don't know, like like what to do with it, and I mean that's kind of an extreme example, but I think it's kind of the same. Like at first, I like what is this stuff, like I don't know? Like kind of looks, kind of interesting, but my body's addicted to this sugary stuff either.
Speaker 2:That you know it's like if you take a cocaine addict addict and say well, instead of giving you your your cocaine fix today, we're going to give you a nice healthy salad and I'm going to give you the cocaine.
Speaker 1:Well, not only that you do in any kind of severe alcohol abuse or even drug abuse. You can't just go cold turkey. Now we do tell people to go cold turkey in regards to their dog food. I don't think they're going to die from that.
Speaker 2:I don't think the withdrawals would be quite as severe Right but they may not want to eat for a while.
Speaker 1:And so what? Let them not eat? It's okay for a couple of days, but again, it's all. It's all mindset. This particular pet parent looked at it as from this angle I don't want my dog to be addicted to the cakes, cookies and chemicals anymore. That's not what I want for my dog, and so he went through a couple of days, maybe even three or four, where it was disconcerting to him. My dog's not eating this. I just paid good money for it. I said wait, just wait, keep working with him, keep trying. And now he's that was very good that was very good marketing.
Speaker 2:by the way, that whole thing about addiction Did you come up with that yourself, or was that Chad GPT which part? The part about the addiction for people, the guy you were talking about. I said that was a good marketing thing.
Speaker 2:That was a good marketing thing because because he didn't want his dog to be addicted like that, really hidden, like I don't want my dog addicted to anything, even yeah, if it's just food. So it was a very I said that's a very good marketing angle no, I just, I just thought of that on my own.
Speaker 1:It's amazing, that's great pretty smart we talk about that all the time, though, right, because we've seen it for so long and think about it. It's whenever we, as humans, are like, okay, I've been taking in way too much sugar, let me try to pull the sugar back, right, we are so addicted. Think of those cravings that we have, right? Or if you drink a lot of alcohol, and then you're gonna just go cold turkey and you're not gonna do alcohol anymore, I guarantee you you're going for the cakes and the cookies and the ice cream because there's so much sugar in alcohol, right and um, it's just a fact, just a fact. That that's, that's the way the body works, and it works that way in the dogs. So give them a chance, give them a chance to be healthy, and it comes back again. Dr jayzik, to us, the pet parents, to the humans, they ain't got no thumbs. They're like somebody opened this package for me. I ain't got no thumbs.
Speaker 1:I was laughing. I was laughing because you know we have cameras, uh, on our house in colorado and um, and the cameras will say animal detected, right, and you can click on there and see where the animal is. And there was an elk, and he walked up to where my front door is and it's a, it's a, it's a, it's like an extended you know the front porch. It's where the garage comes together, and so it's a big, you know square opening and you have to kind of walk around. Anyway, this elk stands there looking at my front door for 29 minutes, 29 minutes. He's just standing there and I know it's a he because I can see his little felt um, you know, yeah, his little velvet um antlers maybe you thought there was a girl elk in there I was like I ain't got no thumb, somebody ring the doorbell that's just what I was thinking I could figure out how to knock.
Speaker 1:I'd see if anybody was home but I was like is he stuck? What happened? He's just standing there. That's weird now there's a glass door and I was like is he like a narcissist? What isissist?
Speaker 2:The thing he didn't think it was another bull elk and he's going to fight it with a bastion in your door.
Speaker 1:It was just so hilarious though that's so funny and for a minute I thought has the camera stopped? He'd be really still.
Speaker 2:He just stood there.
Speaker 1:I said this would be the best voiceover video.
Speaker 2:Just put a voice to it.
Speaker 1:It'd be funny, hey, you know. What's not funny, though, is Labrella Right, the arthritis medicine. You sent me some information today and we've talked about it before about how dangerous this drug is. But there's a group out there called profits over pause no pause over profits.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well see, that's the other.
Speaker 1:Those are the bets um, but it's pause over profits, is that correct? Yeah, pause over profits.
Speaker 2:They try to blow the whistle on pharma companies that are just interested in making money and not putting out products that are good for pets, or putting out products that are not good for pets, like liberello so there's the avma right convention that's going to go on in washington dc and it's it's right now or very soon.
Speaker 1:But basically what this group has done, and I wonder how they I guess you could just buy a list, right? So they're basically sending this information out to all these veterinarians and what they want them to know is like, look, what you may not know is that their zoetis right is sponsoring this presentation entitled monoclonal antibodies, nerve growth factor and osteo osteoarthritis in dogs and cats. Where's the breach? And they are basically trying to downplay, right, right, dr Jasek, the dangers of Labrella where, globally, there have been over 33,000 animals affected by this drug and there have been almost 4,600 dogs who have died. So they're saying, look, there's something wrong with this drug and you need to wake up. And they're going to this convention where zoetis is just going to try to say, ah, that's just noise out there.
