September 10, 2025 • 37 mins
When disaster strikes and your freezer fails, what happens to all that expensive raw dog food? Nutritionist Brian tackles this common raw feeder nightmare with refreshing practicality, explaining why our modern food safety paranoia doesn't apply to our canine companions. "There are no freezers in the wild," he reminds us, sharing his experience of feeding slightly thawed food without issues and explaining the substantial margin of error that exists before raw food truly becomes dangerous.
The conversation shifts to a question that plagues many pet parents: "What should I add to my dog's food?" Brian cuts through the marketing hype, explaining why a properly formulated raw diet already provides complete nutrition without fancy additions. While there's nothing wrong with adding whole food extras like eggs or sardines, understanding the difference between beneficial additions versus necessities can save both money and unnecessary worry.
For those genuinely seeking powerful nutritional boosters, medicinal mushrooms emerge as the episode's star recommendation. These ancient healing powerhouses have supported health for thousands of years, offering benefits from immune resilience to cognitive support. The hosts explore specific varieties like reishi (the "mushroom of immortality"), turkey tail, chaga, and lion's mane, explaining how each supports different aspects of canine health from respiratory function to digestive wellness.
Practical advice abounds, from identifying truly spoiled food to incorporating mushroom supplements effectively through rotation and "pulsing." The episode even tackles the dangers of wild mushrooms versus the safety of commercially prepared supplements, providing a comprehensive guide to this often-overlooked nutritional powerhouse.
For raw feeders seeking both reassurance during emergencies and advanced knowledge to optimize their dog's diet, this episode delivers actionable wisdom that cuts through fear and marketing hype to focus on what truly matters—your dog's biological needs and wellbeing.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh snap, well, hello, raw feeders.
I'm Didi Mercer Moffitt, ceo ofa raw dog food and company.
We're your pets, health is ourbusiness and we're friends, like
my friend and brand of us, topnutritionist extraordinaire.
Yeah, brian, you don't letfriends feed kibble, do you?
Absolutely not?
(00:22):
What about when your freezergoes out?
Because didn't your freezer goout this?
Hey, I don't you know yourfreezer went out.
What happened, and was itoutside or inside?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
uh, so it's, uh, it's one of my garage freezers and I
noticed it because the, theorgans that I had in there were
thought the, the funny thing isit, I guess it technically
(00:58):
didn't go out because it's stillrunning, it's just not cooling,
no, and so I think that's thatthat contributed to the delay,
because when I'd open it up, thelight came on and um, you know,
the, the big five pound rollswere still frozen, solid.
It was just the.
When I grabbed some organs, Iwasop.
(01:22):
That's not good, um, so, but um, but yeah, um, you know, got to
get a new freezer and um, itwas one of the.
You know, I got to thinking that, uh, uh, you know how that kind
(01:43):
of situation can probably bepretty panic inducing for some
pet parents.
Sure, you know, with the, withthe food and everything, and,
and I would say that, you know,this is why we always talk about
, like, how dogs are designed toeat raw food and how they're
made Um, because the, the foodthat's in there is still good,
(02:09):
um, you know, now, I mean, Idiscovered it after, you know,
probably a day or something likethat, or maybe not even that
long, so we're not talking aboutlike an extended period of time
or um, anything like that.
But you know, I got my food outof there and I'm not super
worried about the rest of thefood in there.
(02:30):
Um, you know, I'll get it intothe new freezer as soon as it's
cool and uh, and we'll go along,because you know my dogs are
not me.
Um, there's no, there's nofreezers, there's no
refrigerators in the wild.
So a couple hours or half a daywhere that wasn't in complete
(02:52):
frozen conditions, it doesn'truin the food.
I hope that people aren't outthere throwing away food because
(03:16):
they forgot it in their car fora couple hours or something
like that.
There's a margin for error whenit comes to this food.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
It's not one of those things where food doesn't
instantly go bad.
No, it's all the bacteria thatcrawls up on there and it's
going to kill them.
I'm just like I mean okay.
So people would say, well, whatis the margin of error?
Where would you say I'm notgoing to feed it?
At what point would you say,nah, I'm probably just going to
toss that, Start over would yousay, nah, I'm probably just
(03:48):
going to toss that, start over.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I would, I mean smell , you know, I, I, I think it's
one of those things like spoiledmeat and things like that is to
me it's like you know it whenyou see it.
I don't know if I coulddescribe like what I would think
.
Um, you know, uh, you know, badfood was, um, you know,
especially for you know,especially for my dogs but,
(04:19):
brian a lot of people think thattripe is spoiled.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And so if you say, well, you know, when you see it,
people are like why it's rancid.
Well, that's a good word thatdescribes how it smells.
It smells.
Some people say like aport-a-potty, Some people say,
you know rancid.
So I think I don't know, Idon't know.
(04:43):
We as humans get grossed out.
Obviously dogs don't know.
I don't know.
We as humans get grossed out,Obviously dogs don't, right.
Because they eat vomit and theypoop, right.
There's a lot of dogs out thereThink about this there's a lot
of dogs out there that havecorophagia, right.
So that's where they just eatpoop, or is that, you know, Pico
or whatever?
And they're not dead.
(05:05):
And I'm wondering why we don'tmake that connection.
It's like there are, or theywouldn't sell, the stuff that
supposedly makes them stopeating it, which I've never
really seen that work.
But there are some dogs thatliterally just eat a bunch of
shit, Literally.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, you know, and I like, like I said, it's hard
for me to answer that questionabout you know, because I mean
I've been doing this for almostseven years and I don't think
that I've ever thrown out anyfood.
Years and I don't think thatI've ever thrown out any food?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
no, as a matter of fact we have used the food, that
people say that they can't feedtheir dogs because there's
something wrong with them.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We're like okie doke well, we're not going to sell it
, so just bring them back andwe'll feed it to our dogs and I,
and I have definitely done some, you know, non-advisable things
.
I mean, I've, I've, I've leftfood in my car overnight in the
middle of summer, yep.
Um and I've just I put it backin the freezer and put it back
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in the rotation and and the dogshave been fine.
Um, so I don't know, I guessit's just one of those
confidence things that comeswith time.
Um, that, uh, you know, youjust you get to know your dogs
and and what they can handle,and, um, you know, and I will
say, you know, when it comes to,you know, food gets blamed for
(06:41):
a lot of things, but it's rarelyever the food it's, it's
something else.
You know, if your dog gets sickbecause they ate some food that
maybe sat out on the counterlonger than you would have liked
, there's something going on inthem that their protection
(07:04):
mechanisms are down right.
