Hot Topics: 2025 AHVMA Recap, Dog Aging Project Study, Fresh Food & Bladder Stones

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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 Raw Feeder Life, and Erin Scott hosts the Believe in Dog podcast.

CHAPTERS: 

• Erin's back from AHVMA (0:55)
• Using mushrooms for hemangiosarcoma (15:38)
• More. AHVMA debrief (21:07)
• Updates on Erin's and Kimberly's dogs and Kimberly is preparing for Feed Real (25:30)
• Last thoughts about AHVMA, first thoughts about the new Forever Dog: Repair Manual announcement and balancing recipes (36:33)
• A new study suggesting that homemade diets for dogs are nutritionally incomplete (44:30)
• Another study suggests fresh food diets (e.g. Farmer's Dog) are causing a new type of bladder stones (54:43)
• TV and Book Talk (1:10:08)

LINKS DISCUSSED:

• Real Mushrooms (https://shop.realmushrooms.com/collections/mushrooms-for-pets/)
• Woof Creek Pet Wellness (https://www.woofcreek.com/)
• Study re: Turkey Tail Mushrooms for Hemangiosarcoma (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3440946/)
• Katie's Pet Products (https://www.katiespetproducts.com/)
• Forever Dog: The Repair Manual (https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16w8EQqr55/)
• Animal Diet Formulator (https://animaldietformulator.com/)
• Dog Aging Project study re: homemade diets (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40865554/)
• Study re: fresh food diets causing bladders stones (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12035869/)

SOCIAL MEDIA:

• Facebook.com/BelieveInDogPodcast
• Instagram.com/RawFeederLife
• Instagram.com/Erin_the_Dog_Mom

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 Moms.