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Any health related information on the following show provides general
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information only. Content presented on any show by any host
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or guests should not be substituted for a doctor's advice.
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Always consult your physician before beginning any new diet, exercise,
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or treatment program. And now it's time for Pet Health Cafe,
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where your Pet has a Voice.
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And here's your host, Bill the Pet Health Guru, and
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welcome to the Pet Health Cafe to show where your
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pet has a Voice. This is Bill the Pet Health
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Guru with you for another exciting podcast into your pets
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health and into your health as well as always, I
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want you to go on and share and like and
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subscribe so you don't miss another one. Sharing is a
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very very important part of this. You know, whether you're
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on Facebook, Spotify, W four hc based ooka like I mentioned,
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or YouTube, Let's get as many people on there as
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we can. The chat is open so you'll be able
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to throw in your questions as we go through some
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of the mythology of pet care, some of the good
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and bad things that we've been told on how to
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care for our animals and things like that. And for
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this show, I'm bringing in our health coach Michelle as
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a basically a customer and a client for over fifteen years.
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So I think you're there, aren't you there, Michelle?
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Yes, I am good evening, Bill, good evening everybody. Thank
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you so much for having me on again. I really
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would love to educate your people on all of these myths.
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You know, how I talk to everybody.
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Should do of them, Bill, And of course you're also
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teaching our children, which they need to know this stuff upfront,
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because you know, the kids spend most of their time
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with the animal, not the adults, and so if they
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know the proper things the you know, the what's good
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and bad and what's ugly, you know, we can then
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get them off on the right start with any you know,
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pets that they might have, and of course as they
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grow up, they'll be able to do things right and
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not have to suffer like so many pet owners today
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with the cancers and you know, the diabetes and all
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the skin problems and dental problems and all that stuff
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that we see every single day that we have to
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try to fix. Absolutely, And with that, I think you
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said you have about two thousand questions for me tonight.
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I wrote about forty myths after you know, having spoken
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to so many parents and friends and relatives, I did
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all these things, and myth number one but from raw
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diets and harbor dangerous bacteria like salmonella and E. Coli.
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Well you're gonna hit me with the big one right
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up front. That's great. The interesting thing about this is,
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you know, and it's going to depend on the manufacture,
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the supplier and that sort of thing, whether the food
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is clean or not, what the quality is going to
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be like. But in general, of course I know it
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at Biocomplete Natural Diets and at my Paleo pet, we're
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only using real, good, clean, human grade foods. But when
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it's sold to a pat it's got to be labeled
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not for human consumption, because the Department of Agriculture has
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determined that if your intention is to give it to
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your pet, it can no longer be human. Great, and
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it's all about licensing and things of that nature. Basically,
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if to come, if your provider is using the same
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meat that you buy every single day at the supermarket,
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or better, which is what we do, we go with
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it next step higher. You shouldn't have any pathogens. I
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remember we had a this is about ten twelve, maybe
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fifteen years ago, we had an inspection by the US
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Department of Agriculture and it was local and state and
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federal inspectors, and I had a sticker on my deli cases.
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We had the real deli case for pets back then,
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and I had on their E coli and salmonella free
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USDA inspected and the local inspector went through the ceiling,
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Oh my god, we didn't check your foods. I said, well,
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it's on the box, and then she didn't believe that,
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and I took her back in the cooler and the freezer,
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and I said, there's your stamp that says and it's
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on your website, So am I to believe that it's
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not if you inspected it. The federal inspectors thought that
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was rather an interesting question that I posed for them,
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because obviously a lot of these inspectors don't know and
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they just keep trying to break your chops. But basically,
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if you use normal safe food handling, you know procedures,
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you're not gonna have a problem. And to be honest,
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the salmonella and E coli warnings are so outdated because
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you're got every one of us have salomona and eal
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like inner gut for digestion, and basically it's transmitted true feces.
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So unless you're pooping on your counters, you.
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Know there are people too with cutting boards, and hurry
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up for when we're making our own exactly.
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Yeah, of course you've heard me say this, this this
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one thing I probably had a thousand times. If you
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heard it. One your dog licks their butt and then
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kisses you on the lips and you're still alive.
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Other myth, okay, myth number two. I gotta get rolling.
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We have a lot. Don't worry everybody. We'll get to.
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So dogs shouldn't eat raw or cooked bones, especially chicken
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or turkey bone.
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That's again, think about their wild cousins. They consume the
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whole animal. Now, their wild cousins do not cook the meat.
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That's true. However, sometimes when they go back to a
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kill several days later, that meat has been dried out,
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sun dried, or just dehydrated basically by the weather, and
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those bones but basically get crunched down. The only bone
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that I've really seen problematic are big, and I mean
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big turkey leg bones, and it's not because of anything
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that it does see intestine. I mean in sixty years,
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we've never seen and I've had several veterinarians on the
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confirmed it a gut tore up by bones, because that
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gut is really, really tough. But those hollow leg bones
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on a turkey have a tendency to get stuck on
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their K nine teeth, and then they're fighting to get
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it off, you know, and it's just an annoyance more
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than anything else. But that's a that's really the only one.
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Snuckle bones I understand not to give them because they
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can also get stuck on their teeth knucklebones.