You know, and, and that's.
You can't blame the food.
Yeah, um, you know, because ahealthy dog would have ate that
food and been fine.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
So you know and that's that's good advice for
folks that get things shippedokay.
So when you get things shippedright and people are really
worried, get things shippedright and people are really
worried, oh my gosh, I'm afraidit's going to be totally thought
out.
Rarely has it ever been totallythought out right.
It's.
It's still cold and even youknow a lot of different raw
(07:38):
companies out there will sayyour food's fine if it's cold.
But I think people can makethings up in their head and it
frightens them so they toss it.
But that's good food, goodmoney that you're tossing out,
so good for you.
Did you get a new freezer?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I did so all is well.
We're back in business.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
How old was that freezer?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Five years.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Very disappointed.
Five years, yeah.
And you know, the funny thingis is you go to the appliance
store and you know you tell themyou're like, hey, I need to
replace this, and it was Xnumber of years or whatever.
And they always nod and they'relike, yeah, that's about right.
And I'm like, then why does itcost this much?
(08:33):
You know, if, if you're tellingme I have to replace this every
five years, then it needs tocost about half of what you're
charging, and then I'll, andthen I'll gladly replace it
every five years.
Right, but you know stuff is um, you know refrigerators, you
know $3,000 and you know, andthe guy at Home Depot I remember
(08:57):
one time told me that fridgesnow are, you know, 10 years if
you're lucky.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
You know what?
I was walking through Homeot acouple of days ago and this lady
the stalker.
She said hey, she wanted totalk to somebody.
I was like looking around, shewas like talking to me.
I said yeah.
She said I gotta show yousomething.
She said you see these garbagebags right here.
She said they used to be 8.9595for $55.
(09:24):
She scanned the new ones.
She goes these are the new ones, what do you see?
I was like I don't know, whatdo I see?
She said there's only 50 inhere, there's five less and it's
a dollar more.
I said yes, ma'am, that's whatwe call shrinkflation.
She was so mad.
It was Procter Gamble.
She's I'll never buy fromProcter and Gamble again, I know
(09:48):
.
I know, I get it, I get it, Iget it.
So, brian, what's the strangestquestion that you've been asked
this week, being a nutritionist?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Oh gosh, being a nutritionist, oh gosh, um, I
actually don't think I've beenasked anything really strange.
I would say yeah, I mean it'snot a strange question, but a
(10:31):
very popular question is whatcan I add to my dog's food, your
finger?
Popular question is what can Iadd to my dog's food, um, your
finger?
And I don't.
I get the feel.
I get the feeling that peopleare just there.
They just they can't processthat the food is complete and
(10:55):
has everything that that youneed, and they just they want to
add something to it.
They're like don't I need atopper?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
You know don't don't, don't.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I need some Dr Harvey's Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
No, I'm going to say no on that one, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
And so you know, just , I don't know it, I, I don't
know if it just doesn't looklike it's enough or or anything
like that, but um, you know, Ilove to add things to my dog's
food, you know, and, and weencourage people to add stuff we
talk about.
You know eggs and tripe and youknow fish and you know things
(11:41):
like that.
You know have fun.
You know mix it up and you knowyou got some.
You know you got some leftoverbroccoli stocks that you, you
know.
I mean I don't know who wantsto eat the.
I hate the broccoli stalks.
I'll just eat the tops but Iwon't eat the stalks.
You know, throw those things inthe bowl.
I mean that's.
(12:01):
You know that's great, but youknow there's there's a
difference between benefit and anecessity.
You know there's nothing thatyou need to add to your dog's
bowl If you're feeding a speciesappropriate diet, like what,
(12:22):
like what we sell, um, there'snothing that you need to add.
Um, but there's things that youcan that are benefit, but
they're not.
You know they're not going tomake a difference.
You know they're.
They're not making up foranything that's missing, and I
think people need to understandthat distinction.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Well, let me, let me give you and I go ahead.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I was gonna say that I think a lot of a lot of these
companies that are out that dotoppers, and you know, people,
that that kind of fall for thatmarketing and stuff like that
that stuff is being added tomake up for what's missing from
the species-appropriate part ofthe diet Meat, bones, organ and
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fat.
That's what you need.
That's what you need.
So, you know, let's concentrateon meeting those needs before
we start worrying about what,what else we can throw in the
bowl.
(13:38):
You know, I think a lot of petparents, when they're feeding
their, when they're feedingtheir dogs, they're they're more
concerned with the color of thedrapes than you know pour in
the foundation of the house, andso, you know, let's make sure,
let's make sure that we'regetting everything they need,
and then we can have fun adding,you know, other stuff in there.
You know, as long as it's wholefood, you know real food.
You know, add it in.
(14:00):
And and I think that you know,one of the great things that you
can add in if you're reallylooking for something is
mushrooms, and we're going totalk about that in just one
second.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
But I want to ask you this question really quick,
right, I'm going to read youthis recipe, okay, and I want
you to tell me in this recipehow you might change it up to
make it even healthier andeasier.
But again, this is a companythat does a little magic and and
(14:35):
maybe we need to create somemagic, meaning we need to create
all these things that you canadd to your dog's food, because
people love that and we, we tellthem that all the time, but
they still want to add, okay, um, but if you're, but if you are
someone that wants to, um, savesome money and you want to make
sure that your dog is gettingeverything that they need from
(14:58):
the food, then that's what wecan do for you right here at
rawdogfoodandcompanycom.
But, brian, here is this recipeOkay, beef, and then tripe
liver, kidneys, spleen, cannedpink salmon, bone meal, canned
boiled oysters and raw sunflowerseeds.
(15:21):
What do you think about that?
Because I saw this and it's asyou know.
They say well, this is acomplete and balanced, and they
make it sound really kind ofdifficult.
But how else would you, we, we,we pretty much have this right
here at raw dog food and company.
(15:42):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
yeah, they were.
I mean, that was a rockingrecipe, right up to the canned
pink salmon, um.
So yeah, I think, everythingfrom the salmon on down, get it
out of here.
So we're going to take out fromthis recipe, we're going to
take of here.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
So we're going to take out from this recipe?
We're going to take out thesalmon, we're going to take out
the bone meal, we're going totake out the boiled oysters and
raw sunflower seeds.
What do you want to?
What else you want to put inthere?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I'm gonna I'm gonna throw a sardine in there and
then I'm going to throw in aduck head or a duck wing.
You know some raw, meaty bonethat my dog can.
