August 14, 2025 • 43 mins
We are told not to feed our pets "leftovers," but that is exactly what most commercial pet foods are made of. Did you know that many of the toys offered your pets were "leftovers" from the rejected, unsafe inventory from our toy industry? Toxic paints, dangerous plastics, and synthetic materials are also problematic. Watch this podcast to find even more of the other Leftovers" that can affect your pets.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Any health related information on the following show provides general
information only. Content presented on any show by any host
or guest should not be substituted for a doctor's advice.
Always consult your physician before beginning any new diet, exercise,
or treatment program. And then now it's time for Pet
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Health Cafe where your pet has a voice. And here's
your host, Bill the Pet Health Guru.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And welcome to the Pet Health Cafe, the show where
your pet heads of voice. This is Bill, Pet Health Guru,
and with you again for another exciting Pet Health Cafe.
A lot of information it's going to come out tonight.
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different subjects sometimes, and this one of this show is
not going to be any different. Show was labeled Leftovers,
and I'm sure a lot of you are curious what
that means. Is it about feeding? It is about feeding
people food. Is it about something else? Well you're soon
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going to find out, but it's I was engaged in
a conversation about the about the pet industry a week
or so ago with some friends and we're just talking
about how the industry I've I've watched over the last
almost almost sixty years, believe it or not, the industry
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change and develop and how it grew and where we
thought we were doing a lot of right things. And
you know, our pets came from you know, at that
point in time, they were living basically in the backyard.
They moved into the house now and of course we
have to have all this other goodies with that, you know,
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the shampoos, the groomings and everything else. We've gone from
about seventy dog breeds to about a I think it's
over two hundred now depending on what your registry you
are looking. Yeah, so we've got a lot more variation
in the sizes and co types and physical structures of
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our dogs, which are you know, ever changing, and it
creates some interesting issues when it comes to feeding, uh,
you know, exercise things of that nature. Some some pets
are made for different things. You know, we used to
have a lot of working dogs. Now they're more companion dogs.
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You know what we used to consider just a pet,
you know, Now we've turned a lot of those pets
into support dogs. So now they're supposedly working, but they
haven't got the confirmation to do specific tasks. That's that's
more of a mental rainy state that we have to
go into. And so we've got a lot of challenges
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that are going on with our pets, and we've had
a lot more challenges than we originally thought, which is
why I came up with the topic of leftovers. Now
I'll get the thing off the table right up front.
You know, leftovers with food, people food, that sort of thing.
That's part that was part of the diet of dogs
back in the back before probably the early eighties when
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the specialty diets came out and they started adding artificial
flavors to them, so we didn't have to do any mixing.
Prior to that, we always mixed either a canned food,
a canned meat, our own meats, or scraped our plates
in that dog dish to mix with the kibble just
to get them to eat it. Our dogs did very
well on it. But now, of course it's taboo because
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everything is supposed to be complete and balanced and that
really does not exist. But when it comes to human foods,
probably ninety percent of real food that you eat is
no problem. Now, highly processed foods are another story. And
if you walk into supermarket, you're gonna find that of
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that supermarket is filled with fake food. Food that's ultra
process contains a ton of chemicals with it and that
sort of thing. And obviously those chemicals aren't even good
for us. Why would they be good for our dogs
and cats? And yes, that will stress the body. It's
stressed the whole digestive system. Those chemicals end up in
a bloodstream, and like I say, if it's as ultra
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processed food, that's where the problem is. Now, if you're
doing your own cooking and you're buying your you know,
your your food's fresh wherever possible. You know, the grass finished,
pasture raised meats that I talk about, and you're talking
about even some homegrown or farm local, farm grown vegetables.
They're not going to harm your dog. The vegetables, the
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fruits will create a little bit of extra stress on
the digestive system because, as we've explained here on this
show many many times, our carnivores are not designed to
eat that. They can adapt to it, but that's not
the ideal diet for them. And of course the cooking
process too, with our leftovers, has something to do with it.
You know, again, I warn it every single time we
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talk about foods. If you're cooking foods, no seed oil,
you know, no corn oil, soybean oil, anything of that nature,
because that stuff is highly toxic. It does create all
kinds of havoc in the body. And we want to
keep the body moving as simply as possible wherever possible.
I mean, if you need to use something in a pan,
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if you're cooking for yourself, you know, raw butter is excellent,
beef tallow is excellent as long as it's the pure
tallow product. I know some of the chains of fast
food restaurants are now coming out that they're doing their
French fries in tallow instead of vegetable oil seed oils.
And the problem is is it's not a clean one
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ingredient oil to tallow. They're mixing other chemicals in the
preservative stabilizers flavors. So we've even taken that simple product
and polluted it, if you will, and then we're using
it as a healthier alternative on these fast food companies.
And while it might be slightly healthier, they've destroyed it
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by their processing. But so the food waste, the leftovers
in your home is a very very small part of
what I consider leftovers. What I really wanted to talk
about is all of the products that are on the
market today that are basically made manufactured with leftovers. That's right.
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A lot of the food ingredients that you see in
commercial foods and other products are leftovers from some other process.
We look at obviously, the most of the meat that
comes in any kind of commercial food, it's basically weight.
It's what they call us floor trimmings or floor scrap.
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It's all the trimmings that aren't fit for human consumption.
Sometimes it'll be tainted meat, discarded meat, meat that did
not pass inspection, So those are leftovers. It could be
just like on poultry. It could be you know, the
the making carcass, which is nothing more than bones and cartilage.
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And of course we have to worry about how it's
handled because it's coming out of a packing plant. In
order to have it get to the pet food plant.
You know, obviously they have to transport it, a lot
of preservatives, a lot of chemicals to keep down the odors,
keep it from decomposing. So those leftovers are at the
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core of most commercial foods.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
They're not going out like biocomplete does and buying whole,
primal cuts of meat and preparing them for their foods. Now,
I did you see a comment pop up? What about
olive oil? Olive oil is kind of a neutral, the
same thing with coconut oil. It's not as bad as
the vegetable oils are, but that's still nothing. Both of
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those products are synthetic in nature, they are highly processed
in order to make it. You can't go to an
olive tree and just pour off the oil. Same thing
with a coconut you know, you can't shake it upside
down and have the oil come out. It has to
go through various processes of refinement, so you know, and
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in that a lot of things are components can be
lost wasted. Again, we can. We've seen it, especially on
olive oil for literally centuries, where much of what has
been on the market is tainted with other oils. Pure fresh,
old pressed olive oil is very expensive, it's very rare.
