Ingredient splitting is one of the oldest tricks in the book, and it's designed to deceive us as consumers into believing a product is better than it actually is. It's not just cat and dog foods either! Once you understand this trick you'll begin to understand what your food and your pet's food is really made from!…

For recommendations - https://www.petfoodreviews.com.au/best-dog-food-australia/ “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 …

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 t…

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 lifespa…

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 scal…

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, ra…