You know, get some enrichmentand get some of the instinctual
behaviors out by.
(16:29):
You know rip tearing andshredding at a bone at a bone.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
So, basically, this is our beef and tripe recipe,
minus those four things that youtalked about, that you don't
need, and just add a sardine, aswe love to add, and add a duck
head or chicken wing how about achicken foot?
Because what we're doing iswe're getting the real bone in
that right, and we're gettingour omega-3s from the fish real
(17:03):
fish with real bone.
But this is what thesecompanies do.
They do these calculations andthey make it really difficult
and I don't know.
I think in today's world peopledon't have time for these big,
long spreadsheets.
So let's think it out, let'smake it simple, and that's what
Brian can do for you right hereat raw dog food and companycom.
(17:26):
All right, let's talk aboutmushrooms, brian.
Why do you like them?
What up with the mushrooms, man?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Um, I like mushrooms because mushrooms have been
healing people for thousands ofyears.
They, you know, they're rootedin traditional Chinese medicine.
I was reading something theother day that was talking about
how the the medicinalproperties of mushrooms are in
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almost every like modern daypharmaceutical.
But they can't, you know theycan't patent mushrooms.
You know you can't.
You know a company can't comeout and you know, grab mushrooms
and patent them and sell them.
So these pharmaceuticalcompanies are taking components
(18:29):
of things like mushrooms andherbs and plants and things like
that.
They're taking bits and piecesof them and they're putting them
into a pill and slapping apatent on them.
Um, and so it's like, why notit?
It's?
It's the same as what we werejust talking about with that
recipe.
You know, it's like why usebone meal when you can just use
(18:52):
real bone?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
um, because the fake stuff.
The fake stuff is just as goodas the real stuff and if you and
if you don't agree, you'reracist.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I'm just so yeah, so I mean, I think, uh, you know, I
think mushrooms are, um, youknow mushrooms are great and
they, you know they have so manybenefits, benefits.
And again, if you're, if you'rereally looking for something to
add to your dog's bowl, ifyou're really set on you know I
(19:24):
don't think they're gettingenough or they need some sort of
boost, then yeah, let's addsome mushrooms in there.
You know, some of the some ofthe benefits of mushrooms is
immune resilience, brain andnerve function.
They support that.
They manage oxidative stress.
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They help maintain the gutflora and healthy digestion,
encourage skin and coat vitalityand promote calm demeanor
during stressful events.
I need them, I need mushrooms inmy life, you know who wouldn't
want any of those things fortheir dog, you know?
(20:10):
And so, yeah, I think that youknow.
I think mushrooms are a greataddition and they're easy.
And we make it even easierbecause we have brought in some
(20:30):
mushroom products from MycoDog,which is a really good company
out there doing a lot of greatthings in the mushroom world,
and, yeah, these products areexciting.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
So do you know that the name for reishi mushrooms is
the mushroom of immortality?
It's the mushroom ofimmortality, the mushroom.
It's the mushroom ofimmortality.
That's in traditional chinesemedicine.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
So I've seen it as uh , I've seen it as the mushroom
of longevity.
That's what I've seen.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
But there you go.
Yeah, it's the same thingimmortality longevity.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
um, yep, yeah, reishi is one of those, uh, one of
those king of the mushrooms outthere, and you?
know, turkey tail is another one.
Yeah, that, uh, you know, um,you know, and mushrooms have
been, um, you know, historicallythey have.
(21:36):
All the uses that I see for alot of the mushrooms point to
(21:59):
using them to support your dogas they get older and, um, you
know, whether they're dealing,you know, the onset of doggy
dementia, you know, or they'renot showing any signs and you
just want to support them asthey get older.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
You know mushrooms are a great way to do that and
there are some deadly mushroomsout there, guys, and Death Cap
is one of them.
Death Cap, as the name says,death Cap.
And then there's another onecalled Destroying Angel.
I don't know about this one,but one of the reasons I know
(22:41):
about Death Cap is because I hadlistened to a podcast on the
mushroom killer and shebasically went out and foraged
and this was in I don't know ifit was in the uk or was in
australia or someplace like that, maybe it's in australia and
she went out and foraged andcalled her husband's family over
(23:04):
, uh base is.
She was mad at her husband, madat his parents.
Basically she killed, like Ithink, um four people put them
in the food, killed them.
So, long story short, don't makesure that that you don't.
You don't uh it.
Just give your dog any mushroomthat is wild out there, because
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there are some that are very,very uh, neurotoxic and um you
you may think that they're allgood, but they aren't all good.
So stay with some that'salready been formulated, already
been um, uh proven, like theones we have for micro dog and
also the ones that we have fromadored Beast and Four Leaf
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Rovers.
We have quite an array ofmushrooms right here at Raw Dog
Food and Company.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah, I was just going to say that's a really
good point.
I get some mushrooms in my lawn, especially after it rains.
The white ones, yep, and prettyimpressive too.
And you know I hope that peoplearen't tempted to.
You know I always get rid ofthem because I don't want.
(24:22):
You know not only my dogs, butyou know people walking their
dogs through the neighborhood.
I mean, we know how dogs liketo put things in their mouth,
right, and you know.
So that's a good tip about youknow being careful, which is you
know why it's good to work with.
You know work with somebodywho's done all the work, the
hard work for you.
You know, because you know noneof the mushrooms that we have
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in the store you know are goingto be a problem for your dog or
a problem even for you.
These can be taken by humans aswell.
That also leads to another pointtoo, that the mushrooms that
you find in the store are allgoing to be safe for your dog.
(25:08):
So if you wanted to give yourdog some shiitake mushrooms that
you sauteed up or somethingassuming that you're not doing
it in a lot of butter or thingslike that those are all
perfectly safe for your dog aswell.
Just remember that mushrooms,like vegetables, your dog needs
well.
Just remember that mushrooms,like you know vegetables, your
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dog needs help breaking themdown, so don't give them to them
raw.
You got to, you got to cookthem up a little bit, you got to
saute them, you know somethinglike that, and then and then
they're able to digest them.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Right, right, right.
And we do have the ones thatare in powder form that you can
add to the raw food, and then wealso have the ones that are in
liquid form.
Now on the liquid form oneslike the turkey tail, and I
believe it's the reishi, is itno?
Chaga, Turkey tail?
No, it's the chaga.
And the which ones are theliquid forms?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
again, so for the single mushroom extracts we have
turkey tail and chaga fromAdored Beast, and then we've
just brought in lion's mane andreishi from MycoDog, so we've
got all four now.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Um and uh, just a, a different company on the lion's
mane and reishi now, if you havethe liquid mushrooms, you just
go ahead and drop them right inthe mouth, or do you put it in
the food?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I just put it in the food.