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So you know, a lot of the companies have a
habit of that looting it down with other oils, and
it's almos most impossible to tell unless you've got a
very very good palette and over the laboratory equipment to
test it. So when we're looking now at we've gone
through the meats a little bit, that those are all
basically food waste. I'm not going to call them buy
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products because that's another misnomer. It's just plain food waste
in many cases. Now, when we look at the other
ingredients in pet food, you know sometimes you'll see different
fruits and vegetables. Well, again we're looking at the waste product.
Let's just say, okay, you're one of the one of
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the biggies that comes out is we're using broccoli, using cauliflowers.
Sometimes we're using squash, and many many others. Well, basically
what there is what's going over to the dog food
plant is what's not fit for human consumption or not
the parts that we would normally eat. So what you're
going to get is a lot of the outside leaves,
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the leaves that don't ship. You're gonna get the stems
that they trim off. You're going to get the bad products,
you know, the product that's miscolored or you know, have
some damage on it from insects or other damage. Because
in the food industry, we want the best looking stuff.
So what are we gonna do with that waste product?
Those leftovers, We're going to use them. There's no difference
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in the labeling law between a broccoli stem and a
broccoli floret. Same thing with colliflour. You know, all those vegetables,
all the trim that comes off of them are all leftovers.
They go over to animal feed, and the labeling says
exactly the same thing. That's what it is. It's a
broccoli plant, so it's labeled as broccoli. But like I said,
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you wouldn't be you wouldn't want to eat just the stems,
you know, is there a lot of nutrition in them? Yeah,
there's some nutrition in it, but not the same amount
as there is in the florets, in the in the
in the flowering parts of these plants. And so we
have to look at those leftovers as part of the diet.
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And of course, again just like the meats sometimes been
transportation stuff like that, they're treated with all kinds of chemicals, preservatives,
and then of course to cover up those preservatives, we
have to add natural flavors which are not natural. Those
are palatins, just to mask things. Those are all synthetic.
We have no idea how they're processed. We have no
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idea what chemicals are in those. The company just say
that's our secret, it's our proprietary blend. And so now
we've got a big, big issue with almost all commercial
foods are basically made with leftovers. And yet you're told
by your veterinarian or your feed dealer, the experts, the
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nutrition nests, you cannot feed leftovers, when actually the diets
that they are selling are manufactured exclusively of leftovers. I
harp on food a lot, and every single podcast that
I do, every presentation here because of course, that is
a that is one of the key and fundamental components
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and keeping our animals healthy. There are a lot of
other leftovers that we've exposed our deats too, and most
of us wouldn't even think about it, And to be honest,
I didn't think about it for probably a good forty
years of my time in the pet industry because of course, obviously,
you know, being in retail and even being as a
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manufacturer's rep. You know, we took our tucking points from manufacturers,
from the processes, the producers, and we believed that we
were doing the right thing. But you know, I remember
when we when I started in business in the pet shops,
my toy selection for dogs and for cats, you know,
may have been a four foot section on a wall,
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you know, maybe thirty different toys, forty different toys. You know,
most of them back then were either vinyl plastic or
a latex rubber, and you know, we that was good
enough for our dogs back in the seventies. And then
all of a sudden we started coming up with all
these blush toys and these rope toys and all these
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other really really hugey things, and we thought it was
the greatest thing slice bread, and of course our pets
enjoyed them, sometimes at their peril. Now what am I
trying to say with that, Well, how were these products manufactured,
where did they originally come from, and why did they
make their way into the pet industry. Well, most of
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the original toys were basically products that were not safe
for humans. They were the leftovers again, the leftover components
that we couldn't sell in the human industry. As safety
factors became more and more important, and in did you know,
the plastics, we had to start worrying about BPA and
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thalatees and other toxic chemicals that were in the vinyl itself.
We had to worry about the toxic paint that they
used to paint these toys. The same thing with the latex.
You know, the paints were really sometimes very very toxic.
The squeakers were sometimes defective and would come right out,
and you know, caused a lot of dogs to choke
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and have all kinds of other gastric issues. You never
thought about that, did you? That these were nothing more
than leftovers from the children's section, from the infant section.
And then we got into the plush storys, the fabric
that was being used. What was it coded was what
was it died with? Again, a lot of this did
not meet the standards of testing for humans and safe
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for children. But we just repackaged them and put them
a nice plastic bag, hung them on a peg the header,
or in later days, of course, we still that little
hang tag onto it and hang them up and whila,
we have a whole wall. We have another fifty feet
of toys, every shape, shaping color that you could ever imagine.
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But you know, if you hit pets yourself, you know
that your dog starts chewing on these, starts pulling on it.
Fibers come out, you know, hunks of it come out,
the stuffing comes out. You know, we've talked about things
like raw hide in the past, and different dog bones
and even even natural bones. How worried that, you know,
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the veterinarians are about blockages in the intestine. I can
attest over the almost sixty years I've been in this
that there's been more stomach blockages, more gastric blockages from
the stuffing and the fabric from these plush toys than
ever happened with a bone. We're worried about the intestinal
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lining being torn by a bone, but it rarely, rarely,
ever happens. We had this one with doctor Dim that
he's never seen a case of that in his late
thirty years of practicing, but we have seen tons of
complete blockages that causes things like bloating and of course
even death in our pets. We're going to be right
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back after this quick break.
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Healthier, and welcome back here to the Pet Health Cafe.
The show where Your Pet has a Voice. This is
Bill Pet Health Guru, and I'm talking about leftovers tonight.
And it's just not your leftovers from dinner that are
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affecting your pet. It's the leftovers that they make commercial
food with, and as we've been talking about in the
last few minutes, the leftovers that are really your dogs, toys,
your playthings, things of that nature. Now, when I was
talking about the toxic dyes that are in a lot
of this stuff, why do we have to have dog
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toys in every color under the sun. Aren't dogs supposed
to be colorblind? Do you think they care what color
that toy is? Now, yes, they do see shades of
gray basically, you know, depending on how bright the product
would be. But there's no reason for it. I mean,
I was thinking, I was talking with somebody and I
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mentioned those you know, those rope bones, those tugbones. I
started selling those probably back in the early nineteen eighties.
And basically those bones were cotton and they were white
and probably about as safe and natural as you could get.
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And again then all of a sudden, we had to
have colors, all different colors, were using you know, different
color ropes to braid it and make it so we
got these different patterns and everything. Well, in order for
to get a bone like that, a chew toy like that,
to remain in color, they didn't use more cotton rope.
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They used polyester synthetics. So now your dog is ingesting
more of that type of problem. Now, where did that
stuff come from? Again? That came primarily from the toy industry,
and some of it from the hardware industry. You know,
we may want to make, you know, your boat stand
out when you tie it up at the mooring, you know,
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so we add some colors to it. In some cases
they would add nylon just for strength. But again nylon
isn't a natural product. If it's ingested, it doesn't digest.
