Aug. 14, 2025

Leftovers ... It's Not Just The Food!

We are told not to feed our pets "leftovers," but that is exactly what most commercial pet foods are made of. Did you know that many of the toys offered your pets were "leftovers" from the rejected, unsafe inventory from our toy industry? Toxic paints, dangerous plastics, and synthetic materials are also problematic. Watch this podcast to find even more of the other Leftovers" that can affect your pets.

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different subjects sometimes, and this one of this show is

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not going to be any different. Show was labeled Leftovers,

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and I'm sure a lot of you are curious what

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that means. Is it about feeding? It is about feeding

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people food. Is it about something else? Well you're soon

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going to find out, but it's I was engaged in

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a conversation about the about the pet industry a week

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or so ago with some friends and we're just talking

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about how the industry I've I've watched over the last

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almost almost sixty years, believe it or not, the industry

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change and develop and how it grew and where we

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thought we were doing a lot of right things. And

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you know, our pets came from you know, at that

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point in time, they were living basically in the backyard.

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They moved into the house now and of course we

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have to have all this other goodies with that, you know,

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the shampoos, the groomings and everything else. We've gone from

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about seventy dog breeds to about a I think it's

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over two hundred now depending on what your registry you

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are looking. Yeah, so we've got a lot more variation

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in the sizes and co types and physical structures of

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our dogs, which are you know, ever changing, and it

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creates some interesting issues when it comes to feeding, uh,

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you know, exercise things of that nature. Some some pets

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are made for different things. You know, we used to

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have a lot of working dogs. Now they're more companion dogs.

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You know what we used to consider just a pet,

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you know, Now we've turned a lot of those pets

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into support dogs. So now they're supposedly working, but they

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haven't got the confirmation to do specific tasks. That's that's

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more of a mental rainy state that we have to

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go into. And so we've got a lot of challenges

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that are going on with our pets, and we've had

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a lot more challenges than we originally thought, which is

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why I came up with the topic of leftovers. Now

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I'll get the thing off the table right up front.

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You know, leftovers with food, people food, that sort of thing.

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That's part that was part of the diet of dogs

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back in the back before probably the early eighties when

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the specialty diets came out and they started adding artificial

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flavors to them, so we didn't have to do any mixing.

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Prior to that, we always mixed either a canned food,

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a canned meat, our own meats, or scraped our plates

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in that dog dish to mix with the kibble just

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to get them to eat it. Our dogs did very

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well on it. But now, of course it's taboo because

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everything is supposed to be complete and balanced and that

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really does not exist. But when it comes to human foods,

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probably ninety percent of real food that you eat is

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no problem. Now, highly processed foods are another story. And

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if you walk into supermarket, you're gonna find that of

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that supermarket is filled with fake food. Food that's ultra

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process contains a ton of chemicals with it and that

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sort of thing. And obviously those chemicals aren't even good

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for us. Why would they be good for our dogs

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and cats? And yes, that will stress the body. It's

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stressed the whole digestive system. Those chemicals end up in

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a bloodstream, and like I say, if it's as ultra

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processed food, that's where the problem is. Now, if you're

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doing your own cooking and you're buying your you know,

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your your food's fresh wherever possible. You know, the grass finished,

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pasture raised meats that I talk about, and you're talking

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about even some homegrown or farm local, farm grown vegetables.

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They're not going to harm your dog. The vegetables, the

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fruits will create a little bit of extra stress on

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the digestive system because, as we've explained here on this

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show many many times, our carnivores are not designed to

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eat that. They can adapt to it, but that's not

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the ideal diet for them. And of course the cooking

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process too, with our leftovers, has something to do with it.

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You know, again, I warn it every single time we

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talk about foods. If you're cooking foods, no seed oil,

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you know, no corn oil, soybean oil, anything of that nature,

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because that stuff is highly toxic. It does create all

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kinds of havoc in the body. And we want to

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keep the body moving as simply as possible wherever possible.