I just put it in the food, Okay, Yep, Yep, that's the, that's
the easiest way.
Um and uh, it's just going togo through the digestive system
and um, you know, um, you, youcould put them right in the
mouth if you wanted, Um, but uh,you know, with something like
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reishi.
Reishi is pretty bitter.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Um, but uh, you know with something like Reishi.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Reishi is pretty bitter, um, and so I don't think
your dog um he he may not likeyou as well as he liked you
before.
Uh, if you shoot some, if youshoot some Reishi straight into
his mouth, so, um, so, probablybest to uh, best to mix it up in
the food.
Um and uh and food, and letthem get it that way.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Yeah, yeah.
And again, guys, let's makesure that we get those mushrooms
out of the lawn.
Don't let your dog eat those.
Now, some of them aren't goingto be toxic, aren't going to be
dangerous, but we don't want totake that chance, right?
So I would just steer clear ofany of those.
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You can always get yourself a.
You can just search for itonline and get pictures of what
do toxic mushrooms in the yardlook like and then just get rid
of those.
Um, they're not going to hurtyour grass or anything like that
, but it could be toxic to a cator a, a dog.
(28:18):
Um, but again, we want you toadd things that have the biggest
bang for the buck.
The biggest bang for the buck,right?
And that's why we only carrycertain supplements.
We don't carry every supplementout there.
The ones that we carry are verypowerful, very potent, very
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clean and very effective.
So, yeah, if you want to addsomething to your dog's food,
yeah, if you want to addsomething to your dog's food,
let's add some mushrooms,mushrooms, and I dare say you
could probably take theseyourself.
You know, I know that I now itdoes say, just for you know,
(29:04):
animal consumption only.
But I guarantee, if you talk toJulian julian lee she would say
her entire staff takes herstuff.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
So um, yeah, yeah, we .
We can't tell you to do it, butI can tell you that I've done
it.
Oh, yeah, yeah I mean I don'ttake that for, take that for
what it's worth, right, you know, um, but um, but yeah, it uh,
officially it has to be labeledfor pet use only and and things
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like that.
But yeah, but yeah.
And then, and also to just, youknow real quick, we have the
single mushroom extracts that we, that we mentioned.
And then we also have fourblends.
Now these are going to bemushrooms that are mixed with
adaptogens and those aretypically herbs plants, you know
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things like that but theseblends are all designed to
support different areas of yourdog's overall health.
So we have Clarity, which isdesigned to support brain and
cognitive health.
We have Vitality, which isdesigned to help support normal
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immune function.
Vitality is, if you don't knowwhat product to use or you're
confused and not sure, go withVitality, because Vitality is
just your overall great additionto the bowl.
If you're not dealing withanything or you don't know
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anything else specifically, justadd that one.
We have Breathe, which isdesigned to support respiratory
and cardiovascular function.
This is a great product.
If you have a dog, you knowmaybe you're struggling with
some signs of collapsed trachea.
You know, because they, youknow improper leash or collar in
(31:07):
the past or something like that.
You know this is a greatproduct for that.
And if you have one of the flatface dogs out there the pugs,
the French bulldogs, you knowthe, the dogs that we know have
a harder time breathing that's agreat product to include in
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there to help just support thema little bit better.
Um.
And then we have digest um tohelp maintain a healthy gut and
micro uh biome um and to supportnormal digestive function.
So, um, you know that one, Ithink is a great one.
If you, you know, maybe you gotthe gurgle in stomach.
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Or, um, you know that one, Ithink is a great one.
If you, you know, maybe you gotthe gurgle in stomach.
Or you know the after eatingburps or something like that.
It might be a good one to throwin there.
But the most important thing outof you know, all of those
products that we have that webrought in is just like the food
rotate, rotate, rotate is justlike the food rotate, rotate,
(32:11):
rotate.
If you want to target somethingspecifically, we have a product
for that.
Or just start with one and workyour way through and do a
bottle of Vitality and then thenext time try a bottle of the
Clarity, or get one of thesingle mushroom extracts.
You're not going to go wrongwith any of them.
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Your dog's going to get benefitfrom them.
And, uh, would you take a break?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Would you take a break at any point and not do
any mushrooms at all and thencome back?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I think, uh, yeah, I think, uh, I think a break from
anything is good.
And you know, I personallydon't give supplements on the
weekends.
I do give.
I guess I got to take that backbecause I do give phytosenergy.
(33:07):
I guess I gotta take that backbecause I do give phytosenergy.
Um, I do kind of a modifiedfast on Sunday, um, where my
dogs just get a, a really easilydigestible meal, um, and so I
sprinkle a little bit of thephytosenergy in there, um, you
know, just kind of as a littlebonus, cause that's one of my
favorite supplements, but, um,but yeah, for the most part I
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won't do supplements on theweekend.
That's one way that you can takea break.
Or I know a lot of people willdo three weeks on, one week off,
so they'll give supplements forthree weeks and then they'll
stop for a week and then startback up, and that just gives the
body a chance to kind of resetand and also for you to kind of
(33:54):
you know, look and see, you know, is this working?
Do I need to?
You know, do I need to changethe dosing?
You know things like that,because you're going to see, you
know, you're going to get tosee the dog a week of not
getting the supplement.
So I think I think that'salways a good idea.
(34:17):
They call that pulsing and yeahthat's.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
That's always a good idea, good deal, I like it.
You're making me want to getall the mushrooms and put them
in my food, right, see, see, seeif I feel better.
Yeah, so we, we do have some ofthe best supplements out there
(34:41):
and you can get them on sale.
Many times on the Yappy HourSale, we're going to have some
type of supplement on sale, sometype of supplement on sale.
And remember we do have freeshipping.
If you buy $100 or $99 worth ofsupplements, or if you buy $99
with a combination ofsupplements and treats, okay,
(35:02):
then we're going to ship thoseto you free.
That's a great way to get yoursupplements.
So remember that's everyWednesday night from 6 pm 4 pm
Sorry, 4 pm Colorado time tomidnight, and you don't even
have to wait for theannouncement.
We do announce that every week,but just to remind you.
But you just head over to ourwebsite at that time at 4
(35:26):
o'clock, go to the sales pageand you're going to see all of
that stuff there for yourperusing and your saving money
opportunity.
And if you need help buyingfood, you know I, I get it.
