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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
Nature's Design vs. Corporate Science: The Raw Feeding Awakening
The pet food industry is ramping up false claims that dogs have "evolved" to eat processed foods, but this contradicts biological reality and ignores how animals are designed to eat species-appropriate diets.
• Dogs and cats have not evolved to eat processed foods any more than humans have evolved to thrive on Snickers bars and Fruit Loops
• Raw diets contain bioactive compounds (glutathione, L-carnitine, CoQ10, taurine, creatine) that cannot be found in the plant world
• Dr. Connor Brady's research confirms that whole prey diets fulfill dogs' complete nutritional requirements
• Dogs' digestive systems remain carnivorous with tearing teeth and wide-angled jaws designed for meat consumption
• Dogs cannot properly digest plant matter - feed them a carrot and it comes out largely undigested
• Raw-fed dogs typically have smaller, firmer stools, indicating better nutrient absorption
• Organs are the "multivitamins" of raw diets and should make up at least 10% of meals
• Many raw-fed dogs show reduced anxiety and hyperactivity compared to kibble-fed counterparts
• The "zoomies" may be related to sugar content in kibble, similar to hyperactivity in children
• While raw diets may seem more expensive upfront, they can save thousands in veterinary bills for preventable conditions
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Speaker 2:Well, hello Raw Feeders. I'm Deedee Mercer-Moffitt, ceo of Raw Dog Food Company, where your pet's health is our business and we're friends. Like my friend Dr Judy Jasik, she didn't let friends feed Kibble. Good morning, dr Jasik. How are ya Doing? Good?
Speaker 1:doing good, loving our new little niche here in Tennessee. We moved further east and just a lovely community. We really like it here, more like I think we're gonna find a lot more like-minded people, more folks. You know, um, we were going out to some farmers, markets and stuff yesterday and um, more organic grown produce and all that kind of stuff. So I think it's, I think it's going to be good, I think it's going to end up being a good move. As you know, tiring as moving is, um it's, it's starting to feel more subtle.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I think you guys are good at it. You're just like, yep, that's the one, that's it, let's go, let's do it. You don't you know, futz around.
Speaker 1:Well, we know what we want. You know, like if we hadn't found a house that really fit. You know, you have your major criteria and you get your must haves and then your nice to haves and then your absolute rule outs and all of that stuff. So you rule out a lot, of, a lot of properties pretty quick. That way. This fit the bill. I it was more money than we thought we'd spend, but doesn't that always happen?
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, you know, come on, you can't take it with you.
Speaker 1:Right, that's what I feel is like. You know, I want a place that I really, really love being and I just would love to never move again.
Speaker 2:Seriously, I know here when I'm 90,.
Speaker 1:I mean, of course life happens we said that in our last place and lots of things in our lives are, of course, out of control. But you're not gonna accomplish that if you don't really love the place where you're moving to, right, like you're gonna always be, like yeah, okay, yeah, but I wish, really wish, we could have done this or that, or then you find another place that you like better. But if you, you gotta really love the place and that's, you know, I don't know that's something worth investing into. I mean, you got to think about, you know. So you got the logistics of the house and the square footage and all that stuff, but then there's things about the property that you love.
Speaker 1:I mean, we're set back off the road. That was a big thing for me. I don't want to be sitting. Most houses are on a busy road or you're right next to farm fields where there's grain, chemicals all the time and there's just things like that. We wanted to make sure, you know that would have really been problematic, you know. But if you really like the place, then maybe you can stay there long term. So that's what we're hoping for anyway nice, nice.
Speaker 2:Well, I I hope that I get to come visit you soon.
Speaker 1:I'll let you get all moved in and then I'll okay. Yeah let's get the square bedroom set up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hey, uh, you know I, brian, always brings a lot of things to my attention and he was saying that there's this big uh conversation push from the commercial pet food industry and the vet industry where they're saying I am, and we heard this before, but he said it's really ridiculous of what they're saying that dogs have evolved, right, they are no longer like wolves, they are no longer like mountain lions, the cats, and they have evolved to eat this food. Right, they do that. Not, not raw food, the kibbles. Right, the cooked food. They have evolved. We've heard this before. But he said it's really ramping up and they're. They're talking about all this fortification that's in this food that is good for the animals.
Speaker 2:Now, how asinine is that? But I will tell you, dr Jasek, when you geta narrative out there and you say it with authority, you say it with authority. People tend to believe it and I'm just like how is it that we, we as humans, have not evolved to eat processed foods? Is there anyone listening today that would say, absolutely bar none. You could eat processed foods. It's just as good as having that raw milk.
Speaker 1:I feel so much healthier when I eat those snickers bars, don't you know, I mean just, yeah, forget about the broccoli.