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I mean, if you need to use something in a pan,

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if you're cooking for yourself, you know, raw butter is excellent,

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beef tallow is excellent as long as it's the pure

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tallow product. I know some of the chains of fast

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food restaurants are now coming out that they're doing their

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French fries in tallow instead of vegetable oil seed oils.

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ingredient oil to tallow. They're mixing other chemicals in the

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preservative stabilizers flavors. So we've even taken that simple product

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and polluted it, if you will, and then we're using

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it as a healthier alternative on these fast food companies.

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And while it might be slightly healthier, they've destroyed it

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by their processing. But so the food waste, the leftovers

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in your home is a very very small part of

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what I consider leftovers. What I really wanted to talk

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about is all of the products that are on the

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market today that are basically made manufactured with leftovers. That's right.

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A lot of the food ingredients that you see in

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commercial foods and other products are leftovers from some other process.

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We look at obviously, the most of the meat that

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comes in any kind of commercial food, it's basically weight.

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It's what they call us floor trimmings or floor scrap.

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It's all the trimmings that aren't fit for human consumption.

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Sometimes it'll be tainted meat, discarded meat, meat that did

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not pass inspection, So those are leftovers. It could be

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just like on poultry. It could be you know, the

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the making carcass, which is nothing more than bones and cartilage.

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handled because it's coming out of a packing plant. In

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order to have it get to the pet food plant.

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of preservatives, a lot of chemicals to keep down the odors,

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keep it from decomposing. So those leftovers are at the

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core of most commercial foods.

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They're not going out like biocomplete does and buying whole,

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primal cuts of meat and preparing them for their foods. Now,

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I did you see a comment pop up? What about

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olive oil? Olive oil is kind of a neutral, the

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same thing with coconut oil. It's not as bad as

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the vegetable oils are, but that's still nothing. Both of

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those products are synthetic in nature, they are highly processed

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in order to make it. You can't go to an

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olive tree and just pour off the oil. Same thing

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with a coconut you know, you can't shake it upside

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down and have the oil come out. It has to

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go through various processes of refinement, so you know, and

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in that a lot of things are components can be

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lost wasted. Again, we can. We've seen it, especially on

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olive oil for literally centuries, where much of what has

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been on the market is tainted with other oils. Pure fresh,

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old pressed olive oil is very expensive, it's very rare.

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So you know, a lot of the companies have a

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habit of that looting it down with other oils, and

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it's almos most impossible to tell unless you've got a

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very very good palette and over the laboratory equipment to

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test it. So when we're looking now at we've gone

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through the meats a little bit, that those are all

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basically food waste. I'm not going to call them buy

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products because that's another misnomer. It's just plain food waste

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in many cases. Now, when we look at the other

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ingredients in pet food, you know sometimes you'll see different

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fruits and vegetables. Well, again we're looking at the waste product.

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Let's just say, okay, you're one of the one of

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the biggies that comes out is we're using broccoli, using cauliflowers.

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Sometimes we're using squash, and many many others. Well, basically

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what there is what's going over to the dog food

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plant is what's not fit for human consumption or not

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the parts that we would normally eat. So what you're

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going to get is a lot of the outside leaves,

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the leaves that don't ship. You're gonna get the stems

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that they trim off. You're going to get the bad products,

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you know, the product that's miscolored or you know, have

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some damage on it from insects or other damage. Because

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in the food industry, we want the best looking stuff.

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So what are we gonna do with that waste product?

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Those leftovers, We're going to use them. There's no difference

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in the labeling law between a broccoli stem and a

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broccoli floret. Same thing with colliflour. You know, all those vegetables,

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all the trim that comes off of them are all leftovers.

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They go over to animal feed, and the labeling says

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exactly the same thing. That's what it is. It's a

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broccoli plant, so it's labeled as broccoli. But like I said,

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you wouldn't be you wouldn't want to eat just the stems,

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you know, is there a lot of nutrition in them? Yeah,

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there's some nutrition in it, but not the same amount

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as there is in the florets, in the in the

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in the flowering parts of these plants. And so we

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have to look at those leftovers as part of the diet.