People come to our website andthey get a little bit confused
(35:48):
because we have a lot ofproducts, however.
That's why Brian is there andyou could just send a question
in the chat and he'll respondback.
Or you can even text us on thatmain line and our staff sees it
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So you don't necessarily haveto sign up for that consultation
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So just go in and sign up andwe will get you and your dog
happy, healthy and eating whatyou were created to eat Maybe
not the humans, but at least thedogs.
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Right, and don't forget, if youwant to snag some of your dog's
mushrooms, perfectly fine,perfectly fine, all right.
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Yeah, brian, you don't letfriends feed kibble, do you?
Absolutely not?
(00:22):
What about when your freezergoes out?
Because didn't your freezer goout this?
Hey, I don't you know yourfreezer went out.
What happened, and was itoutside or inside?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
uh, so it's, uh, it's one of my garage freezers and I
noticed it because the, theorgans that I had in there were
thought the, the funny thing isit, I guess it technically
(00:58):
didn't go out because it's stillrunning, it's just not cooling,
no, and so I think that's thatthat contributed to the delay,
because when I'd open it up, thelight came on and um, you know,
the, the big five pound rollswere still frozen, solid.
It was just the.
When I grabbed some organs, Iwasop.
(01:22):
That's not good, um, so, but um, but yeah, um, you know, got to
get a new freezer and um, itwas one of the.
You know, I got to thinking that, uh, uh, you know how that kind
(01:43):
of situation can probably bepretty panic inducing for some
pet parents.
Sure, you know, with the, withthe food and everything, and,
and I would say that, you know,this is why we always talk about
, like, how dogs are designed toeat raw food and how they're
made Um, because the, the foodthat's in there is still good,
(02:09):
um, you know, now, I mean, Idiscovered it after, you know,
probably a day or something likethat, or maybe not even that
long, so we're not talking aboutlike an extended period of time
or um, anything like that.
But you know, I got my food outof there and I'm not super
worried about the rest of thefood in there.
(02:30):
Um, you know, I'll get it intothe new freezer as soon as it's
cool and uh, and we'll go along,because you know my dogs are
not me.
Um, there's no, there's nofreezers, there's no
refrigerators in the wild.
So a couple hours or half a daywhere that wasn't in complete
(02:52):
frozen conditions, it doesn'truin the food.
I hope that people aren't outthere throwing away food because
(03:16):
they forgot it in their car fora couple hours or something
like that.
There's a margin for error whenit comes to this food.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
It's not one of those things where food doesn't
instantly go bad.
No, it's all the bacteria thatcrawls up on there and it's
going to kill them.
I'm just like I mean okay.
So people would say, well, whatis the margin of error?
Where would you say I'm notgoing to feed it?
At what point would you say,nah, I'm probably just going to
toss that, Start over would yousay, nah, I'm probably just
(03:48):
going to toss that, start over.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I would, I mean smell , you know, I, I, I think it's
one of those things like spoiledmeat and things like that is to
me it's like you know it whenyou see it.
I don't know if I coulddescribe like what I would think
.
Um, you know, uh, you know, badfood was, um, you know,
especially for you know,especially for my dogs but,
(04:19):
brian a lot of people think thattripe is spoiled.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And so if you say, well, you know, when you see it,
people are like why it's rancid.
Well, that's a good word thatdescribes how it smells.
It smells.
Some people say like aport-a-potty, Some people say,
you know rancid.
So I think I don't know, Idon't know.
(04:43):
We as humans get grossed out.
Obviously dogs don't know.
I don't know.
We as humans get grossed out,Obviously dogs don't, right.
Because they eat vomit and theypoop, right.
There's a lot of dogs out thereThink about this there's a lot
of dogs out there that havecorophagia, right.
So that's where they just eatpoop, or is that, you know, Pico
or whatever?
And they're not dead.
(05:05):
And I'm wondering why we don'tmake that connection.
It's like there are, or theywouldn't sell, the stuff that
supposedly makes them stopeating it, which I've never
really seen that work.
But there are some dogs thatliterally just eat a bunch of
shit, Literally.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, you know, and I like, like I said, it's hard
for me to answer that questionabout you know, because I mean
I've been doing this for almostseven years and I don't think
that I've ever thrown out anyfood.
Years and I don't think thatI've ever thrown out any food?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
no, as a matter of fact we have used the food, that
people say that they can't feedtheir dogs because there's
something wrong with them.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We're like okie doke well, we're not going to sell it
, so just bring them back andwe'll feed it to our dogs and I,
and I have definitely done some, you know, non-advisable things
.
I mean, I've, I've, I've leftfood in my car overnight in the
middle of summer, yep.
Um and I've just I put it backin the freezer and put it back
(06:17):
in the rotation and and the dogshave been fine.
Um, so I don't know, I guessit's just one of those
confidence things that comeswith time.
Um, that, uh, you know, youjust you get to know your dogs
and and what they can handle,and, um, you know, and I will
say, you know, when it comes to,you know, food gets blamed for
(06:41):
a lot of things, but it's rarelyever the food it's, it's
something else.
You know, if your dog gets sickbecause they ate some food that
maybe sat out on the counterlonger than you would have liked
, there's something going on inthem that their protection
(07:04):
mechanisms are down right.
You know, and, and that's.
You can't blame the food.
Yeah, um, you know, because ahealthy dog would have ate that
food and been fine.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
So you know and that's that's good advice for
folks that get things shippedokay.
So when you get things shippedright and people are really
worried, get things shippedright and people are really
worried, oh my gosh, I'm afraidit's going to be totally thought
out.
Rarely has it ever been totallythought out right.
It's.
It's still cold and even youknow a lot of different raw
(07:38):
companies out there will sayyour food's fine if it's cold.
But I think people can makethings up in their head and it
frightens them so they toss it.
But that's good food, goodmoney that you're tossing out,
so good for you.
Did you get a new freezer?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I did so all is well.
We're back in business.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
How old was that freezer?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Five years.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Very disappointed.
Five years, yeah.
And you know, the funny thingis is you go to the appliance
store and you know you tell themyou're like, hey, I need to
replace this, and it was Xnumber of years or whatever.
And they always nod and they'relike, yeah, that's about right.
And I'm like, then why does itcost this much?
(08:33):
You know, if, if you're tellingme I have to replace this every
five years, then it needs tocost about half of what you're
charging, and then I'll, andthen I'll gladly replace it
every five years.
Right, but you know stuff is um, you know refrigerators, you
know $3,000 and you know, andthe guy at Home Depot I remember
(08:57):
one time told me that fridgesnow are, you know, 10 years if
you're lucky.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
You know what?