Speaker 2:I mean for the raw milk yeah just give me the, give me them snicker bars and those fruit loops, and I'll just be doing really good and I'm wondering if it's because they're that people are waking up, they are seeing, after we've been pushing this ball up the hill for however many years you know decades and it is finally clicking with them that real food is the best thing for their dogs and I was. I was reading dr connor brady's book. Uh, it's, it's called feeding dogs dry or raw. Right, the science behind the debate. And he was saying a whole prey diet. And he means all the parts, guys, all the parts, not the guts, but all the parts, right?
Speaker 2:So, uh, fulfills the dog's nutrient requirements. It fulfills the dog's nutrient requirements and everybody is trying to figure out this isn't complete balance, is it this? Is it that? And he said here's, you know the one thing and you may get this. He said you need to know the dog's required daily allowance for calcium about as much as you need to know it for yourself. So I was going to ask you, dr Jasek, do you know what your daily required calcium is? I don't have a clue. How are you ever going to be healthy, how are you not going to to cause yourself ultimate harm without knowing that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I listened to my body and when my body says you know what, I think you need to go have some milk or some yogurt or whatever. And I think the whole thing about calcium I've I've heard this too is like a big misdome. Like people take all these calcium supplements Like we don't really need, like if you eating a healthy diet, you don't need the calcium I. But I think I think the same thing happens with pets too. People get so hung up. I got to take the multivitamins, so I'm getting everything I need, then I can eat what I want, but then those are all synthetics and they're not absorbable into the body. You know they're not actually getting into the tissues and doing what you need them to do, like whole foods will. So this whole like adding all these nutrients it just it looks good on paper.
Speaker 2:You know there's a big push here, Dr nutrients. It just it looks good on paper. You know there's a big push here, Dr Jacek, in Colorado, for people to have to register their dogs. Then you come into the state and I'm like how, how does that work? How's that work, you having to register your dog? Who, who do you have to register that with, and why? You know, I know why, but do you really?
Speaker 1:and why. You know what, I know why. But do you really? Yeah, it just puts you on the radar. Like if you go and you register even just like like the county registrations that they've always had once you do that, then they're going to want you to be renewing that and then you're on their radar where they could come check in. So you've got that current rapey shot. But if you don't ever register with them, how are they going to know you even have a pet? How do they know you're coming into the state with a pet if you don't register it? You know you. In my opinion, you're better off if you want, if you're not gonna, if you don't want to follow all the laws and the rules, then you're better off not registering and not getting on their radar and it's not really that we don't want to follow the rules, it's that we want healthy animals, right, right, so what?
Speaker 2:definitely, you know we've talked about this ad nauseum, but what we see is that, because of what happened in COVID, and people are distrusting their, you know, the, the, the, the health industry they're they're really pushing harder with the pets, way harder, making things look like they're worse than they are, so that these pets again get all of these things put in their body. And I think you're seeing Dr Andy has said we're seeing the sickest dogs we've ever seen. So what is happening? What is happening?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I agree with you. It's not, I mean, good diet, raw food, raw food diet absolutely important, but the bigger issue is the chemicals. I mean I I really think that they're and they're getting more and more toxic. I don't know what they're putting, these vaccines, but they're getting worse and worse is why we're seeing cancer. I mean, you know, we've always been. When I started off early in my career, I went to work in a practice. We were doing everything pretty much conventional. We didn't see cancer was an old age disease and we were vaccinating. I mean, the recommendations back then were every year for vaccines and and the docs were not not getting cancer at one to three years old, like they are now. They were much, much healthier. Um, so I know that these drugs are a whole lot more toxic than than they used to be and, yeah, you got to stop that and you know I'm I'm not advocating for breaking laws or not following the rules either.
Speaker 1:But at what point do you start to push back? What did parents have to do? And they said no, I'm not putting toxic vaccines into my children. They pull them out of school and they homeschool. They figure out another way. I mean, nothing's going to change If you don't like the way things are. Nothing's going to change If you just keep saying, well, I have to and do it anyway. You have to start to push back and, you know, raise a little ruckus about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, a raw diet does have everything that a dog or cat needs, guys, and I think you know. If you were to read Dr Brady's book, you would see why a vegan diet for cats or dogs is extremely dangerous. Right, it's extremely dangerous. You know, he? He talks about the, the meat. Okay, whether it's duck or whether it's chicken, or whether it's beef, whatever it is, it contains these bioactive compounds that you cannot find in the plant world. Okay, you can't find it like glutathione, l-carnitine and I don't even say these, right, but CoQ10. It also contains compounds like taurine, creatine.
