Homeopathic Treatments for Dogs
Jody Teiche has been practicing holistic care for humans and dogs for decades. She is a doggie health coach that does in-depth analysis of the minute details of health and wellness when dogs are having conditions that traditional methods haven’t been able to solve. Learn some very important insights into healthy and raw food diets and how a homeopathic remedy might be just the ticket to help your dog thrive. Sometimes, we need to look outside the box and find solutions for our beloved furry friends. Jody is a Certified Pet Nutritionist and Energy Medicine Practitioner. Email: Jody@JodyLTeiche.com
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BIO:
Are you afraid to leave your house because your dog or cat freaks out? Does your dog's whining, crying or howling when you leave break your heart? Or worse yet, are you terrified they may hurt themselves while you're gone because they're so anxious? I had that dog. I would get anxious myself before I left the house, because I knew my Sophie would howl for as long as I was gone. I knew she was struggling and it killed me. But, I couldn't stay home 24/7; I had a life I had to live, a job I was working. So, what could I do? I didn't want to put her on medication. I had gone the veterinary behaviorist route with another of my dogs, Jasper, and it changed him in ways I didn't like and I thought lessened his quality of life.
So, I took matters into my own hands and studied both on my own and with experts, I practiced and learned. I experimented and found things that were natural that worked. And, I learned that because every animal is different, what works for one may not work for another. Today, I have a number of tools in my kit to help anxious pets feel calmer and more comfortable in their own skin, in their surroundings and in coping with life. So many dogs and cats are given up to shelters because of behavior issues that could have been helped, keeping the animal with their family. If you have an anxious pet and it's impacting your life and breaking your heart to see, I can help.
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Genie Joseph: Hi, everyone.
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Genie Joseph: So glad you're out there.
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Genie Joseph: It's Genie Joseph from The Human-Animal Connection, and I have a really delightful guest.
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Genie Joseph: I'm so glad to have Jody L.
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Genie Joseph: Teiche, and she is a pet health expert and energy medicine practitioner.
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Genie Joseph: She guides her clients to become their pet's healer, learning effective natural ways to set their dogs and cats up for success.
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Genie Joseph: Jody is a certified pet homeopathic educator, also using in her practice nutrition education and cutting edge energy healing modalities, which have been very effective in creating healthier, more vibrant animals and their humans.
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Genie Joseph: Her podcast, The Pet Health Coach, is available on Pet Life Radio and on all major platforms, and you can book a consult with Jody.
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Genie Joseph: Well, let's get started, Jody.
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Genie Joseph: Thank you for being here.
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Genie Joseph: Tell us what you mean by energy medicine for our pets, for people who don't know about it.
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Jody Teiche: Thank you so much, Genie.
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Jody Teiche: I'm thrilled to be here with you.
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Jody Teiche: We become friends too, so this is also extra special, so thanks.
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Jody Teiche: Yeah, yeah.
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Jody Teiche: I am, in addition to being a pet health expert and an energy medicine practitioner, I am a pet health and a human health coach.
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Jody Teiche: And so I will kind of weave the two of them in to what that means.
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Genie Joseph: Well, let's start with the basic in case people don't know what homeopathy is all about.
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Genie Joseph: I'm sure they'd know it's a healing method, but can you just give a summary of what is homeopathy and how is it different from-
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Jody Teiche: Absolutely.
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Jody Teiche: Absolutely.
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Jody Teiche: Homeopathy is an energy medicine.
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Jody Teiche: And what that means is the plants, the minerals, the animals that homeopathic remedies are made from, the actual original substance to make it homeopathic is diluted and what we call succust, which is rapidly, hardly shaken over and over and over and over again.
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Jody Teiche: The dilution process gets the what could cause unwanted reactions in the person or animal from the original substance, i.e.
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Jody Teiche: arsenicum, arsenic, belladonna, nightshade, deadly nightshade.
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Jody Teiche: It dilutes it to the point where it no longer is toxic, and the succusion releases the energy of that substance into a healing form in that liquid, so that at the end of however many times you've done this, which determines the potency, you have a healing medicine.
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Genie Joseph: Okay, and I think there's a little trick to it, like 6X is more powerful or less powerful than 3X.
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Genie Joseph: Which way does it go?
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Genie Joseph: I always forget.
