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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, uh, we're all guilty of, you know, sharing our
people food with our dogs, at least I am. And
I know you give you give Lupah.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Do you give her whatever she wants?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I know I'm the same way with Esther, Esther the
Jack Russell, Lupa, the Chihuahua. I mean, we love our dogs,
we love our pets. And I can't tell you how
many times I've been sitting at the table and you know,
we'll be having something and I start to and you know,
grab it and maybe give some to Esther because she
sits there quietly. By the way, she doesn't sit.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
There and like, no, you get the stare.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I get the stair. She stares a hole right.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Through stair is dangerous, Yeah, right through me.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
She'll stare right through me and and just kind of
look at me, like can I get some of that?
But she never's like bro, you know, like some dogs will,
but like I couldn't handle that. Yeah, But anyway, I'll
go to and Jenny, my wife, will go, uh, I
don't think dogs are supposed to have that. I'm like, really,
let me let me see and then I'll google it.
(00:59):
So how many times have have you been in that
situation where it's something that you're having and you go, man,
it could be toxic for dogs. So we're coming up,
of course on Thanksgiving and then Christmas, and you know
tis the season, the holidays and so on, and there
may be some stuff that you're like, oh no, this
is fine for them, when in fact there's some hard, fast,
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easy ones that are like no chocolate, you can't give
a dog chocolate, some of those kinds of things. But
his name is Will Hammond, and he is pet food expert,
and he's also owner of pet Wants Dublin, and he
is joining us now on the Legacy Retirement Group dot
com phone lines. Will Welcome to the Mark Blazer Show.
Thank you for jumping on with us today.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Brother, Hi Mark, thanks for having us. And I'm gonna
try my best and not be a downing here to
ruin your spoiling of your pets.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Well, I could tell by your place because I was
looking at I've never actually been to your place. Pet
Wants Dublin in on South High Street there in Dublin.
Looks like it's like old Dublin. Yeah, like you're in
the old Dublin.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Great, Yeah, we're in a really cool historic building there.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah. Well I was like looking at you know, your
website and looking around at some of the stuff, and
this is a really cool, like really really neat place
for pets. And I can tell you, guys spare no
expense with regard to all kinds of all things pets there,
all things food, all things everything pets. It's awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
That's right. Oh thanks, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
It looks pretty awesome. So is there anything that would
surprise because as I looked over some of the notes
for you know, when you guys reached out, I was
looking at some of the stuff, and some of it
actually I was like, oh, I didn't realize that was
not necessarily really good or toxic foods, if you will.
Some stuff that we should avoid is we're coming up
(02:53):
on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yeah, great question. So, and my dog is very good
of giving me, or specifically everybody around the table who's
like the weakless link those eyes, to try to get
some food from them. But you know, let's start with
a turkey. So you know, most people always think, oh, yeah,
turkey is great, and generally that's true. However, you just
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want to make sure that you remove the skin and
also avoid any bones. So the skin is probably the
one that surprises people, or you may not think about it,
but a lot of times we're basting our turkey with
lots of delicious things. It could be garlic, onion, lots
of butter, and some of those things will either cause
an upset stomach or even worse reactions. Especially things like
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onion and large doses can and actually be very toxic
to dogs. So so turkey is great, just make sure
it's like clean breast meat or you know, dark meat
that that doesn't have any skin on it and no
bones and bones. I think most people know this by now,
but just to reiterate, you know, it's kind of like
chicken wings. You don't want to feed cookbones dogs because
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they can splinter and get stuck in their throat.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Or worse, yeah, I get stuck in their throat and
perforate their bow. I mean, there's all kinds of different
stuff that can, unfortunately happen as far as the turkey
skin goes. I did not know that, So you're right
there will with regard to kind of a surprise, because
when I saw that on this list, I went, why turkey?
