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And welcome to the Pet Health Cafe to show where
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to answer as many as I can. Try to make
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an interesting show a little bit different from what I
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sometimes do. As any of you that look at the
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lead into it that we're going to do it on
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pet treats and why we treat our animals and that
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sort of thing, very very important that we do this
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the right way, and that's where I'm going to help you.
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It looks like I've got the wrong crylon going on
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on the bottom of my screen. Maybe my engineer can
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adjust that. That would be nice, not that I'd mind sharing,
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you know, the events with some of our other programs
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on the show. There we go, Now we get the
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right one going. So what I say today tonight show
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is on pet treats kind of a d why I
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thing what you can do and what we want to
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look for in pet treats, and again the chat being open,
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I'm sure you'll have lots of questions on different recipes
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possibly things of that nature, and we can break them
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down as to whether they're good, bad and what really
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should be done. One of the things I want to
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ask up front is and make a comment on, is
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that if you really stop and think about it, we're
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the only creature. I keep coming up with all these
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things that we're the only creature on the face of
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the earth. You know that cooks our food, and that
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seasons of our food, and that goes out of our
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way to make special treats. And it's interesting in that
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it's developed into a more or less tradition, especially around
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the holiday times, and we have to do more and
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more treats. Obviously, the pet industry itself, the pet food
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industry has then a lot of marketing in this area.
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You look at the treat section in any pet food store,
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any pet shop, any grocery store. When you look at
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the grocery store, between people treats and dog treats, that's
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pretty much the whole store as far as I'm concerned.
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You know, all the cookies and crackers and even items
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that would normally be a staple in our diet but
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no longer. Our things like jerky we treat as treats,
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if you will now say, I wanted to bring it
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to everybody's attention that we have to be very careful
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with our pet treats because on the commercial market, a
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lot of these items have got a lot, and I
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emphasize that a lot of chemicals, food additives, preservatives, colors,
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flavors that many of which could be harmful in the
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long run to our animals and to ourselves the same way.
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And I want to put us down a road that
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you know, if you're going to do treats, what's the
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function of them. I know that treats are sometimes used
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quite a bit in training. I'm not a proponent of
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treat training because basically, you're telling your animal that they'll,
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you know, and leading them into a condition where they'll
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work for food and food only. We don't want to
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get that. We want if we're training an animal, we
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want them to be properly trained and the reward being
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that they make us happy. Now, when we really look
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at treats, we're really duplicating some of the things that
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we find in cherishing our own taste buds, if you will,
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and think that they're all good for our dogs and cats,
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and say, again, this is not necessarily the healthiest thing
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for it. I look at treats and we at complete concepts.
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We do make a full line of treats. Basically, our
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treat line are a lot of functional foods as well.
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I mean, this is a great way to incorporate functional
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foods into our pets diet make them healthier and happier
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at the same time, and I think that's part of
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the goal that we want to accomplish. Now, a lot
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of the items that we make at for our pets themselves,
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we use a lot of different dehydrated meats, and you know,
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we kind of go to the full gamut, you know,
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things like turkey breasts, chicken breasts, beef rounds, nice pecania,
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pork loined bone as pork loins one of the one
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of their favorites, to be honest, when they're dehydrated, and
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of course dehydration is not destroying most nutrients. We cut
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it the formulations that we've done, we cut them very
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very thin so we can break them up into small pieces.
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You want them to be a treat, not a meal,
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although this type of treat, these jerky treats that we make,
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can be a complete diet if necessary, and for a
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short term like here in Florida where we have hurricanes
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and you can't get to the store, the storage are closed.
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Of course, up north you have the snowstorms. It's funny.
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I just received a text this morning. I grew up
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of course in Buffalo, New York. My sister still lives
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up there in the suburbs, and trying to show me
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a picture of her car which I could just see
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the top part of the windows. They have so much
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snow up there. They got blasted pretty good. I guess overnight,
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and her comment was to me, do I miss it yet?
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Why do you think I'm in Florida. I got out
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of there as soon as I could. I love the
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warm weather down here, and that's actually one of the
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treats for me. But dehydrating meats, like you say, all
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these regular standard meats are fine and dandy. We can
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do any of them. We also dehydrate a lot of
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specialty type meats organ meat, especially things like liver. I mean,
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you know, lamb liver or chicken livers, beef liver, pork liver,
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and you can do the same thing with heart and kidney,
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all of which are very very important parts of the
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animal's diet, especially out of carnivores. And there's a good
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way of being able to supplement these type items if
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you're making your own foods. And some people are just
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squeamish about some of the organ meat. They don't like
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to handle liver and you know, heart and things like that.
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They just kind of freak out a little bit, I guess,
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but it's a good way to get that in, of course,
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loaded with all the vitamins and nutrients that they possibly
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could have. We could also do a lot with different
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fish the same way we happen to do tuna and salmon,
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sardines smell or silver sides, and they've been known to
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do grouper and a whole plethora of other fish. You
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can also do things like green lip muscles, which are
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excellent treat that also is a supplement for glucosamine. Same
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thing with clams. And it just gives us a lot
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more diversity because now we can vary the daiet even
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more than we have before. And this is one of
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the keys to good feeding. And I want to emphasize
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that we're looking at the nutritional part as well as
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doing something special for our animals, our carnivores. We have
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to keep looking at that perspective of it. Now, how
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can we make how can we make these treats even
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more diverse, fied, and better. I get a question up,
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there is organ meat better than another meat? No, it's
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not necessarily better, it's different. Uh, you know muscle meat.
