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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
Stop Calling Dogs Omnivores And Start Feeding For Their Species
What if the biggest myths about dog nutrition come from marketing, not biology? We dive straight into the carnivore vs omnivore debate and unpack why labels flip from “feed like a wolf” to “dogs are omnivores” whenever it helps sell cheaper, carb-heavy formulas. Our take is clear: dogs are built for animal-based diets—meat, bones, organs, and fat—and their bodies haven’t rewritten themselves in seven years to fit a new ad campaign.
We walk through what “complete and balanced” really means when you ditch synthetic-fortified pellets for whole foods. From zinc in red meat and organs to trace minerals in sardines, tripe, and edible bone, we show how nutrient-dense variety outperforms spreadsheet anxiety. We also tackle common fears: mixing kibble and raw, bacteria and domestication myths, and whether bones and gulping are safe. Spoiler: canine anatomy is designed for large chunks, strong acid, and muscular propulsion, while cooked bones—not raw—are the real hazard.
Expect practical, no-drama guidance. You’ll hear why blood sugar stability on raw can calm behavior and reduce risk factors linked to seizures, why firmer stools help express anal glands, and why warming meals a touch often boosts enthusiasm. We share simple routines for rotating proteins, avoiding supplement overload, and handling everyday hiccups—like swapped plates or a missed thaw—without panic. The result is a dog that looks better, feels better, and races to the bowl because the food finally matches its biology.
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Oh, snap! Well, hello, raw feeders. I'm Didi Merchant Moffat, CEO of Raw Dog Food and Company. We are Pets Health is our business. And we're friends like my friend Brian Brandfuss. Well, he doesn't let friends feed kibble, but my golly gosh, almighty, do you have to talk to a lot of them about what they're feeding their pets? And I'm I bet as our resident nutritionist, your mouth probably just opens wide some days. And you're just like, do what now? Right? You think you've heard it all, and then you realize you haven't heard it all.
SPEAKER_03:This uh the pet industry is definitely good for uh keeping you on your toes and surprising you.
SPEAKER_01:Well, you know, um there is just the the the all it is when we really dig down deep and look at it, Brian, all it is are stories that have been made up in people's heads, and they're the those stories are there because somebody in authority has helped put them in their heads, okay? Whether that is, you know, some influencer out there or the vet industry or the pet food industry, it's redonculous. It's just ridonculous that you know, I did a podcast on how many years it takes, right, for evolution to actually occur in its millions of years um to change their teeth, to change their guts, right? It's millions of years, and right now these animals, dogs and cats, are still carnivores. So they're they're gonna remain carnivores for at least a million more years. Okay. Um I don't know.
SPEAKER_03:I I discovered something today, I think that uh I think it shows that evolution only takes about seven years, according to according to the pet food industry.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, pray tell what kind of new propaganda sphincter news are we talking about today?
SPEAKER_03:Well, um, you know, my favorite subject in the whole world is you know carnivore versus omnivore, and how you know there's been this big push to classify dogs as omnivores. And you know that our position has always been that that's marketing. That it's you know, it's the the food has gotten even more carb heavy um as of late. The the kibble companies are wanting to use even less meat. Not that they were using you know real meat to begin with, but they want to use even less of it. Um they even want to do insects if they can get away with it. They want to make your your pets' food out of insect protein. Um but uh but these carb-heavy you know kibbles, dogs need to be omnivores in order to justify selling that product. And the reason that I know that it's marketing is because and I found the I found the commercial on YouTube, so you can actually go to YouTube and find the commercial.
SPEAKER_01:But wait just a minute. I can play it. I think I can play it. Tell me if you can hear this. Um okay, let me just turn up my thingy here and let's see if you can just hear this. Now, yeah, this was this this commercial was seven years ago, right, Brian? Uh about, yeah. Okay, let's see if if our if our if our um if our audience can hear this. That was the end. Let me let me start at the beginning. All right, here we go. So they actually are trying to say that their kibble, which uh is so funny, I was watching this commercial, they they show the pictures of of like what our food looks like real meat, you know, real food, real stuff. And when they're when they're uh showing the dog eating the the food, they never show what's in the bowl. Because I mean, you'd be like, wait a minute, those little brown pellets don't look like anything like real food. But you're right. So they did, they did just seven years ago say, hey, your dog is the descendant of a wolf. Now what are they saying, Brian?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I mean, when when they're selling, because if you remember that product, the selling point was that they used more animal protein um you know in that product. Um, and so when they want to sell meat, the dog is a carnivore and the dog is a descendant of the wolf, and you know, you need to tap into its ancestral needs and let it eat like its ancestors did. And now that there's no meat in kibble, or there's you know, less meat and there's more carbohydrates and there's insects, that's when they turn to science and say, hey, we need these things to be omnivores. So it's you know, that that commercial right there proves that you know the the kibble industry, you know, your dog needs to be whatever it is they need it to be to sell whatever they're selling. So there's there's this zero science behind your dog is an omnivore. It's 100% marketing, and that commercial proves it.