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Jody Teiche: So the more times it's counterintuitive, the more times it is diluted and succust, the more powerful it is.
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Jody Teiche: So the X decimal potency is less powerful than the C centesimal potency, which is 99 to 1, but we won't get into that.
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Jody Teiche: That's too deep.
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Jody Teiche: And then you have even more, like LM, you have even more potent methods of creating the remedy.
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Jody Teiche: But for example, the C potencies are generally what people buy in the store.
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Jody Teiche: Xs and Cs, but mostly Cs.
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Jody Teiche: So a 30C, a 12C is less potent than a 30C is less potent than a 200C is less potent than a 1M, etc.
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Jody Teiche: The more dilutions and succussions, the more potent.
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Genie Joseph: Yeah, so interesting.
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Genie Joseph: So now with homeopathy, it's very unique, right?
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Genie Joseph: An individual, let's say a dog, for example, one dog might want one remedy for a certain thing, and another dog with the same condition might want a different remedy.
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Genie Joseph: Is that correct?
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Jody Teiche: That is correct, because it's not about the condition in homeopathy.
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Jody Teiche: It's about how that individual animal is expressing their symptoms of that condition.
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Jody Teiche: So, for example, two dogs vomiting and diarrhea.
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Jody Teiche: One dog vomits immediately after eating, is very thirsty, wants to be near mommy, and likes to be under the covers.
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Jody Teiche: Warm, toasty.
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Jody Teiche: The other dog vomits two or three hours after eating, wants to be out in the open air, doesn't want to be touched, and is thirstless.
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Jody Teiche: It's not really that thirsty.
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Jody Teiche: Two dogs have vomiting and diarrhea.
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Jody Teiche: They're each expressing it in different ways, unique to them.
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Jody Teiche: And it is those unique expression of symptoms, which is a total symptom picture that we recommend the homeopathic remedy from.
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Jody Teiche: And so that's why two dogs with vomiting and diarrhea, expressing it differently can have two different remedies.
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Genie Joseph: Yeah, interesting.
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Genie Joseph: So people really need to work with someone who understands how to get the whole picture and even what to ask.
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Jody Teiche: Exactly.
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Genie Joseph: Yeah, because I think, you know, usually we go to the vet and we, you know, they'll ask a few questions, but it's just a few questions.
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Genie Joseph: And give me an example.
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Genie Joseph: Like, I'll say, well, we were fostering a dog that had, I think we would call separation anxiety.
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Genie Joseph: It's a really difficult time when I left.
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Genie Joseph: And so how would you ask me questions?
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Genie Joseph: Start me off.
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Genie Joseph: How would you begin asking me questions about her?
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Jody Teiche: Sure.
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Jody Teiche: So some of the questions, because the sessions are generally an hour, hour and a half and sometimes longer.
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Jody Teiche: So I'll just give you a sampling.
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Jody Teiche: So some of the questions might be, have you noticed that when your dog is expressing their separation anxiety, are they cowering in a corner?
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Jody Teiche: Like how are they expressing it?
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Jody Teiche: Are they cowering in a corner?
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Jody Teiche: Are they being destructive in the house?
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Jody Teiche: So how they're expressing it would be one thing.
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Jody Teiche: Do they have an appetite when they are feeling it?
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Jody Teiche: Do their eating habits change when they're feeling this?
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Jody Teiche: What do you notice about other deeper emotional things that they may do?
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Jody Teiche: Maybe they go to a certain place or maybe they need to be in a certain room when this is coming on.
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Jody Teiche: Is there something that happens that triggers this before you're actually leaving the house?
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Jody Teiche: But something that happens that triggers this that you might notice that gives us some insight into how they're thinking.
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Jody Teiche: With pets, it's harder.
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Jody Teiche: Separation anxiety is a host of other things.
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Jody Teiche: Are there other symptoms that go along with this?
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Jody Teiche: They throw up.
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Jody Teiche: If they're throwing up, what color is it?
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Jody Teiche: How does it smell?
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Jody Teiche: Is it food or undigested food?
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Jody Teiche: Is it bile?
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Jody Teiche: Are there other things going on simultaneously?
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Jody Teiche: So it's body, mind and spirit.
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Jody Teiche: And it's, again, what that particular animal is doing to express that separation anxiety.