Speaker 2:You know what they do is they put on some big lunch or something and they buy all the veterinarians lunch and they sit there and get all sleepy with their full bellies and zoetis, and there's nothing wrong with this drug, it's fine. They're like all right, let's, we'll just go back to our practice and keep using it, because the vets just believe them. I mean, the vets don't even really. As soon as the pharmaceutical company says, yeah, there's nothing really wrong with you know, or they they debunk the data that's out there about how many dogs died or you know, gotten sick from using the drug. And then the pharmaceutical company comes out and says, well, that's not true, or that data has been, you know, falsified, or we have another study debunking it. And then you know the best, just believe. They believe that those who buy them lunch without thinking any more about it.
Speaker 1:You know what I was surprised about in this information that they put out again by Labrella guys, if you have a dog that is starting to limp or, you know, have arthritic problems, the first thing I would say and probably I'm preaching to the choir, I don't know that kibble feeders are ever going to listen to this podcast but the first thing I would say is get your dog off the stuff that's causing inflammation. But you can bet your sphincter, dr Jasek, that these pet parents are feeding kibble. They're causing the inflammation, and then they just go into their vet and they give them this. Labrella. Now back what I was going to say. The fda did try to warn the veterinarians, did they not?
Speaker 1:in this article yeah, it looks like they they did back in december so they send out a letter to the veterinarians and it's a warning letter letter and they they are having to kind of blow the whistle on zoetis. Um, and and I just I, wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall at this convention that's, that's getting ready to happen? Um, because here's what they're saying. Guys, this drug, it poses a dramatically higher risk than other osteoarthritis medications and I wanted to ask you, dr Jason, what are other osteoarthritis medications outside of labrella?
Speaker 2:Well, they would be like. This is the first one I know of that. Well, I guess that's not true. There's some of the NSAIDs that are injectable but like your NSAIDs, which are your non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, so like your carprofen, which is the generic for remedil or meloxicam or what's the other other one not amantadine is one. There's another one that I'm drawing a blank on this, not an NSAID, but it'll, it'll come back to me here in a minute.
Speaker 2:But those are kind of the common anti inflammatory, you know type drugs.
Speaker 2:Those are like, say, in the same drug classes, like ibuprofen is in people where it's just, it's just the basic anti inflammatory and it's like a person taking an ibuprofen if you got a headache or you hurt yourself or you know whatever, it can just be given a couple doses after an injury or, you know, sometimes given long term and sometimes there's some effects, you know with those with those drugs can upset the stomach, so I just want to give it with food.
Speaker 2:Some of them, like carprofen has been shown to sometimes affect the liver in some dogs, but labrella is showing some really serious effects and even death, like life-threatening conditions. And the real scary thing about labrella is it's given once a month. So it's lasting a month in the system. You can't take it out. You know, if you give a dog a dose of carprofen and it gets an upset stomach or it's not feeling, well, you know it didn't agree with the dog. Well, you just stop it right then and there. But this you can't take out. So the animal is going to have those effects ongoing for a whole month.
Speaker 1:So, after the FDA sent out their letter in 2025, zoetta's continued airing national television ads that didn't disclose any single side effect ads that didn't disclose any single side effect. And the FDA issued a misbranding and false advertising letter, and what they were saying was look on their Zoetis Pet Care YouTube channel. They have many videos that do not even warn the pet parents about the risk associated with this drug. They don't do anything. So here it is. The FDA has to come out and say hey guys, there's a lot of problems with this drug. Zoetis just totally ignored them and basically has been misleading people and pet parents to believe there aren't any side effects.
Speaker 2:Interesting that, like when you see a human pharmaceutical drug, you know it always goes over all the side effects. I wonder why they don't have to do that in pet drugs.