SPEAKER_01:So again, if we know, Brian, that you're a human, you're not a um, you know, a half uh robot, half human, right? We know that you're a human, so we should feed you like a human and uh not feed you like a half robot and half human, because I I bet that would cause some disrupt disruption of your health, right? But we cannot seem to convince a lot of people or relay the information that your dog cannot, will not be as healthy as it could be and should be if you don't feed it correctly for its species. That's exactly what species appropriate means, right? So, what is complete and balance for our um carnivores, meatbones, organ, fat, right? Throw if you want to throw in some veggies, be my guest, right? Go right ahead. You're not gonna hurt them, but think like a wolf. What does a wolf eat? What does a mountain lion eat? Right? And um, but invariably, invariably, I hear this. Well, my dog has this issue. Okay, well, what are you feeding them? Well, I'm kind I'm doing, you know, half of a high-end kibble and half raw, or I'm doing the best kibble I can, and yeah, I'm putting all these toxins in their body. Um, but that's not the problem. I'm just like, it most certainly is the problem.
SPEAKER_03:Yep. It you know, if your car needs gas to run and you're putting half water and half gas, you know, which half of that equation is causing your your car to quit when it's going down the road? You know, it's not the gas, you know, it's the it's the fact that you're mixing it with something that's completely inappropriate for the job. Um so, you know, and it's just you know, it's it's crazy that like it the the community and the the pet food industry is like, well, your dog needs to be an omnivore because you know he can eat some carbs and he can eat some vegetables. Yeah, and I can't crack that that's great, you know, but um the the fact that they can eat other foods doesn't need that doesn't mean that we have to change the essence of who they are. You know, the wolves in the wild eat blueberries in the summertime because that's all that they can find. You know, but they you know that doesn't make them vegetarians, they're still carnivores. And you know, if they're in the middle of the blueberry field chowing down on blueberries and an elk, you know, a wayward elk runs through there, I mean, what do you think they're gonna do?
SPEAKER_01:Right? Or if if you really if you really feel like that evolution has totally taken place and um that that the wolves, right, the wolves have evolved. Well, just go ahead and leave your little dogs outside. Just just leave them on outside in the wilderness, you know, out in your back, like for me, right? So I'm up here with all the animals in the mountains. I got the fox, the the coyotes, the mountain lions, the bears, I got them all. You know, I'm not leaving my dog outside at dark, even if she is a German shepherd. She's going to be no match for a mountain lion. You know? But um we are in the pet health business, so we're always trying to uh uh recommend and advise uh based on the tens of thousands of dogs that we've seen and what we understand to be um a system of health. Good food, good water, good exercise, uh good uh common sense, um and good pushback when you need to push back on things that might not be good for your dog. And I said this the other day just because you have to do something will not remove the issue, won't remove the the effects, right? So let's just you know, for example, if you know, let's the whole COVID thing, right? I had to, I had to. And um it doesn't matter if you had to or not, the damage is still going to be had still going to be done, right? So you have to think like that. And you have to think what can I do to keep my dog as healthy as possible. Um, and and and what are my options? You have lots of options today. I don't know where we're going in this country. I don't know if we're going into communism, I don't know where we're going, but today, you know, um it and and the veterinary um profession make it very tough. They make it tough on pet parents for sure. Brian, what would you I do? What uh what would you say to new feeders, right? To new feeders when they're coming over to from a kibble diet, right? What are some of the things that frighten people that maybe they they misunderstand, they uh see something and they read it the wrong way. What do you see most often in the folks that you help out there?
