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Excellent video. Something I never thought about. I was just looking again at Nutrisource and on the bag it says ADULT but on the AFFCO statement on the bag it says all life stages. Fromm does the same. Talk about confusing......... Dr. Em also makes a good point that a calcium of 1% or phosphorous of 1% is of a different value per kcals per cup - as each one is different and can’t be directly compared. A 300 kcals per cup is less dense than 450 kcals per cup. Bioavailability should also be taken into account. Something that is less bioavailable actually needs higher nutrient numbers to "push" thru those nutrients. That is why again the calcium to phosphorous ratio comes in handy in comparing relative values to each other. It's like comparing stocks for investment; a $400 stock can actually be cheaper than a $50 stock based on their P/E ratios. This is why ratios are important they compare and smooth out differences on a relative basis.

😂 people are so weird about this not feeding their pets by products 😂. But will keep saying our dogs come from the 🐺. I have never seen a National Geographic documentary were a wolf is eating human grade food with blue berries 😂😂😂🤣

Hi, New subscriber here, I’m currently feeding my active Guide dog Parina pro plan complete essential. Chicken formula He was previously on Eukanuba chicken formula. I would love to see a comparison of these two foods and the nutritional levels. my Guide is an 8 1/2 year-old golden retriever who is 63 pounds. Thank you!

I remember being told the only reason those big scary pet food companies have so many professionals is because their putting so much crap in their food it takes a whole team to make it balanced 😳🙄🤭 I just can't with these pet influencers 😂

I remember watching a "feline nutritionists" rank pet food solely based on the first 5 ingredients. I remember thinking it was a great video, even screenshoted the results 😳🙄🫤 I very much now know it's all complete nonsense 😂

I'm so happy I found Dr. Rea when I did she is amazing. I'm a new kitten mama, and I almost got sucked it,ok I did get sucked in (but only for a moment! ) I'm so much less stressed and feel much more informed with the actual tools I need to make good decisions for my sweet baby boy ❤ she sent me over here, and you did not disappoint 💙

I’ve seen the storage mite allergy test on Goose

No way!!!! I may b on my way to the store

I had a bag of the basic food in my hand

I trust you

Environmental allergy

I’d love to hear some options from you. Storage mites allergy I don’t do raw I need to get him off my homemade recipe He’s the last dog I might own He’s Goose my Brittany How can I help him? He’s 2 in June I love him so so much I don’t want to cause him any harm Neutered 58# male Neutered prob too early. We walk 5mi daily Play twice a day He’s my emotional support animal. Thanks so

Some owners like myself are intimidated by vets

Pet food has become worse than the drug companies these days

Wishing my 2yo Brittany had not been exposed to storage mites from a bag of Purina Pro Plan Sport from Chewy. Beyond at this point. Tests were through the roof for mites. I’ve raised dogs my whole life 50yrs. Never a mite allergy. Huge welts along his back, hives so big they exploded at the hair follicles open. Oozed blood, extreme pain. Apoquel, antibiotics & fungal shampoo. $900 after now what to feed???????! Kibble- nope don’t trust Gamers dog subscription bs- nope Feeding him myself with supplements until I figure something out. A week after me feeding him he’s so much healthier & hive free. Any ideas I’d love to hear some. Thanks Kristen

I just became a member of animaldocrea you both are so amazing! I'm a new kitten mama and was pulled in so many different directions. I'm so happy I let my intellect win, not my emotions ❤

Wait, AAFCO info you are showing is the MIN. What is the max number? Minimum to prevent deficiency but what are the numbers to thrive and be the most nourished dog?? It’s so individual, important to do bloodwork to be sure.

I love animals...but what the hell with your best formula bla bla......KIDS DON'T HAVE BREAKFAST and POVERTY is everywhere.....do we need this food for animals

I just have a cat, but I love both of your content so much. I watch all the videos ❤

Thank you for your hard work, what would you look for or suggest as an acceptable mineral levels for adult dogs and do you have any suggestions as to what brands are likely to fall into that category. Thanks for all the advice and videos!!!

I look at it like this, if you don't have a degree in that subject, then we are on the same level. We have the same access to the information. I'm not going to pay you for it.

I absolutely a 100%. Agree as a cat owner. There is a little caveat because I believe that they should be on a moisture rich diet, regardless even if you wanna make kibhle ceral. I believe they should be getting a good portion of their hydration from their diet.

As always, fantastic info to add to my knowledge cache :D thank you Glenn!

It’s all about profit margins. They went cheap on the beef. added in terrible sources to ultimately get a higher profit margin on a popular protein. This only shows how correct you are. Nutrients don’t lie.