That they had cotton would actually break down in the
digestive system. The polyester doesn't. Again we have another possible blockage,
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and again we have another possible course of toxic food. Die.
Does that make any sense to anybody out there? I mean,
you're listening, I know people are watching that sort of thing.
What has been your experience with it? Why do you
buy these things that literally are made from leftover material
leftover materials and components that can harm your animal, and
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quite often we know about it, we just look for
another substitute, one that's going to be better, you know.
I remember several years ago as part of a you know,
a selection of toys that were meant to keep the
teeth clean, and they were both bones that were basically
made of nylon. And the theory behind it was when
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you chew it, when you chew it, you get these
little nubs of nylon sticking up, and that's going to
scrub the teeth and stuff like that. And there was
a case, a lawsuit that was filed against the manufacturer
of one of these bones, and when I reviewed, I
was asked to review some of the information that went
with it. The dog ended up having a severe blockage.
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I can't remember if the dog actually died from it
or was almost died from it at that point in time,
but the lawsuit basically claimed that it was a dog
bone's fault because the dog had swallowed a piece of
it and it blocked the intestine. Well, I know that
when they removed that piece of nylon bone, if you will,
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the whole thing was entangled in a whole plump of
fabric and stuffing the nylon by itself would have probably
passed through the body, except that this stuffing was already accumulating.
So now I have this blockage that's being stopped because
of the nylon, which in itself is not inert, it
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does leave off toxic fumes. The material that's there is
probably polyester or polyester blend of some sort, again giving
off toxicity under the influence of digestive acids and digestive
enzymes and the toxics and the colors in the dies. Obviously,
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the people that were doing the sewing could not prove
without a reasonable doubt that it was just that nylon bone,
and because that was the only thing they could really
identify by name. Because you're plush toys, they don't normally
have any kind of identifierround them. The thing that lasts anyway,
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and of course if it's treaded, there's no identification at
all unless you remember, you know where you put the
sales receipt and what you know, vendor you bought that from.
But now there's no liability. Not very smart for us
to do that. And yes, I saw the comment that, yeah,
it's the consumers that want the color. Why you really,
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you really just need to feed that ego. You know
that it's the color you so that made you buy it.
It's I don't always understand that. I mean, so much
of the stuff is supposed to be functional, but we're
not buying function. What's actually the function of a dog toy?
To keep your dog entertained? Isn't that yet? Isn't that
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your job as the owner the exercise to play with
them and to pay them enough attention so that you
don't have to worry about them chewing up the couch
or your pillows or your bed. We also have to worry,
you know, why are they doing it? Also because quite
often the nutritional needs are not being met. And when
you look at things like plastics, the reason that they
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swallow them is it has a plastics have a certain
sweetness to them. The petrochemicals that are mimicking their hormone
disruptors or endogrine disruptors that are mimicking what the body needs,
and hence we have created a whole other health problem.
You know, plastics not going to break down in the gut,
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It's not going to digest. The best we can hope
for is that it passes through the animal. I mean,
and you know, one of the things that I've seen
over the years is because the carnivores need meat, and
they need things that smell like meat. That was a
problem with raw hide. It wasn't the original raw hides
were bad that were processed here in the United States
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because they were mostly all natural. But when the government
shut it down and send it all off overseas and
they started using all kinds of harsh chemicals to make
it that made the raw hides cox, the arsenic, the
bleaches that they used to make the bones white, and
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all these things that make things pretty. That's where the
toxicity came in, and that created a problem. Well, part
of that problem too was that we're not feeding our
carnivores a species appropriate diet, so they're looking for nutrients
wherever they can. If it happens to come from anti freeze,
another sweet thing, it's a petrochemical, they die. It's a poison,
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But why do they drink it? Because these addictive things
are endocrine disruptors. That makes the body. It fools the
body into thinking it's something that's not. Same thing with
the toys, all the plastic and if we're defeeding it
a species of appropriate diet. Generally speaking, we will not
have an issue with the dog trying to eat inappropriate things.
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I mean, I know, over my career, I've seen dogs
pass all kinds of stuff that they ate, and a
lot of it is clothed pieces of clothing because if
we're wearing it, our perspiration, our body oils are on
those pieces of clothing, so to them it smells like
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a steak or something similar to it. I mean, I've
had clients come in and the dog passes socks and underwear.
I had one client that literally took their dog out
and after the dog finished doing his business, they noticed
something hanging out of his butt. So when they went
in the house, the owner grabbed on to it with
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you know, I would assume gloves or something, but started
gently pulling this whatever it was coming out the butt.
It was a fabric of some sort and it just
kept coming out, coming out, coming out, coming out, And
when it finally finished up, it was literally a complete
pair of pantyhose. Now do you think that was blocking
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that gut? It would never digest. It was just a
good thing that the owner was watching, and it didn't
develop into something much more serious. Now, where did they
come from could have come from the laundry pile. But
then again it could have been leftovers that were thrown
out there were no good anymore. That's why we have
to watch our pets so closely. Even things like collars
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and leashes, you know, are made basically from industrial access,
industrial production, so that's a leftover product. One of the
worst ones that I lived through the beginning of and
through a lot of my career and actually sold a
lot of these products were nylon webbing collars and leashes.
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Like I say, the webbing was there, that's overruns, and
of course they found just another market for it. But
when I used to sell leather goods and good leather
collars and leads and stuff like that, I used to
demonstrate with the client. I would literally have you take
your lead and take a leather one and run your
hand down it and basically it's fairly smooth, not abrasive,
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and it's not hurting your hand. And then I would
tell people to do the same thing on a nylon
lead of nylon web lead. Literally you are burning your hand.
It burns that nylon thread is actually used as a
cutting tool for a lot of different products in the
manufacturer process. When you put that nylon collar, that nylon
harness on your path, basically, it's cutting through the hair
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as it moves. It's acting like a saw. That's why
we sometimes see great amounts of hair loss on the
collar region around the neck where the collar is twenty
four to seven, which is why I don't leave a
collar on my dog. You know, twenty four to seven,
color and league go on and they're connected together all
the time. I use an appropriate collar, get slipped over
the head, we go for our walk, We finished, it
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comes off. I don't have that hair loss on my dog.
I don't have that irritation. And some of them even
got worse than that in that they went from again
that nylon, which is a purer product, to polypropylene, another plastic,
and we actually had problems with those polypropylene ones. The
number one they would fail quite easily and break. I'm
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a little bit past on my break. We're going to
go to it right now.
