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Vet Josh Davis Q&A From July 16th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: It's doctor Josh Davis, veterinarian extraordinaire, power excellence. Good morning.
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: He's here in the studio with us to answer questions
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: about your kiddies and your puppies. You can text questions,
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: it's it's better to call because we can ask you
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: questions if we don't understand something. Yeah, and doctor Davis,
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: thanks for being here. You got surgery today, I see.
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: We'll see. I actually don't know what's on the schedule today.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: You're lazy.
• 0:26
  Speaker 3: You're wearing your It's just easier, so I just want
• 0:28
  Speaker 3: to wear my scrubs today.
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: I have a question, let's hear it.
• 0:32
  Speaker 4: I'm being fresh food shamed.
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: Me more so.
• 0:37
  Speaker 5: You know, dog food kibble is one thing, but Instagram
• 0:42
  Speaker 5: everywhere is telling me that I am a horrible dog
• 0:45
  Speaker 5: parent if I don't feed my dog fresh food.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: Don't I don't feed my pets anything that I wouldn't
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: eat myself.
• 0:53
  Speaker 6: Are you being shamed by companies that provide the fresh
• 0:56
  Speaker 6: food that yes, or influencers that are being paid by
• 0:59
  Speaker 6: the company providing.
• 1:00
  Speaker 5: But it's working because I because I I like vullible.
• 1:05
  Speaker 5: I'm gullible and well and I want what's best for
• 1:08
  Speaker 5: my dog. So help me, help me decide on that.
• 1:11
  Speaker 3: What's yeah, nutrition is it's a crazy topic and everyone
• 1:17
  Speaker 3: has opinions about that, and I think at the end
• 1:20
  Speaker 3: of the day is that if the fresh foods are
• 1:23
  Speaker 3: well made, you know, they're probably not going to cause
• 1:25
  Speaker 3: any problems as long as they're nutritionally complete. And there's
• 1:30
  Speaker 3: a lot of advertising, like you're talking about, you know,
• 1:33
  Speaker 3: the pet food industry is gigantic and everyone wants a
• 1:37
  Speaker 3: piece of it. So I do think you have to
• 1:39
  Speaker 3: take a lot of it with a grain of salt
• 1:42
  Speaker 3: when you buy you know, dogs.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: Salt in the in the food.
• 1:46
  Speaker 3: There should be the right amount. But there there's you know,
• 1:51
  Speaker 3: good quality pet food kibble. There's nothing wrong with with
• 1:55
  Speaker 3: pet food, you know, in general. Now there's different levels
• 1:58
  Speaker 3: of quality one hundred percent with that. And but the
• 2:01
  Speaker 3: fresh food thing is it is I won't say it's
• 2:05
  Speaker 3: a gimmick, but there's a lot of advertising behind it,
• 2:07
  Speaker 3: and it may and there's odds are it won't make
• 2:10
  Speaker 3: your pets life any better or anything. And I've seen
• 2:12
  Speaker 3: a lot of pets on it that it's often refrigerated
• 2:15
  Speaker 3: or wet, so there's a lot of storage requirements and
• 2:18
  Speaker 3: calorie calories can be different, and so it can be
• 2:22
  Speaker 3: a lot easier to cause obesity, vomiting, diarrhea. There's just
• 2:25
  Speaker 3: a lot of things that can come with it. So
• 2:27
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's all bad. But you're not a
• 2:29
  Speaker 3: bad owner.
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: If you feed your dog dry kibbles, there's nothing wrong
• 2:32
  Speaker 2: with that.
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: Are some of the big companies, you know, the now
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: known companies making fresh food.
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: There's I mean, there's so many.
• 2:40
  Speaker 3: I mean fresh pet is one of the big ones
• 2:41
  Speaker 3: that comes to mind, but there are there's so many now,
• 2:43
  Speaker 3: I mean I see them every.
• 2:44
  Speaker 2: Day when I walk by the coolers and the stores
• 2:46
  Speaker 2: and things like that.