I was walking through Homeot acouple of days ago and this lady
the stalker.
She said hey, she wanted totalk to somebody.
I was like looking around, shewas like talking to me.
I said yeah.
She said I gotta show yousomething.
She said you see these garbagebags right here.
She said they used to be 8.9595for $55.
(09:24):
She scanned the new ones.
She goes these are the new ones, what do you see?
I was like I don't know, whatdo I see?
She said there's only 50 inhere, there's five less and it's
a dollar more.
I said yes, ma'am, that's whatwe call shrinkflation.
She was so mad.
It was Procter Gamble.
She's I'll never buy fromProcter and Gamble again, I know
(09:48):
.
I know, I get it, I get it, Iget it.
So, brian, what's the strangestquestion that you've been asked
this week, being a nutritionist?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Oh gosh, being a nutritionist, oh gosh, um, I
actually don't think I've beenasked anything really strange.
I would say yeah, I mean it'snot a strange question, but a
(10:31):
very popular question is whatcan I add to my dog's food, your
finger?
Popular question is what can Iadd to my dog's food, um, your
finger?
And I don't.
I get the feel.
I get the feeling that peopleare just there.
They just they can't processthat the food is complete and
(10:55):
has everything that that youneed, and they just they want to
add something to it.
They're like don't I need atopper?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
You know don't don't, don't.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I need some Dr Harvey's Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
No, I'm going to say no on that one, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
And so you know, just , I don't know it, I, I don't
know if it just doesn't looklike it's enough or or anything
like that, but um, you know, Ilove to add things to my dog's
food, you know, and, and weencourage people to add stuff we
talk about.
You know eggs and tripe and youknow fish and you know things
(11:41):
like that.
You know have fun.
You know mix it up and you knowyou got some.
You know you got some leftoverbroccoli stocks that you, you
know.
I mean I don't know who wantsto eat the.
I hate the broccoli stalks.
I'll just eat the tops but Iwon't eat the stalks.
You know, throw those things inthe bowl.
I mean that's.
(12:01):
You know that's great, but youknow there's there's a
difference between benefit and anecessity.
You know there's nothing thatyou need to add to your dog's
bowl If you're feeding a speciesappropriate diet, like what,
(12:22):
like what we sell, um, there'snothing that you need to add.
Um, but there's things that youcan that are benefit, but
they're not.
You know they're not going tomake a difference.
You know they're.
They're not making up foranything that's missing, and I
think people need to understandthat distinction.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Well, let me, let me give you and I go ahead.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I was gonna say that I think a lot of a lot of these
companies that are out that dotoppers, and you know, people,
that that kind of fall for thatmarketing and stuff like that
that stuff is being added tomake up for what's missing from
the species-appropriate part ofthe diet Meat, bones, organ and
(13:11):
fat.
That's what you need.
That's what you need.
So, you know, let's concentrateon meeting those needs before
we start worrying about what,what else we can throw in the
bowl.
(13:38):
You know, I think a lot of petparents, when they're feeding
their, when they're feedingtheir dogs, they're they're more
concerned with the color of thedrapes than you know pour in
the foundation of the house, andso, you know, let's make sure,
let's make sure that we'regetting everything they need,
and then we can have fun adding,you know, other stuff in there.
You know, as long as it's wholefood, you know real food.
You know, add it in.
(14:00):
And and I think that you know,one of the great things that you
can add in if you're reallylooking for something is
mushrooms, and we're going totalk about that in just one
second.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
But I want to ask you this question really quick,
right, I'm going to read youthis recipe, okay, and I want
you to tell me in this recipehow you might change it up to
make it even healthier andeasier.
But again, this is a companythat does a little magic and and
(14:35):
maybe we need to create somemagic, meaning we need to create
all these things that you canadd to your dog's food, because
people love that and we, we tellthem that all the time, but
they still want to add, okay, um, but if you're, but if you are
someone that wants to, um, savesome money and you want to make
sure that your dog is gettingeverything that they need from
(14:58):
the food, then that's what wecan do for you right here at
rawdogfoodandcompanycom.
But, brian, here is this recipeOkay, beef, and then tripe
liver, kidneys, spleen, cannedpink salmon, bone meal, canned
boiled oysters and raw sunflowerseeds.
(15:21):
What do you think about that?
Because I saw this and it's asyou know.
They say well, this is acomplete and balanced, and they
make it sound really kind ofdifficult.
But how else would you, we, we,we pretty much have this right
here at raw dog food and company.
(15:42):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
yeah, they were.
I mean, that was a rockingrecipe, right up to the canned
pink salmon, um.
So yeah, I think, everythingfrom the salmon on down, get it
out of here.
So we're going to take out fromthis recipe, we're going to
take of here.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
So we're going to take out from this recipe?
We're going to take out thesalmon, we're going to take out
the bone meal, we're going totake out the boiled oysters and
raw sunflower seeds.
What do you want to?
What else you want to put inthere?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I'm gonna I'm gonna throw a sardine in there and
then I'm going to throw in aduck head or a duck wing.
You know some raw, meaty bonethat my dog can.
You know, get some enrichmentand get some of the instinctual
behaviors out by.
(16:29):
You know rip tearing andshredding at a bone at a bone.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
So, basically, this is our beef and tripe recipe,
minus those four things that youtalked about, that you don't
need, and just add a sardine, aswe love to add, and add a duck
head or chicken wing how about achicken foot?
Because what we're doing iswe're getting the real bone in
that right, and we're gettingour omega-3s from the fish real
(17:03):
fish with real bone.
But this is what thesecompanies do.
They do these calculations andthey make it really difficult
and I don't know.
I think in today's world peopledon't have time for these big,
long spreadsheets.
So let's think it out, let'smake it simple, and that's what
Brian can do for you right hereat raw dog food and companycom.
(17:26):
All right, let's talk aboutmushrooms, brian.
Why do you like them?
What up with the mushrooms, man?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Um, I like mushrooms because mushrooms have been
healing people for thousands ofyears.
They, you know, they're rootedin traditional Chinese medicine.
I was reading something theother day that was talking about
how the the medicinalproperties of mushrooms are in
(18:06):
almost every like modern daypharmaceutical.
But they can't, you know theycan't patent mushrooms.
You know you can't.
You know a company can't comeout and you know, grab mushrooms
and patent them and sell them.
So these pharmaceuticalcompanies are taking components
(18:29):
of things like mushrooms andherbs and plants and things like
that.
