Dr. Cliff Redford

And a gastrointestinal obstruction is going to run you about five grand at the emergency hospital.

The other thing they talked about were rawhides.

A lot of people think rawhide chews are like beef or meat, but they're not.

They're hide.

They're leather.

That ain't jerky.

It's not jerky.

It is not beef jerky.

It is just rawhide.

It is the strip of leather, the strip of skin from the cow, from the beef and the steer and

and then they treat it with a bunch of chemicals to keep it sort of that hard consistency the animal swallows a piece and those chemicals prevent it from being digested and all what that happens is this rawhide piece swells up to about four times its size in the stomach of your dog or in the intestinal tract and again obstructions uh obstructions occur

The last thing they talked about is just a generalization about grain-free treats and diets.

And that grain-free treats and diets vastly increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in dogs and cats.

In dogs, a condition called dilated cardiomyopathy.

And it's just grain-free because they're usually...

taurine deficient really bad for your dog's heart there's this big sort of trend about grain-free diets i think because people are sensitive to grains certain people they like to think their dogs are are like little fluffy people my dog's gluten intolerant

Exactly.

That's what's sort of happening.

They'll say, I get into these little conversations.

Some people call them arguments with my clients when they say my dog has a grain allergy or a wheat or gluten allergy.