hello Dr. Becker I have a dog that has a skin condition his hair falls and skin looks real dry I took him to his vet and he gave him some antibiotics and vitamins cause he said he had a fungus in his skin and low immune system can you help me so i could get my dog in good health please
@ziomararamirez Hello I strongly recommened two things that can help boost your doggie's health. #1. I Give your dog multi-vitamin. #2. Go out and have a daily quick walk for about 15-20 minutes. ( This strongly works: Take your dog to the beach and take a nice walk at most once a week. In my experience, My dog was suffering from depression and once took my doggie a walk to the beach and her depression got alot better.
hello Dr. Becker I have a dog that has a skin condition his hair falls and skin looks real dry I took him to his vet and he gave him some antibiotics and vitamins cause he said he had a fungus in his skin and low immune system can you help me so i could get my dog in good health please
Hello Dr. Becker, thanks for your advise. Our 4 yr old cat never drinks out of her ceramic water dish (always with fresh water), sometime I see her drinking from the toilet bowl. But somehow her litter box always has many clumps of clumped litter in it. Where does she get her fluid. We feed her IAMS dry food and bagged semi moist "Temptations". Any idea?
5) Technically theres no such thing as human grade dry food since most contain some form of rendered meal (with exception of some carb heavy brands like halo), but just because it has meat meals, doesent make it low grade. Meals should be named, such as chicken meal, lamb meal, etc. ex. Blue Buffalo, Taste of the wild, Healthwise, canidae, acana, etc.
6) Not sure what she means by this one, maybe super premium in comparison to grocey store brands, something like purina.
2) Premade raw- bravo, blue ridge beef, stella and chewy, natures variety, etc
3)Homecooked- either home made, or premade mixes like honest kitchen
4) I think by this one she means canned food without byproducts or glutens, a high quality, grain free canned food, ex, Wellness, Innova, Blue Buffalo, etc
Your so very awesome-OMG your video content, truths and your ability to speak as you do is great-thanks for showing us how to properly BEST care for our tiny loved ones!
@ Dr. Becker,so a few questions there, just not sure where to start. food, supplement, blood test at vet, etc?? as i am on very limited disability income, i want my cats healthy, but not spending more than i am for their food, or unnecessary vet tests, etc...would like to rule things out step at a time funny my biological name, before mother remarried and adopted was Becker :^) have to start with my 1st post about 5 posts down for start 2 end due to character limit had to put in more than 1 post
@ Dr. Becker,however my oldest cat was throwing up the yr before moving in here, so 2007,, and that is when we got the other cats jan 2008,
2 yrs later now the other 2 cats are throwing up. i always keep the water fresh and clean bowl and use brita for them, as well as clean food dish. wondering if got oldest tested then would know what others have, also should mention my girlfriend also developed auto immune fibromyalgia and chronic fatgue yr after me in 2009.
@ Dr. Becker,which i contributed to tap water here, i usually had bottled water, as when i do not drink the tap water, and since i do not get sick to stomach like that, but dr at time told me digestive issues were common with these conditions.
i notice mold grows quickly in toilet along water lines, and we keep these closed so cats cannot drink from them but they have a few times. wondering if also could be human to animal disease or vice-versa possibly involved
after oldest cat started throwing up in 2005, is when i got started getting sick a lot which is not normal for me, colds, flu's, staff, strep....
then in 2008 dx with some auto-immune condition, widespread severe neuropatic pain/spasms, said is fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, dr said was from chronic pain from back/neck injury.....but i also had spontaneous vomitting during in 2009 for 6-7 months.
i feed our 3 cats California Naturals chicken and brown rice formula, is quite expensive, now my oldest cat 7yrs started throwing up a few yrs ago about 5 yrs old, asked vet said prob nervous stomach? now the other 2, one of which is outside in non winter months in Alberta Canada, are also throwing up in this last yr.
sometimes the food is barely digested, sometimes it is mostly paste like. def not hairballs and happens too often compared to any cat had before.
I have a few packs of both dog and cat food in the semi-moist packs... Wellness & Nutro. There is NO propylene glycol in either. Does this mean it is safe?
How can feeding our pets factory farmed, diseased animals be a good idea? None of these animals (the pets nor the factory farmed cows, pigs, etc) are natural. Making arguments based on nature without some admission that the whole system is unnatural to begin with is faulty.
Also, important but left out is the reality of the 4-d's in commercial pet food: farm animals who are down, dead, diseased, or disabled. How sad that these animals who are tortured get no thought as you obsess over pet food
@primaorangina1 Ever wonder how the last six generations of human beings survived n such "unnatural food?" It's because you're paranoid. With the exception of the unhealth caused by the government's "food pyramid," this diet has produced the healthiest human beings in history.
