Oh eating a healthy balanced diet is
important for humans of course but folks
it's also just as important for our pets
our next guests have turned their
passion for making fresh dog food into a
family business mother son duo Iman
yarny and nadir ele are joining us now
along with Lola and Baxter who are
behind the table here here's here's Lola
here and Baxter in your arms and they
just happen to be the namesake of the
company right yeah they are very cool
they're adorable so tell us how this all
happened because I understand your dogs
had such a healthy bill of health when
it came time to go to the doctor that
your vet actually said what have they
been eating yes because Flora's Fair was
so soft and he said in German shepherds
you know you seek horse hair what what
he been feeding and that's why it all
got started
okay and what have you been feeding the
dogs so we've been feeding them blobel
and Baxter as we call it now at the time
my mom had been making this for almost
20 years I grew up for part of my life
in a country outside of the US and dog
food was not readily available there and
so my mom started to test out different
foods we should go to the butcher get
fresh veggies and so she started feeding
them our natural food fresh food at that
time we didn't have Lola on Baxter yet
we had another dog whose name was
Chauncey but flash forward 20 years and
that's when our vet really enlisted us
to start selling our dog food that's
amazing so your vet was so impressed he
helped out with this process now we
should point out when it comes to
feeding our pets there's a lot of filler
out there right and stuff you can buy at
the store that's right and it's also not
just the ingredients that are in a lot
of commercial dog foods that can be
problematic it's also the processing
methods they cook them at very high
temperatures and they use preservatives
to keep the food fresh for
why should stay fresh for very long
periods of time so there's things you
want to avoid when you get commercial
dog foods okay so let's break it down
here Lola and Baxter again is your
company name let's talk a little bit
about the products that you've brought
today and what the ingredients are in
them great so we have our organic dog
treats and we have our fresh dog food so
in our organic treats they all have the
same base this is two of our treats or
frosted treats and our blueberry bacon
treats they have a brown rice flour
arrowroot flour tapioca flour coconut
oil baking soda and that's basically
what entails the base of the food that
sounds delicious that sounds like
something that I would eat you can
literally eat this yourself plus they're
cute they're in the shape of they're in
the shape of the state of Texas I love
that let's talk about some of these
entrees you have a fresh beef recipe
over here yeah so all of our recipes
have the same vegetable base and then
they have an animal based protein as
well we have our beef chicken and turkey
and all of them have quinoa sweet
potatoes celery carrots green beans
collard greens squash spinach we do a
ground egg shell for the calcium and
then we do a bunch of vitamins depending
on the recipe vitamins EBV kelp we do
fish oils in all of them and then we do
some pumpkin seed oil on some of them as
well okay so the ingredients really I
mean this sounds like stuff that humans
could eat yeah carrots celery zucchini
spinach mm-hmm and you okay buddy you
okay
hi he's doing okay are there things that
people should be looking for I mean
let's say I'm headed to the store later
to buy some food for my pet what should
I keep an eye out for what should I
avoid so what I would say to the average
dog food consumer is to do the research
on the brands that you're buying a lot
of the dog foods out there are based off
of marketing and their packaging and
it's super important to find out if
there's been recalls on any dog foods
that are on the shelves even if there
are recalls lot of times companies can
leave their food on the shelves it's
very important to keep yourself informed
from that
perspective and we really are fresh food
Crusaders we are out to tell everyone to
add more fresh food to your dog's diet
meals you can do it at home very easily
you can do coconut oil you can do a
crack drag if you choose to do a draw a
dry food you can add chicken broth and
you can get your own veggies from the
store if you want to get fresh veggies
if you want to get frozen veggies and
just add that to your dog's diet you're
gonna notice a huge difference to the
quality of life okay some great advice
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thanks so much guys we'll be right now
thank you