Then it makes sense. You're like, well, the way you
cook it. Some of the stuff, you know, the garlic
and the onion. Not not supposed to give that to dogs.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
See, Loopa is the one who tells me what to
base the meat with. She makes those choices, so I
feel bad denying it to her after she's the one
who's given me the recipe.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
There.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well, you know, unfortunately our pets, you know, don't always
know what's best for them, and they are very good
at trying to convince this otherwise.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Oh yeah, well are you kidding me? I mean, the
dogs will pretty much, as a matter of fact, some
of the stuff that I didn't really know about but
I knew for sure wouldn't really hurt them. For instance,
I know that depending on the dog, and this isn't
probably something you're gonna have at your Thanksgiving table. But
for instance, pretzels, I've known some dogs that will eat them,
but they look at you like, is this it really?
(05:05):
This is what you're this is all you're gonna give me?
And then some dogs won't even eat pretzels. So I question,
I say to myself, should I be eating pretzels myself?
Because I'm like, they're making me devil think this, Like
I'm like, hang on a second, something bad might be
happening here.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, there's definitely a general good rule to think about
because there's obviously a lot of options at the dinner
table during Thanksgiving and lots of like appetizers you know,
basically you know I'd recommend, and this is kind of
taking away a little bit of fun. Try to limit
the food that you give them to things that just
have one ingredient, and that's usually a good rule of
thumb to follow to avoid having any issues. So for example,
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green beans, great dog may not love them, My dog
loves them, but very good for them. However, like green
bean castrole, same with like sweet potato castrole, you know,
not really toxic, but it's loaded with sugar butter. Things
that can you know, make your night and less pleasant
if they're throwing it up or you know, need to
be taken outside to do their business very frequently.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Right or yeah, or they're pooping everywhere, which obviously you
don't want all over your.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
House, especially if you're at Mom's house.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Is it abnormal for a dog to like raw vegetables?
You mentioned green bees with your dog Lupa, believe it
or not, the little baby carrots she likes those things
and banana. I'm thinking, what's wrong with you? That's not
dog stuff, but she really gets into it.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Oh absolutely, yeah, no, I mean it's fantastic nutrition. You
know a lot of dogs like the crunch with not
so much with the bananas, but with carrots. My dog
loves them too, So baby carrots. You know, again, you
don't want to overfeed them. Maybe not a whole bag,
but you know if you hear and theres is perfectly
good for them and actually super healthy. Same with banana.
We actually have a lot of treats with banana in
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my store and dogs love the flavor.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Hey what about grapes? Will is that a bad one
for dogs? I've read that it is or heard that
it is.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah, anything similar to a grape. So grapes and raisins
are usually the one you might see during Thanksgiving and
those are a big no no. Those are highly toxic,
so you don't want them to sniffing anywhere near those.
And I would say if you have a dog that
is thrown to sneak in and get things, maybe just
avoid serving them or just be very cautious in how
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you serve them. Because it's at a bowl of grapes.
It can send you to the vet and be a
very expensive night, especially on Thanksgiving when you know a
lot of places are closed.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Hey, I'm not going to ask you to call out
any companies by name or anything, but that we are
we as a proliferation right now, various commercials for these
either additives or whatever to dogs, foods to reinvigorate them
and all this kind of stuff. Is there any true
science to that as far as you're concerned, or is
this people trying to sell me stuff?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You know, there's a whole flew of like to oper
a lot of times they're called or mad at this,
which are you know, a lot of those are great,
you know. You know, one thing we focus on is
just trying to carry or use toppers that are very clean,
limited ingredient. So you know, if you're looking at something
that's got twenty ingredients in it, or or frankly, if
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there's just something you don't recognize, you know, it's always
good to question it and you know, either ask you know,
a pet food professional about it or your vet, or
just try something else. But yeah, there's it's definitely become
a norm, you know, to have some enrichment to their food.
You know, one thing I'd recommend if your dog does
love the table scraps, you can use a lick mat,
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or there's toys that you can put like a dog's steak,
peanut butter, you know some of their favorites like turkey,
or maybe a little pumpkin puree into it. Freeze it
and then you've got something that's going to keep your
dog busy during dinner.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Will Hammond joining us now pet food expert, owner of
pet Wants Dublin and it's in old Dublin. His store,
really cool store. Will you got a really cool store,
and it's nice of you to jump on with us
to talk about some of the toxic things and then
some of the things that are okay obviously for your dogs.