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Genie Joseph: So I think people are getting the idea that homeopathics is not just well, what do I do for this?
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Genie Joseph: Or just tell me what remedy I do for this problem, which is kind of the Western model.
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Genie Joseph: We're used to saying, OK, here's my symptom, give me the cure.
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Genie Joseph: We've all been raised on that.
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Genie Joseph: And what you're talking about is really a very in-depth, holistic approach, meaning you're looking at what's the animal doing physically, what's the animal doing emotionally, what's the animal doing mentally, what's the animal doing in terms of eating or drinking or eliminating.
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Genie Joseph: And this is a very different way of looking at what's going on with the being.
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Genie Joseph: And one being may express one way a certain problem, and the other animal is going to express a completely different way.
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Genie Joseph: So this is really great.
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Genie Joseph: So when you get people on these homeopractic remedies, do you have a story you could tell us about an example of somebody who came to you, they didn't know what was going on, and they said, here's this mess of symptoms, and tell us how you proceeded, how you did a little detective work and solved it.
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Jody Teiche: I could give you a couple of examples.
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Jody Teiche: I could start with my Sophie, because during her six-month bout of congestive heart failure, we had a couple of things come into the picture that were in tandem with, but we didn't really know why.
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Jody Teiche: One we did, the other we didn't.
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Jody Teiche: When I say we, it's me and the vet team that I had around us.
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Jody Teiche: So one was incontinence.
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Jody Teiche: She all of a sudden became incontinent, and it wasn't going to be the medication that might have been it, because she had already been on that medication at least two months.
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Jody Teiche: And there was a remedy that I had looked into, which was a very, very little known remedy, that I really liked for her heart symptoms, not her mind symptoms at all, but her heart symptoms.
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Jody Teiche: And so I treated her with this remedy for her heart symptoms.
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Jody Teiche: And because it's so internal, it's very hard to know, unless you follow over time with echocardiograms, etc.
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Jody Teiche: But I did, and I noticed she perked up a little bit after the first treatment with it.
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Jody Teiche: So that was a good sign.
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Jody Teiche: And then when the incontinence came into the picture, I had intuition that this same remedy would be something to look into.
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Jody Teiche: So I went back into my homeopathic program, and I looked into this remedy again.
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Jody Teiche: And sure enough, incontinence was there.
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Jody Teiche: So I decided to try it, and it literally stopped the incontinence overnight.
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Jody Teiche: And when it came back about two weeks later, I gave her one more dose, gone for the rest of the time that she was with me, and that was a good couple of months.
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Jody Teiche: And then during the bout, she was having accidents four or five times a day.
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Jody Teiche: So that's one story.
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Jody Teiche: Another story is with a client.
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Jody Teiche: The dog's name is Charlie.
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Jody Teiche: The first time homeopathy worked great for Charlie was for itching.
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Jody Teiche: He didn't have fleas.
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Jody Teiche: We made sure of that.
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Jody Teiche: It didn't seem to be dietary.
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Jody Teiche: And I took Charlie's case, and taking the case is very important.
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Jody Teiche: That's some of the things you mentioned.
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Jody Teiche: It's having a long meeting with the pet parent and asking a lot of high mileage questions, good questions, to get to the bottom of how Charlie was expressing this.
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Jody Teiche: Now, it had become a chronic issue.
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Jody Teiche: So after doing this and getting information about his vaccination history, I felt that that was the link.
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Jody Teiche: And so I prescribed a homeopathic remedy that matched up well and also had real synergy with fallout from vaccination.
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Jody Teiche: And that worked for Charlie very quickly, and the itching was gone.
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Jody Teiche: And I got a text from my client saying, you're a genius!
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Jody Teiche: And of course, we love that because we feel so happy that the dog is not suffering, and the pet parent's happy.
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Jody Teiche: We've also had another issue with Charlie more recently with his spine and some, you know, out of alignment pinched nerve.
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Jody Teiche: And while he's had acupuncture and chiropractic adjustments, which have helped, nothing has stuck.
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Jody Teiche: And we are now using a remedy that we've tried from one potency.
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Jody Teiche: We got all the love we could get out of that potency, which was working very nicely and then stopped working.
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Jody Teiche: And then we try to hire potency.
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Jody Teiche: Sometimes when people are new to homeopathy, they abandon a remedy too quickly.
