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🗓️ 4 December 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Is it crazy to put your dog on a ketogenic diet? We did for all 3 of our dogs years ago, but have gotten a little lazy lately... our guest Daniel Schulof shares why grain-free pet food isn't the best for your dog, how to care for your dog, and avoid heart disease.
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0:00.0 | Hey, this is episode 211, and today we're chatting about why your dogs should be eating less carbs, how to do it, why more people don't do it, |
0:10.0 | potential links between dog heart disease and grain-free pet foods and so much more. |
0:16.8 | Our guest today is Daniel Sculoff, who's the founder and CEO of Keto Natural Pet Foods, |
0:23.1 | maker of the world's first line of low-carbon hydogenic |
0:26.9 | dry pet food products. |
0:28.4 | He is an entrepreneur and science writer |
0:30.6 | with a focus on exposing the conflicts of interest, bad faith, and shoddy science |
0:36.1 | responsible for the chronic disease epidemics killing millions of pets every year. |
0:41.5 | His 2016 book, Dogs, Dog Food, and Dogma has been called the most rigorous |
0:47.3 | and probing canine canine nutrition book ever written. Okay, so you guys know and if you don't I will tell you I have three beautiful amazing |
0:55.7 | amazing dogs who continue to challenge me as a human. It's hard. It's hard. It's hard |
1:00.6 | at three dogs as too many dogs living on a sailboat. I will tell you this. |
1:04.0 | But Lexi, our German Shepherd, who is 17. |
1:07.5 | She is 17 years old. This dog is amazing. |
1:10.5 | She's never been on grain-free food because she would rather eat tree bark than grain-free food. Not kidding. When she was a puppy, we got her when she was four, we rescued her. |
1:20.0 | When she was four, we put her on this quote unquote special diet and we put the food down we were camping |
1:27.8 | it was the first time she tried it and she started eating a tree like actually she refused to eat for days. We had to like go to the local |
1:34.8 | store. We were like in the middle of nowhere and grab some random dog food to give her until we got |
1:39.7 | home. And that was the last time we put her on special crazy food. Now then we got pebbles a year later because our German Shepherd Lexi kept eating my shoes and I wasn't okay with that and so I got her a two plaything. I'm totally kidding guys |
1:54.8 | we didn't actually get our Pomeranian so that Lexi could chew her but they definitely got along and |
2:00.8 | Lexi stopped eating all my shoes. So Pebbles, she is 11 years old. She was actually recently |
2:06.4 | diagnosed with heart disease and that's been really hard to watch a little thing that I love so much struggling and she had her first |
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