Great video! Do you think other parameters are involved too? I’m not sure about dogs, but I know that kittens need specific potassium levels. Maybe other minerals are involved prohibiting the label of all life stages even though the Ca and P are excessive in some maintenance diets? Or am I just giving them the benefit of the doubt?

You guys are amazing. I have a 7 month old kitten. This is my first pet as an adult, and I have literally been through the ringer, trying to figure out what is best for him. In those short, seven months, I have been shamed, guilt tripped, and and I was made feel bad a million times, which is not cool. 😢 so I got off social media and broke out the nutrition books ( e-book), and started working with an actual nutritionist. Now I don't follow any of those crappy influencer channels, and I just find little diamond channels like your and animaldocrea❤❤❤

I will say it KetoNatural you SUCK 😂😂😂

Hey Glenn I reached out to Solid Gold to get info on there feeds and they responded with; hopefully you can do a video on this brand As formulated: Hund-N-Flocken Lamb: -Protein: 6,111 mg/100kcal -Fat: 2,778 mg/100kcal -Fiber: 1,111 mg/100kcal -Calcium: 439 mg/100kcal -Sodium: 53 mg/100kcal -Vitamin E: 1.86 mg/100kcal -Vitamin C: 2.78 mg/100kcal NB Hund-N-Flocken Lamb: -Protein: 6,667 mg/100kcal -Fat: 2,778 mg/100kcal -Fiber: 1,111 mg/100kcal -Calcium: 394 mg/100kcal -Sodium: 72 mg/100kcal -Vitamin E: 1.86 mg/100kcal -Vitamin C: 2.78 mg/100kcal Fit & Fabulous Chicken: -Protein: 8,241 mg/100kcal -Fat: 2,060 mg/100kcal - 3,011 mg/100kcal -Fiber: 2,853 mg/100kcal -Calcium: 545 mg/100kcal -Sodium: 190 mg/100kcal -Vitamin E: 2.12 mg/100kcal -Vitamin C: 3.16mg/100kcal Fit & Fabulous Pollock: -Protein: 8,025 mg/100kcal -Fat: 2,006 mg/100kcal - 2,932 mg/100kcal -Fiber: 2,778 mg/100kcal -Calcium: 392 mg/100kcal -Sodium: 142 mg/100kcal -Vitamin E: 2.07 mg/100kcal -Vitamin C: 3.09 mg/100kcal Wild Heart: -Protein: 7,327 mg/100kcal -Fat: 4,071 mg/100kcal -Fiber: 1,086 mg/100kcal -Calcium: 543 mg/100kcal -Sodium: 136 mg/100kcal -Vitamin E: 1.82 mg/100kcal -Vitamin C: 2.71 mg/100kcal

I joined some Raw groups on social media and MAN! I felt so bad for the people that were starting this Raw diet. People were so harsh with their comments and To me personally it’s like you said you will need to be so dedicated to this. People will post their dogs bowls so people could give their opinion and all I would read is now your missing this, you can add that. Or you can substitute that for this 🤯🥴it was insane lol. I will be honest I feed my dogs an All life stage to my Akitas but like Dr Rea said why fix what’s not broken 💯 but the knowledge I am getting from both of you is HIGHLY VALUABLE

Another Video shared to my Facebook 🐾🤳I just watch this video yesterday of this lady doing free consultations with TH-camrs so she can teach them how to home cook because kibbles got her 8 yr old dog sick. She was just saying all this lies that you just mentioned in her video.. how corn,wheat, soy is bad and how by product is bad. I remember YRS AGO I fell for this. It became so hard to keep up with all this nonsense lmao. 🤣 Unil I finally asked myself WAIT A MINUTE ! Why in the world I am I chanching my dogs food IF NON OF THEM had any problems 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣💀 LEARNED THE HARD WAY

My dog was oh Hydrolyzed Square Pet and his stools are perfect. In saying this we are switching him to Hills Z/D due to him still being itchy .

Hi, I just subscribed today (1/11/25). Your numbers for Protein, Calcium and Phos (and Sodium) do not match up with what is on the bag or website. How do I calculate these numbers? I am tired of all the misinformation provided by the manufacturers. Thanks for your videos. (I posted this on another one of your videos also, an older one)

Hi, I just subscribed today (1/11/25). Your numbers for Protein, Calcium and Phos (and Sodium) do not match up with what is on the bag or website. How do I calculate these numbers? I am tired of all the misinformation provided by the manufacturers. Thanks for your videos.

8:27 - Royal Canin conspiracy is weird because Mars owns a lot of grain-free pet food brands, and its cheaper to substitute with lenitils and pulses tuan to use meat meals. Why would Mars want to remove inexpensive pulses from their production lines if they get to maximize profits?