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We're back here in the Pet Health Cafe to show
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Health Guru and again I want to invite you to
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I want you to share, like and subscribe so we
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that probably didn't realize a lot of these things that
I'm talking about. And I was mentioning the polypropylene collars
and how they had a tendency who fail. They break
very easily, and of course that's a health hazard to
your dog, especially if you're out in the you know,
a busy area where you know there's a lot of
traffic and things of that, and your collar breaks, your
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dog's in traffic and you're in trouble and they're in trouble,
and we don't want that to happen. The other thing
with polypropylene collars, though, too, is a lot of that
that blend is very sticky and they would sometimes stick
to the dog's skin. And of course as you're taking
out the collar, because you don't take it off and
on each time you walk theme you're just leaving it
on till it looks really really ratty and dirty, and
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you're going to take it off, and basically you rip
off not only hair but sometimes skin and everything. So
again it's one of those things you have to be
mindful of. You have to look at what the product
is made of. Another thing is, of course clothing, same
issues as we have with the toys. You know, a
lot of dog clothing. It's nice to dress up your
dog and it's really really huge see and things like that.
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But depending on the materials. Again, a lot of polyester,
a lot of synthetics does not allow the skin to breathe.
The body is detoxing continuously. We have those oils coming
out and you know, I guess that. You know, you
could do something like a terry cloth, you know that's
all one percent cotton that would absorb some of these
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oils and some of these toxins, but most of it doesn't.
In fact, it's actually adding to the toxic load. And
of course the way they fit to And again a
lot of the fabric that was used in this industry
is leftovers from the fashion industry. Could be just last
year's style could be again did not meet the standards
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for human use. And of course even on the human
use thing, we have to worry about things like flame
retardant on all fabrics. And actually that's the number two
toxin that they find in cats, flame retardant. And where
do they pick it up from? Laying on the furniture,
laying on your carpet, absorbed through the skin. So when
we put this thing, these things on his clothing, that
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body's absorbing those toxins. How many out there have a scratchy,
itchy dog and you don't know what to do about
it except if a drugs. That's the issue, that's where
it's coming from. We're actually doing that to our animals. Now.
The whole purpose of doing this thing, this whole show
on leftovers, is to kind of call out the industry
that's been so good to me for so many years.
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We built it on partial truth. A lot of us
in the trenches didn't know, didn't think even about the toxins.
And that's sort of thing because thirty years ago, fifty
years ago, was not a problem what it is today.
But as I've gotten older and more refined and understand
the process, understand where these toxins are coming from over
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generations and generations, it becomes apparent to me that while
we were trying to do something creative, if you will.
We thought we were giving you know, enrichment to our
dogs by giving them toys. You know, they were just
as content chasing a stick as they are a rope bone,
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you know, a rope tug or some of these other
tub toys. I know I've seen well gone into you know,
clients' homes and there's twenty toys laying around, and you
know some of them will be you know, fabric, and
you know, you see these little nubs of fabric all
over the floor where they the dog has actually been
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flucking yet, you know, I mean if you had your
dog attacked the squeaker and just chew that toy until
they remove the squeaker, and once they remove it, if
you're not there, if you don't catch it, you know
your dog is going to ingest it. Now you've got
a problem, you know. And actually, when you go back
years ago when I started in the industry, most of
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the squeakers were not soft plastic like they are today.
They were metal. So your dog was eating literally pieces
of metal. You think that's good for the digestive track.
So what I'm trying to say is, you know, we
have to start holding the industry to a stand to
a higher standard. We want them to do better, you know,
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we don't, you know, quit worrying about whether this toy
comes in deep purple or pink, or lavender, or orange
or yellow or green, because that's for us. The dog
doesn't care. We might think they do, because we do.
Can you know, we're sometimes condition them with certain toys
that are a little bit different shades. They're seeing shades
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of color, but they're not seeing actual colors. But these
are all issues that we have to worry about. Even
some of the treat products out there, you know, again
are made from leftovers. You know, they're not good wholesome ingredients.
And it's the same as true with our foods. So
many of our foods are made from leftovers as well.
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We think they're whole foods, but they're really not. And
it's incumbent on us as pet parents and pet guardians
and advocates like myself to call out these things to
educate you on what to look for. You know, when
I sold products, and you know, when I sell products
at any time now, it's like I'm looking out for
the welfare of that animal. It's not about making a sale,
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you know, I do a lot with of course herbals
and botanicals along with the species appropriate diet. But one
of the things that we've learned, even with things like
serves and botanicals, that it's never about one thing as
far as health is concerned, because we're detoxing. I mean,
it's not been thinking about the number of toxins that
I've explained here between in the food, the preservatives, the
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artificial colors, the anti cake agent, anti stick agents that
are in some of them, same thing with treats, the
natural flavors, all these all these additives that go into it,
all the toxic dyes, all the toxic plastics and petrochemicals
that our animals are completely completely exposed to on a
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daily basis, and that concerns me a lot. And again
I'm trying to put a warning out there for all
of your pet owners out there, your pet parents, share this,
share this with everybody, because we're all making those mistakes.
We all want something cutesy and fun. We want to
make our animals feel special. We want to feel special
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about giving them something different, something unique, you know. I
Mean when I talk to people about diets, it's like, yeah,
we're doing a raw meat diet. Well, what else can
I give them? Well, they don't need anything else. Well
can't we give them like some beans and the peas
and the carrots and the you know, the broccoli and
all that stuff. Why if they don't need it. Well,
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we think that that's healthy for us, even though a
lot of it isn't. But we think that. So we
think we're just putting our human values on them. You know,
we dress them up because we want them to look
like us. You know, we want them to be pretty.
But don't they have beauty in themselves. That's why we
got them in the first place. You know, if you
adopted a dog, or if you purchase a dog, you didn't.
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You didn't go for that doug because it was wearing
a very very cute outfit. You looked at that core animal,
and they looked in your eyes. A adopted you. They
chose you. Let's not fail them. I hope I brought
a lot of good information to you today. I hope
you can take this with you know, some seriousness. Watch
what we're doing. Look in your house, See the household
(40:22):
things that are around them, along with all the cleaning
products and everything else that you use. You know, deodorant, insecticides,
that sort of thing, because these are all adding to
that toxic load and it may be time to do
a house cleaning and then start, you know, looking for
the right things for your animals for your own health
as well. And hopefully, like I say, hopefully you got
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a lot of information out of this. With that come
then we're looking forward to seeing you again next week
on the Pet Health Cafe. You know, be sure to
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And welcome to the Pet Health Cafe, the show where
your pet heads of voice. This is Bill, Pet Health Guru,
and with you again for another exciting Pet Health Cafe.