• 2:47
  Speaker 4: And there's a new thing called meal toppers.
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: That gave me diarrhea.
• 2:53
  Speaker 5: So it's you got kibble, but it's just a little
• 2:56
  Speaker 5: extra like fresh thing that you put on top of
• 2:59
  Speaker 5: a tree.
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: And if you look at the statistics, I mean, I'm
• 3:03
  Speaker 3: not saying I'm one hundred percent on this, but in
• 3:05
  Speaker 3: my experience, about sixty to seventy percent of the dogs.
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: I see are overweight or obese, and it's probably.
• 3:12
  Speaker 3: Higher than that. And a lot of cats are obese.
• 3:15
  Speaker 3: So every time we're throwing toppers at them. Every time
• 3:17
  Speaker 3: we're throwing all this stuff at them. It's it's just
• 3:20
  Speaker 3: it's wasting your money because they don't need the calories
• 3:22
  Speaker 3: and there's not all these giant health and the.
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: Good old days, in the good old days, when you
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: were having dinner and then whatever was left on your plate,
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: you put it down on the floor and the dog.
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they'll eat it, you know.
• 3:33
  Speaker 3: And just the obesity comes with so many health consequences,
• 3:37
  Speaker 3: and if you're going to feed something, I just there
• 3:40
  Speaker 3: should be a benefit.
• 3:41
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's how I look at that. I know. But again,
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: ask one hundred vets, you'll probably get a hundred different opinions.
• 3:46
  Speaker 6: It was easy for us because we tried that stuff
• 3:49
  Speaker 6: and the dogs didn't like it.
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 3:50
  Speaker 4: I preferred the kibble.
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: It was easy.
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the quality kibble.
• 3:53
  Speaker 3: If their poops are normal and their skin and hair
• 3:56
  Speaker 3: coat are shiny and healthy looking, you're you know, probably
• 3:59
  Speaker 3: in a good spot.
• 4:00
  Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, all right, that's helpful, Thank you. Okay, let's
• 4:04
  Speaker 4: go to Jed.
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: Hello, Jed, Hey, Jed, where are you calling from?
• 4:08
  Speaker 7: Oh, Salt Lake City?
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: Well, I love this question. What what's your cat's name? Okay?
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: What the avatar?
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead, and ask the question.
• 4:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so when I'm outside with them, they love eating
• 4:22
  Speaker 7: grasshoppers on the ground. They'll like stock them and jump
• 4:25
  Speaker 7: on them and eat them. And I did a little
• 4:28
  Speaker 7: bit of googling on this. It sounds like eating grasshoppers
• 4:31
  Speaker 7: is okay in moderation, But I'm wondering what in moderation means.
• 4:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, cats love that. I mean, it's the hunting, stocking nature.
• 4:42
  Speaker 3: So yeah, they're there one hundred percent love to do
• 4:44
  Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. Moderation, I would see, is it's
• 4:48
  Speaker 3: flexible because you know, the insects do have the hard parts,
• 4:52
  Speaker 3: those back leagues are spiny. On a lot of grass
• 4:54
  Speaker 3: them out.
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: I've noticed the cats.
• 4:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, certain things they'll try not to eat, but if
• 4:59
  Speaker 3: they eat an enough of that that those hard cells
• 5:01
  Speaker 3: they may not digest that appropriately, so that can lead
• 5:03
  Speaker 3: to vomiting.
• 5:04
  Speaker 2: And if I mean, if they're.
• 5:05
  Speaker 3: Eating piles of grasshoppers, you know that even enough could
• 5:08
  Speaker 3: be obstructive to them too, and their stomachs. Even like
• 5:11
  Speaker 3: hair balls, you know, just enough hair can cause problems.
• 5:13
  Speaker 3: In enough hard material like insect kite can cause a
• 5:16
  Speaker 3: problem for them. But in general, you know, if it's
• 5:19
  Speaker 3: a grasshopper here and they're probably not gonna hurt anything.
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right. Cool. It's fun to watch them do it,
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: isn't it.
