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08/27/2025

Upgrade Your Pet’s Dinner with Portobello Mushrooms 🍄‍🟫🌟

Loaded with powerful antioxidants, portobello mushrooms can boost your pet’s immunity 🛡️, slow aging 🧠, and promote mitochondrial health. 🐕

If you haven’t yet, try adding them to your pet’s food topper rotation for a big nutrient boost! 🥣✨

Check out today’s free pet health article to learn how to serve portobello mushrooms safely. http://bit.ly/4oSXVFS

08/26/2025

Cats are good at hiding signs of illness or pain. It's up to you to be observant.

08/26/2025

Your pet’s food and water bowls can be a hotspot for bacteria?🦠

Research shows that while 67% of pet owners use metal bowls, only about one-third actually wash them after meals, some just give them a quick wipe. That’s exactly how the bacterial party begins 🤢. And that slimy layer that forms in water bowls after a day? That’s biofilm...a coating of bacteria that’s extremely hard to remove. Biofilm can harbor harmful pathogens like E. coli, Salmonella, and MRSA, making it easy for infections to spread from your dog to your family.🦠⚠️

The type of food matters too. Wet food tends to harbor more bacteria than dry, and the leftover moisture mixed with dog saliva creates the perfect environment for bacterial growth.

Here's a quick break down of the pros and cons of different types of bowls:

🥣Plastic: Chemicals in plastic can leach over time and interfere with melanin production, potentially causing “Plastic Dish Nasal Dermatitis,” which leaves your dog’s nose and lips pink and irritated.

🫖Ceramic: According to Hartpury scientists, ceramic bowls can harbor dangerous bacteria like Salmonella, E. coli, and MRSA, especially if the glaze is cracked and the bowl keeps being used.

🥄Stainless steel: Low-quality steel bowls have occasionally been recalled for heavy metal contamination. Stick to high-grade stainless (18/8 or 304 steel) from trusted brands.

🥛Glass: Durable, borosilicate glass (like Pyrex) is a safe, kitchen-friendly option for both food and water.

🧼 No matter the material, the best way to protect your pet (and your family) is simple: wash bowls after every meal with hot water and soap. Once a week, run them through your dishwasher’s hot cycle. You can also disinfect by coating with hydrogen peroxide, waiting five minutes, then rinsing.

For more on picking nontoxic, safe bowls? Comment FOREVERDOG, and we’ll message you a link to our book The Forever Dog LIFE. Check out part one, The Forever Kitchen, section “Food & Water Bowls,” for all the tips on keeping your dog’s mealtime safe and healthy 🌱⚠️.

08/24/2025

💊When NSAIDs & Supplements Aren’t Enough: Rethinking Pain Management

You’ve tried the basics...NSAIDs💊, joint supplements🌱, maybe even physical therapy...but your pet is still limping, stiff, or uncomfortable.

Pain⚡️ relief is just the beginning. True healing means addressing underlying joint and spinal issues, protecting cartilage, and supporting long-term mobility.🦮

For long-term relief:
✅Tackle overlooked causes like elbow arthritis and lumbosacral (LS) disease
✅Support joints with regenerative medicine, acupuncture, rehab
✅Keep your dog lean and strong through targeted exercise
✅Using anti-inflammatory nutrition and gut-protective supplements

The goal isn’t just to manage pain, it’s to restore strength, protect healthy joints, and support long-term wellness.

Today at 12pm ET on the Inside Scoop, we are discussing the often-missed causes of persistent pain, especially elbow osteoarthritis and lumbosacral (LS) disease. These conditions can drastically impact your pet’s mobility and are frequently overlooked or misdiagnosed.

We’ll cover:
💊 NSAID pros, cons, and limits
🧬 Joint injections, PRP, stem cells, Arthramid & more
💉 Epidurals for spinal pain
🔉 Shockwave therapy (ESWT)
⚡️ Is that limp actually spinal pain?

We’ll break down when these therapies work, who they’re right for, and what outcomes to expect.