SPEAKER_03:Uh I would say probably the biggest concern is whether or not they're getting everything that they need. Um, that's that's usually the one that we have to um we have to spend some time discussing. Um, you know, and and that's you know, that's undoing all of that, you know, marketing from the pet food industry and you know, to some degree the vets, you know, but I mean the vets are getting it from the pet food industry. So um, but uh you know, complete, you know, people used to see you know, complete and balanced is you know such a widely used marketing term, um, that uh you know, if people don't see that on the food or they don't see that on the advertising or anything like that, then you know they're suspicious. Um but I always ask them, you know, what does complete and balance mean to you for your diet? You know, what when was the last time you ate a you know, do you do you even know what a complete and balanced meal looks like for a human?
SPEAKER_01:We don't ever even think that way. We never think that way. You know, you know, here's what humans think. I need to stay away from processed foods, and that's smart. Or they'll say, I need to cut back on my sugar intake, or I need to cut back on my alcohol intake. There is I have never heard a human being say, I'm so worried about if I'm complete and balance, but if my diet is complete and balanced, they never say that. But we're obsessed with it in the dog world because why? Because somebody said it. Sort of like somebody said that, you know, boutique foods that didn't have grains in it, uh, you know, were causing cardiomyopathy. Okay, and and and yeah, somebody said that pigs fly out your sphincter too, and uh yet to see it. Um, but we believe it, you know, we'll believe stuff. We just believe stuff. There is there there is I don't know what the code is, Brian. There's a code, but we gotta crack the code in in how to help pet parents help their pets.
SPEAKER_03:Well I mean I think that uh I I think that the vast majority, you know, we see we see some pretty quick changes. When, you know, if if you're able to, you know, as a pet parent, if you're you know, if you're serious and you just cut the cord and and you just switch to raw and you get all that other stuff out of the out of the diet, and you feed species appropriate raw diet, meat, bones, organs, and fat, mix it up in, you know, a couple different proteins each week or whatever. Um, you see the changes pretty quick. You know, the the dog is the dogs are excited to eat. Um, you know, the excess weight, you know, falls off. Um, you know, the coat shines up, the the teeth start looking good, the eyes clear up. Um, you know, the the energy comes back. Um, I think that, you know, those kind of you know, those kind of changes are are something that you know they're not seeing those kind of changes with whatever the vets are suggesting they do.
SPEAKER_02:No.
SPEAKER_03:You know, they they they go into the vet's office with a problem and they come out with their little baggie of pills, and two weeks later they're back in the office um you know to get some more pills because nothing changed in two weeks. Um, so so I think that we just gotta, you know, we just gotta get people to make the change and then let the results speak for themselves. Um you know, and I mean I had to do the the same thing, you know, when when I switched, I mean, you know, I went down all the rabbit holes and you know, I got caught up in all those Facebook groups and stuff like that, and I had all sorts of information, you know, coming my way. And, you know, I had the same questions, you know, is this balanced? Is this you know everything they need? And eventually I had to just look back and or just sit back and look at my dogs and be like, you know, I don't think I've ever seen my dogs look that good, you know. Um, and and that's where I'm at now. I mean, you know, people still, you know, they they're like, well, meat bones, organ, and fat is not enough. And you know, you better be giving them some, you know, what what kind of zinc are they getting? And you know, are they getting enough of this and enough of that? And I'm like, I don't think I could go, I haven't worried about zinc for seven years. And I'm pretty sure that if they had a zinc problem, I would see something by now.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. You want to know where high zinc, high zinc comes. Red meat, beef, lamb, venison, high zinc, organ meats are slightly higher than muscle meat. Okay, liver, kidney, heart, excellent source of zinc, copper, iron, and B vitamins. Um, you've also got some moderate zinc levels in dark meat and the white meat of poultry. You've got it in eggs, you've got it in high zinc in salmon and sardines. Um, and you've also got the traces of zinc um in edible bones. And there's also some in tripe. So right there, Brian, tripe, bone, sardines, oysters, salmon, chicken, turkey, organs, beef. I mean, come on. You're gonna get a ton of zinc in there. But yet the Facebook groups will get on a mineral or a trace mineral, and they will really cause pet parents, I think, to imbalance, if you want to say that, cause some issues with their with their pets, right? Because if you over-supplement with zinc, it can interfere with copper absorption, right? So let's just be cognizant that when you feed real food uh and it's got the meat, bones, organ, and fat, you're not gonna OD. You're not gonna OD.
