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  • Ferment on This: Dietary Fiber for your Pets

    What is dietary fiber? Dietary fiber is a type of plant-derived carbohydrate. Carbohydrates can be broken down into simple versus complex. Simple carbohydrates would include sugars like glucose. However, dietary fiber is a complex carbohydrate consisting of many simple sugars in different configurations. The dietary fibers are indigestible, meaning that your pet cannot break them down and digest…

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  • Rotational Feeding for your Pet

    There are more choices for pet foods now than ever before. If that wasn’t overwhelming enough for us pet owners, there’s also a plethora of information available! With such a wide variety of diets to choose from, it can be difficult to know which one is the best for your pet. There is a new concept that has recently been gaining more traction over the past few years – Rotational Feeding!

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  • Top 10 Tips for Keeping Your Pet Safe This Winter

    It’s official – winter is coming! And while snowy weather can be magically beautiful, it also comes with additional risks and hazards for our pets. Here are 10 tips to keep your pet safe this winter. Safety Tip 1: Book Your Pet a Vet Check-Up! It may seem like overkill, but a quick check-up can ensure your pet is ready for the winter months. Many health conditions can worsen in cold…

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  • Trick or Treat: Treats your Pets Should Avoid

    It’s spooky season! And this means that many of us will have some extra treats (for ourselves) lying around. But how can we safely include our fur family in all the fun? Halloween candy is delicious, and Trick-or-Treating can be fun for the whole family – so here we break down some “treats” to beware of! Chocolate Chocolate, especially dark chocolate, is very dangerous for cats and dogs when…

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  • Nutritional Considerations for Cats

    Just like dogs, cats are a huge part of our fur-families. But unlike dogs, cats have their own set of nutrient requirements. Ultimately, this means that we cannot feed our cats as though they were small dogs – this would not be appropriate and would result in multiple nutrient deficiencies. Why are cats so different from dogs? Dogs are considered omnivorous, meaning that they can eat both animal…

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  • Why Does my Pet Need Antioxidants?

    You may have heard us talk about antioxidants for your pets before, or maybe you’ve heard the term elsewhere. So what are they? What do they do? How do they work? Why do I want them in my pet’s food? And more importantly, where do they come from? Here we will discuss all these questions and more! Antioxidants: What are they and what do they do? An antioxidant is a compound that neutralizes free…

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  • Understanding Allergies & How To Help

    Adverse food reactions can, unfortunately, be quite common in dogs. Adverse food reaction is an umbrella term used for food allergies, sensitivities, intolerances, or any negative response to a component of food. Symptoms of food allergies occur in response to the immune system, which begins to attack the culprit. True food allergies are actually quite rare in dogs and are most often caused by…

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  • What Does Healthy Fat Mean For Pets?

    What Does Healthy Fat Mean for Pet Food? If you’ve ever heard of the term “healthy fat,” you are not alone. Healthy fats, as a promotional term, are widely used to describe the nutrition of pet foods. But what does “healthy fat” mean? Are there bad fats? How do I know if my pet is getting “healthy fats”? Aren’t all fats bad fats? Here we provide some answers to these common questions!

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  • Top 6 Benefits of Hemp Seed Oil in Pet Food

    Hemp seed oil is extracted from the seeds of the hemp plant. Even though the hemp plant is from the same plant family that cannabis comes from, hemp seeds do NOT contain any cannabinoids! You may have noticed in many of our new recipes, that canola oil is no longer included but instead, we are using hemp seed oil. Why? Well, hemp seed oil is full of nutrients that are beneficial for you…

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  • Transitioning Your Pet To Their New Diet

    Why Do You Need to Transition? Introducing a new diet to your pet is an exciting change! But an abrupt change in diet can result in poor digestive health for your dog or cat. Your dog or cat breaks down food using enzymes, hormones, and other physiological means. The nutrients that are released fuel your pet with energy, but they also play a huge role in shaping the microbiome in the digestive…

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