A lot of information it's going to come out tonight.
I just can't wait to start sharing this with you.
It's especially interesting that I would love for the well
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different subjects sometimes, and this one of this show is
not going to be any different. Show was labeled Leftovers,
and I'm sure a lot of you are curious what
that means. Is it about feeding? It is about feeding
people food. Is it about something else? Well you're soon
(02:06):
going to find out, but it's I was engaged in
a conversation about the about the pet industry a week
or so ago with some friends and we're just talking
about how the industry I've I've watched over the last
almost almost sixty years, believe it or not, the industry
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change and develop and how it grew and where we
thought we were doing a lot of right things. And
you know, our pets came from you know, at that
point in time, they were living basically in the backyard.
They moved into the house now and of course we
have to have all this other goodies with that, you know,
(02:49):
the shampoos, the groomings and everything else. We've gone from
about seventy dog breeds to about a I think it's
over two hundred now depending on what your registry you
are looking. Yeah, so we've got a lot more variation
in the sizes and co types and physical structures of
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our dogs, which are you know, ever changing, and it
creates some interesting issues when it comes to feeding, uh,
you know, exercise things of that nature. Some some pets
are made for different things. You know, we used to
have a lot of working dogs. Now they're more companion dogs.
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You know what we used to consider just a pet,
you know, Now we've turned a lot of those pets
into support dogs. So now they're supposedly working, but they
haven't got the confirmation to do specific tasks. That's that's
more of a mental rainy state that we have to
go into. And so we've got a lot of challenges
(03:52):
that are going on with our pets, and we've had
a lot more challenges than we originally thought, which is
why I came up with the topic of leftovers. Now
I'll get the thing off the table right up front.
You know, leftovers with food, people food, that sort of thing.
That's part that was part of the diet of dogs
back in the back before probably the early eighties when
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the specialty diets came out and they started adding artificial
flavors to them, so we didn't have to do any mixing.
Prior to that, we always mixed either a canned food,
a canned meat, our own meats, or scraped our plates
in that dog dish to mix with the kibble just
to get them to eat it. Our dogs did very
well on it. But now, of course it's taboo because
(04:38):
everything is supposed to be complete and balanced and that
really does not exist. But when it comes to human foods,
probably ninety percent of real food that you eat is
no problem. Now, highly processed foods are another story. And
if you walk into supermarket, you're gonna find that of
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that supermarket is filled with fake food. Food that's ultra
process contains a ton of chemicals with it and that
sort of thing. And obviously those chemicals aren't even good
for us. Why would they be good for our dogs
and cats? And yes, that will stress the body. It's
stressed the whole digestive system. Those chemicals end up in
a bloodstream, and like I say, if it's as ultra
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processed food, that's where the problem is. Now, if you're
doing your own cooking and you're buying your you know,
your your food's fresh wherever possible. You know, the grass finished,
pasture raised meats that I talk about, and you're talking
about even some homegrown or farm local, farm grown vegetables.
They're not going to harm your dog. The vegetables, the
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fruits will create a little bit of extra stress on
the digestive system because, as we've explained here on this
show many many times, our carnivores are not designed to
eat that. They can adapt to it, but that's not
the ideal diet for them. And of course the cooking
process too, with our leftovers, has something to do with it.
You know, again, I warn it every single time we
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talk about foods. If you're cooking foods, no seed oil,
you know, no corn oil, soybean oil, anything of that nature,
because that stuff is highly toxic. It does create all
kinds of havoc in the body. And we want to
keep the body moving as simply as possible wherever possible.
I mean, if you need to use something in a pan,
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if you're cooking for yourself, you know, raw butter is excellent,
beef tallow is excellent as long as it's the pure
tallow product. I know some of the chains of fast
food restaurants are now coming out that they're doing their
French fries in tallow instead of vegetable oil seed oils.
And the problem is is it's not a clean one
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ingredient oil to tallow. They're mixing other chemicals in the
preservative stabilizers flavors. So we've even taken that simple product
and polluted it, if you will, and then we're using
it as a healthier alternative on these fast food companies.
And while it might be slightly healthier, they've destroyed it
(07:18):
by their processing. But so the food waste, the leftovers
in your home is a very very small part of
what I consider leftovers. What I really wanted to talk
about is all of the products that are on the
market today that are basically made manufactured with leftovers. That's right.
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A lot of the food ingredients that you see in
commercial foods and other products are leftovers from some other process.
We look at obviously, the most of the meat that
comes in any kind of commercial food, it's basically weight.
It's what they call us floor trimmings or floor scrap.
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It's all the trimmings that aren't fit for human consumption.
Sometimes it'll be tainted meat, discarded meat, meat that did
not pass inspection, So those are leftovers. It could be
just like on poultry. It could be you know, the
the making carcass, which is nothing more than bones and cartilage.
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And of course we have to worry about how it's
handled because it's coming out of a packing plant. In
order to have it get to the pet food plant.
You know, obviously they have to transport it, a lot
of preservatives, a lot of chemicals to keep down the odors,
keep it from decomposing. So those leftovers are at the
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core of most commercial foods.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
They're not going out like biocomplete does and buying whole,
primal cuts of meat and preparing them for their foods. Now,
I did you see a comment pop up? What about
olive oil? Olive oil is kind of a neutral, the
same thing with coconut oil. It's not as bad as
the vegetable oils are, but that's still nothing. Both of
(09:10):
those products are synthetic in nature, they are highly processed
in order to make it. You can't go to an
olive tree and just pour off the oil. Same thing
with a coconut you know, you can't shake it upside
down and have the oil come out. It has to
go through various processes of refinement, so you know, and
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in that a lot of things are components can be
lost wasted. Again, we can. We've seen it, especially on
olive oil for literally centuries, where much of what has
been on the market is tainted with other oils. Pure fresh,
old pressed olive oil is very expensive, it's very rare.
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So you know, a lot of the companies have a
habit of that looting it down with other oils, and
it's almos most impossible to tell unless you've got a
very very good palette and over the laboratory equipment to
test it. So when we're looking now at we've gone
through the meats a little bit, that those are all
basically food waste. I'm not going to call them buy
(10:16):
products because that's another misnomer. It's just plain food waste
in many cases. Now, when we look at the other
ingredients in pet food, you know sometimes you'll see different
fruits and vegetables. Well, again we're looking at the waste product.
Let's just say, okay, you're one of the one of
(10:37):
the biggies that comes out is we're using broccoli, using cauliflowers.