• 5:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's are amazing hunters. They are.
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: They love it. Yeah. It's doctor Josh Davis, veterinarian extraordinary
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: power excellence. Good morning. He's here in the studio with
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: us to answer questions about your kiddies and your puppies.
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: You can text questions, It's it's better to call because
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: we can ask you questions if we don't understand something. Yeah. Uh,
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: and doctor Davis, thanks for being here. You got surgery today,
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: Actually we'll see.
• 5:54
  Speaker 2: I actually don't know what's on the schedule today.
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: You're lazy.
• 5:57
  Speaker 2: You're wearing your Yeah, it's just easier.
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: So I just want to wear my broke today.
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: I have a question, let's hear it.
• 6:03
  Speaker 4: I'm being fresh food shamed.
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: Tell me more.
• 6:07
  Speaker 5: Oh so, so you know, dog food kibble is one thing,
• 6:10
  Speaker 5: but but Instagram everywhere is telling me that I am
• 6:15
  Speaker 5: a horrible dog parent if I don't feed my dog
• 6:19
  Speaker 5: fresh food.
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: Don't I don't feed my patch anything that I wouldn't
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: eat myself.
• 6:23
  Speaker 6: Are you being shamed by companies that provide the fresh
• 6:26
  Speaker 6: food that yes, or influencers that are being paid by
• 6:30
  Speaker 6: the companies that provide.
• 6:31
  Speaker 5: But it's working because I because I I like gullible.
• 6:35
  Speaker 5: I'm gullible and well and I want what's best for
• 6:39
  Speaker 5: my dog, So help me, help me decide on that.
• 6:42
  Speaker 3: What's yeah, nutrition is it's a crazy topic and everyone
• 6:47
  Speaker 3: has opinions about that, and I think at the end
• 6:51
  Speaker 3: of the day is that if the fresh foods are
• 6:53
  Speaker 3: well made, you know, they're probably not going to cause
• 6:56
  Speaker 3: any problems as long as they're nutritionally complete. And there's
• 7:01
  Speaker 3: a lot of advertising, like you're talking about. You know,
• 7:04
  Speaker 3: the pet food industry is gigantic and everyone wants a
• 7:07
  Speaker 3: piece of it. So I do think you have to
• 7:09
  Speaker 3: take a lot of it with a grain of salt
• 7:12
  Speaker 3: when you buy you know.
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: Dogs salt in the food.
• 7:17
  Speaker 2: There should be the right amount.
• 7:19
  Speaker 3: But there there's you know, good quality pet food kibble.
• 7:24
  Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with with pet food, you know, in general.
• 7:27
  Speaker 3: Now there's different levels of quality one hundred percent with that.
• 7:30
  Speaker 3: And but the fresh food thing is it is. I
• 7:34
  Speaker 3: won't say it's a gimmick, but there's a lot of
• 7:36
  Speaker 3: advertising behind it, and it may and there's odds are
• 7:39
  Speaker 3: it won't make your pets life any better or anything.
• 7:42
  Speaker 3: And I've seen a lot of pets on it that
• 7:44
  Speaker 3: it's often refrigerated or wet, so there's a lot of
• 7:47
  Speaker 3: storage requirements and calorie calories can be different, and so
• 7:51
  Speaker 3: it can be a lot easier to cause obesity, vomiting, diarrhea.
• 7:55
  Speaker 3: There's just a lot of things that can come with it.
• 7:57
  Speaker 3: So I'm not saying it's all bad, but you're not
• 7:59
  Speaker 3: about owner. If you feed your dog dry kibbles, there's
• 8:02
  Speaker 3: nothing wrong with that.
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: Are some of the big companies, you know, the now
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: known companies making fresh food.
• 8:09
  Speaker 2: There's I mean there's so many.
• 8:10
  Speaker 3: I mean fresh pet is one of the big ones
• 8:12
  Speaker 3: that comes to mind, but there are there's so many now,
• 8:14
  Speaker 3: I mean I see them every day when I.