Speaker 1:Right. So in walks, Dr Mike Farrell and he decided to do an independent study and he had it published in frontiers in Veterinary Science May of 2025. And it shows that labrella, like I was saying earlier, poses dramatically higher risk than any other arthritis medication. So here's what he found it's 25 times more likely to cause musculoskeletal adverse events than the leading pain reliever like a Remedil.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, and this is what it's supposed to be treating too. So it's an osteoarthritis drug, so it's supposed to be treating the musculoskeletal system, reducing inflammation and reducing pain, but it's causing it. Yeah, reducing pain, but it's causing it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, nine times more likely to cause ligament, tendon and other musculoskeletal musculoskeletal I see, I am not a doctor, I'm going to say musculoskeletal injury and three times more likely to cause any adverse event than all the other over the um, the oa medications combined is what they're called. So here here now, how does this sound familiar, dr jayzik? So within two days of dr farrell's publication, zoetas launched a full-scale effort to discredit dr Farrell and his research and instead of addressing the study findings, they resorted to what we know as a very familiar defense, citing rare incidences of adverse events based on the number of doses sold, not number of doses administered. But they did this to falsely argue for liberella's safety.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's frightening that's really frightening, you know, and that nine times more likely to cause ligament, tendon or the musculoskeletal injury. So ligaments you think about how many dogs already like tear their cruciate ligaments, have have these injuries. So, or ligament injuries, you know, nine times more likely to do that. So you're, you're causing, you know, more problems. You're causing ligament injuries and you know, makes you wonder if it's drugs like this or just a money making game. You know let's make the animals more likely to be injured and have more problems. So then you know, just animals more likely to be injured and have more problems. So then you know, just ends up making more monies for the veterinarians and you know they're the ones selling all the drugs and everything. So it's just a big scam to just make animals sicker and you know, result in more injuries.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like I don't know. I think you know Dr Edward Bassing Bassick wait, it's a long name, bassick Bassick wait, yeah, I think he's out in Australia, but he's an integrative veterinarian and more on the holistic side, right, and he says in my professional opinion there is no way that labralis should ever be considered as a first treatment or intervention for arthritis in dogs. I believe these monoclonal antibody medicines carry a significant risk of harm and injury that may be temporary or permanent.
Speaker 2:And you know where are the vets in this too. You know like, okay, so the big pharma is out there pushing their drug. We know that they're profit driven, but any veterinarian that gets any wind of this whatsoever should at least be informing their clients before they give the injection. Like, hey, you know the drug company saying this, there's these other people, there's this other, you know vet that did the study that says that there's all these side effects. So you should just be aware that there's these potential side effects. So at least people are being informed. But the vets won't even do that and they're not even committing to one side or the other. They should just be putting the information out there, but they're not even doing that.
Speaker 1:Right, right right.
Speaker 2:So you want to keep selling the drugs too.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So just know, guys, that there are other options. There are other options. If your dog is starting to, you know, get that authentic, authentic body. One is, I would think, anybody that you're talking to, whether it's out, you know, on a green belt or at your job or something along that line. The first thing that you want to kind of get through to them is are you lovingly because, look, most pet parents love their dogs? Are you lovingly because, look, most pet parents love their dogs? Are you loving your dog to death, meaning that? Are you feeding them the addictive food that is causing this arthritis? Right, because you just don't know. They don't know. Now, if you know better, you do better, right. If you know better, you do better, right.
Speaker 1:So there are some people that do know that raw food is better for their pets, but they don't want to make that switch, whether it's for convenience or whether it's for the money aspect. But you want to first try to explain to them that they can, that they can take their pet's health into their own hands by removing the addictive cakes, chemicals and cookies. Explaining to them that they can, that they can take their pet's health into their own hands by removing the addictive cakes, chemicals and cookies that are in all kibble, all kibble foods first. And the second thing is you can work with Dr Jacek over at ahavetcom, ahav, vetcom. She will help you figure out what is a better um option, not this labrella thing. We don't want to be doing labrella. It is a very dangerous drug. And again, um, you can use chat gpt and ask it, but I don't know, maybe zoetis is is really been.
Speaker 2:Petis might have a little pull with chat GB.
Speaker 1:May have a little pull in there. All right, everybody listen, get over to ahavetcom. Dr Jasey is going to help you out. Our team will help you figure out what you need to do. New ways of doing things out of the box ways, ways that you can help your pet. But you guys that are listening today, be a voice. Help your pet. But you guys that are listening today, be a voice for your pet and also share your experiences with raw food. Right, here's how my dog's skin looks better. My dog can climb the stairs, the breath is better, Everything is better when they're eating a food that they were created to make eat.
Speaker 2:It's such a, it's such a it's such a market difference. You know, because when you're out and about with your dog that's eating raw, I mean they look fantastic. So when somebody says, yeah, your dog's coat looks great, oh yeah, because you know I feed it, I feed it raw food, and keep keep planting the, keep planting the seeds. And you know I feed it, I feed it raw food and keep, keep, keep planting the, keep planting the seeds. And you know, maybe people that think raw is too expensive, you know, if they start to see more of the benefits and maybe they don't need to go to the vet and pay for expensive shots that might kill their dog, like labella because I know that stuff isn't cheap either they put that money into a better diet. Their pet would be healthier and probably less sore too.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, and we can help you. Just get over to Raw Dog Food and Company. Brian is sitting right there. He is waiting with bated breath to help you figure out what you need to feed your dog. Right, we can get that ready for you ASAP. Just go over to RawDfoodandcompanycom, where your pet's health is our business. And what, dr Jacek? Friends don't let friends feed kibble y'all, that's right. All right, we'll see you soon, everybody. Oh snap, find out how you can start your dog on the road to health and longevity. Go to rawdogfoodandcompanycom, where friends don't let friends feed kibble and where your pet's health is our business.
Speaker 2:Just snap.
