Dog Nutrition with Kyle Baker

Kyle Baker is the Senior Nutritional Specialist for DOGPerfect.  He has 17 years of research into the world of dog health and nutrition.    It all started with his dog Toby whom he found living on the streets.   Kyle understands that food and nutrition is not a one-size-fits-all practicality.  Different pups have different needs.    Check out our conversation here for some quick tips – and insights about improving your dog’s quality of life.

For your convenience, we’ve included a transcript of our chat with Kyle.

Rover Reporter: Welcome to the podcast. I’m excited today to welcome Kyle Baker. Kyle is the Senior Nutritional Specialist for DOGPerfect. Welcome Kyle.

KYLE BAKER (00:20):

Hey welcome. Thank you. Thank you for having me here.

Rover Reporter (00:23):

I’m so excited to talk about this because dog food and the nutritional aspects can be so confusing for dog lovers. And so I’m hoping that you can dispel some myths and give us some background that we can use moving forward. I know that you’ve been working in the area locally here in the Sarasota Bradenton area. Tell me what sparked your interest in nutrition?

KYLE BAKER (00:48):

Just kind of like, like, like listeners in you. My love for my animal. I found a dog, a dog on this, on the street that had a compromised immune system. He had no fur body was a body was pink, so you can see all the information coming out of them. So I took that dog and took him to the vet. I got him checked out to see to see what if they could figure out what was going on with them. The veterinarians couldn’t figure out exactly how to heal that except with the use of steroids and prescription diets. Me, I couldn’t handle that as a, a true answer. I knew there had to be another result out there that could help my Toby out. So I kinda started doing my own research. I found a book called barf it’s biologically appropriate, raw feeding.

KYLE BAKER (01:35):

It’s written by a gentleman named ends in billing worth. And that was kinda my my eyeopening to nutrition. I put that doc, that diet ideology towards Toby and within weeks of time, the pink information started to go out of his body. First started growing back. So of course I was super, super, super excited about the results I was getting. And then when I took a Toby back to the veterinarian to get a checkup kind of show him the results. My, my answer to him, his answer to me was totally opposite what I thought I was going to get. He told me that you know what, these were all diets that could be possibly killing my animal. That right there scared me. But I didn’t understand that because I seen the results. So I kind of left there a little bit confused and disturbed of not really knowing what to do, but I stuck to my grounds and kept on doing more and more research. And through that, Toby kept on healing and that opened up my eyes to a whole nother career that I didn’t think was going to happen. Cause I kind of figured out there’s going to probably be other people out in this world who had issues with animals, compromised immune system allergies.

Rover Reporter