Sometimes we're using squash, and many many others. Well, basically
what there is what's going over to the dog food
plant is what's not fit for human consumption or not
the parts that we would normally eat. So what you're
going to get is a lot of the outside leaves,
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the leaves that don't ship. You're gonna get the stems
that they trim off. You're going to get the bad products,
you know, the product that's miscolored or you know, have
some damage on it from insects or other damage. Because
in the food industry, we want the best looking stuff.
So what are we gonna do with that waste product?
Those leftovers, We're going to use them. There's no difference
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in the labeling law between a broccoli stem and a
broccoli floret. Same thing with colliflour. You know, all those vegetables,
all the trim that comes off of them are all leftovers.
They go over to animal feed, and the labeling says
exactly the same thing. That's what it is. It's a
broccoli plant, so it's labeled as broccoli. But like I said,
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you wouldn't be you wouldn't want to eat just the stems,
you know, is there a lot of nutrition in them? Yeah,
there's some nutrition in it, but not the same amount
as there is in the florets, in the in the
in the flowering parts of these plants. And so we
have to look at those leftovers as part of the diet.
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And of course, again just like the meats sometimes been
transportation stuff like that, they're treated with all kinds of chemicals, preservatives,
and then of course to cover up those preservatives, we
have to add natural flavors which are not natural. Those
are palatins, just to mask things. Those are all synthetic.
We have no idea how they're processed. We have no
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idea what chemicals are in those. The company just say
that's our secret, it's our proprietary blend. And so now
we've got a big, big issue with almost all commercial
foods are basically made with leftovers. And yet you're told
by your veterinarian or your feed dealer, the experts, the
(12:48):
nutrition nests, you cannot feed leftovers, when actually the diets
that they are selling are manufactured exclusively of leftovers. I
harp on food a lot, and every single podcast that
I do, every presentation here because of course, that is
a that is one of the key and fundamental components
(13:10):
and keeping our animals healthy. There are a lot of
other leftovers that we've exposed our deats too, and most
of us wouldn't even think about it, And to be honest,
I didn't think about it for probably a good forty
years of my time in the pet industry because of course, obviously,
you know, being in retail and even being as a
(13:32):
manufacturer's rep. You know, we took our tucking points from manufacturers,
from the processes, the producers, and we believed that we
were doing the right thing. But you know, I remember
when we when I started in business in the pet shops,
my toy selection for dogs and for cats, you know,
may have been a four foot section on a wall,
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you know, maybe thirty different toys, forty different toys. You know,
most of them back then were either vinyl plastic or
a latex rubber, and you know, we that was good
enough for our dogs back in the seventies. And then
all of a sudden we started coming up with all
these blush toys and these rope toys and all these
(14:17):
other really really hugey things, and we thought it was
the greatest thing slice bread, and of course our pets
enjoyed them, sometimes at their peril. Now what am I
trying to say with that, Well, how were these products manufactured,
where did they originally come from, and why did they
make their way into the pet industry. Well, most of
(14:41):
the original toys were basically products that were not safe
for humans. They were the leftovers again, the leftover components
that we couldn't sell in the human industry. As safety
factors became more and more important, and in did you know,
the plastics, we had to start worrying about BPA and
(15:04):
thalatees and other toxic chemicals that were in the vinyl itself.
We had to worry about the toxic paint that they
used to paint these toys. The same thing with the latex.
You know, the paints were really sometimes very very toxic.
The squeakers were sometimes defective and would come right out,
and you know, caused a lot of dogs to choke
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and have all kinds of other gastric issues. You never
thought about that, did you? That these were nothing more
than leftovers from the children's section, from the infant section.
And then we got into the plush storys, the fabric
that was being used. What was it coded was what
was it died with? Again, a lot of this did
not meet the standards of testing for humans and safe
(15:51):
for children. But we just repackaged them and put them
a nice plastic bag, hung them on a peg the header,
or in later days, of course, we still that little
hang tag onto it and hang them up and whila,
we have a whole wall. We have another fifty feet
of toys, every shape, shaping color that you could ever imagine.
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But you know, if you hit pets yourself, you know
that your dog starts chewing on these, starts pulling on it.
Fibers come out, you know, hunks of it come out,
the stuffing comes out. You know, we've talked about things
like raw hide in the past, and different dog bones
and even even natural bones. How worried that, you know,
(16:33):
the veterinarians are about blockages in the intestine. I can
attest over the almost sixty years I've been in this
that there's been more stomach blockages, more gastric blockages from
the stuffing and the fabric from these plush toys than
ever happened with a bone. We're worried about the intestinal
(16:55):
lining being torn by a bone, but it rarely, rarely,
ever happens. We had this one with doctor Dim that
he's never seen a case of that in his late
thirty years of practicing, but we have seen tons of
complete blockages that causes things like bloating and of course
even death in our pets. We're going to be right
(17:16):
back after this quick break.
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Healthier, and welcome back here to the Pet Health Cafe.
The show where Your Pet has a Voice. This is
Bill Pet Health Guru, and I'm talking about leftovers tonight.
And it's just not your leftovers from dinner that are
(19:49):
affecting your pet. It's the leftovers that they make commercial
food with, and as we've been talking about in the
last few minutes, the leftovers that are really your dogs, toys,
your playthings, things of that nature. Now, when I was
talking about the toxic dyes that are in a lot
of this stuff, why do we have to have dog
(20:12):
toys in every color under the sun. Aren't dogs supposed
to be colorblind? Do you think they care what color
that toy is? Now, yes, they do see shades of
gray basically, you know, depending on how bright the product
would be. But there's no reason for it. I mean,
I was thinking, I was talking with somebody and I
(20:34):
mentioned those you know, those rope bones, those tugbones. I
started selling those probably back in the early nineteen eighties.
And basically those bones were cotton and they were white
and probably about as safe and natural as you could get.
(20:55):
And again then all of a sudden, we had to
have colors, all different colors, were using you know, different
color ropes to braid it and make it so we
got these different patterns and everything. Well, in order for
to get a bone like that, a chew toy like that,
to remain in color, they didn't use more cotton rope.
(21:17):
They used polyester synthetics. So now your dog is ingesting
more of that type of problem. Now, where did that
stuff come from? Again? That came primarily from the toy industry,
and some of it from the hardware industry. You know,
we may want to make, you know, your boat stand
out when you tie it up at the mooring, you know,
(21:37):
so we add some colors to it. In some cases
they would add nylon just for strength. But again nylon
isn't a natural product. If it's ingested, it doesn't digest.
That they had cotton would actually break down in the
digestive system. The polyester doesn't. Again we have another possible blockage,
(21:57):
and again we have another possible course of toxic food. Die.
Does that make any sense to anybody out there? I mean,
you're listening, I know people are watching that sort of thing.
