2024 NOVA Pet Summit Recap, New Essential Fatty Acid, and RFDS

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Welcome to Alternative Dog Moms - a podcast about what's happening in the fresh food community and the pet industry. Kimberly Gauthier is the blogger behind Keep the Tail Wagging, and Erin Scott hosts the Believe in Dog podcast.

CHAPTERS:

• Kimberly & Erin are back and talking about  fundraisers for Save-A-Mutt and B-More Dog (0:54)
• Erin attended the NOVA Pet Summit featuring Susan Thixton, Animal Biome, Dr. Karen Becker & Rodney Habib (4:16)
• Dr. Rob Silver has a book coming out, Kimberly learned to speak mushroom and Shout-Outs (19:13)
• Have you heard of Essential Fatty Acid C15?  And why Erin's nerding out on this (22:07)
• Dr. Josie Beug's warning to pet parents (26:31)
• Article warning veterinarians about the dangers of falling for marketing claims by pharmaceutical companies (34:29)
• Kimberly's interactions on TikTok with anti-raw feeders (35:11)
• What Erin learned on a spay/neuter webinar hosted by an animal welfare organization (42:43)
• Raw Feeding Derangement Syndrome is real (44:11)

LINKS DISCUSSED:

• Dr. Rob Silver's book "There's a Mushroom for That" (https://www.wellpetdispensary.com/books/theres-a-mushroom-for-that/)
• Dave Asprey podcast episode "The Fat You Didn't Know You Needed" (https://pod.link/451295014/episode/ff9ffe4a6bd520c71c272fb38b3c6398)
• Billy's video with Dr. Katie Woodley talking about C15 (https://www.youtube.com/live/makD4oeQMw8?si=COh7Ot2hoGZyXrVb)
• Dr. Josie Beug's warning to pet parents (https://www.facebook.com/josie.beug.dvm/posts/pfbid0UrRhaPGtuo6X52Y9Mm5fBVd1TmqioEyJYzois3CWvA5RFX1m2Caj7kL3UoKtz4SYl)
• Article warning veterinarians about the dangers of falling for marketing claims by pharmaceutical companies (https://www.veterinarypracticenews.com/beyond-promotional-claims/)
• Article: Silicone tags as an effective method of monitoring environmental contaminant exposures in a geographically diverse sample of dogs from the Dog Aging Project (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2024.1394061/full)
• Article: Species-level characterization of the core microbiome in healthy dogs using full-length 16S rRNA gene sequencing (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2024.1405470/full)
• Gold Bead Implants (https://holisticveterinaryhealing.com/pet-gold-bead-implants-germantown-md/)

OUR BLOG/PODCASTS...

• Kimberly: Keep the Tail Wagging, KeepTheTailWagging.com
• Erin Scott:

Thanks for listening to our podcast. You can learn more about Erin Scott's first podcast at BelieveInDogPodcast.com. And you can learn more about raw feeding, raising dogs naturally, and Kimberly's dogs at KeepTheTailWagging.com. And don't forget to subscribe to The Alternative Dog Mo