SPEAKER_03:The body knows how to regulate real vitamins and minerals. And so it, you know, if you are given it too much, which is you know highly unlikely, um, it can manage that. You know, what it can't manage is the synthetic versions, um, you know, along with uh the natural versions that it's getting, you know, because these people are you know, they're feeding, you know, meat and all this stuff, and then they're um, you know, they're putting in all these other things to up the the amount that their dog is getting to meet you know FEDIAF and NRC standards. Um so, but you know, the funny thing is is that you know those daily standards, like like your dog needs this much every day, um you know, that's assuming that your dog's body is using every single one of its vitamins, minerals, using them up completely each day, and it has to be replenished, you know, the the next day. That would be like that would be like your car. You have to fill it up with gas in the in the morning for for your day's activities. And if you have any gas left over at the end of the day, when you wake up in the morning, it's gonna be gone because you need to fill it up, you know, again. It's like the the body doesn't work that way. Um you know, and everybody is gonna be different. Some dogs are gonna use more zinc, some dogs are gonna use less. Um, you know, but they're but their body is gonna manage that. And and it knows if it's if it's getting, you know, you know, let's say you're eating a lot of venison that is, you know, uh, you know, a higher source of zinc than some of the other meats, um, you know, the the body's gonna get rid of it or it's gonna it's gonna store it away for those times when it's not getting the venison and now it needs a little bit of extra zinc. You know, but let's give the body some credit. I think it you know, I think it's a little bit smarter than than we think. Yeah, you know, I nobody's ever died from real food. You know, come on, come on in. Poison, you know, poison withstanding, but um it's you know, you know, I don't I don't think that uh yeah, I don't I don't think that creatures that are out there eating real food or um you know being killed by it.
SPEAKER_01:Well, here's something that I think that that we should look at as as well. Uh in and I was looking at this because I was talking to somebody whose dog had a seizure. Um and when you really look at, you know, if you look at what causes, you know, seizures, well, structural problems, structural brain problems can cause seizures like you know, brain tumors or congenital malformations, um traumatic brain injuries, right? But neurological deficits, okay, neurological deficits. And when you look at some of the toxic causes, toxic causes are low blood sugar, um, which you know is common in puppies or diabetic pets, um, low calcium, low magnesium, high sodium. Uh where do we hear about foods like that, Brian? Low calcium, low magnesium, high sodium, and dogs that are diabetic become diabetic. We hear about that a lot from pivot-fed dogs, right?
SPEAKER_03:Also, you you just describe processed food to a tea.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's processed food. And then, and then the other thing that happens is they they start having liver problems, kidney problems, you know, um, and then certain pesticides, medications, heavy metals like lead and zinc, you know, but um these are a lot of the causes when we see seizures. And so I'm like, why would you ever put your pet in a situation where they could start having seizures because you're feeding them inappropriate food, because you're you're causing their uh too much sugar in their blood, uh, or they're not given the right um uh food, so their blood stabilizes. That is one thing that I I think that we see a lot is this behavior change that they're because their blood is their blood sugar levels are very stabilized on a raw diet. Very stabilized, right? You're not shooting them to the moon and back every day with the high carb foods. Um, certainly a raw diet is not low in calcium, uh, it's not high in sodium, and it's not low in magnesium. Um, so again, what if you wanted to break down all these different diseases out there in people and in pets, processed foods is your number one enemy. It is. Now, a lot of people, Brian, are trying to go over to the cook side, right? Why? Why do you want to cook the food? Why, why, why? Because you want an extra step, because you're worried that a bacteria. I mean, I I think that my entire staff and all of the staff at all the raw pet food companies should be dead by now.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, well, I mean, all the all the people that brought raw chicken into their home and and you know prepared that for their families. I mean, how many people is getting sick from that? You know, I mean, they don't think about they they don't think twice about you know bringing home you know chicken breasts and you know cutting those up and making you know fajitas and you know whatever else they want to make. Um they they don't think twice about the bacteria, you know, and that meat is you know the the FDA has a much higher tolerance for for bacteria in that meat than they do for anything destined for pet food. It's the zero tolerance, right? You know, it's you know, um so um but you know the the bacteria thing is funny because that's that's another thing that the uh the and this is more the pharmaceutical industry than the pet food industry, but um they're trying to capitalize on you know your your dog is domesticated, he's not a wolf, and he doesn't have the the built-in protections that a wolf has against you know pathogens in raw meat. I mean, you know, that that's you know that's the latest narrative. And I'm just like, so so you're telling me that domestication takes away our pet's immune system?