Speaker 2:He said that the byproducts from the digestion of meat okay, that they have health benefits, but they also have these peptides that are known to induce opiate-like effects in animals. So I think that's very interesting, because we hear this all the time. When people get off kibble diets and I don't care if it says it's meat or it's duck or it's chicken in a kibble diet, it really is nothing. Care, if it says it's meat or it's duck or it's chicken in a kibble diet, it really is nothing anymore. It's cardboard, right, and then they got to add all the crap that that doesn't work. But he's saying right here what we see all the time dogs calm down.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, oh, absolutely More trainable. Dogs with anxiety, dogs that you know like just hyper and can't focus, um much more trainable? Yeah, I hear that all the time too. And you know dogs and cats, they're not equipped to break down. Plant plants are actually hard to digest. I know I feel better if I, if I eat I mean I used to be able to eat like more raw veggies and stuff I don't feel so good Like I can just tell it's harder to digest if I eat a lot of that stuff. I and for me, like eating meat or animal products is much easier to digest. But if you just look at and this is where I questioned this whole evolution thing, will they be evolved? In what way? Their mouths are the same. They still got shearing teeth and incisors for tearing, you know, meat off. They got the wide angled jaws.
Speaker 1:So as somebody analyzed their digestive tract to say that they can now digest plant matter, because if you look at an herbivore like a cow or a horse, part of their digestive tract is a big fermentation bath. Cows have the rumen and horses it's the cecum. That plant material sits in there. Their digestive tract doesn't break it down. The bacteria do. It's why cows sit and chew their cut. I mean they eat and they swallow it and then they burp it back up and they chew it up some more and then it goes back down and it sits in this big fermentation bath. Up and they chew it up some more and then it goes back down and it sits in this big fermentation bath. That's what it takes to break down grass. It's. It's hard to digest. They're equipped to do that.
Speaker 1:Feed a dog a raw carrot. They're pooping out pieces of carrot. Their digestion hasn't even touched it, so they can't break down plants. So this whole thing about? Well, they've evolved as such a bunch of bunk. Why? Why do dogs have such tiny little peanut poops when they're eating raw? Cause their body is absorbing and assimilating most of it and there's just a tiny little bit of waste versus kibble. They got these big, ginormous, usually soft poops, or you know, I don't know why people think that pets have to have fiber and they have to have veggies and so many people just think well, they just got to have.
Speaker 1:And I'm not saying that produce is absolutely wrong, just saying it's not needed to balance the diet. You can throw a little bit in if you want to, but they really don't break it down very well. And I agree I don't think it's necessary to balance diet. The diet can be 100% balanced and the best diet is the diet balance on animal products. But you got to do the right rotation. You can't feed just turkey or just beef or just rabbit and you got to add in all the gross stuff like the organs and the eyes and the brains and the testes and all that stuff. That's how you really balance it out. Is all that extra stuff?
Speaker 2:So he was talking about, you know, organs, and we say organs are the multivitamins, right? So people, um, you want to make sure that your blends have at least 10% organ in it, at least, and you can add more, add more. You can add up to, I would say, 20%. If your dog can handle it, I probably wouldn't go that high in the beginning. You know, go with the 10, bump it to 12, go to 15, see where your dogs are. But Dr Brady was saying the one hormone that is really, really important when these dogs eat organs is insulin. And he said but there are many, many not that are in the raw diet, are not even in the AAFCO nutrient profile. They're not even. So people will say, hey, is this AAFCO approved? You're like God, I hope not. Right, because that means that food doesn't have diddly-boo in it. Right, it is, it's so.
Speaker 2:The raw diet, if you guys are rotating, if you're feeding a diet that has everything in it, right, meat, bones, organ and fat. When I say everything, not everything, that is 60 ingredients long Meat, bones, organ and fat. Maybe it's got some fur in it, okie dokie, you know that's just roughage, right? You're talking about how they're going to poop things out. Do we really need the veggies? Get the rabbit and the tripe. It's got the fur in it, you know. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Just let that scour. Also, fur is like it has minerals in it too. You know, like what do you do, I mean, one of the ways that you can test for minerals in the body? You check the fur right, so there's a lot of minerals in first, like one of the highest sources of manganese and other minerals. So there's actually valuable nutrition and it kind of scours. You know. I mean sometimes you've got these little roto rooting, you know, kind of like little pillow pad going through there and kind of scour stuff out a little bit.
Speaker 1:You know it's all meant. You know they eat this stuff for a reason. I mean nature built this system for a reason and it works. There's a reason why fur is is beneficial and all the organs wolf packs, I mean they've studied this. They eat the organs first, the, the alpha members of the pack. When they kill an elk they go in there and they're eating the liver and the spleen and all that stuff. It's the lower members of the pack that are, you know, chewing meat scraps off the bones yeah, it's pretty cool to have a game camera.
