Lifeofmulligan

A blog dedicated to Mulligan, our life together, shelter awareness, dog info & MORE! With hundreds of ingredients in pet food now days it should come as no surprise pet owners are confused about which ones are actually good for their pet! Trying to decipher fact from fiction can be quite the task! A recent survey even showed that more than half of... American dog owners think their dogs nutrition is more confusing than their own! Luckily for me, Im blessed enough to be a partnered with Purina which means I get help & key insight into these important topics! Recently I was invited to attend a YouTube Live session with Dr. Evan Antin ! Also known as The Sexiest Beast Charmer thanks to People Magazine! Myself, along side some of my fellow Purina Partners, got to have a raw Q & A with Dr Antin asking him any & everything about what we feed out pets! Heres a summary of all the greatness! Lets get started with the #1 topic in todays dog food: Bi-Product. This is such a taboo word in dog food, however, the negative connotation associated with this word is a dog nutrition MYTH! I would compare it to Googling your symptoms on Web MD & then thinking youre dying. What scares us as dog owners when we see this word is lack of proper education on the term! Heres what Dr. Antin had to say about Bi-Product in dog food: -Bi-Product is animal organ & bone. These provide micro nutrients, calcium from the bones, and other key nutritional needs. If we were to feed our dogs just meat, like what we consume, it would be lacking nutrients our dogs so desperately need. He then went on to give us a visual example of Bi-Product by saying Wild animals go for the abdomen first. Animals know thats good for them & rich with nutritional value and micro nutrients. Dr. Antin also made a VERY GOOD POINT when he said that we would have to kill so many more animals if we didnt use Bi-Produce which would also be extremely wasteful to discard all of those organs and bones that provide so much for our pets. With the holidays around the corner we had to ...Read More