Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of the Chicks on the Right podcast.
We are delighted to have with us friend and sponsor
of the show, naturopathic doctor Dennis Black, who's the founder
of rough Greens, one of our absolute favorite products, and
now he is the author of a brand new book
called A Natural Path to Pet Health, and just that
title alone made us want to get a copy. So
what kinds of things if you could just preview it
a little bit for us, what kinds of things can
people expect to learn from this book?
Speaker 2: Well, the reason that we even created rough Greens to
begin with was because of all of our human patients
that we had got so much better with the nutritional
products that we created. They asked us, hey, can you
do anything for my dog because my dog's are getting sick.
So it didn't take a rocket scientist to look at
dog food and realize why dogs are getting sick. The
reality is that most people who have dogs that are sick,
they think they're having medical issues, when in reality, they're
having nutritional deficiencies. And so you are what you eat.
That's what your grandmother taught you. And the reality is
that dog food is dead food. I mean, it's just
there's nothing alive in it, and dogs need live probiotics
and enzymes and vitamins, mega oils, antioxid it's just like
we do. So that's why we decided to create rough
Greens was so that you could just add it to
your dog's food. It's a supplement that you just sprinkle
on the dog's food. Dogs love the taste of it.
We made sure of that. Yes, yes, and they'll lick
the ball all the way clean across the kitchen floor.
And then what happens is all these medical issues now
just begin to disappear. So that's why we created it.
But we still have tons of questions that come in
all the time on our podcast and over the phone,
people asking us all kinds of course, how do I
get my dog off this medication? What should I be
doing here? How do I make my own dog food?
All those kinds of things. So that's why I took
all the tips and tricks and all the things that
we've garnered over the years, and I just put them
all in this one book. So that's why we created
the book.
Speaker 3: There's recipes in the book.
Speaker 2: Yeah, over thirty five recipes. I mean, think about this
for just a minute. How would you like it if
you had to eat the exact same thing every day
for the rest of your life. And people buy a
fifty pound bag of dog food and think the dog's
going to be excited about that, and there's no change.
The first meal and the last meal exactly the same.
I would die of boredom if that were me. So
what we do is we make We have three big
dogs there. We have lived on a farm and so
we have big We have Great Pyrenees, a German Shepherd
at a Great Pyrenees mix. Yeah, but they all are
working dogs. They all get out there and protect the
property and the livestock and all of that. What we
do is we make the dog food and I'll take
one of these recipes and these are recipes from my kitchen,
and we'll as a family, we'll make a big tub
of dog food and then we put it in ziplock
bags and freeze it. And then next week we make
a completely different formula that's something else, and then we
make that and we put it in and we mix
them all up, so every day the dog gets a
different meal than something they had yesterday. They might have
had it three days ago. But I mean, I'm happy
to eat. I don't know if you know what Poppado's
seafood restaurant is. Totally have them here in Dallas happy
to eat at Poppy Doo's at least once or twice
a week because I kind of it's just my favorite restaurant.
Speaker 3: So they're getting the chef special eye.
Speaker 2: They're getting the chef special. And then every once in
a while, we just make something really unique and special
in the in the fall of the year. Sometimes we
make some turkey dishes we make sometimes we make some
fish dishes. So we just mix it up and our
dogs love it. I mean, when when we get ready
to feed our dog, you can just like they're salivating.
They're just like, yes, let me add it. So they're
big dogs. We feed it a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So you there's also tips about how to save money,
which I'm on food, and I'm assuming some of these
recipes contribute to that because.
Speaker 2: All of them actually all the reality is. The reality is, Look,
if you're the kind of person that has your dog
chained up to a doghouse in the backyard, we're not
your product and we're we're not your your company. But
if you treat your dog like family, and you want
that dog to live as long as possible, then you
got to stop feeding them the kibble and you've got
to start making their dog food. It's simple, it's easy,
and it's cheaper. There are some dog foods out there.
For a dog the size of one of my dogs,
which is over fifty pounds, it's eight hundred dollars a
month if you buy that prepackaged supposedly some kind of
dog food made by a farmer. And the reality is
a lot of that stuff is is not that great
for your dog because they use synthetic vitamins and all
that stuff in it. So the better option is to
make your dog food yourself. It's really simple to do,
really easy. It's fun to do. My wife and kids
and I we make it. We get our hands in
there and mush it all up, and you know, we
have we have our own chicken, so we add egg
and you know all that stuff, and we have really
healthy dogs. Our dogs only go to the vet once
a year for the annual checkup. That's it.
Speaker 4: And so you like you live on like a ranch type,
because I live in I'm rural too, so I get it.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of like you.
Speaker 4: But for people who live in the suburbs or who
live in the city.
Speaker 3: Is this book also applicable to those people?
Speaker 2: Do you think? Yeah? Absolutely? So it doesn't matter. Think
about that pre packaged dog food that you can buy
from a farmer, right, if you just make that yourself
and we show you how to do it with the
right ingredients. By the way, the misconception is that we
live rural. We live in the city. We have a
farm inside the city. Okay, so we're like four miles
from the nearest mall. Yeah, so I.
Speaker 3: Bet your wife had something to do with that.
