“Meat first” dog and cat foods - sounds great, but it's a marketing trick designed to trick you.

In this episode, we reveal how pet food labels deceive you into thinking there’s more meat in your pet food than there really is, and what you can look for instead to make smarter choices for your dog or cat.

I wrote about this on my How To Feed A Dog Blog many years ago - why do we feed our dogs the same brand of relatively tasteless dry dog food for every single meal and believe it is the right thing to do.

With my experience of pet foods and pet food marketing, it has to be said a pet food company loves to lock you in to their product for the lifespan of your dog.

This doesn't mean it's right, and it doesn't mean it's healthy.

Take a minute to consider yourself eating the same processed food for each and every meal. Not only would that be uninteresting, it is likely over time you will become intolerant of other foods, and if you reintroduce them into your diet you may get belly ache or diarrhea.

I advocate a varied (but appropriate) diet for our pet dogs and cats, both animals I view as carnivorous, and this is how I've fed my own pets for many years.

Be sure to read the many articles about feeding our pets on my website https://www.petfoodreviews.com.au/, and if you find the content useful please like or upvote this podcast.

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In this podcast we discuss whether dog food is bad for cats - which it is - and the reasons why.

I consider most cat food bad for cats, so when it comes to feeding a cat dog food - especially dry dog food - this can lead to your cat becoming nutrient deficient or ill if you continue to feed the food.

If your cat steals food from the dog food bowl then don't worry about it, a one off shouldn't cause any harm.

For more advice on feeding your pet carnivore (yes, your cat is a carnivore), please refer to my website https://www.petfoodreviews.com.au/

In this podcast Rachel, a CPD accredited pet nutritionist, gives us an overview of Pedigree dog food - particularly the dry food formula Adult with Chicken.

Pedigree is a well known name in dog food, but many do not realise it's one of the many Mars brands of pet food. In terms of Mars brands in Australia, it sits at the more budget end of the scale compared to other Mars brands such as Optimum, Advance, and Royal Canin.

In this review of Pedigree dry dog food, Rachel speaks of the history of Pedigree (once Pal), what the main ingredients are, and how appropriate the ingredients may be for your dog as an animal with a carnivore bias.

A full Pedigree dog food review can be found on the website -https://www.petfoodreviews.com.au/pedigree-dog-food-review/

Host: David D’Angelo (PetFoodReviews.com.au)
Guest: Dr Ian Billinghurst – Veterinarian, author of Give Your Dog A Bone, and pioneer of the BARF diet (Visit the Billinghurst Institute)

In this episode, we discuss:

• The unnecessary complexities of feeding our dogs and cats a raw food diet
• The different ways to feed our dogs in 2025 - dry food, wet, raw, fresh, BARF, air-dried, freeze-dried, and more
• The importance of achieving variety when feeding our pets (in a raw diet or in general)
• How to feed raw on a budget
• Whether veterinary endorsed Prescription Diets are the best solution for your sick pet, and why they may not be
• Addressing the health concerns of raw and how to make raw pet food safely
• Why we don't need complex spreadsheets, formulas, and ratios to feed our pets a raw food diet - it's much easier than you think.

More info - https://www.petfoodreviews.com.au/interview-with-dr-ian-billinghurst/