SPEAKER_01:It does if you're putting all the crap in them. But yeah, other things.
SPEAKER_03:Well, that's not domestication. That's uh, you know, that's I don't know what you call that. That's the pharmaceutical industry and all the stuff they're selling, but you know, you know, uh again, you know, domestication doesn't change the essence of you know who these animals are, you know, and and it doesn't it doesn't change the it doesn't take the animal out of the animal, you know. It uh you know domestication, you know, made them smaller, it toned down the aggressiveness, you know, it uh it you know it fostered a cooperative relationship between species. That's what domestication did. Um you know, it didn't rob your dog of their immune system and you know make them you know completely incapable of protecting themselves without monthly injections and um you know topical. Preventatives and all that kind of stuff. But that's what they're telling pet parents. You know, that that's where the whole your dog is not a wolf. You know, seven years ago your dog was a wolf, but you know, so you know, cause because domestication, you know, because you know, and all that happened in seven years.
SPEAKER_01:Um I I think I think people should turn down the commercials because they just really influence you um in certain ways. Or just try the raw diet, right? Go try the raw diet. I would challenge anybody that is currently feeding cooked, um, anything but raw. And raw means you don't cook it, you you you thaw it out and you feed it, okay? And it's meat, bones, organ, and fat. And we have a ton of different um choices, a ton of different flavors for your dog. We have pork, lamb, turkey. We I'm not sure if we still have venison available right now or not. Uh, we have it sells out a lot. We have um chicken, we have sardines, we have duckheads, we have all these different types of things that you can feed your dog. And is it complete and balance? Hell yes. Complete in balance means meat, bones, organ, and fat. Yes, you can add some other things in there, but that's its primary food. Okay. Stripe. Rice and testicles if you want, uh, pork brains if you want, uh, duck heads if you want, uh, bones, certainly. So you know, some people they they have a real problem with with bones. Um they think that when they crunch these bones and it goes into uh their esophagus, that the it starts it it it just rip them, just rip them from you know, mouth to tail. And I just have never seen that, Brian. I I've never seen it. And there's a lot of dogs out there eating roasted bones. I wouldn't do that, I would never do that, only raw. But there's a lot of companies that sell that crap. I can't imagine that they can get away with that.
SPEAKER_03:So here's a here's a little tidbit that I don't I don't I bet you a lot of pet parents don't realize this. Um, a dog's esophagus expands about one and a half times its normal width during ED, um, which means that it gets wider. Um and you know, here we go with you know that darn nature and her being so smart. But you know, she designed an animal with jaws that only go up and down, they don't go side to side, so they can't chew their food, they've got to gulp large chunks of raw meat and bones. So, what did she do? She made their esophagus expand because they're gonna gulp their food. Um, so um, you know, so when you you know when you see your dog eaten in 2.8 seconds and you know taking these large pieces of food and just swallowing them, uh, don't freak out. That's how they're supposed to eat. You know, that's that's instinctually how they how they eat. Um and you know, like I said, that esophagus is expanding so it's uh it's able to accommodate those large pieces. And then on top of that, um because the esophagus needs to move the food, you know, down the throat into the into the stomach, it's it's lined with a very thick muscle that's moving those things along. Um you're not, you know, a little piece of bone, little corner, you know, corner of a bone that you might see in the in the blend or something when you're looking at is not going to do any damage to that muscle. Well, it's just it's just not. Um, and it's gonna be probably wrapped in food anyways.
SPEAKER_00:Right.
SPEAKER_03:Um you know, so it's just gonna it's just gonna slide right down there. But um, you know, I I've said before that you know, if if if this is the food that nature said you need to eat, she's gonna make you adaptable to do that.