Speaker 2: She did, You were right. She said, I'll live on
a farm if you bring it to the city. So
I said, okay, that's right, let's do it. So, but yeah,
it doesn't matter where you're live in. It doesn't matter
what size your dog is. You can if you have
a little tiny dog that'll fit in your pocket, you
could still make dog food for that dog, and you
make it maybe once every two weeks, and you make
it in a little bowl enough to last. It doesn't matter.
We all love our dogs. It doesn't matter the size
of them. We want them to live as long as
possible and as healthy as possible. Those are the things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so what are since you started rough greens, which
I know that's been a hot minute. But tell us
about maybe if you can. I'm sure there are many,
But tell us about like a real success story, So
a dog maybe that was suffering and that had a
huge turnaround.
Speaker 2: So there's a woman who is a relatively famous woman.
If I told you her name, you would know her. Okay,
let's put it that way. I don't have her permission
to use her name because I haven't. I haven't asked her.
I'm sure she would say yes. I met her about
three and a half months ago and she told me
about her dog, whose name is mister Whiskey. And mister
Whiskey is about a ten pound dog. Uh, but he
was his skin, his hair had fallen out, his skin
had big sores on it. Her vet lives two doors down,
so the vet sees the dog all the time, and
they put that dog on every kind of medication that
you can imagine. Dog's only eight years old. I mean,
how do you and you know it should be a
twenty year old dog, right, should live to be twenty
because it's a small dog. And the vet said, we've
tried everything I'm gonna recommend that we put mister whiskey
to sleep. Oh, because he was. He was so miserable.
And not only was he miserable, but the whole family
was miserable. She has four kids, and everybody was miserable
because he's scratching all the time. He's scratching because his
gut is in horrible shape. So whatever the quality of
your skin is tells you what the quality of your
gut is. If you have bad skin issues and sores
and whatever, it means your guts out of balance. That's
what that means. And that means the same thing in dogs.
So at any rate, I met her and I said, Okay,
here's the deal. If you give me ninety days, I'll
get mister whiskey better. If you give me one hundred
and eighty days, i'll fix mister whiskey. She looked at
me with that skeptical look, right, and I've seen that
look from women before, so so at any rate, she said,
all right, well, i'll give it a shot, but I don't.
She said, we'll keep him alive for another ninety days.
If you think it'll make a difference, I said, I
guarantee it'll make a difference. It's now been ninety days.
I had a conversation with her last week in tears.
She's crying. Whiskey's hair's growing back. He's scratching about ten
percent of what he used to scratch, and his skin
is healed and the hair's growing back. Kids are playing
with him again. Everything's completely turned around. I told her
by New Year's Day, he'll be one hundred percent. And
it's she's a believer. Let's put it that way. She's
a believer.
Speaker 4: But for those too, I have a stray, Like we
have two rescue dogs, and one of them came to
us and he was a hot mess.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4: I attribute a lot of his health and well being
to rough greens.
Speaker 3: So it makes a big difference.
Speaker 2: And you can add about you can add about twenty
five sometimes more percent to a dog's life. Now, let
me just give you another quick example, real quick. Glenn Beck.
We all know Glenn Beck, and Glenn Beck had a
dog whose name was Uno and he Una was a
German shepherd. Una wouldn't eat. Glenn had to spoon feed
the dog, and if the dog, if he moved too
fast or whatever, the dog would just stop eating. It
wouldn't eat again till tomorrow, and so we got him
started years and years and years ago on Rough Greens.
Dog that then became the spokesperson for the Lick Your
Bowl Clean club and German shepherds typically lived seven to
eight years because of all the problems that they have. Yeah,
Uno passed away this last summer, thirteen years old. I'm
thirteen years old, and that never happens with German shepherd.
Speaker 3: That's amazing right now.
Speaker 2: So that's a tribute to how Rough Greens solving your
nutritional problems can add years to your dog's life. And
we see it, by the way, we see it a
thousand times a year. We hear stories like that from people,
I'm sure.
Speaker 1: So tell us tell everybody in our audience how they
can get a free Jumpstart trial bag and how they
can get their hands on this book.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so all they have to do is go to
Roughchicks dot com and click on a Jumpstar trial bag.
It's about a ten day supply and I'll send it
to you for free. All you do is cover the
shipping and we'll send it to you and then you
can tell whether or not you want it. And you
know if you want to continue, you can. But at
the end of that, when you get your receipt online
for the shipping for that, you'll also see a link
that says get the book on Amazon and it's a
natural path to pet Health by doctor Dennis Black. And
you click on that, it'll take you straight to Amazon
and you can buy the book there on Amazon and
they'll ship it to you. I guess free because you
have most everybody has free shipping on Amazon. But that's
the easiest way to get it. It's just click on
the link at the end of the transaction and they'll
take you straight to Amazon.
Speaker 3: Awesome.
Speaker 1: Well, we're obviously longtime believers in your product. Can't wait
to get through the book, and we thank you doctor
Dennis Black for being with us.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and we're longtime believers in you guys. We
really appreciate what you do because the only way we
can save America is if we have a conversation where
we change the lives of people. And so I appreciate
what you guys are doing.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you appreciate that