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And of course, again just like the meats sometimes been

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transportation stuff like that, they're treated with all kinds of chemicals, preservatives,

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and then of course to cover up those preservatives, we

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have to add natural flavors which are not natural. Those

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are palatins, just to mask things. Those are all synthetic.

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We have no idea how they're processed. We have no

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idea what chemicals are in those. The company just say

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that's our secret, it's our proprietary blend. And so now

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we've got a big, big issue with almost all commercial

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foods are basically made with leftovers. And yet you're told

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by your veterinarian or your feed dealer, the experts, the

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nutrition nests, you cannot feed leftovers, when actually the diets

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that they are selling are manufactured exclusively of leftovers. I

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harp on food a lot, and every single podcast that

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I do, every presentation here because of course, that is

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a that is one of the key and fundamental components

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and keeping our animals healthy. There are a lot of

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other leftovers that we've exposed our deats too, and most

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of us wouldn't even think about it, And to be honest,

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I didn't think about it for probably a good forty

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years of my time in the pet industry because of course, obviously,

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you know, being in retail and even being as a

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manufacturer's rep. You know, we took our tucking points from manufacturers,

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from the processes, the producers, and we believed that we

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were doing the right thing. But you know, I remember

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when we when I started in business in the pet shops,

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my toy selection for dogs and for cats, you know,

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may have been a four foot section on a wall,

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you know, maybe thirty different toys, forty different toys. You know,

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most of them back then were either vinyl plastic or

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a latex rubber, and you know, we that was good

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enough for our dogs back in the seventies. And then

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all of a sudden we started coming up with all

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these blush toys and these rope toys and all these

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other really really hugey things, and we thought it was

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the greatest thing slice bread, and of course our pets

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enjoyed them, sometimes at their peril. Now what am I

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trying to say with that, Well, how were these products manufactured,

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where did they originally come from, and why did they

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make their way into the pet industry. Well, most of

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the original toys were basically products that were not safe

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for humans. They were the leftovers again, the leftover components

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that we couldn't sell in the human industry. As safety

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factors became more and more important, and in did you know,

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the plastics, we had to start worrying about BPA and

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thalatees and other toxic chemicals that were in the vinyl itself.

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We had to worry about the toxic paint that they

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used to paint these toys. The same thing with the latex.

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You know, the paints were really sometimes very very toxic.

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The squeakers were sometimes defective and would come right out,

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and you know, caused a lot of dogs to choke

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and have all kinds of other gastric issues. You never

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thought about that, did you? That these were nothing more

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than leftovers from the children's section, from the infant section.

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And then we got into the plush storys, the fabric

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that was being used. What was it coded was what

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was it died with? Again, a lot of this did

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not meet the standards of testing for humans and safe

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for children. But we just repackaged them and put them

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a nice plastic bag, hung them on a peg the header,

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or in later days, of course, we still that little

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hang tag onto it and hang them up and whila,

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we have a whole wall. We have another fifty feet

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of toys, every shape, shaping color that you could ever imagine.

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But you know, if you hit pets yourself, you know

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that your dog starts chewing on these, starts pulling on it.

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Fibers come out, you know, hunks of it come out,

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the stuffing comes out. You know, we've talked about things

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like raw hide in the past, and different dog bones

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and even even natural bones. How worried that, you know,

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the veterinarians are about blockages in the intestine. I can

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attest over the almost sixty years I've been in this

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that there's been more stomach blockages, more gastric blockages from

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the stuffing and the fabric from these plush toys than

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ever happened with a bone. We're worried about the intestinal

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lining being torn by a bone, but it rarely, rarely,

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ever happens. We had this one with doctor Dim that

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he's never seen a case of that in his late

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thirty years of practicing, but we have seen tons of

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complete blockages that causes things like bloating and of course

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even death in our pets. We're going to be right

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Healthier, and welcome back here to the Pet Health Cafe.

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The show where Your Pet has a Voice. This is

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Bill Pet Health Guru, and I'm talking about leftovers tonight.