What has been your experience with it? Why do you
buy these things that literally are made from leftover material
leftover materials and components that can harm your animal, and
(22:22):
quite often we know about it, we just look for
another substitute, one that's going to be better, you know.
I remember several years ago as part of a you know,
a selection of toys that were meant to keep the
teeth clean, and they were both bones that were basically
made of nylon. And the theory behind it was when
(22:43):
you chew it, when you chew it, you get these
little nubs of nylon sticking up, and that's going to
scrub the teeth and stuff like that. And there was
a case, a lawsuit that was filed against the manufacturer
of one of these bones, and when I reviewed, I
was asked to review some of the information that went
with it. The dog ended up having a severe blockage.
(23:06):
I can't remember if the dog actually died from it
or was almost died from it at that point in time,
but the lawsuit basically claimed that it was a dog
bone's fault because the dog had swallowed a piece of
it and it blocked the intestine. Well, I know that
when they removed that piece of nylon bone, if you will,
(23:29):
the whole thing was entangled in a whole plump of
fabric and stuffing the nylon by itself would have probably
passed through the body, except that this stuffing was already accumulating.
So now I have this blockage that's being stopped because
of the nylon, which in itself is not inert, it
(23:50):
does leave off toxic fumes. The material that's there is
probably polyester or polyester blend of some sort, again giving
off toxicity under the influence of digestive acids and digestive
enzymes and the toxics and the colors in the dies. Obviously,
(24:13):
the people that were doing the sewing could not prove
without a reasonable doubt that it was just that nylon bone,
and because that was the only thing they could really
identify by name. Because you're plush toys, they don't normally
have any kind of identifierround them. The thing that lasts anyway,
(24:33):
and of course if it's treaded, there's no identification at
all unless you remember, you know where you put the
sales receipt and what you know, vendor you bought that from.
But now there's no liability. Not very smart for us
to do that. And yes, I saw the comment that, yeah,
it's the consumers that want the color. Why you really,
(24:53):
you really just need to feed that ego. You know
that it's the color you so that made you buy it.
It's I don't always understand that. I mean, so much
of the stuff is supposed to be functional, but we're
not buying function. What's actually the function of a dog toy?
To keep your dog entertained? Isn't that yet? Isn't that
(25:14):
your job as the owner the exercise to play with
them and to pay them enough attention so that you
don't have to worry about them chewing up the couch
or your pillows or your bed. We also have to worry,
you know, why are they doing it? Also because quite
often the nutritional needs are not being met. And when
you look at things like plastics, the reason that they
(25:36):
swallow them is it has a plastics have a certain
sweetness to them. The petrochemicals that are mimicking their hormone
disruptors or endogrine disruptors that are mimicking what the body needs,
and hence we have created a whole other health problem.
You know, plastics not going to break down in the gut,
(25:56):
It's not going to digest. The best we can hope
for is that it passes through the animal. I mean,
and you know, one of the things that I've seen
over the years is because the carnivores need meat, and
they need things that smell like meat. That was a
problem with raw hide. It wasn't the original raw hides
were bad that were processed here in the United States
(26:16):
because they were mostly all natural. But when the government
shut it down and send it all off overseas and
they started using all kinds of harsh chemicals to make
it that made the raw hides cox, the arsenic, the
bleaches that they used to make the bones white, and
(26:38):
all these things that make things pretty. That's where the
toxicity came in, and that created a problem. Well, part
of that problem too was that we're not feeding our
carnivores a species appropriate diet, so they're looking for nutrients
wherever they can. If it happens to come from anti freeze,
another sweet thing, it's a petrochemical, they die. It's a poison,
(27:03):
But why do they drink it? Because these addictive things
are endocrine disruptors. That makes the body. It fools the
body into thinking it's something that's not. Same thing with
the toys, all the plastic and if we're defeeding it
a species of appropriate diet. Generally speaking, we will not
have an issue with the dog trying to eat inappropriate things.
(27:24):
I mean, I know, over my career, I've seen dogs
pass all kinds of stuff that they ate, and a
lot of it is clothed pieces of clothing because if
we're wearing it, our perspiration, our body oils are on
those pieces of clothing, so to them it smells like
(27:44):
a steak or something similar to it. I mean, I've
had clients come in and the dog passes socks and underwear.
I had one client that literally took their dog out
and after the dog finished doing his business, they noticed
something hanging out of his butt. So when they went
in the house, the owner grabbed on to it with
(28:05):
you know, I would assume gloves or something, but started
gently pulling this whatever it was coming out the butt.
It was a fabric of some sort and it just
kept coming out, coming out, coming out, coming out, And
when it finally finished up, it was literally a complete
pair of pantyhose. Now do you think that was blocking
(28:27):
that gut? It would never digest. It was just a
good thing that the owner was watching, and it didn't
develop into something much more serious. Now, where did they
come from could have come from the laundry pile. But
then again it could have been leftovers that were thrown
out there were no good anymore. That's why we have
to watch our pets so closely. Even things like collars
(28:49):
and leashes, you know, are made basically from industrial access,
industrial production, so that's a leftover product. One of the
worst ones that I lived through the beginning of and
through a lot of my career and actually sold a
lot of these products were nylon webbing collars and leashes.
(29:10):
Like I say, the webbing was there, that's overruns, and
of course they found just another market for it. But
when I used to sell leather goods and good leather
collars and leads and stuff like that, I used to
demonstrate with the client. I would literally have you take
your lead and take a leather one and run your
hand down it and basically it's fairly smooth, not abrasive,
(29:36):
and it's not hurting your hand. And then I would
tell people to do the same thing on a nylon
lead of nylon web lead. Literally you are burning your hand.
It burns that nylon thread is actually used as a
cutting tool for a lot of different products in the
manufacturer process. When you put that nylon collar, that nylon
harness on your path, basically, it's cutting through the hair
(30:00):
as it moves. It's acting like a saw. That's why
we sometimes see great amounts of hair loss on the
collar region around the neck where the collar is twenty
four to seven, which is why I don't leave a
collar on my dog. You know, twenty four to seven,
color and league go on and they're connected together all
the time. I use an appropriate collar, get slipped over
the head, we go for our walk, We finished, it
(30:22):
comes off. I don't have that hair loss on my dog.
I don't have that irritation. And some of them even
got worse than that in that they went from again
that nylon, which is a purer product, to polypropylene, another plastic,
and we actually had problems with those polypropylene ones. The
number one they would fail quite easily and break. I'm
(30:46):
a little bit past on my break. We're going to
go to it right now.
