POWER UP… with mushrooms!
No, this isn’t a line from the Mario Brothers. This is for your dog!
Although we make reference to a video game, we are not playing around when advocating mushrooms for your companion animals. Mushrooms provide so much goodness. They give our dogs nutrients, proteins, minerals and vitamins it needs to generate energy and repair cells.
Here are some key attributes about mushrooms you may not know.
-Low in carbohydrates, calories and sodium
-High in fiber and protein
-Rich in Vitamin B, riboflavin, niacin and selenium
-Cholesterol and Fat Free
-Excellent source of potassium
It is important to know that Selenium is an antioxidant that helps to fight off the damaging effects of free radicals. As a result, regular ingestion of mushrooms has been proven to decrease the amount of cancerous cells in the body. They not only fight and reduce cancerous cells and tumors, but they help prevent more of those cells from forming in the body.
Mushrooms keep the body, through the boosting of immune cell function, in a state of vigilance. This helps your dog fight off disease, prevent cancer and generally keeping your animal in optimal health.
Since we recognize the importance of mushrooms for your pets health, we our giving our seal of approval to Organic Pet Superfood. The company provides 4 lines of mushroom whole-food daily supplements for our pets’ health.
1. Immunity – safeguards against free-radical damage and immune system imbalances.
2. Joints – potent nutrition for joint health.
3. Skin and Coat – for a healthy skin and glossy coat.
4. Digestion – efficient digestion and enhanced wellness for your pet.
The supplements are made in the USA, USDA certified organic, safe and non toxic and veterinarian approved. The mushroom blends are also adaptogenic. Just a fancy word for saying that, it gently adapts for your pet’s specific nutritional needs.
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We are also fans of the brothers behind this company. No, not the Mario Brothers. We are referring to James and Michael Crouch. They come from a family that has been in the mushroom farming business since 1985. They married the family business with their passion for pets to come up with this great supplement line. The icing on the cake is that purchases also go help fund Cancer Treatment for working dogs.
After personally researching this line, I use the supplements for myself. Not just my dogs, but for me, too. Yes, I take this pet supplement for myself. Dog gone crazy? Maybe. But who doesn’t want to
POWER UP?!
RAW Introduction Continued…
In the second installment, I wanted to address the reasons and hurdles that people may have with feeding the raw diet for dogs.
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RAW Introduction
After a long hiatus, I am back to write about the benefits of a raw food diet for your dogs and cats. We’ve discussed various raw alternative solutions that work well but the gold standard in feeding is the Raw Diet for your dogs.
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This is my third installment in my series of food rotations I give to my dog. Stella and Chewy’s is the maker of raw and freeze dried dog food and treats. I’ve met with the founder Marie Moody a few times and she started her rescue Chewy and Chewy’s best friend Stella on raw diet. This was the start of Stella and Chewy’s!
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Lucky’s Honest Kitchen
Second in the installment of foods I rotate with my dogs is the Honest Kitchen. This company is family run and based out of San Diego. The food is very unique because it is dehydrated. All you do is add warm water to the 100% human grade ingredients, stir and voila! You have fresh, healthy and yum yums dog food ready to serve.
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ZiwiPeak – Hunger From Down Under
The first in the series of foods that I feed my dogs is ZiwiPeak. Most people probably have not heard of this company or food. Mark and I were really excited when we first discovered this food 3 years back at a tradeshow. ZiwiPeak is from New Zealand. It is a very unique product, super high in quality, extremely palatable and best of all, you can still scoop and go like kibble.
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Almost without fail, everyday I will encounter a customer that comes in that has been sold on the kibble myth. What is the kibble myth? That kibble cleans teeth! Stop and think about this for a second, this is saying that eating a bowl of Captain Crunch is good for our teeth. We all know that is not the case but somehow the kibble industry has been able to sell this idea and try to lock in customers to kibble. read more
UN-Natural Balance
Sleeping Like A Baby
Since the closing of the Natura deal with P&G earlier this month, we have been facing a lot of questions about what lies ahead. I have been quite open with our position and, as a result, we have been pursued by the manufacturer and the local distributor to continue to sell the lines.
Their approach has been to show us how successful we have been in the past selling these lines and how much potential business we may lose. They have gone as far as offering to fly us out to see the P&G plant in Ohio. They want to show us that P&G is reformed. They want us to believe. They want us to continue to sell their foods.
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