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And it's just not your leftovers from dinner that are

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affecting your pet. It's the leftovers that they make commercial

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food with, and as we've been talking about in the

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last few minutes, the leftovers that are really your dogs, toys,

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your playthings, things of that nature. Now, when I was

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talking about the toxic dyes that are in a lot

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of this stuff, why do we have to have dog

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toys in every color under the sun. Aren't dogs supposed

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to be colorblind? Do you think they care what color

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that toy is? Now, yes, they do see shades of

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gray basically, you know, depending on how bright the product

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would be. But there's no reason for it. I mean,

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I was thinking, I was talking with somebody and I

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mentioned those you know, those rope bones, those tugbones. I

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started selling those probably back in the early nineteen eighties.

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And basically those bones were cotton and they were white

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and probably about as safe and natural as you could get.

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And again then all of a sudden, we had to

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have colors, all different colors, were using you know, different

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color ropes to braid it and make it so we

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got these different patterns and everything. Well, in order for

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to get a bone like that, a chew toy like that,

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to remain in color, they didn't use more cotton rope.

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They used polyester synthetics. So now your dog is ingesting

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more of that type of problem. Now, where did that

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stuff come from? Again? That came primarily from the toy industry,

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and some of it from the hardware industry. You know,

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we may want to make, you know, your boat stand

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out when you tie it up at the mooring, you know,

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so we add some colors to it. In some cases

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they would add nylon just for strength. But again nylon

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isn't a natural product. If it's ingested, it doesn't digest.

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That they had cotton would actually break down in the

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digestive system. The polyester doesn't. Again we have another possible blockage,

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and again we have another possible course of toxic food. Die.

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Does that make any sense to anybody out there? I mean,

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you're listening, I know people are watching that sort of thing.

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What has been your experience with it? Why do you

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buy these things that literally are made from leftover material

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leftover materials and components that can harm your animal, and

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quite often we know about it, we just look for

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another substitute, one that's going to be better, you know.

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I remember several years ago as part of a you know,

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a selection of toys that were meant to keep the

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teeth clean, and they were both bones that were basically

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made of nylon. And the theory behind it was when

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you chew it, when you chew it, you get these

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little nubs of nylon sticking up, and that's going to

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scrub the teeth and stuff like that. And there was

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a case, a lawsuit that was filed against the manufacturer

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of one of these bones, and when I reviewed, I

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was asked to review some of the information that went

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with it. The dog ended up having a severe blockage.

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I can't remember if the dog actually died from it

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or was almost died from it at that point in time,

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but the lawsuit basically claimed that it was a dog

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bone's fault because the dog had swallowed a piece of

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it and it blocked the intestine. Well, I know that

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when they removed that piece of nylon bone, if you will,

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the whole thing was entangled in a whole plump of

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fabric and stuffing the nylon by itself would have probably

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passed through the body, except that this stuffing was already accumulating.

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So now I have this blockage that's being stopped because

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of the nylon, which in itself is not inert, it

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does leave off toxic fumes. The material that's there is

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probably polyester or polyester blend of some sort, again giving

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off toxicity under the influence of digestive acids and digestive

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enzymes and the toxics and the colors in the dies. Obviously,

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the people that were doing the sewing could not prove

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without a reasonable doubt that it was just that nylon bone,

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and because that was the only thing they could really

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identify by name. Because you're plush toys, they don't normally

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have any kind of identifierround them. The thing that lasts anyway,

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and of course if it's treaded, there's no identification at

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all unless you remember, you know where you put the

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sales receipt and what you know, vendor you bought that from.

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But now there's no liability. Not very smart for us

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to do that. And yes, I saw the comment that, yeah,

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it's the consumers that want the color. Why you really,

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you really just need to feed that ego. You know

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that it's the color you so that made you buy it.

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It's I don't always understand that. I mean, so much

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of the stuff is supposed to be functional, but we're

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not buying function. What's actually the function of a dog toy?

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To keep your dog entertained? Isn't that yet? Isn't that

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your job as the owner the exercise to play with

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them and to pay them enough attention so that you

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don't have to worry about them chewing up the couch

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