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Jody Teiche: Sometimes you have to experiment with potency and dosing.
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Jody Teiche: So we did that.
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Jody Teiche: And it now seems to be really helping again.
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Genie Joseph: Wonderful.
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Jody Teiche: So we're in it still, but those are some examples.
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Genie Joseph: Well, that's great.
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Genie Joseph: We're going to take a short little break.
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Genie Joseph: I'm speaking with Jody Teiche, and she is a pet health expert.
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Genie Joseph: We'll be right back.
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Genie Joseph: Welcome back to the Human-Animal Connection podcast.
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Genie Joseph: I'm speaking with the very wonderful Jody Teiche.
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Genie Joseph: She is a pet health expert.
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Genie Joseph: And Jody, I want people to understand because they probably have never been to a pet health expert.
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Genie Joseph: Tell us a little bit about what we need to know about how you work that's different from say how a vet would work.
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Jody Teiche: Thank you so much, Genie.
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Jody Teiche: A pet health coach, which is really what I am, is sort of a bridge between the pet parent and the vet.
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Jody Teiche: And what I mean by that is we are knowledge transfer because we know more than the average pet parent through our studies.
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Jody Teiche: I'm certified in nutrition.
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Jody Teiche: I'm a certified coach.
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Jody Teiche: I am a certified pet homeopathic educator.
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Jody Teiche: And I've learned a lot over the years.
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Jody Teiche: I learned a heck of a lot about congestive heart failure because of Sophie, which I shared with pet parents.
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Jody Teiche: So we are knowledge transfer.
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Jody Teiche: We are resource person.
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Jody Teiche: So there are wonderful tools, products that I've learned about, used, and had success with over the years that, in the right circumstances, I would suggest to pet parents, whether it's nutrition.
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Jody Teiche: Nutrition is the foundation of the house.
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Jody Teiche: So it would be helping to create a nutrition plan with the pet parent that is bio-individual, because the same thing doesn't necessarily work for every single animal.
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Jody Teiche: And it would be communicating with and supporting the vet when they are open to doing that with a holistic, natural, healing pet health coach.
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Jody Teiche: Some vets are, some vets aren't.
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Jody Teiche: We're also accountability partners, champions.
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Jody Teiche: And because I'm also an energy medicine practitioner, I can bring things like homeopathy into the mix when I think it would be helpful.
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Jody Teiche: I can bring frequency scanning into the mix when I think it would be helpful.
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Genie Joseph: Well, I definitely want to talk about energy medicine, but before we get to that, I just want to pick up on one thing you just said about the nutritional element.
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Genie Joseph: Are you someone who cooks for your dogs?
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Genie Joseph: Or tell us a little bit about your routine with that.
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Jody Teiche: I feed my dogs raw, and I do a combination of things.
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Jody Teiche: There are times when I'll order from farms or buy from farms that use no antibiotics or hormones or pesticides or herbicides, and the animals are pasture-raised and finished and humanely killed.
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Jody Teiche: So the reason why I look for this, and I pay a little more for that, is because I don't want the antibiotics and hormones and pesticides and herbicides, all of which reside in the muscle meat of the animal, passed on to my animal, eating that animal, and it does.
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Jody Teiche: And then humanely killed, the factory farming system, these animals live such horrible lives, as you well know, Genie, and the cortisol levels in their bodies for their lives and then the way that they are slaughtered goes right into your animal's body through the meat.
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Jody Teiche: So that is also why, and also because I'm an animal lover, and I want to make sure that, you know, to the best of my ability, that what I feed my guys is coming from an animal that had a good life, as good a life as possible.
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Jody Teiche: So that's what I do, but I don't only choose muscle meat, and when I am choosing muscle meat, as much of a variety as possible.
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Genie Joseph: Yeah, that's important.
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Jody Teiche: And I'll tell you why in a moment.
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Jody Teiche: They also choose as much of a variety of organ meats as possible, because organ meats are the most vitamin and mineral-rich meats that we have, and they do wonders for our animals.
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Jody Teiche: And the third component to what I do is raw meaty bones.
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Jody Teiche: Raw meaty bones have their own vitamins and minerals, because you're talking marrow, you're talking about bone material.
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Jody Teiche: And with my guys, the kinds of raw meaty bones that I love, they vary.