SPEAKER_01:Um you starve to death. You know, it's uh yeah. I or you or yeah, get very sick and you starve to death. Well, listen, guys, um, we here at Raw Dog Food and Company are all about the best nutrition for your pets. And Brian is there in the chat. Now, listen, he does not work 24-7. I try to I try to convince him that he doesn't need any sleep and that he can just stay up 24-7 and immediately answer your questions.
SPEAKER_03:That's that half robot, half human. So as soon as I become half robot, I can stay up 24 hours.
SPEAKER_01:But he but but he will get back with you. And there's so many ways to reach us. Uh, you can call us and listen, you don't have to keep calling. You can just leave a message because it prints it out for us, and we see that message as soon as you call. Okay. And we'll we'll text you back and let you know, hey, we we see you, and we're gonna be right with you. You can go in the chat, you can sign up for a nutritional consult with Brian. Um, he's gonna help guide you along this journey. It doesn't take that long, guys. It really doesn't. As soon as you understand, your dog's poops are gonna be smaller, they're gonna be harder, and they need to be harder. Why? So they can express those anal glands. As Brian says, they gotta strain just a little bit. Mama now push it out, push it out, right? These sloppy kibble poops are no, no, not not good. They're not good at all. Um, and he's gonna guide you through that on the fact that your dog's not gonna eat uh um is not gonna drink as much water uh unless you're feeding fish. And so uh Rick has been given Lousie um, he calls it her appetizer in the morning, like she gets a sardine. And she does drink a lot more water when she's uh eating fish because it's salty, right? And so she she does when she's not eating fish, she hardly drinks water at all. Um, but when she eats fish, she gets one fish before her meal as he's you know, we still warm up our dog's food. Do you warm up your dog's food?
SPEAKER_03:I do. Um I I put a little bit of warm water in there and kind of stir it around just to just to try and take the the chill off.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, uh Rick and I do a little bit different. I do it like you. Um, or I will add the water in the bowl, then put the bowl on the stove and just let it warm up, but don't let it brown. You know, you can get distracted and it will brown it and fine, whatever. But um, and then smash it. I always make sure the bowl is is is cool before I take it off. Rick doesn't add any water, he just stirs it and makes sure that it's warm. Um, and it really is funny because she eats her food so much faster when it's warm. I I've I've there have been days when I'm like, okay, check, I don't have time to warm your food up. So here it is. And she literally will kind of like take a bite and look at me. And she's like, okay, whatever. But she, I mean, she really does that. Uh, and and probably I'm making that up in my mind, but um, I do, I do think that I see she uh enjoys it a lot more if it's slightly warm, right?
SPEAKER_03:Well, it's more natural for him too. I mean, if you know, I mean, if they were to if they were to to to get a rabbit or a squirrel out in the front yard, um you know, that thing's gonna be body temperature warm. You know, it's not gonna be cold. So I do think that there's a degree of um, you know, that's just that's kind of naturally what they're expecting is is for it to be, you know, a little warm. Um so, but you know, you have to do what works best for your dog. I know some people that you know their dogs do fine with cold food.
SPEAKER_01:I've heard some people tell me my dog likes it frozen, and I'm like, okay.
SPEAKER_03:I think it's harder on the digest. I think, you know, I think over time, um, you know, I think that that gets really hard for the for the body to deal with. Um, you know, I think once in a while, you know, you you're you're short on time and you don't have time to heat it up or something, that's that's no big deal. But um, I wouldn't want to give them cold food um, you know, every day. Maybe in the summertime, you know, might help keep them cool a little bit. Um, I don't know. Yeah, go ahead. Oh, I was gonna say I wanted to to share one other thing. Um, and and I don't know if there's pet parents out there that need to hear this or not. Um, but uh you know, our dogs aren't made of glass. Um they're they're pretty resilient, and um, and I think they they understand we're human and we're gonna make mistakes and um and they're gonna be just fine. And uh and so I hope that people you know can can hear that and not stress out whenever you know they do something wrong. And um I thought about this because the other day, um, you know, I have four dogs and I was feeding them, and Riley got Athena's food, and you know, Athena got Riley's plate. And after I realized that I had done that, I they're not the same, they're not the same.
SPEAKER_01:What's the difference in?