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Think you if we go back to ancient Chinese traditional medicine,
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basically the philosophy was you treat like with like. So
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you know, if I'm looking for we have a muscular body,
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I'm going to want good heavy muscle meat, and that
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of course comes in the form of you know, especially
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beef and bison. You know those great Delmonico steaks and
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New York strips surloins that are going to help me
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build muscle. If I've got different health issues, maybe liver
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or kidney issues, again, we feed the same thing because
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what we're doing at that point in time is these
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meats have the same nutritional profile as those organs and
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those body parts in our body. So therefore we don't
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have the body searching all over itself looking to put
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together the different nutrients that are needed vitamins and minerals
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and enzymes and everything to rebuild muscle or livers or
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kidneys or even brains. It's already there. It's like kind
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of like a pre mix of the proper nutrition to
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build these body parts. So now one of the other
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nice things about these type of treats, and you can
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do this as well as again another functional food, is
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that we can add a lot of other things. I
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just saw another question up there on processing. Well, when
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we look at it, are you asking if they're not
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as processes as other meats. But basically, if you're bodying
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good clean grass, finished meats, whole cuts basically, Uh, there's
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minimally processed anyway. I mean basically they're they're you know,
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they bleed them out, they cut them into the primal cuts.
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You know, you're around your siraloins, you know on poultry,
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your legs, wings, things of that nature, and the organs
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are the same exact way. They're just extracting that organ
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and the processing is probably going to be it's going
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to be exactly the same for your treats, especially if
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you're dehydrating, you're gonna be slicing them whatever thickness you want.
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You can make them as thin as you want or
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as thick as you want. That's minimally processed. That just
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cutting and dehydrating, and that's probably the best way to
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do it if you're using it, like for training treats
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and things like that, you want to quick dehydration cutting
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them very very thin. Nowl break apart nice and easily.
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We've used liver in the past in small cube form,
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especially like at dog shows and for training again, for
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training treats, this sort of thing that dehydrates very very nicely.
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I know a lot of the dog show exhibitors used
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to process their own livers. All they would do is
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bake it and the oven cut it up into small squares. Great,
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great treat and that dogs and cats really love most
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of the time. Now you're gonna find a few that
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are gonna be a little bit finicky. But you know,
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it depends also on what their base diet is. If
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they're used to a home cooked or a raw diet,
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these kind of treats are going to be spectacular for them. Now,
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as I said, we can also add to these dehydrated meats,
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fish and poultry a plesor of other goodies if you will,
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I like, and we do again in our selection. I
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sometimes will use different herbs and botanicals to make them
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again a little bit more of a functional food we're
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along with being a treat. Tumeric is one of my
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favorites that obviously they can use for keeping their liverally
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nice and clean and healthy. It adds a nice scent
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and a nice flavor to the foods. Most animals love it.
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You can use ginger the same way we've done some
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with cinnamon, and of course you're only using a small amount.
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You're just sprinkling it on, so it gives you a
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little bit different look something a little bit more festive.
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You know, you can combine things like barley grass with
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the turumeric. So now we've got kind of like a
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little bit of a Christmasy thing going on there. Maybe
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add some beet powder or some cranberry powder. Those are
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all good little additives that we can add to it.
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And again you're adding more and more variety. You're getting
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more nutrients, more variety of that nutritional profile into the animal.
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I use these same herbs and botanicals for a whole
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nother class of treats again that we process at Biocomplete Concepts,
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and that we sell it my Paleopat and in other
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stores around the country. And that's our smoothie line. And
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basically our smoothies are very very interesting. Is it's an
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age old recipe that we've used in people and in
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animals for generations basically, and what we use we primarily
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use a raw milk product. It can be either goats milk,
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cow's milk, sheep milk, it doesn't matter which one, but
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in a whole raw form. So I've got the probiotics
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going on and that sort of thing to that we
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can add. We add in raw eggs, we add in
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raw honey. And a little side note here that back
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when in the nineteen forties and before and even be
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nineteen fifty before that, that was actually the blend that
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was prescribed by doctors as a milk replacement for human
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infants if mom wasn't able to produce enough milk, if
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we had to do supplemental feeding, that was what it was.
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And unfortunately that got changed over the years into these
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plant based milk substitutes. The honey went away and was
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replaced with h highly processed corn syrup carol syrup back
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in the fifties, and then of course now frutose corn syrup.
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There's a sweetening agent that create all kinds of health
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issues on the backside. But again we use this as
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a base into that. We started out as an emergency diet,
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which is also a tree believe it or not, adding
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spurreleing a powder to that drink, and because of the
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spur allina, it's actually a great recovery product for depilitated animals,
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animals coming out of surgery or other types of health issues.
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High in antioxidant value, high en vitamins, minerals, nutrients. We
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also do, of course a golden smoothie. Obviously, that's quite
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descriptive of using turmeric. Turmeric, of course, has used in