👉Comment SCOOPERS and we'll message you the link to join Inside Scoop, a Planet Paws monthly subscription group, where all live podcasts are available to watch at any time. Plus, over 5 years of content including: past live podcasts, interviews, ebook downloads, and more!

08/20/2025

Live in a hurricane-prone area? 🌀

These tips can help protect your dog.

Learn even more: https://bit.ly/4lBonAJ

08/17/2025

Are you an RVT or groomer who’s passionate about providing care to underserved communities? We are hosting a wellness/vaccine clinic in one of the northern Ontario First Nations communities we partner with and we need you! Send us an email to [email protected] if you are available and interested!

Travel, accommodations, and meals provided!

08/17/2025

Want to supercharge your dog’s bowl?🥕🐾

Root vegetables aren’t just great for humans, they’re packed with powerful benefits for your pup’s long-term health, immunity, and gut.

✨ Here’s why root veggies matter: Feeding your pet root vegetables is a great way to give them the beneficial microbes they need for a healthy gut. Since soil and gut microbiomes are nearly identical, microbes on these veggies help restore gut diversity, often lost due to poor diet, medications, and pollution. Even after washing, these microbes remain, supporting a rich, balanced microbiome for your pet.

🌱 Organic root veggies carry living microbes from healthy soil (even after washing), which can help rebuild your pet’s gut ecosystem and support digestion, immunity, and overall wellness.

🧄 Turnips: Contain sulforaphane, a natural compound that activates genes to reduce inflammation, detox the body, and may help slow cancer and heart disease.

🥕 Parsnips: Rich in prebiotic fiber, vitamin C, and polyacetylenes - plant compounds with anticancer properties.

🌻 Jerusalem Artichokes (aka Sunchokes: One of the top foods to support your dog’s gut microbiome, loaded with prebiotics and soil-based microbes. Microbiome expert Tim Spector even calls them his #1 pick for canine gut health.

🥕 Carrots: These colorful roots help reduce oxidative stress caused by acrolein (a pollutant from car exhaust and smoke). They're also high in phenolic compounds with liver-supportive, antimicrobial effects.

🍠 Sweet Potatoes: Packed with beta-carotene, prebiotic fiber, and anthocyanins. These antioxidants help support aging immune systems, fight inflammation, and may protect against cancer and cognitive decline.

Want more simple, science-backed tips and easy recipes to boost your dog’s health? Check out The Forever Dog LIFE book! In this NY Times Best Seller and #1 most-sold pet recipe book of the year, you'll find lost of recipes on incorporating these root vegetables into your dog's (or cat's) diet. Including, how to make Jerusalem Artichoke Chips - a delicious microbiome-building treat you and your dog can enjoy, plus our crowd-favorite Root Vegetable Super Stew - a nutrient-dense stew the whole family can enjoy!👧🏻🐶

👉 Comment FOREVERDOG and we’ll DM you a link to grab your copy!

08/14/2025

08/10/2025

08/10/2025

We are holding a Golf Tournament Kick off for the Last Dance supporting Hope Valley Ranch and getting someone setup on the road to recovery!

This will be the Thursday leading into the Last Dance so a great kick off for the big weekend and it’s just down the road in Gilford so come early for camping at the track and bring the clubs!

Contact Brian to get your spot reserved or Hole Sponsorship 416-543-3684

08/09/2025

Prebiotic Toppers for your Dog's Bowl! 🫐

While dogs and cats don’t require added starch to be healthy, they do need healthy sources of fiber to maintain a thriving microbiome🦠, and consumption of only protein and healthy fats are inadequate for this purpose. Their gastrointestinal ecosystems need fiber-dense roughage (aka the prebiotic fibers that constitute “good carbs”) without the added glycemic index/sugar spike of consuming refined, highly processed starch. The “good carbs/bad carbs” discussion can be summed up by most nutritionists in one statement: there’s a big metabolic difference between eating broccoli and eating white bread.

🥄Start with small amounts, rotate ingredients, and serve raw or lightly steamed.

👉 You can find more on building a better bowl with the right fiber-rich foods and fresh toppers in our book The Forever Dog LIFE - packed with practical tips, recipes, and nutrition insights.

08/09/2025