Of course they are the same species. They can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. That doesn't mean they eat the same since (as I noted before) they occupy entirely different ecological niches, behave differently, raise their offspring differently and have different reproductive cycles. I have read the raw food myths and some make good sense and some are rationalizations. Its a good site. I've bookmarked it and will check often. Right now I don't want to fix what ain't broke.
@oneacd Yes, but dogs ONLY live in a different ecological niches because they have gained much greater "status quo". Back then dogs roamed around and acted more like wolves[due to the fact that they weren't kept as "indoor family pets" as they are today.]
If left alone without human contact, dogs revert back to their ancestral instincts and behave exactly like wolves. Hunting rabbits, birds, etc. Even birthing pups in "den-like" areas.
Dogs and wolves occupy entirely different ecological niches so that argument doesn't wash. That's like saying that fruit bats and vampire bats are the same animal so should eat the same thing. I'm not against raw, I just haven't heard a sound scientific argument for it yet. "Common sense" don't cut it.
@oneacd If you would simply take the time to read the arguments on rawfed.com/myth/, you will CLEARLY see "sound scientific proof". Do not let 'science' blind you to the reality of common sense; even with science and scientific data you still must use your mind to think critically through what is being presented. Results are often interpreted through or even skewed toward the biases of those doing the research. There is no such thing as an unbiased scientist.
@oneacd Dogs are so much like wolves physiologically that they are frequently used in wolf studies as a physiological model for wolf body processes (Mech, L.D. 2003. Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation). Additionally, dogs and wolves share 99.8% of their mitochondrial DNA (Wayne, R.K. Molecular Evolution of the Dog Family).
@oneacd Dogs and wolves can freely interbreed and produce fertile offspring—even little dogs like Westies and Chihuahuas are capable of this! This is a dramatic indication that dogs and wolves are very closely related and are compatible in terms of genetics (incompatible animals do not produce viable, fertile offspring, such as donkeys and horses. Their offspring—the mule—is a sterile animal.).
@oneacd Additionally, dogs that are left to their own devices in the wild will form packs and hunt other animals, exhibiting a similar range of behaviors like those seen in wolves. Phenotypic differences like size, ears, etc. will often return to a more "wolf-like" state as the animals outcross and breed freely (for example, Chihuahuas will increase in size if left to breed without specific human selection for size)
@oneacd Lastly, dogs have recently been reclassified as Canis lupus familiaris by the Smithsonian Institute (Wayne, R.K. "What is a Wolfdog?" fiu.edu/~milesk/Genetics.htm), placing it in the same species as the gray wolf, Canis lupus. The dog is, by all scientific standards and by evolutionary history, a domesticated wolf (Feldhamer, G.A. 1999. Mammology: Adaptation, Diversity, and Ecology. McGraw-Hill. pg 472.).
Also, you missed one diet that a lot of breeders happen to use and (unfortunatly) recommend. Wheat-bix and milk! (Shouldn't this be at the bottom of the list?
Many of the raw feeders I know just wing it which is a waste IMO. If you are going to make your dog's food, either get a degree in Nutrition or follow an approved diet plan. You should probably also raise the meat animals yourself so you avoid the hormones and byproducts in commercial meats. I'd also like to know which study showed the information on the required moisture content of food. What if I add water to dry kibble at roughly 70%. Is that the same? Was this covered by the study?
I'm also interested in the moisture thing. I work in a pet store, and have done nutrition training for each of the big superpremium foods (waltham, hills, royal canin etc) and while I understand that they want me to sell their product, so they training I have recieved comes from biased sources, each and every single company reccomends their dry product over their wet. Most of them only make a wet due to popular demand.
@oneacd Raw is best. Point blank. Its common sense, really. Take it from millions of years of mother nature. Wolves and dogs are basically EXACTLY the same in their internal anatomy and physiology. We've only changed the outward appearance of a dog, via coat types, different sizes, etc. Adding water to kibble will not improve anything as kibble is not species appropriate for dogs and cats. I reccommend you do further research on the issue. And I will help you do so by providing a link to you.
It's so nice to find a vet who has done her own independent study of nutrion instead of relying on the crap nutrion classes provided by Science Diet, Royal Canin and Purina. These foods are ruining dogs and in my opinion a big factor in pet obesisty.
