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Thursday, October 20, 2005
Vetcast 6
My take on the Bones and Raw Foods (BARF)Diet Vetcast 6
11 comments:
Anonymous
said...
I can not tell you how very very helpful your pod casts are. I am not a vet. but I do foster for the Humane association and different rescues in Tennessee. Your common sense and economical solutions to health problems have been of enormous value. Most people, regardless of economic status, want to do right by their pet, they just are unaware. Again thanks
I just found your podcast, and I'm really enjoying it. I was wondering if you have any opinion of the premium foods that have no corn meal or meat by-products? Also, I have two young dogs (2 years old), and they have both been x-rayed and found to have early signs of hip dysplasia. One does limp after heavy activity, the other has shown no symptoms. They are both on a liquid glucosamine supplement, is there anything else I should be doing to prevent or delay the onset of discomfort. Also, do you recommend surgery usually, or prefer to treat naturally?
This is truely a great service you are providing. I was a vet tech for six years and often has friends ask me for advice about pets. I will let those i know aware of this blog.
I just found your podcast last weekend as of today have listened to all of them. I subscribe to dozens of podcasts but I have to tell you that I just love what you are doing and I think it is very well done (glad you worked out the audio quality issue). I am relatively new to the world of dogs and recently adopted a cat and am eager to learn all I can. It is so wonderfull to listen to your podcasts while I work and LEARN SO MUCH! Please keep them coming! And I might add, that I appreciate your objectivity and the fact that you are not just pumping a website to sell products. Well done Sir!
I have only one request at this time. I would love it if you could find the time to include a segment on puppymills. Just to inform people. As a veternarian I am sure you are well versed in the horrors of puppymills- or perhaps not given your location. I am right next door to Missouri where 90% of dogs sold in pet stores come from. Yes, I am a memeber of a rescue group and that is why I am asking you to please spend a few minutes of your time to do a podcast on this horrible practice. Most people have no idea what a puppymill is or where "that doggy in the window" comes from. I humbly ask you to please direct a podcast at some point towards this subject. If that doesn't fit into your format that is fine, I understand. I am going to listen to every podcast that put out.
As you do not want to publish your email (WOW cannot blaim you there!) I will give you mine in case you would like to respond personaly. I also will give you the URL of the rescue group that I am asociated with. It is a great bunch of people helping a lot of homeless and abused dogs. THANK YOU!!!
Hello and thank you for your kind comments. I will be putting forth another podcast nest week and will address these questions and others.
Anonymous mentioned corn meal and meat by-products and xraychick asked about BHT and corn and meat by products:
Take a look at the typical omnivore diet of a human: Sugar,salt,refined flowers,hydrogenated fats, BHA, BHT, EDTA,Aspartame, Acesulfame K and Saccharin,sulfur dioxide, metabisulfites,Nitrites and Nitrates etc...........
I don't like grain and rendered meat products in dog food but there are few reasonable alternatives. Wellness is a great choice for those who can get it and afford it. Pedigree is the best grocery diet. I really don't know why pedigree stands out. Over 15 years I have asked most all patients what they feed. Pedigree is by far and away the most common answer for overall good health. If I see poor quality fur or hair and GI problems...Nutro, Ol' roy,Walmart and Costco-type brands stand out. It may be because most folks are feeding pedigree anyway and they just happen to have healthy dogs...but this does not explain the lack of poor condition dogs on pedigree.
Pedigree is simply a good base food. Wellness is the best. All foods unfortunately lack the raw nutients I recommend feeding in the podcasts. I will talk about preservatives more too.
For dogs with hip dysplasia it is important to keep them active with gentle excersize, keep them lean, give MSM, glucosamine, raw chicken wings, and use a mild pain medication like bufferin to keep them active and comfortable. A painful dog will gain weight due to a lack of activity which will make them even more painful as they get heavier. Sugery is based on severity of pain and dysplasia. Get a few opinions from conservative vets (those who are not trying to pay for fancy equipment and a lack of common sense...)
I am a trucker, but in the winter my girl stays home with parrents.
I have a 10 yearl old mut. 1/2 shelti 1/2 colly. Hair/fur like lassy. in summer i brush cut her. Hair always has grown out good till this fall. Vet/x-ray/limping=old age and a bit over weight.
Bought vet 80.00 food, and she is on Metacam 20 kg per day. This cost $$ I try to switch to other food in pet stores that had (spelling) glugosum in it. (she can't take the pill, she gets the s*its)
My dog was (was) the type of eater you wish to train your dog too, she nibbled when she was hungry untill she went on the diet! Now she eats all food in one shot. I am down to 2 1/2 cups per day split (8-9am) (6-8pm) Feeding, and now 1/2 strip of raw bacon. (chicken wings next shopping time).
Since she started on Metacam her fur doesn't really grow long in the areas of the upper neck, and leg joints on the upper back, but the rest of the fur does leaving patches where her legs/joints meet. I find this strange, as their isn't any change in her what so ever. I am making a trip to the vet in 2 days to put her back on this food i forget the name (m) maybe or DM simple name, and another bottle of Metacam, I have her every second day for the dose.
Should I be really conceren with the fur, her under coat is their, just not the long fur/hair.
Sorry that this is long. I enjoy your podcast. Since listening to your show, I see her different. Like it is ok that she is hungry now, she is loosing weight, she is around 40lbs, no tummy, but when you shake her skin it was loose, now it is tighter.
Another question is, how do you RE interduce your dog back to eating your way, instead of her pushing me out of the way soon as i fill her dish? I use to think it was cute how she could make a whole bowl last till night, now, she licks it clean with in minuits.
I really have enjoyed listening to your podcast and since listening to it, I have learnt so much and informed some of my friends who are really putting your advice into action. I ant to thankyou for the wonderful work you are doing, but want to know what is happening with it, I have not seen you doing any more podcasts since last year! Are you going to be doing nay more?
Hi Jim, I don't know how often you check this site - as it looks like the podcast dates are from last year, but I *have* to post my thanks and appreciation for your podcasts!
They are VERY informative, and I only wish I would have had this information when my pets were younger.
As you suggested, I will change the food over slowly and get rid of the grain in my itchy, scratchy dog and hopefully, it will save her back from further injury! Who would have thought that one issue would have such a dramatic impact on another!
PALEOPET is the culmination of 25 years of nutritional research for dogs and cats. Please google it for more information and as a continuation to Vetcast America!
11 comments:
I can not tell you how very very helpful your pod casts are. I am not a vet. but I do foster for the Humane association and different rescues in Tennessee. Your common sense and economical solutions to health problems have been of enormous value. Most people, regardless of economic status, want to do right by their pet, they just are unaware. Again thanks
You are the very reason I enjoy putting this together. Thanks!
I just found your podcast, and I'm really enjoying it. I was wondering if you have any opinion of the premium foods that have no corn meal or meat by-products? Also, I have two young dogs (2 years old), and they have both been x-rayed and found to have early signs of hip dysplasia. One does limp after heavy activity, the other has shown no symptoms. They are both on a liquid glucosamine supplement, is there anything else I should be doing to prevent or delay the onset of discomfort. Also, do you recommend surgery usually, or prefer to treat naturally?
Thanks!
This is truely a great service you are providing. I was a vet tech for six years and often has friends ask me for advice about pets. I will let those i know aware of this blog.
I just found your podcast last weekend as of today have listened to all of them. I subscribe to dozens of podcasts but I have to tell you that I just love what you are doing and I think it is very well done (glad you worked out the audio quality issue). I am relatively new to the world of dogs and recently adopted a cat and am eager to learn all I can. It is so wonderfull to listen to your podcasts while I work and LEARN SO MUCH! Please keep them coming! And I might add, that I appreciate your objectivity and the fact that you are not just pumping a website to sell products. Well done Sir!
I have only one request at this time. I would love it if you could find the time to include a segment on puppymills. Just to inform people. As a veternarian I am sure you are well versed in the horrors of puppymills- or perhaps not given your location. I am right next door to Missouri where 90% of dogs sold in pet stores come from. Yes, I am a memeber of a rescue group and that is why I am asking you to please spend a few minutes of your time to do a podcast on this horrible practice. Most people have no idea what a puppymill is or where "that doggy in the window" comes from. I humbly ask you to please direct a podcast at some point towards this subject. If that doesn't fit into your format that is fine, I understand. I am going to listen to every podcast that put out.
As you do not want to publish your email (WOW cannot blaim you there!) I will give you mine in case you would like to respond personaly. I also will give you the URL of the rescue group that I am asociated with. It is a great bunch of people helping a lot of homeless and abused dogs. THANK YOU!!!
jamies@sunflower.com
Small dog rescue group!
http://www.fluffybutts.com/
Hello and thank you for your kind comments.
I will be putting forth another podcast nest week and will address these questions and others.
Anonymous mentioned corn meal and meat by-products and xraychick asked about BHT and corn and meat by products:
Take a look at the typical omnivore diet of a human: Sugar,salt,refined flowers,hydrogenated fats, BHA, BHT, EDTA,Aspartame, Acesulfame K and Saccharin,sulfur dioxide, metabisulfites,Nitrites and Nitrates
etc...........
I don't like grain and rendered meat products in dog food but there are few reasonable alternatives. Wellness is a great choice for those who can get it and afford it. Pedigree is the best grocery diet. I really don't know why pedigree stands out. Over 15 years I have asked most all patients what they feed. Pedigree is by far and away the most common answer for overall good health. If I see poor quality fur or hair and GI problems...Nutro, Ol' roy,Walmart and Costco-type brands stand out. It may be because most folks are feeding pedigree anyway and they just happen to have healthy dogs...but this does not explain the lack of poor condition dogs on pedigree.
Pedigree is simply a good base food. Wellness is the best. All foods unfortunately lack the raw nutients I recommend feeding in the podcasts.
I will talk about preservatives more too.
For dogs with hip dysplasia it is important to keep them active with gentle excersize, keep them lean, give MSM, glucosamine, raw chicken wings, and use a mild pain medication like bufferin to keep them active and comfortable. A painful dog will gain weight due to a lack of activity which will make them even more painful as they get heavier. Sugery is based on severity of pain and dysplasia. Get a few opinions from conservative vets (those who are not trying to pay for fancy equipment and a lack of common sense...)
I have to say I like your cast.
I am a trucker, but in the winter my girl stays home with parrents.
I have a 10 yearl old mut.
1/2 shelti 1/2 colly.
Hair/fur like lassy. in summer i brush cut her. Hair always has grown out good till this fall.
Vet/x-ray/limping=old age and a bit over weight.
Bought vet 80.00 food, and she is on Metacam 20 kg per day. This cost $$ I try to switch to other food in pet stores that had (spelling) glugosum in it. (she can't take the pill, she gets the s*its)
My dog was (was) the type of eater you wish to train your dog too, she nibbled when she was hungry untill she went on the diet! Now she eats all food in one shot. I am down to 2 1/2 cups per day split (8-9am) (6-8pm) Feeding, and now 1/2 strip of raw bacon. (chicken wings next shopping time).
Since she started on Metacam her fur doesn't really grow long in the areas of the upper neck, and leg joints on the upper back, but the rest of the fur does leaving patches where her legs/joints meet. I find this strange, as their isn't any change in her what so ever. I am making a trip to the vet in 2 days to put her back on this food i forget the name (m) maybe or DM simple name, and another bottle of Metacam, I have her every second day for the dose.
Should I be really conceren with the fur, her under coat is their, just not the long fur/hair.
Sorry that this is long. I enjoy your podcast. Since listening to your show, I see her different. Like it is ok that she is hungry now, she is loosing weight, she is around 40lbs, no tummy, but when you shake her skin it was loose, now it is tighter.
Another question is, how do you RE interduce your dog back to eating your way, instead of her pushing me out of the way soon as i fill her dish? I use to think it was cute how she could make a whole bowl last till night, now, she licks it clean with in minuits.
ps. sorry for the spelling.
David
Just an update, I will be updating this again soon - I lost my recorder and just fell out of the routine having been busy with other things...
I really have enjoyed listening to your podcast and since listening to it, I have learnt so much and informed some of my friends who are really putting your advice into action. I ant to thankyou for the wonderful work you are doing, but want to know what is happening with it, I have not seen you doing any more podcasts since last year! Are you going to be doing nay more?
Hi Jim,
I don't know how often you check this site - as it looks like the podcast dates are from last year, but I *have* to post my thanks and appreciation for your podcasts!
They are VERY informative, and I only wish I would have had this information when my pets were younger.
As you suggested, I will change the food over slowly and get rid of the grain in my itchy, scratchy dog and hopefully, it will save her back from further injury! Who would have thought that one issue would have such a dramatic impact on another!
Thanks for being the vet you are :)
Debi
PALEOPET is the culmination of 25 years of nutritional research for dogs and cats. Please google it for more information and as a continuation to Vetcast America!
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