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Jody Teiche: They can be chicken necks, turkey necks, chicken backs, duck frames.
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Jody Teiche: Those are the things that they can eat the whole thing, because they're raw, the bones are softer, and their stomach acids are 100 times more potent than ours.
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Jody Teiche: They're meant to eat the whole of an animal.
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Jody Teiche: They're meant to be able to digest bone and gristle.
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Jody Teiche: We're not.
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Jody Teiche: Also, their transit times are much shorter than ours.
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Jody Teiche: So the likelihood between the high, high levels of acid and the shorter transit time of them getting sick from bacteria, parasites, you know, whatever, in meat, unless the pet parent is very careless, very careless, it's very unlikely.
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Jody Teiche: So that's not something that I worry about.
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Jody Teiche: And the reason why I do lots of variety of meats is because every meat, every animal, has its own amino acid profile.
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Jody Teiche: So the amino acid profile of beef is going to be a little different than chicken, it's going to be a little different than venison, it's going to be a little different than lamb, etc.
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Jody Teiche: and so forth.
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Jody Teiche: So while there might be some overlap, there are going to be some amino acids that they won't get if they only eat one or two types of meats ongoing.
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Jody Teiche: And it's been shown that feeding an animal one or two types of meats only, long term, can actually develop allergies to those very meats.
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Genie Joseph: Right, right.
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Genie Joseph: Yeah, and I know that there are some people who think that their dog is allergic to chicken because they've been on commercial pet food with chicken, and then they go and give them either, you know, boiled chicken or some raw chicken.
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Genie Joseph: Do you give raw chicken?
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Genie Joseph: Do you do raw chicken?
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Jody Teiche: Oh, absolutely.
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Genie Joseph: Yeah, so then they find out, well, it isn't that they were allergic to that particular animal.
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Genie Joseph: It's that they were allergic to all the additives in the food, the commercial food.
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Jody Teiche: Oh, yes.
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Genie Joseph: Yeah.
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Jody Teiche: Big, big important point, Genie.
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Jody Teiche: There is so much in commercial pet food that is unregulated and very unhealthy for our animals.
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Jody Teiche: And with kibble, dry food, it keeps your pet in a constant state of dehydration.
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Genie Joseph: Yes.
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Jody Teiche: There is just not enough moisture in that food.
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Jody Teiche: And with cats, increased levels of UTIs, crystal formation.
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Jody Teiche: So that is the bottom of my food vitality pyramid is dry food, with wet food being one rung above.
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Jody Teiche: Now, home cooking is fine, but there are two things you have to be aware of.
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Jody Teiche: One is if you're going to cook meat, heat kills.
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Jody Teiche: Heat kills.
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Jody Teiche: So anytime you add heat to an equation, the vitamins and minerals are going to die.
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Jody Teiche: And the reason that raw food is so wonderful, in addition to it retaining those vitamins and minerals, is the live enzymes.
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Jody Teiche: The live enzymes in that meat, raw meat, allows the transition from the small intestine, which is where all of the vitamins and minerals go to go into the bloodstream to nourish your cells and all your organ systems out of the small intestine.
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Jody Teiche: It allows that transition out of the small intestine to happen much more efficiently and effectively.
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Jody Teiche: So when you're going to home cook, it's my suggestion and recommendation that with your vegetables, if you can puree raw vegetables, do that.
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Jody Teiche: Puree raw vegetables and sear the meat lightly.
00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:57.980
Jody Teiche: If your pet does better on something that's cooked, do that.
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Jody Teiche: You can't super, super, super lightly cook vegetables because you need to have either enough heat or the pureeing to break down the cellulose on the walls of those vegetables, which are really hard for your animals to digest.
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Jody Teiche: So you've got to cook them, not kill them with cooking, but cook them enough to break down those cellulose walls.
00:23:22.980 --> 00:23:27.180
Jody Teiche: But if you puree and your animal is up for that, that's much, much better.
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Jody Teiche: And then searing.
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Genie Joseph: Yeah, really interesting.
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Genie Joseph: So are you 100% raw or do you mix raw with cooked?
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Jody Teiche: I'm 100% raw.
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Jody Teiche: That's not to say when I make a burger for myself from these farms, I don't give, now Annie is my one doggy, I don't give her some tastes.