@touchxOFxpinkxO Found some Purina ones the other day with high fructose corn syrup, ... Not enough that the people in this country are dying from obesity and diabetes....let's do it to our animals now too! I was looking into buying a quick bag of food that night till I could get to the pet store. THAT'S the night I came home and started looking for alternatives. Please people, you read labels for your food, do it for your pets. I knew it wasn't good, but how DARE companies add that crap!
THANK YOU for stating cats AND dogs are carnivores. I feel like the commercial pet food companies are trying to sway the fact into getting people to think dogs are omnivores so they can get away with selling inferior products full of little meat and lots of carbohydrates.
Just because dogs will eat anything, and can simply survive on a wider range of on-animal foods, doesn't mean they are omnivores. They are anatomically carnivores just like cats.
im at #6 and #7, cant do better than that :(
prcrazy12345 3 weeks ago
This sounds great....but where do i get a trusted recipe for a balanced raw diet?
Andrea121366 1 month ago
I just started buying raw beef for my dogs Is it ok to mix the raw with kibble (blue buffalo) and 1 egg?
th3c00l 2 months ago
hello Dr. Becker I have a dog that has a skin condition his hair falls and skin looks real dry I took him to his vet and he gave him some antibiotics and vitamins cause he said he had a fungus in his skin and low immune system can you help me so i could get my dog in good health please
ziomararamirez 2 months ago
@ziomararamirez Hello I strongly recommened two things that can help boost your doggie's health. #1. I Give your dog multi-vitamin. #2. Go out and have a daily quick walk for about 15-20 minutes. ( This strongly works: Take your dog to the beach and take a nice walk at most once a week. In my experience, My dog was suffering from depression and once took my doggie a walk to the beach and her depression got alot better.
MsChorong 1 month ago
hello Dr. Becker I have a dog that has a skin condition his hair falls and skin looks real dry I took him to his vet and he gave him some antibiotics and vitamins cause he said he had a fungus in his skin and low immune system can you help me so i could get my dog in good health please
ziomararamirez 2 months ago
Hello Dr. Becker, thanks for your advise. Our 4 yr old cat never drinks out of her ceramic water dish (always with fresh water), sometime I see her drinking from the toilet bowl. But somehow her litter box always has many clumps of clumped litter in it. Where does she get her fluid. We feed her IAMS dry food and bagged semi moist "Temptations". Any idea?
chloe7829 3 months ago
7) Again, similar to number 6, lower quality "premium" foods like iams, science diet.
8) Vet foods, usually crap, science diet, prescription foods, purina, etc.
9)Same as above
10) Beneful, Ol roy, kibbles and bits, etc (nasty shit)
11)Same as above
12) Moist and meaty
13) what she said
idaviruma 4 months ago
continued:
5) Technically theres no such thing as human grade dry food since most contain some form of rendered meal (with exception of some carb heavy brands like halo), but just because it has meat meals, doesent make it low grade. Meals should be named, such as chicken meal, lamb meal, etc. ex. Blue Buffalo, Taste of the wild, Healthwise, canidae, acana, etc.
6) Not sure what she means by this one, maybe super premium in comparison to grocey store brands, something like purina.
idaviruma 4 months ago
Here are some of the examples she had in mind:
1) PMR or BARF style raw diet
2) Premade raw- bravo, blue ridge beef, stella and chewy, natures variety, etc
3)Homecooked- either home made, or premade mixes like honest kitchen
4) I think by this one she means canned food without byproducts or glutens, a high quality, grain free canned food, ex, Wellness, Innova, Blue Buffalo, etc
idaviruma 4 months ago
Pets need fresh food too! Banana Seals for pet keep your pets food fresh right in the bag it comes in! Check it out on the web at: SaveTheBananaSeal
SealABag 4 months ago
CAN I FEED MY CAT BUNNY HEARTS?
I FEEL THEY NEED THE EXTRA RAW POWER ONLY NATURE PROVIDES!
MAYBE CHICKEN BLOOD ON TAP!
realistromeo 4 months ago
@realistromeo Sure.
beaucerdog 4 months ago
2 people have malnourished pets =(
Mawfeah 6 months ago
Your so very awesome-OMG your video content, truths and your ability to speak as you do is great-thanks for showing us how to properly BEST care for our tiny loved ones!
nesterhaus 6 months ago
please provide examples as i have no idea of what your talking about?
