Jan. 15, 2026

Why commercial pet food makes the most expensive poop

Bill and his guest Dr. Michael Dym, VMD will discuss how it happens, what they do to the body and how to rid and safeguard against them..

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Well, I mean that came you know, that whole thing

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about what stool should look like too. It's you know,

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that was propagated by one of the prescription diets companies

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out there back in the seventies when they added chemicals

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to make all poop hard. And then it was in

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a government and said, hey, we need pickup laws so

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you can only buy my food because that's the only

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thing that you can you know, that makes it easy

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for you to clean up. But that same food, when

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your dog poops and you don't scoop it up in

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your yard for six months, it's still there. It doesn't

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break down. That's a preservative, a coagulating drug.

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Basically, that's exactly right. Yeah.

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And then just if you stop and think about it,

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I just made my dog, my poor dog, my poor

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cat strain every time they have to go potty. I

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mean we would go insane if we were doing that

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every day.

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Absolutely, yeah, yeah, And you know, people are used to

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those commercial foods, of course, having several bad movements a day,

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and you know, even though they're straining, and then you

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look at when they go on the raw diet and

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the species appropriate diet and look at the difference it's amazing.

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And it really is. Yeah, that's it no more. That's

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all the stool that I'm getting out of my animal.

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Yeah yeah, and it is because you know, commercial foods,

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some of them are as low as twenty percent digestibility.

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Eighty cents of every dollar you're putting in the mouth

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comes out the back end. That's the most expensive, the

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most expensive poop in the world has made here in

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your night.