From what I know grain free is not to healthy BUT if anybody thinks vets don’t get kickbacks from dog food manufacturers are gravely mistaken, just like Dr’s get kickbacks from big pharma…!!!

I have 2 golden doodles standard and one is 2 and one is 3 and I just started feeding them the salmon and rice formula for a couple of weeks and they seem to be doing fine with it they haven’t shown any bad signs and they are always energetic and healthy

Just ignore the fact that hills has killed thousands of dogs I guess. I am a certified canine nutritionist with over 250 hours of education in the field. Vets get 13 hours of nutrition education on average. A depressing amount. I’ve read the research studies. They quite literally have killed thousands of animals and have been sued multiple times for a list of things. Can’t believe this. Horrible ingredients and sourcing.

Hi Glen,what is a good kibble for a 13 year old Yorkie he was diagnosed with CHF last month.

Proper nutrition is so VERY important and especially for those requiring a certain level of nutrients. I’m dealing with a few issues now with my beagle girl and I have learned so much in the last week about nutrition. I did ponder weather a special cooked diet would benefit her but there’s just no way i would ever be able to get it right even with the help of a professional. (She had struvite crystals and now has calcium oxalate crystals and low phosphorus levels😩) The more I study and research her issues the more I realise the importance of nutrients and how it does greatly effect the health of your pet. I can only imagine what an unbalanced homecooked diet would do to a dog in the long term. It’s not worth the risk. I feel a lot of people feed homecooked so they can brag about the fancy ingredients.

My Rottweiler has been on grain free Acana all her adult life. Her first year I made her food until Covid caused scar tissue in my lungs.I don’t think dogs eat grains in the wild. The grain free dogfood got popular when the keto diet became popular. Grains aren’t good for humans or dogs.

I got a farmers dog ad before ur video played 😮

Happy 2025 Glenn! Glad to hear this news, both my cats and my dog have been on Hill’s Science Diet since I discovered your channel and they are extremely healthy, wouldn’t feed them anything else.

I am so glad I found you awhile back .We adopted a beagle/American bulldog mix. He is super picky. I tried the all natural home cooked meals. and all natural home delivery to healthy food from the pet stores. . My husband has had dogs but I always had cats so when I went to the store to buy dog food I could not believe all the varieties of food! I was at a loss to what to get him. My head was dizzy looking up the reviews of all different kinds of foods. I started cooking my own doing the semi raw etc. I knew straight away that grain free was bad for their hearts .my vet told me on our first welcome visit. He didn't seem to upset that I was giving him a home cooked meals. But my dog no matter what, will get sick of it and left food all the time . Also for the 1st few years had loose bowel movements. I tried everything to solve that problem. I found your TH-cam and everything made so much sense. I went out and bought Hills science diet Weight control (he has the Beagle girth lol) I was shocked . He loved the food ! I even tried their wet food of Chicken and barley and he ate it! He never ate any wet dog food I gave him. And the big thing is his #2's are finally just about normal after all this time! I am on my umpteenth bag and he still likes it. Oh and BTW last vet visit about a week into me starting Hills and getting him off human meat etc. the vet said his kidney was showing too much protein something we have to keep an eye out for. I told him we switched so we are giving it time and see what happens with that. Thanks again keep on plugging away .

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Imagine suing scientists for their discoveries which literally save pet's lives - meanwhile trying to claim these big companies are purposely harming pets. People forget Hills also had a grain free line - they'd be shooting themselves in the foot if this were at all true. 😮‍💨 So glad this case was dismissed, what a silly money-wasting lawsuit.

It really grips me when people say veterinarians are pushing a certain food for the money. Why in the world would you take your beloved pet to someone you don't trust!

My daughter has two, pit bull mix rescues. They are on a veterinarian prescribed diet of kibble and raw mixed. She adds water, let it sit a few minutes and the dogs chow down. Both dogs seem to be doing fine.

Hills pet food is just very poor quality….so is Royal Canin…full of fillers and grains ..once again vets push for hills and Royal Canin due to the kick backs they get. Both also invest in vet schools…although they claim it’s a balanced diet ..it’s done with crappy ingredients…for example pea protein isn’t the same as meat protein. As the pet food industry has grown the life expectancy of our pets has decreased.. just go back to the 60s and 70s … wolves don’t die of diabetes… the anatomy between a wolf and our domesticated dog is about 99.5%

I feed my dog blue buffalo 😊

Love the video because we can see you have so much passion to share the truth, and I consider this a win for you and others who fight against misinformation in the pet food space! Btw my senior cat has been thriving on Hill's; she has never done that amazingly on any other diet before.