toddviv 6 months ago
@ Dr. Becker,so a few questions there, just not sure where to start. food, supplement, blood test at vet, etc?? as i am on very limited disability income, i want my cats healthy, but not spending more than i am for their food, or unnecessary vet tests, etc...would like to rule things out step at a time funny my biological name, before mother remarried and adopted was Becker :^) have to start with my 1st post about 5 posts down for start 2 end due to character limit had to put in more than 1 post
bridgeguy3669 7 months ago
@ Dr. Becker,however my oldest cat was throwing up the yr before moving in here, so 2007,, and that is when we got the other cats jan 2008,
2 yrs later now the other 2 cats are throwing up. i always keep the water fresh and clean bowl and use brita for them, as well as clean food dish. wondering if got oldest tested then would know what others have, also should mention my girlfriend also developed auto immune fibromyalgia and chronic fatgue yr after me in 2009.
bridgeguy3669 7 months ago
@ Dr. Becker,which i contributed to tap water here, i usually had bottled water, as when i do not drink the tap water, and since i do not get sick to stomach like that, but dr at time told me digestive issues were common with these conditions.
i notice mold grows quickly in toilet along water lines, and we keep these closed so cats cannot drink from them but they have a few times. wondering if also could be human to animal disease or vice-versa possibly involved
bridgeguy3669 7 months ago
@ Dr. Becker, continued,
after oldest cat started throwing up in 2005, is when i got started getting sick a lot which is not normal for me, colds, flu's, staff, strep....
then in 2008 dx with some auto-immune condition, widespread severe neuropatic pain/spasms, said is fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, dr said was from chronic pain from back/neck injury.....but i also had spontaneous vomitting during in 2009 for 6-7 months.
bridgeguy3669 7 months ago
@ Dr. Becker,
i feed our 3 cats California Naturals chicken and brown rice formula, is quite expensive, now my oldest cat 7yrs started throwing up a few yrs ago about 5 yrs old, asked vet said prob nervous stomach? now the other 2, one of which is outside in non winter months in Alberta Canada, are also throwing up in this last yr.
sometimes the food is barely digested, sometimes it is mostly paste like. def not hairballs and happens too often compared to any cat had before.
any suggestions?
bridgeguy3669 7 months ago
I have a few packs of both dog and cat food in the semi-moist packs... Wellness & Nutro. There is NO propylene glycol in either. Does this mean it is safe?
OneLifeConcepts 7 months ago
How can feeding our pets factory farmed, diseased animals be a good idea? None of these animals (the pets nor the factory farmed cows, pigs, etc) are natural. Making arguments based on nature without some admission that the whole system is unnatural to begin with is faulty.
Also, important but left out is the reality of the 4-d's in commercial pet food: farm animals who are down, dead, diseased, or disabled. How sad that these animals who are tortured get no thought as you obsess over pet food
primaorangina1 8 months ago
@primaorangina1 Ever wonder how the last six generations of human beings survived n such "unnatural food?" It's because you're paranoid. With the exception of the unhealth caused by the government's "food pyramid," this diet has produced the healthiest human beings in history.
itsagass 8 months ago
then how and why do they allow those people to make "vegan pet food"?
isn't that abuse? or allowed like how we have junk food.
kuwaizair 8 months ago
Of course they are the same species. They can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. That doesn't mean they eat the same since (as I noted before) they occupy entirely different ecological niches, behave differently, raise their offspring differently and have different reproductive cycles. I have read the raw food myths and some make good sense and some are rationalizations. Its a good site. I've bookmarked it and will check often. Right now I don't want to fix what ain't broke.
oneacd 9 months ago
@oneacd Yes, but dogs ONLY live in a different ecological niches because they have gained much greater "status quo". Back then dogs roamed around and acted more like wolves[due to the fact that they weren't kept as "indoor family pets" as they are today.]
If left alone without human contact, dogs revert back to their ancestral instincts and behave exactly like wolves. Hunting rabbits, birds, etc. Even birthing pups in "den-like" areas.
We've simply subdued dogs stronger instincts.
GoddesssOfDarknesss 9 months ago
Dogs and wolves occupy entirely different ecological niches so that argument doesn't wash. That's like saying that fruit bats and vampire bats are the same animal so should eat the same thing. I'm not against raw, I just haven't heard a sound scientific argument for it yet. "Common sense" don't cut it.
oneacd 9 months ago
@oneacd If you would simply take the time to read the arguments on rawfed.com/myth/, you will CLEARLY see "sound scientific proof". Do not let 'science' blind you to the reality of common sense; even with science and scientific data you still must use your mind to think critically through what is being presented. Results are often interpreted through or even skewed toward the biases of those doing the research. There is no such thing as an unbiased scientist.