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Health Guru and again I want to invite you to
jump in a chat if you've got some questions about
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you know, helping out all your pet owners out there
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that probably didn't realize a lot of these things that
I'm talking about. And I was mentioning the polypropylene collars
and how they had a tendency who fail. They break
very easily, and of course that's a health hazard to
your dog, especially if you're out in the you know,
a busy area where you know there's a lot of
traffic and things of that, and your collar breaks, your
(33:13):
dog's in traffic and you're in trouble and they're in trouble,
and we don't want that to happen. The other thing
with polypropylene collars, though, too, is a lot of that
that blend is very sticky and they would sometimes stick
to the dog's skin. And of course as you're taking
out the collar, because you don't take it off and
on each time you walk theme you're just leaving it
on till it looks really really ratty and dirty, and
(33:35):
you're going to take it off, and basically you rip
off not only hair but sometimes skin and everything. So
again it's one of those things you have to be
mindful of. You have to look at what the product
is made of. Another thing is, of course clothing, same
issues as we have with the toys. You know, a
lot of dog clothing. It's nice to dress up your
dog and it's really really huge see and things like that.
(33:57):
But depending on the materials. Again, a lot of polyester,
a lot of synthetics does not allow the skin to breathe.
The body is detoxing continuously. We have those oils coming
out and you know, I guess that. You know, you
could do something like a terry cloth, you know that's
all one percent cotton that would absorb some of these
(34:17):
oils and some of these toxins, but most of it doesn't.
In fact, it's actually adding to the toxic load. And
of course the way they fit to And again a
lot of the fabric that was used in this industry
is leftovers from the fashion industry. Could be just last
year's style could be again did not meet the standards
(34:39):
for human use. And of course even on the human
use thing, we have to worry about things like flame
retardant on all fabrics. And actually that's the number two
toxin that they find in cats, flame retardant. And where
do they pick it up from? Laying on the furniture,
laying on your carpet, absorbed through the skin. So when
we put this thing, these things on his clothing, that
(35:01):
body's absorbing those toxins. How many out there have a scratchy,
itchy dog and you don't know what to do about
it except if a drugs. That's the issue, that's where
it's coming from. We're actually doing that to our animals. Now.
The whole purpose of doing this thing, this whole show
on leftovers, is to kind of call out the industry
that's been so good to me for so many years.
(35:23):
We built it on partial truth. A lot of us
in the trenches didn't know, didn't think even about the toxins.
And that's sort of thing because thirty years ago, fifty
years ago, was not a problem what it is today.
But as I've gotten older and more refined and understand
the process, understand where these toxins are coming from over
(35:43):
generations and generations, it becomes apparent to me that while
we were trying to do something creative, if you will.
We thought we were giving you know, enrichment to our
dogs by giving them toys. You know, they were just
as content chasing a stick as they are a rope bone,
(36:03):
you know, a rope tug or some of these other
tub toys. I know I've seen well gone into you know,
clients' homes and there's twenty toys laying around, and you
know some of them will be you know, fabric, and
you know, you see these little nubs of fabric all
over the floor where they the dog has actually been
(36:24):
flucking yet, you know, I mean if you had your
dog attacked the squeaker and just chew that toy until
they remove the squeaker, and once they remove it, if
you're not there, if you don't catch it, you know
your dog is going to ingest it. Now you've got
a problem, you know. And actually, when you go back
years ago when I started in the industry, most of
(36:44):
the squeakers were not soft plastic like they are today.
They were metal. So your dog was eating literally pieces
of metal. You think that's good for the digestive track.
So what I'm trying to say is, you know, we
have to start holding the industry to a stand to
a higher standard. We want them to do better, you know,
(37:05):
we don't, you know, quit worrying about whether this toy
comes in deep purple or pink, or lavender, or orange
or yellow or green, because that's for us. The dog
doesn't care. We might think they do, because we do.
Can you know, we're sometimes condition them with certain toys
that are a little bit different shades. They're seeing shades
(37:27):
of color, but they're not seeing actual colors. But these
are all issues that we have to worry about. Even
some of the treat products out there, you know, again
are made from leftovers. You know, they're not good wholesome ingredients.
And it's the same as true with our foods. So
many of our foods are made from leftovers as well.
(37:48):
We think they're whole foods, but they're really not. And
it's incumbent on us as pet parents and pet guardians
and advocates like myself to call out these things to
educate you on what to look for. You know, when
I sold products, and you know, when I sell products
at any time now, it's like I'm looking out for
the welfare of that animal. It's not about making a sale,
(38:11):
you know, I do a lot with of course herbals
and botanicals along with the species appropriate diet. But one
of the things that we've learned, even with things like
serves and botanicals, that it's never about one thing as
far as health is concerned, because we're detoxing. I mean,
it's not been thinking about the number of toxins that
I've explained here between in the food, the preservatives, the
(38:34):
artificial colors, the anti cake agent, anti stick agents that
are in some of them, same thing with treats, the
natural flavors, all these all these additives that go into it,
all the toxic dyes, all the toxic plastics and petrochemicals
that our animals are completely completely exposed to on a
(38:54):
daily basis, and that concerns me a lot. And again
I'm trying to put a warning out there for all
of your pet owners out there, your pet parents, share this,
share this with everybody, because we're all making those mistakes.
We all want something cutesy and fun. We want to
make our animals feel special. We want to feel special
(39:16):
about giving them something different, something unique, you know. I
Mean when I talk to people about diets, it's like, yeah,
we're doing a raw meat diet. Well, what else can
I give them? Well, they don't need anything else. Well
can't we give them like some beans and the peas
and the carrots and the you know, the broccoli and
all that stuff. Why if they don't need it. Well,
(39:38):
we think that that's healthy for us, even though a
lot of it isn't. But we think that. So we
think we're just putting our human values on them. You know,
we dress them up because we want them to look
like us. You know, we want them to be pretty.
But don't they have beauty in themselves. That's why we
got them in the first place. You know, if you
adopted a dog, or if you purchase a dog, you didn't.
(40:00):
You didn't go for that doug because it was wearing
a very very cute outfit. You looked at that core animal,
and they looked in your eyes. A adopted you. They
chose you. Let's not fail them. I hope I brought
a lot of good information to you today. I hope
you can take this with you know, some seriousness. Watch
what we're doing. Look in your house, See the household
(40:22):
things that are around them, along with all the cleaning
products and everything else that you use. You know, deodorant, insecticides,
that sort of thing, because these are all adding to
that toxic load and it may be time to do
a house cleaning and then start, you know, looking for
the right things for your animals for your own health
as well. And hopefully, like I say, hopefully you got
(40:44):
a lot of information out of this. With that come
then we're looking forward to seeing you again next week
on the Pet Health Cafe. You know, be sure to
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Thank you.
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