Speaker 2:You know you can watch the different animals and how they come and feed and we, um, so we have these little voles, as you know voles, voles, moles, whatever, they're all the same we. So we have these little voles, as you know voles, voles, moles, whatever, they're all the same family right. And these little guys can tear your yard apart One of them, anyway. So I had one, and so you know we trapped him and he was pretty fat and you know he was dead. He was dead, we trapped him and he died. But we have this little like place that we take them to make sure that the other animals get it's a sacrifice stone.
Speaker 2:You know it's like we take him out and put him and the fox come and get him. The fox come and get him and they are. You know, I think they're thankful, but you can hear the fox around here screaming. You know they have that scream because they're getting their prey. And this is just the life cycle. Right, it is the life cycle, but again, it would be interesting to see I really wouldn't want to see this, but it would be interesting If you had foxes in, like the zoo, and you said we're going to just feed these foxes, hibble and see what their skin looked like, see if their allergies go up, see if they're like doing the zoomies. You know, the one thing that I was going to ask you about zoomies is I don't see, I never saw Asta and I never saw Lazi get the zoomies.
Speaker 2:And the reason no, I know they just don't do zoomies. They will run fast for a ball or they will work hard in training. I never did see them get the zoomies and I was at the warehouse yesterday and one of the other companies has a dog that they feed kibble and this dog was going crazy Just zoom, zoom zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom outside.
Speaker 2:And I was thinking about what dr brady had said about how raw. You know the raw diet number one, we know it doesn't have a bunch of sugar in it, right, I was just wondering about the zoomies I've never thought about that.
Speaker 1:But do kibble fed dogs, do the zoomies more don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know it. Just it struck me. Yesterday I was watching this dog and I was like how else, right, do you get this jittery out of control? Sugar rush out of your body unless you're you know? The only way dogs know how to do it is get the zoomies so it's just like kids.
Speaker 1:It's like kids that are get you know too much sugar on christmas or something, but they're doing, they're running around like crazy and I mean the zoomies for no reason, right, just they go outside and they just start doing the zoomies.
Speaker 2:I get it if lozzie's playing with another dog and they run together. It's a different action. It's a different action. So I'd love to hear from some of our listeners to let me know did you have a dog that had the zoomies while on kibble? Did they change when they got on raw, or did they not? I don't know, it was just something that I thought, but I wondered how do they deal with all that sugar in their body?
Speaker 1:Right, you think it would just be driving them nuts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, cause they like, especially if it's a dog that's in a kennel. Oh my gosh, dr Jason, think about this. You feed your dog kibble, right, and then you got to go to work, you put them in a kennel.
Speaker 1:What the heck? And the people wonder why dogs try to chew out of their crates.
Speaker 2:Right or eat a pad that's in there. Now you got to have a $15,000 surgery to extract it.
Speaker 1:Right. Or if they're not in a crate, they're tearing up the house, because dogs aren't meant to be alone to begin with. They're pack animals, they're meant to have company, and then, yeah, get them all amped up on sugar and then leave them alone for the day. They got to get that energy out somehow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Very interesting. So I would say you know, let us know, Let us know how your dog's doing and you can email us at, at at what customer service at raw dog food and companycom.
Speaker 2:You know, I know where am I, but I think on several of our podcasts the information there is a send us a text button so you can send us a text, you can email us, you can let us know what you want us to discuss on the podcast or let us know what's going on with your animal. Okay, because we would love to know what have the success stories been in your dog's health regimen, right? And if you need some extra help getting your dog even to that higher level, higher level of health, you can always work with Dr Jacek at ahavetcom. Ahavetcom and get your dog on a species appropriate diet. Let's get everything out of their diet that could be causing then the zoomies and the zoomies in their head or just this extra stress, right, they're that they're experiencing and maybe you don't realize it. Right, because you're you're thinking that they need the kibble because it has vitamins and minerals. No, no, no, it has chemicals and cookies and and it has crap and just and just just try it.
Speaker 1:Just try it for a month yeah, Long term commitment. Just try it and see what you notice, Cause you got to give it some time to see what really what you notice. But you know so many people just come back and say, oh, their dog just did a total like one, 80 when they started on the, on the raw. So you know, give it a try and see what you notice.
Speaker 2:Well, brian, he told me yesterday. He said, didi, I'm going to write this article. He said about people saying that the raw diet is too expensive and he said is it really cheaper if you have to spend $15,000, $10,000? Dollars, $10,000. Some people have spent tens of thousands of dollars on their dog's ill health right On their disease and he said is that kibble really cheaper in the long run, is it so? It's an interesting article that he always has a great perspective because he talks to so many people right, like you and like me, and so you hear the stories and um. So anyway, it's going to be a good article. It will come out. If you're signed up on our email list, you will get that. Um, get your dog on a species appropriate diet. Just go to rawdogfoodandcompanycom, because your pet's health is our business.
Speaker 1:And what dr jacek friends, don't let friends feed, kibble y'all that's right, we'll see you soon, everybody, bye-bye oh snap.
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