GoddesssOfDarknesss 9 months ago
@oneacd Dogs are so much like wolves physiologically that they are frequently used in wolf studies as a physiological model for wolf body processes (Mech, L.D. 2003. Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation). Additionally, dogs and wolves share 99.8% of their mitochondrial DNA (Wayne, R.K. Molecular Evolution of the Dog Family).
GoddesssOfDarknesss 9 months ago
@oneacd Dogs and wolves can freely interbreed and produce fertile offspring—even little dogs like Westies and Chihuahuas are capable of this! This is a dramatic indication that dogs and wolves are very closely related and are compatible in terms of genetics (incompatible animals do not produce viable, fertile offspring, such as donkeys and horses. Their offspring—the mule—is a sterile animal.).
GoddesssOfDarknesss 9 months ago
@oneacd Additionally, dogs that are left to their own devices in the wild will form packs and hunt other animals, exhibiting a similar range of behaviors like those seen in wolves. Phenotypic differences like size, ears, etc. will often return to a more "wolf-like" state as the animals outcross and breed freely (for example, Chihuahuas will increase in size if left to breed without specific human selection for size)
GoddesssOfDarknesss 9 months ago
@oneacd Lastly, dogs have recently been reclassified as Canis lupus familiaris by the Smithsonian Institute (Wayne, R.K. "What is a Wolfdog?" fiu.edu/~milesk/Genetics.htm), placing it in the same species as the gray wolf, Canis lupus. The dog is, by all scientific standards and by evolutionary history, a domesticated wolf (Feldhamer, G.A. 1999. Mammology: Adaptation, Diversity, and Ecology. McGraw-Hill. pg 472.).
GoddesssOfDarknesss 9 months ago
Also, you missed one diet that a lot of breeders happen to use and (unfortunatly) recommend. Wheat-bix and milk! (Shouldn't this be at the bottom of the list?
billywig2 9 months ago
Many of the raw feeders I know just wing it which is a waste IMO. If you are going to make your dog's food, either get a degree in Nutrition or follow an approved diet plan. You should probably also raise the meat animals yourself so you avoid the hormones and byproducts in commercial meats. I'd also like to know which study showed the information on the required moisture content of food. What if I add water to dry kibble at roughly 70%. Is that the same? Was this covered by the study?
oneacd 10 months ago
@oneacd
I'm also interested in the moisture thing. I work in a pet store, and have done nutrition training for each of the big superpremium foods (waltham, hills, royal canin etc) and while I understand that they want me to sell their product, so they training I have recieved comes from biased sources, each and every single company reccomends their dry product over their wet. Most of them only make a wet due to popular demand.
billywig2 9 months ago
@oneacd Raw is best. Point blank. Its common sense, really. Take it from millions of years of mother nature. Wolves and dogs are basically EXACTLY the same in their internal anatomy and physiology. We've only changed the outward appearance of a dog, via coat types, different sizes, etc. Adding water to kibble will not improve anything as kibble is not species appropriate for dogs and cats. I reccommend you do further research on the issue. And I will help you do so by providing a link to you.
GoddesssOfDarknesss 9 months ago
Great info! Thanks!
dedicatedwoman 1 year ago
Great Video....very informative, not bad looking either lol
casmacdaddy 1 year ago
This doctor is amazing.
She is very positive, too!
JewishVegan 1 year ago
It's so nice to find a vet who has done her own independent study of nutrion instead of relying on the crap nutrion classes provided by Science Diet, Royal Canin and Purina. These foods are ruining dogs and in my opinion a big factor in pet obesisty.
touchxOFxpinkxO 1 year ago 2
@touchxOFxpinkxO Found some Purina ones the other day with high fructose corn syrup, ... Not enough that the people in this country are dying from obesity and diabetes....let's do it to our animals now too! I was looking into buying a quick bag of food that night till I could get to the pet store. THAT'S the night I came home and started looking for alternatives. Please people, you read labels for your food, do it for your pets. I knew it wasn't good, but how DARE companies add that crap!
freewaybaby 7 months ago
THANK YOU for stating cats AND dogs are carnivores. I feel like the commercial pet food companies are trying to sway the fact into getting people to think dogs are omnivores so they can get away with selling inferior products full of little meat and lots of carbohydrates.
Just because dogs will eat anything, and can simply survive on a wider range of on-animal foods, doesn't mean they are omnivores. They are anatomically carnivores just like cats.
Also thank you for stating a raw diet is best
Faustaao 1 year ago
This needs more views! I wish more vets were like you.
cheshirecat14 1 year ago
Pets deserve proper nutrition just as we, their humans, do! People who truly care for their pets will listen to Dr. Becker!
kamalicious1 1 year ago