There are some people too and I that just they
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don't want to They're like, I'm not giving my dog
any people food at all. And it's funny when I'll
see like friends who they are new pet owners and
they talk about that at first, and then within a
year I'll hear about them. They'll be like, yeah, I
was given and I'm like, oh, you gave in, did you?
Because you know, let's face it, there are best friends
(09:37):
most of the time, and we want them to enjoy
some of this kind of stuff too. But if they
do get into something dangerous, what do you do? I mean,
you you obviously want to call you know, their twenty
four hour vets. You're right, And it's never, by the way,
during normal business hours. It's always in the middle of
the night, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
It seems like, yeah, unfortunately, a lot of times we're
doing that is you know, on a weekend or at
night when we're home, and yeah, your best bet is
to try. You know, there's a lot of emergency bet
clinics that are open even on especially if it looks curious,
you know, if it's if you're concerned, you know, my
advice is at least to call them and just explain
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the situation and your vet if you can reach them
or you know, an emergency vet clinic. There's many of
them locally that you can at least call them and
get some advice on whether it's something that warrants bring
your dog in or cap if you like to feed
table scraps to your cat too.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
But right, what motivated you to get into this business?
I mean, clearly you're an animal lover you have to
be in order to get in this business. First of all,
how did you get into business? And pet Wants Dublin.
How long have you been the owner? How long have
you had the store?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah, so I got into this because of my pets.
So specifically, my dog just had a lot of digestive
issues as a puppy, which I became very passionate about
just trying to help address a lot of the issues
that he was having. And frankly, it was a little
frustrating to get good advice and great help, and eventually
I just realized he needed really good food. And now
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he's a normal dog that you know, has you know,
as we say in the industry, great poops. You know,
we talk about the poop a lot, right, And so
we've been open now for about four years, but we
we've been servicing Columbus through events and online. But we
opened our brick and mortar store as you mentioned in
Dublin Bitter grand opening earlier this year in May. So
(11:36):
we're super excited to have have a home that people
can come usit us seven days a week there.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
That's very cool. Yeah, your people can see what is
the what is the website? If people want to go
to the website and stop in and see your fantastic store.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yep, it's www dot pet Wants Dublin dot com. It's
p E T W A N T S and Dublin
dot com.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yep, right there in Old Dublin.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Should go see the store, just because this time a year. Seriously,
that area of the Old Dublin downtown or cobblestone bricks
to it is this is the perfect freaking weather to go.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
To that community. It really is.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
It is.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You will enjoy walking around up there.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
It's a really fun area and we definitely have lots
of stuff to recommend to you if you were looking
for alternatives to keep your dog in a safe during
the holidays.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Too very cool. Will Hammond, pet food expert and owner
of pet Wants Dublin and it's pet once Dublin dot
com and check out a store and so on. Will
thank you very much for jumping on with us today.
Appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
You're welcome. Absolutely. You know, I actually have friends who
more than one set of friends who've had their dogs
accidentally eat their gummies like the weed gummies, and depending
on how much they consume. It can be very, very bad.
But for the most part, a lot of people, based
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on what they were telling me, some of my friends
who were saying when they were at theve that they're
they kind of they take it in stride, but they said, man,
it is it's up the thousand percent, you know, since
stuff was legalized here in Ohio. But people will get
into that all the time, unfortunately, as far as having
that out or you know, dropping one or what have you.
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And if dogs are food motivated, they're all over it
and then all of a sudden they're drooling and maybe shaking.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
And like wolf men exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Again, it has to be an enormous amount to start
being really toxic to the dogs. But other than that,
there is a way that they can kind of treat
them and get them on the way, make them comfortable
till it runs its course. But yeah, that's something else
that I didn't bring it up with Will because he
clearly doesn't you know, I don't know if he knows
anything about that, but that's just something that kind of
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popped into my head as we were talking to him.
So thanks again, Will Hammond, owner of Pet Wants Dublin.
They're an old Dublin,