They're taking bits and piecesof them and they're putting them
into a pill and slapping apatent on them.
Um, and so it's like, why notit?
It's?
It's the same as what we werejust talking about with that
recipe.
You know, it's like why usebone meal when you can just use
(18:52):
real bone?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
um, because the fake stuff.
The fake stuff is just as goodas the real stuff and if you and
if you don't agree, you'reracist.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I'm just so yeah, so I mean, I think, uh, you know, I
think mushrooms are, um, youknow mushrooms are great and
they, you know they have so manybenefits, benefits.
And again, if you're, if you'rereally looking for something to
add to your dog's bowl, ifyou're really set on you know I
(19:24):
don't think they're gettingenough or they need some sort of
boost, then yeah, let's addsome mushrooms in there.
You know, some of the some ofthe benefits of mushrooms is
immune resilience, brain andnerve function.
They support that.
They manage oxidative stress.
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They help maintain the gutflora and healthy digestion,
encourage skin and coat vitalityand promote calm demeanor
during stressful events.
I need them, I need mushrooms inmy life, you know who wouldn't
want any of those things fortheir dog, you know?
(20:10):
And so, yeah, I think that youknow.
I think mushrooms are a greataddition and they're easy.
And we make it even easierbecause we have brought in some
(20:30):
mushroom products from MycoDog,which is a really good company
out there doing a lot of greatthings in the mushroom world,
and, yeah, these products areexciting.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
So do you know that the name for reishi mushrooms is
the mushroom of immortality?
It's the mushroom ofimmortality, the mushroom.
It's the mushroom ofimmortality.
That's in traditional chinesemedicine.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
So I've seen it as uh , I've seen it as the mushroom
of longevity.
That's what I've seen.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
But there you go.
Yeah, it's the same thingimmortality longevity.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
um, yep, yeah, reishi is one of those, uh, one of
those king of the mushrooms outthere, and you?
know, turkey tail is another one.
Yeah, that, uh, you know, um,you know, and mushrooms have
been, um, you know, historicallythey have.
(21:36):
All the uses that I see for alot of the mushrooms point to
(21:59):
using them to support your dogas they get older and, um, you
know, whether they're dealing,you know, the onset of doggy
dementia, you know, or they'renot showing any signs and you
just want to support them asthey get older.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
You know mushrooms are a great way to do that and
there are some deadly mushroomsout there, guys, and Death Cap
is one of them.
Death Cap, as the name says,death Cap.
And then there's another onecalled Destroying Angel.
I don't know about this one,but one of the reasons I know
(22:41):
about Death Cap is because I hadlistened to a podcast on the
mushroom killer and shebasically went out and foraged
and this was in I don't know ifit was in the uk or was in
australia or someplace like that, maybe it's in australia and
she went out and foraged andcalled her husband's family over
(23:04):
, uh base is.
She was mad at her husband, madat his parents.
Basically she killed, like Ithink, um four people put them
in the food, killed them.
So, long story short, don't makesure that that you don't.
You don't uh it.
Just give your dog any mushroomthat is wild out there, because
(23:26):
there are some that are very,very uh, neurotoxic and um you
you may think that they're allgood, but they aren't all good.
So stay with some that'salready been formulated, already
been um, uh proven, like theones we have for micro dog and
also the ones that we have fromadored Beast and Four Leaf
(23:47):
Rovers.
We have quite an array ofmushrooms right here at Raw Dog
Food and Company.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah, I was just going to say that's a really
good point.
I get some mushrooms in my lawn, especially after it rains.
The white ones, yep, and prettyimpressive too.
And you know I hope that peoplearen't tempted to.
You know I always get rid ofthem because I don't want.
(24:22):
You know not only my dogs, butyou know people walking their
dogs through the neighborhood.
I mean, we know how dogs liketo put things in their mouth,
right, and you know.
So that's a good tip about youknow being careful, which is you
know why it's good to work with.
You know work with somebodywho's done all the work, the
hard work for you.
You know, because you know noneof the mushrooms that we have
(24:46):
in the store you know are goingto be a problem for your dog or
a problem even for you.
These can be taken by humans aswell.
That also leads to another pointtoo, that the mushrooms that
you find in the store are allgoing to be safe for your dog.
(25:08):
So if you wanted to give yourdog some shiitake mushrooms that
you sauteed up or somethingassuming that you're not doing
it in a lot of butter or thingslike that those are all
perfectly safe for your dog aswell.
Just remember that mushrooms,like vegetables, your dog needs
well.
Just remember that mushrooms,like you know vegetables, your
(25:32):
dog needs help breaking themdown, so don't give them to them
raw.
You got to, you got to cookthem up a little bit, you got to
saute them, you know somethinglike that, and then and then
they're able to digest them.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Right, right, right.
And we do have the ones thatare in powder form that you can
add to the raw food, and then wealso have the ones that are in
liquid form.
Now on the liquid form oneslike the turkey tail, and I
believe it's the reishi, is itno?
Chaga, Turkey tail?
No, it's the chaga.
And the which ones are theliquid forms?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
again, so for the single mushroom extracts we have
turkey tail and chaga fromAdored Beast, and then we've
just brought in lion's mane andreishi from MycoDog, so we've
got all four now.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Um and uh, just a, a different company on the lion's
mane and reishi now, if you havethe liquid mushrooms, you just
go ahead and drop them right inthe mouth, or do you put it in
the food?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I just put it in the food.
I just put it in the food, Okay, Yep, Yep, that's the, that's
the easiest way.
Um and uh, it's just going togo through the digestive system
and um, you know, um, you, youcould put them right in the
mouth if you wanted, Um, but uh,you know, with something like
(27:07):
reishi.
Reishi is pretty bitter.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Um, but uh, you know with something like Reishi.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Reishi is pretty bitter, um, and so I don't think
your dog um he he may not likeyou as well as he liked you
before.
Uh, if you shoot some, if youshoot some Reishi straight into
his mouth, so, um, so, probablybest to uh, best to mix it up in
the food.
Um and uh and food, and letthem get it that way.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Yeah, yeah.
And again, guys, let's makesure that we get those mushrooms
out of the lawn.
Don't let your dog eat those.
Now, some of them aren't goingto be toxic, aren't going to be
dangerous, but we don't want totake that chance, right?
So I would just steer clear ofany of those.
(27:58):
You can always get yourself a.
You can just search for itonline and get pictures of what
do toxic mushrooms in the yardlook like and then just get rid
of those.
Um, they're not going to hurtyour grass or anything like that
, but it could be toxic to a cator a, a dog.
