Kibble

“Cats are obligate carnivores. They're little meat-eating dinosaurs. Like, think velociraptors. I'm going for the meat. Mice, rats, mice, rats, rabbits, birds. But what do we feed them? We feed them dry kibble that is over 50% carbohydrates. Wow. They have zero requirement for carbohydrates in their diet. They need a little bit of fiber. That's it. So we are feeding them completely wrong.”

“Instead, when we look at ultra-processed dry kibble, the maximum amount of meat you can put in an extruded product is 30%. Wow. So there's no way the protein content could even exceed 30%.”

“is what? Kibble. Because it's ultra-processed food. It's sort of like taking your pet to McDonald's and expecting to get good health when that's and part of the fallacy and myth of the veterinary push for the ultra-processed food, because that's what they all push.”

“That's a great upcycled product for my dogs who need it for their heart health. I'm in. So, but they also use the really awful ingredients in that extruded kibble. Like I said, it's very little meat. It's what's the cheapest ingredients we can put in there and get.”

“You don't want to feed that high protein kibble. Right. Oh, my lord. So, yeah, we need to change what we're doing. So my animals, sometimes I make my own food, but I'm a little busy and I travel a lot.”

“Like it's a big process for the pet food companies. So for big kibble, ultra-processed food, the law states that animals who have died otherwise than by slaughter.”

“Yeah, all those. Those cause liver failure in animals. And one of the largest recalls ever was for mold toxins in dry kibble. Wow. So you can fumigate it all you want and kill the mold, but nothing kills the mold toxins.”

“Right. So, you know, if I had an animal come in the clinic and I did lab work and the liver enzymes are high, I'm like, well, which kibble are you feeding? Because you know that's where it's coming from most of the time. So back to my animals. No, they don't eat kibble.”

“And that's so widely known, and that's an inexpensive source. And so they grind it up and it becomes kibble. What else is in there? Like, what else is it ground up animals? Is it ground up vegetables?”

“Is it, I know seed oils and other highly processed ingredients are in there? So the thing with kibble, it goes through the extrusion process. So think of, you know, cereal, breakfast cereal. That's the extrusion process that the Kellogg's invented. And then, hey, we can make pet food out of that.”

“Oh, wow. So they were putting it in ingredients that were used to make pet food, which, you know, dried kibble. Actually, it was even in some canned foods. And a lot of animals died before they figured out what the problem was.”

“And I'm so thankful because it is so much better than ultra-processed kibble, but they still have a price point that they need to make.”

“kibble. And they truly are addicted. And the problem with cats is you cannot starve them into feeding them the correct thing because cats will go into liver failure in about three days if they don't eat.”

“No, he'll just die. Cats are a big problem. It took so what do you do? Transition very slowly. And so for anybody who has a cat that is kibble addicted, you could try offering them canned food. Sometimes they'll lick the juice and then walk away.”

“It's still a complete diet. And so I would put their kibble in their bowl and then sprinkle some of the freeze-dried over it. And kind of not, and don't put a ton in. Like at the very beginning, like crumble a piece. And then, you know, a couple days later, it's a couple pieces.”