SPEAKER_03:Um, so um Athena eats more because she's bigger. Okay. Um, so she gets more food, and you know, she's older, so she's got some joint supplements and she's got some C BD and stuff like that. So I mean, you know, the the worst thing that happened was that Riley got extra calories and he got, you know, quite a bit more CBD than he's used to. Um so he was probably pretty chill. But um but I think that that's one of those situations where a lot of pet parents would freak out. You know, oh my god, I fed the wrong thing, you know, I gave the wrong food to you know to my dog. Do I need to call the vet? Do I need to call poison control? And you know, obviously, if we're talking medications or something like that, then maybe you know, you do need to call your vet if you accidentally give a medication to a dog that wasn't prescribed it. But um, you know, but but you know, absent anything like that, um, you know what, you make mistakes like that, you just move on. You know, um, you know, maybe Riley gets a little bit less food the next day. You know, um, you know, and and maybe Athena gets a snap, you know, that day because she got you know shortchanged a couple ounces. Um but um but yeah, I I really want parents to, you know, know that like I said, your dogs aren't made of glass, you know. Um and I think, you know, I think we all if you if you if you've had kids, you learn that pretty quick because you're kind of the same way, um, you know, until you see your kid, you know, flying off the swing set, you know, sucking and rolling and you know, jumping on their bike and heading down the street. So um, you know, then you're like, yeah, they're pretty resilient, they're gonna bounce back. Um your dogs are the same way. And uh, you know, so if you make mistakes, it's no big deal. If you forget to buy food, you forget to thaw food, and you gotta give them some, you know, ground beef and a you know, a chicken wing from the grocery store.
SPEAKER_01:Uh or a couple of raw eggs. I've done that in the past.
SPEAKER_03:You know, it's it's okay. Um, you know, you just you know, do what you gotta do that day, get some food in the sink, thaw it out, and get back to your routine the next day.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Um we I was watching uh our son's dogs came over, and so I had three, you know, 75-pound dogs, and really honestly, the the these dogs have been eating raw their entire life, they're all like seven years old. And I I so wish I would have had a video camera on because they still, after seven years, act like they're just gonna shake out of their skin if I don't put that food down right then and there. You know, they're like, give it, give it, give it, give it to me. And it's just so amazing. I I haven't fed Kibble, like I said, in 25 years, but I don't think I see dogs acting like that. There's there's this, they love their food. They love their food, and it is gone because there are three of them. They're all you know within eye shot of of each other. So there is no let me just leisurely eat my food. It's no, I gotta eat mine, so I'm gonna run over, try to get theirs before they're finished, or I gotta finish mine before someone comes over and gets mine. And they're perfectly fine, right? We don't have to. I I me personally, Brian, I don't believe in those slow down plates, especially for raw. Now, for kibble, maybe, you know, because they just don't digest their food, they're farty, you know, their stomach, you know, is gurgling, they got a high level of sugar and stuff that makes them, you know, bloat out. But um yeah, I with raw food, I'm just like, eat it as fast as you want. It's perfectly fine. That's the way they're made. That's the way they're made. But listen, guys, you yeah. You you can sorry, Brian, I'm stepping on you. Um if you need help or you want to try out um food from us, you don't know where to start because there's so much. Um, Brian can help you. We we have a blend for every dog, every pet parent's preference out there. A lot of companies just have turkey, chicken, and beef. They're only gonna have like three choices, right? We have pork, we have lamb, we have duck, we have rabbit and duck, we have rabbit with fur and tripe, we have a ton of different things. And don't let that scare you. I would I would say let that excite you because your dog's gonna be excited that they're gonna have such a variety. Uh, but we'll help you out. Just get over to raw dogfoodandcompany.com. Up at the top, um, you can go into uh the learning center. You should be able to get to book a consultation from there with Brian. There's a lot of ways to find him. Or if you just have a question, text it to him. If you have a question that you want answered on the podcast, text it to us. We will get your answers um from Dr. Judy Jasick. Uh, we can also pass those on to our daughter Amanda, who is a vet. And um we can get you some answers. We can get you some answers, and we want you to have a fun, enjoyable time with your dog. And that's hard to do when they have seizures, when they have massive allergies, when they're unwell. Um, it it robs you and your pet of a lot of time and energy. So get over to raw dogfoodandcompany.com, where your pet's health is our business. And what, Brian? Friends don't let friends feed kibble. That's right. We'll see you soon, everybody. Bye bye. Oh, snaps!
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