(28:18):
Um, but again, we want you toadd things that have the biggest
bang for the buck.
The biggest bang for the buck,right?
And that's why we only carrycertain supplements.
We don't carry every supplementout there.
The ones that we carry are verypowerful, very potent, very
(28:39):
clean and very effective.
So, yeah, if you want to addsomething to your dog's food,
yeah, if you want to addsomething to your dog's food,
let's add some mushrooms,mushrooms, and I dare say you
could probably take theseyourself.
You know, I know that I now itdoes say, just for you know,
(29:04):
animal consumption only.
But I guarantee, if you talk toJulian julian lee she would say
her entire staff takes herstuff.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
So um, yeah, yeah, we .
We can't tell you to do it, butI can tell you that I've done
it.
Oh, yeah, yeah I mean I don'ttake that for, take that for
what it's worth, right, you know, um, but um, but yeah, it uh,
officially it has to be labeledfor pet use only and and things
(29:34):
like that.
But yeah, but yeah.
And then, and also to just, youknow real quick, we have the
single mushroom extracts that we, that we mentioned.
And then we also have fourblends.
Now these are going to bemushrooms that are mixed with
adaptogens and those aretypically herbs plants, you know
(29:58):
things like that but theseblends are all designed to
support different areas of yourdog's overall health.
So we have Clarity, which isdesigned to support brain and
cognitive health.
We have Vitality, which isdesigned to help support normal
(30:19):
immune function.
Vitality is, if you don't knowwhat product to use or you're
confused and not sure, go withVitality, because Vitality is
just your overall great additionto the bowl.
If you're not dealing withanything or you don't know
(30:42):
anything else specifically, justadd that one.
We have Breathe, which isdesigned to support respiratory
and cardiovascular function.
This is a great product.
If you have a dog, you knowmaybe you're struggling with
some signs of collapsed trachea.
You know, because they, youknow improper leash or collar in
(31:07):
the past or something like that.
You know this is a greatproduct for that.
And if you have one of the flatface dogs out there the pugs,
the French bulldogs, you knowthe, the dogs that we know have
a harder time breathing that's agreat product to include in
(31:29):
there to help just support thema little bit better.
Um.
And then we have digest um tohelp maintain a healthy gut and
micro uh biome um and to supportnormal digestive function.
So, um, you know that one, Ithink is a great one.
If you, you know, maybe you gotthe gurgle in stomach.
(31:50):
Or, um, you know that one, Ithink is a great one.
If you, you know, maybe you gotthe gurgle in stomach.
Or you know the after eatingburps or something like that.
It might be a good one to throwin there.
But the most important thing outof you know, all of those
products that we have that webrought in is just like the food
rotate, rotate, rotate is justlike the food rotate, rotate,
(32:11):
rotate.
If you want to target somethingspecifically, we have a product
for that.
Or just start with one and workyour way through and do a
bottle of Vitality and then thenext time try a bottle of the
Clarity, or get one of thesingle mushroom extracts.
You're not going to go wrongwith any of them.
(32:32):
Your dog's going to get benefitfrom them.
And, uh, would you take a break?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Would you take a break at any point and not do
any mushrooms at all and thencome back?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I think, uh, yeah, I think, uh, I think a break from
anything is good.
And you know, I personallydon't give supplements on the
weekends.
I do give.
I guess I got to take that backbecause I do give phytosenergy.
(33:07):
I guess I gotta take that backbecause I do give phytosenergy.
Um, I do kind of a modifiedfast on Sunday, um, where my
dogs just get a, a really easilydigestible meal, um, and so I
sprinkle a little bit of thephytosenergy in there, um, you
know, just kind of as a littlebonus, cause that's one of my
favorite supplements, but, um,but yeah, for the most part I
(33:29):
won't do supplements on theweekend.
That's one way that you can takea break.
Or I know a lot of people willdo three weeks on, one week off,
so they'll give supplements forthree weeks and then they'll
stop for a week and then startback up, and that just gives the
body a chance to kind of resetand and also for you to kind of
(33:54):
you know, look and see, you know, is this working?
Do I need to?
You know, do I need to changethe dosing?
You know things like that,because you're going to see, you
know, you're going to get tosee the dog a week of not
getting the supplement.
So I think I think that'salways a good idea.
(34:17):
They call that pulsing and yeahthat's.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
That's always a good idea, good deal, I like it.
You're making me want to getall the mushrooms and put them
in my food, right, see, see, seeif I feel better.
Yeah, so we, we do have some ofthe best supplements out there
(34:41):
and you can get them on sale.
Many times on the Yappy HourSale, we're going to have some
type of supplement on sale, sometype of supplement on sale.
And remember we do have freeshipping.
If you buy $100 or $99 worth ofsupplements, or if you buy $99
with a combination ofsupplements and treats, okay,
(35:02):
then we're going to ship thoseto you free.
That's a great way to get yoursupplements.
So remember that's everyWednesday night from 6 pm 4 pm
Sorry, 4 pm Colorado time tomidnight, and you don't even
have to wait for theannouncement.
We do announce that every week,but just to remind you.
But you just head over to ourwebsite at that time at 4
(35:26):
o'clock, go to the sales pageand you're going to see all of
that stuff there for yourperusing and your saving money
opportunity.
And if you need help buyingfood, you know I, I get it.
People come to our website andthey get a little bit confused
(35:48):
because we have a lot ofproducts, however.
That's why Brian is there andyou could just send a question
in the chat and he'll respondback.
Or you can even text us on thatmain line and our staff sees it
and somebody will respond, andour staff sees it and somebody
(36:10):
will respond.
So you don't necessarily haveto sign up for that consultation
, but if you would like to,brian's got you covered.
So just go in and sign up andwe will get you and your dog
happy, healthy and eating whatyou were created to eat Maybe
not the humans, but at least thedogs.
(36:31):
Right, and don't forget, if youwant to snag some of your dog's
mushrooms, perfectly fine,perfectly fine, all right.
So get your dogs on a speciesappropriate diet.
Get over torawdogfoodandcompanycom.
We have so much for you rightthere, including Mr Brian, and
(36:51):
if you have a question that youwant us to answer on the podcast
, just send it to info atrawdogfoodandcompanycom, because
here at Raw Dog Food, yourpet's health is our business.
And what, brian?
Friends don't let friends feedKibble, that's right, everybody.
We'll see you soon.
Bye-bye, oh snap.
(37:14):
Find out how you can start yourdog on the road to health and
longevity.
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