Issue #89
Did you know: Our green-lipped mussel treats (this month’s seafood!) are a great natural source of glucosamine ? Glucosamine helps build cartilage and can help protect our pup’s joints as they age!
Available until April 17th ONLY, here’s the current lineup:
🦃 Turkey Gizzard
🐖 Pork Liver
🐟Green Lipped Mussels
🐄 Beef Aorta
🦆Duck Neck
🦬Bison Trachea (NEW heavy chew)
🐑 Lamb Trotter (NEW Bone-In Super Chew)
🦬Bison Meatballs
The Feedreal easy dog food calculator is now available! The first of its kind, this all-in-one raw dog food calculator tells you how much your dog should be eating daily AND creates a daily recipe based on the ingredients you have on hand.
Feedreal.com is also a v aluable resource for research-based health and nutrition information. The premium content is exclusive to our members but the calculator is available for everyone! Check it out and let us know what you think!
Bravo Packing closes due to sanitation violations. After several warnings from the FDA, the decision has been made to permanently recall all of its produc ts including its green tripe and Performance Dog food. Violations include dirty equipment encrusted with food, improper food storage, salmonella & listeria, as well as bird and rodent feces. Bravo Packing is not affiliated with Bravo Pet Foods.
Push to end testing on dogs in Michigan. Wayne State University School of Medicine is under fire after 31 years of heart failure experiments on dogs. After the implantation of a medical device that increases heart rate, the dogs are run on a treadmill until their heart gives out or the device malfunctions. Roughly $15 million dollars have funded this research with no improvements to show for it . Opponents ask that funding moves to human-centric experiments with actual benefits.
Robot dog joins FDNY. Testing and training has begun for the newest member of the fire team! The $75,000 Boston Dynamics creation, affectionately known a s Spot, will assist the department in search and rescue missions. Spot can also sniff out dangerous gasses and gather data on building safety. The digital dog aims to create safer conditions by exploring smoldering and/or collapsed buildings and checking structural integrity before fire teams enter.
Hundreds of dogs die in Ukranian shelter. As Russian troops leave the capital volunteers are returning to find horrific conditions. Dogs at the Borodyanka shelter outside Kyiv were trapped in cages for nearly a month with no food or water leading to the deaths of over 300 dogs. Thankfully, 253 dogs survived and are being treated and cared for and then moving to shelters and foster homes in neighboring countries.
2022 Cadbury bunny is man’s best friend. The annual Cadbury Easter bunny contest has ended and the votes are in! The 2022 honorary bunny is a therapy dog from Ohio named Annie Rose. The English doodle visits nursing homes and offers love and comfort to the residents. She even continued her duties during the pandemic by visiting outside patient’s windows.
Pet owners not correctly handling food. A new study suggests that only one-third of pet parents are washing their hands after feeding their dogs. Proper food handling is important no matter what you feed, especially because the majority of food-borne pathogen contaminations like e. Coli and salmonella are found in kibble. While our dogs are designed to handle bacteria, washing your hands, your dog’s bowls, and the food prep area is a good habit to be in to prevent any potential illness in your family.
Excess copper in food could be related to illness. Veterinary scientists are questioning if a maximum limit of copper should be set for dog foods and if it’s connected to a rise in liver disease. AAFCO creates minimum requirements for vitamins and minerals but does not set safe upper limits. Many companies add excess to ensure the minimums are met which can have negative effects on copper-sensitive dogs. This is another example of how “AAFCO approved” does not mean a healthy food.
Bacteria is a part of life! Even though we know we should practice safe food handling it’s important to remember that dogs are designed to handle bacteria . Raw feeding is no more harmful than feeding kibble!
You can learn more at Feedreal.com !