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Knucklebones are generally pretty good the femurs. If they're cut
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too thin on a big one, I've seen them get
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hooked over the K nine teeth. Again, that's because of structure,
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but that's usually not a problem. Veterinarians will also tell
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you not to feed them because you might, especially on
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the long bones of the leg bones femurs, that they
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might break a tooth. Well, the reason they're eating bones
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is because they need calcium. If you break a tooth,
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you're already deficient in calcium. So you know, it's kind
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of an oxymoron that they tell people. You know, it
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makes no sense.
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Thank you, So myth Number three, dogs should be given
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rice when they have diarrhea.
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You should use Elmer's glue instead, because that's basically what
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rice does. It's a starch, it's glue, and not only
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does it firm up the stool, which is that's what
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they're trying to accomplish. But first off, dog stool should
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always be soft and almost watery because the elimination process
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in nature has to be very quick. You don't want
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them straining and you other going and become somebody else's food.
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The other part of that, though, is that rice, because
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it converts to sugar, sticks to the intestinal wall and
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the wall of the colon, and then as it's being
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cleaned out, it's literally peeling that dermal layer that's in
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the gut off and now you've got blood in the stool.
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It's not dangerous, but people freak out. But that's a
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natural part of it.
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I mean, I really don't eat much rice. There's arsenic
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in it, and I just it's.
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Well, that's the other problem too. How is it raised
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as a gmo? Is it sprayed with like fasse eight?
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How is it prepared? You know, all these things come
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into play with this stuff.
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Would you recommend pumpkin if your dog, I wouldn't.
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It's the same problem, said, I mean, it still turns
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the sugar, it's still carbohydrate based, so you've got the
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same types of problem. Yes, yes, you're the body is
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trying to get rid of something that's bad. It's not
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the food, it's something that's already bad in the body.
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It's better to let it run now. If you want
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something to comment down. If it's really really mucasy and
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really really watery, which is what diarrhea is, it's basically water.
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clean itself out. And I use things like natural cures
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like slippery elm powder or or marshmallow root powder. Those
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are natural and actually help create a better mucous lining
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in that gut a dog is.
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Eating the grass. Is that also beneficial?
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trying to get something in their body that they can
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literally vomit most of the time, because when you stop
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and think about it, with all the toxins around us,
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the body produces a lot of new kiss. Dogs can't
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spit it up like we do, so they have to
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get something in there that the body is going to reject,
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and as it rejects it, it's grabbing that mucus. And
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when you look at that pile on the floor, it's
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almost all mucus, and you know there might be some
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food particles, but again depending on what they're feeding. If
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you're feeding a raw diet, a species appropriate diet, there's
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not going to be much food there. If it's a
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kibble diet, you know, you might have a lot. And
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of course the problem with both the diarrhea and the
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kibble and the vomiting with kibble is we're dehydrating the
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body because they're putting a dry food into that body
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and there's no moisture to be able to utilize it.
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cats are a desert animal. They're designed to get all
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their moisture from their food, not from a water bowl.
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Dogs can curl their tongue and lap up water. Cats
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literally go to the water bowl, they dip their tongue
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in and getting a drop at a time. You know,
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I joke around with a lot of my customers. I said,
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if you know, if I'm trying to get you know,
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we're out on a date and I try to get you,
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give you a couple of martinis, but you can only
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drink at one drop at a time. I'm gonna be
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there forever.
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That's funny myth Four Sweet potatoes and vegetables should be
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added to every food, whether it be dry food, species
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appropriate diet.
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That's interesting because I was listening to a podcast earlier today,
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which is one of many that I listened to. But
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dogs and cats are carnivores. They cannot break down those
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vegetables very well. Yes, over time, they have a they
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have to do so that you can use some of
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that carbohydrate matter, but it's very inefficient and it actually
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creates more digestive issues. The what I found interesting is
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they're now telling us, as humans who are omnivores, to
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cut back on the fruits and vegetables because of the
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high sugar content. And you know sugar creates inflammation.
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Huh No, more broccoli from my sister's dog. She loved.
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No. And of course, you know, as you've heard me
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say before, these vegetables today, especially the vegetables, the fruits
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not so much. But the vegetables are all man made.
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They are not found in the wild, so they don't
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have the same energy and digestibility that ancients would, and
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the ancients would be things like different herbs and botanical
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on the green side, look at the ancient vegetables of
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the different herbs and botanicals, and then search them out
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for what they carry, the actual nutrients. That's the important part,
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because they are right yea rolina, yeah, kel.
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They love it. I don't put it on their food,
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they really, They'll tell me, yeah, they do. Mid five.
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Number five dogs should never eat grapes or chocolate.
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Oh my god, that's that's interesting because number one in
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the wild. Where would wolves get chocolate. I mean, that's
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something that we should not be feeding our processed foods.
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It's not about people. Food is about the processed foods,
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and chocolate happens to be one of them. When you
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look at most chocolate today, you know, actually the cacao
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that we make chocolate with is a great antioxidant. And
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yes it does carry the theobromide, which is toxic, but
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in small amounts it's it's not harmful. I mean, I've
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running across dozens and dozens of cases over the years.
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It's not hundreds where dogs have eating the whole tray
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of brownies and you know the best the worst thing
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that happens to them is, you know, you take them
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out for a walk and you know you got to
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clean up a little extra poop. Grapes. On the other hand,
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they might eat one or two in nature because you
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know that there is a natural plant, it is a
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natural fruit. But again, they won't eat that if their
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body is in balance, if it's out of balance with