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: Walk by the coolers and the stores and things like that.
• 8:17
  Speaker 4: And there's a new thing called meal toppers.
• 8:20
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, that gave me diarrhea.
• 8:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's you got kibble, but it's just a
• 8:25
  Speaker 5: little extra like fresh.
• 8:28
  Speaker 4: Thing that you put on top of a train.
• 8:31
  Speaker 3: And if you look at the statistics, I mean, I'm
• 8:34
  Speaker 3: not saying them one hundred percent on this, but in
• 8:36
  Speaker 3: my experience, about sixty to seventy percent of the dogs
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: I see.
• 8:40
  Speaker 2: Are overweight or obese, and it's probably higher than that.
• 8:43
  Speaker 2: And a lot of cats are obese.
• 8:45
  Speaker 3: So every time we're throwing toppers at them, every time
• 8:48
  Speaker 3: we're throwing all this stuff at them, it's it's just
• 8:50
  Speaker 3: it's wasting your money because they don't need the calories
• 8:52
  Speaker 3: and there's not all these giant health and.
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: The good old days, and the good old days when
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: you're having dinner and then your whatever was left on
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: your plate, you put it down on the floor and
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: the dog.
• 9:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they'll eat it, you know.
• 9:03
  Speaker 3: And and just the obesity comes with so many health consequences,
• 9:08
  Speaker 3: and if you're going to feed something, I just there
• 9:10
  Speaker 3: should be a benefit. Okay, that's how I look at that.
• 9:13
  Speaker 3: But again, ask one hundred vets. You'll probab get a
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: hundred different opinions.
• 9:17
  Speaker 6: It was easy for us because we tried that stuff
• 9:19
  Speaker 6: and the dogs didn't like it.
• 9:21
  Speaker 2: I preferred the kibble.
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: It was easy, Yeah, and the quality kibble.
• 9:24
  Speaker 3: If their poops are normal and their skin and hair
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: coat are shiny and healthy looking, you're.
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: You know, probably in a good spot.
• 9:30
  Speaker 5: Okay, all right, that's helpful, thank you, Okay, let's go
• 9:34
  Speaker 5: to Jed.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: Hello, Jed, Hey, Jed, where are you calling from?
• 9:38
  Speaker 7: Oh, Salt Lake City.
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: Well, I love this question. What what's your cat's name?
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: Okay, what the avatar?
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead and ask the question. Yeah.
• 9:50
  Speaker 7: So when I'm outside with them, they love eating grasshoppers
• 9:53
  Speaker 7: on the ground. They'll like stock them and jump on
• 9:55
  Speaker 7: them and eat them. And I did a little bit
• 9:58
  Speaker 7: of googling on this. It sounds like eating grasshoppers is
• 10:02
  Speaker 7: okay in moderation, But I'm wondering what in moderation means.
• 10:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, cats love that. I mean it's the hunting, stocking nature.
• 10:13
  Speaker 3: So yeah, they're there one hundred percent love to do
• 10:15
  Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. Moderation, I would say, is it's
• 10:19
  Speaker 3: flexible because you know, the insects do.
• 10:21
  Speaker 2: Have the hard parts, those back leagues are spiny.
• 10:24
  Speaker 3: On a lot of grasshoppers, I've noticed, Yeah, certain things
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: they'll try not to eat, but if they eat enough
• 10:30
  Speaker 3: of that that those hard shells they may not digest
• 10:33
  Speaker 3: that appropriately, so that can lead to vomiting.
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: And if I mean, if they're.
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: Eating piles of grasshoppers, you know that even enough could
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: be obstructive to them too, and their stomachs even like hairballs.
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: You know, just enough hair can cause problems. In enough
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: hard material like insect kite can cause a problem for them.
• 10:48
  Speaker 3: But in general, you know, if it's a grasshopper here
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: and they're probably not going to hurt anything.
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, cool. It's fun to watch them do it,
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: isn't it.
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: Cats are amazing hunters. They are love it.
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah,