Hey Everyone! Welcome to the Theory of Pets Podcast.
I am your co-host, Connor Knight, and the President of Top Dog Tips.
Today we are going to brush up on some controversial topics and questions.
Commercial Dog Food Recently, commercial dog food has been intensely scrutinized for its process of providing cheap and affordable dog food at scale.
To do this at their level, many believe the dog food companies cut corners and lack quality control.
We will go through some tough questions, and you'll hear direct answers from a veterinarian, so stay tuned!
Here are some of the questions we tackle:
How did homemade dog food come about?
What is the difference between raw dog food and homemade dog and cat food?
What is considered healthier between the two?
What are your thoughts on carbohydrates being included in their diet?
What are the important vitamins and minerals that need to be included in those diets that commercial dog foods claim to have?
What is the issue with commercial dog foods?
Is the controversy valid that commercial dog foods lack qc and cut corners on protein sources?
What are your thoughts on the past decade of controversy that commercial dog food has come under?
What exactly do dogs and cats need nutrition on a general rule of thumb?
What are extreme home recipes?
What are middle-of-the-road home recipes?
Does a dog need carbohydrates?
How much more expensive is it for owners to switch to homemade dog food or raw food compared to kibble?
What are your thoughts on some of the higher-end kibble dog food?
Do they hit all the nutrients that a dog needs?
What are your thoughts on the synthetic vitamins and amino acids added to commercial dog foods?
Me: I am not a vet but I took a course that was designed by a veterinarian that taught me how to read dog food labels and talked about how these synthetic vitamins and minerals work and how they act differently than the real vitamins and minerals dogs and cats get in food.
What are the health benefits of homemade dog and cat food?
The best advice, work with a nutritionist. https://acvn.org/
What are the potential health downsides of homemade dog and cat food?
I learned that salmonella already exists in the gut of some healthy dogs, so would you say outside of that is there really any risk to the dog?
Hey there everyone! My name is Connor Knight and I am the President of Top Dog Tips. I currently
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Today we will be discussing the confusing and misunderstood topic of vaccines for dogs.
Here is the previous podcast w/ Dr. Kingsley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w7ShS7lKSg
The person that will be answering all of my questions about vaccines for dogs is Dr. Lyndsey Kingsley.
Dr. Lyndsey Kingsley is the Chief of Staff of the Bettervet.com. Better Vet is a mobile veterinary service that brings vet care to your home.
Which means, yes, these veterinarians perform house calls.
Better Vet offers very basic care all the way up to more minor services like surgery and teeth extraction. Check them out at bettervet.com for your next dog's vet visit.
Dr. Lyndsey Kingsley has been practicing since 2015, and her practice currently resides in Austin, Texas.
She has worked with hundreds and thousands of domestic pets during her tenure and is very well versed in discussing vaccines.
Some of the things I ask Dr. Kingsley are:
How did vaccines start? Where did they originate?
So why should people get their dogs vaccinated?
Were there any vaccines that didn’t work or were recalled?
What are core and non-core vaccines?
Which vaccines are ones that all dogs should have? (core vaccines) Why?
Do you recommend different vaccines for breed, age, lifestyle?
Even if a breed is more prone, do you still recommend vaccine if their lifestyle limits that exposure? - Which vaccines are important for west a. Midwest b. Northeast c. Southeast
What are the differences in vaccines dogs and cats should have
How does their indoor or outdoor frequency change what vaccines you would recommend?
Is over-vaccination a thing in dogs? Why is overvaccination happening?
What can happen when a dog is over-vaccinated?
Can a dog recover from being over-vaccinated? I even think my dog got one of these vaccines back to back years.
Can you explain why vets continue to vaccinate yearly or even every three years if this is the case for these kinds of vaccines?
What complications can come from over-vaccination?
Can some vaccines cause cancer?
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Hi there everyone!
Thank you again for tuning into this next episode of the Theory of Pets Podcast!
Today I am joined by Julie Napolitano. Julie is the owner of the company Puppington!
Julie started the company in 2019 and it was originally called Pup Wax.
Pup Wax is a balm/moisturizer that is her original flagship product.
She came up with the product formulation after being fed up with the typical general balm or moisturizer in the pet industry at the time.
She talks in the podcast about how almost all of them had some harmful ingredients in the mixture.
This led her to constantly doing research and studying what the best ingredients would be for making sure her dog's nose and paws were protected and moisturized.
Enter Pup Wax, and since then she has recently rebranded the company into what is now known as Puppington.
She has expanded her product line to chews for immunity and calming effects.
Today we are going to talk about how she got started, her background, and some of the biggest lessons she learned building an e-commerce business geared towards pets from scratch!
It's going to be a great episode so stay tuned!