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Jody Teiche: She loves it.
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Genie Joseph: Of course.
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Jody Teiche: Or when I get a rotisserie chicken, I don't give her some tastes, where Sophie used to love rotisserie chicken.
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Jody Teiche: So I use it as a topper to entice, right?
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Jody Teiche: So yeah, you know, I'm not rigid, but the base meals for them are raw and organs, lots of organs, all different types.
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Genie Joseph: Yeah.
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Genie Joseph: So what are your, let's take us through the organ meats.
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Genie Joseph: What are the organ meats that you use?
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Jody Teiche: Everything from all different animals, too.
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Jody Teiche: Liver, kidney, spleen, lung, brain, suet.
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Genie Joseph: What is suet?
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Jody Teiche: I think it's intestine.
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Genie Joseph: Well, that's a good starting list.
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Jody Teiche: The only thing I haven't tackled, because it's a little bit too much for me, is eyeballs.
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Jody Teiche: There are people who do that, too.
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Jody Teiche: Right, right.
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Genie Joseph: I know.
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Genie Joseph: Well, in the wild, that's what the animals would do, is eat the entire...
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Genie Joseph: The feathers, the skin, the hooves.
00:24:47.940 --> 00:24:48.340
Genie Joseph: That's right.
00:24:48.620 --> 00:24:52.660
Jody Teiche: And the feathers or the fur and the skin are really, really healthy.
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Jody Teiche: And actually, one of the things that I do get from the farms are chicken feet.
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Genie Joseph: Feet.
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Jody Teiche: They love them.
00:24:59.840 --> 00:25:03.420
Jody Teiche: I mean, they're the weirdest things to look at, because you see nails and everything.
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Jody Teiche: It's like...
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Genie Joseph: Yeah.
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Genie Joseph: Yeah, it's hard.
00:25:05.240 --> 00:25:05.740
Genie Joseph: It's hard.
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Jody Teiche: But Annabelle goes through that.
00:25:07.460 --> 00:25:11.920
Jody Teiche: My little Chihuahua, she goes through that like, you know, a pit bull.
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Genie Joseph: Wow.
00:25:13.620 --> 00:25:13.980
Genie Joseph: Yeah.
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Genie Joseph: And so for your clients that aren't ready to take the complete raw journey or whatever, what do you recommend?
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Genie Joseph: Like, do you have some products that you like to...
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Genie Joseph: Well, let me ask you, how do you feel about the freeze-dried, the whole freeze-dried movement?
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Genie Joseph: What are your thoughts on freeze-dried?
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Jody Teiche: Freeze-dried is right under home cooking.
00:25:30.760 --> 00:25:40.100
Jody Teiche: So what I like about freeze-dried much better than dehydrated is more the moisture is out, but more of the nutrients are retained.
00:25:41.380 --> 00:25:41.680
Genie Joseph: And...
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Genie Joseph: Is that the difference between freeze-dried and air-dried?
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Genie Joseph: Is that what you're talking about there or is that...
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Genie Joseph: No.
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Jody Teiche: Freeze-dried is literally...
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Jody Teiche: The raw food is frozen, like frozen vegetables.
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Jody Teiche: This is why frozen vegetables are the next best thing to fresh vegetables, because all the nutrients are frozen in.
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Genie Joseph: So, for those clients who aren't ready to get the chicken feet and the turkey necks and so on, the freeze-dried fruit is the next best...
00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:09.420
Genie Joseph: Or, no, the home-cooked and then freeze-dried, or which one...
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Jody Teiche: Yeah, but freeze-dried is easy.
00:26:10.740 --> 00:26:12.980
Jody Teiche: You don't have to put it in the refrigerator or freezer.
00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:14.100
Jody Teiche: You can put it on the shelf.
00:26:14.820 --> 00:26:23.940
Jody Teiche: And there are some wonderful brands that I love that I give my dogs, my dog, too, sometimes.
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Jody Teiche: I mix it up sometimes, but generally, it's raw.
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Genie Joseph: Great.
00:26:28.900 --> 00:26:29.240
Genie Joseph: Great.
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Genie Joseph: Yeah.
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Genie Joseph: Wonderful.
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Jody Teiche: Freeze-dried is okay.
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Jody Teiche: And you have to meet people where they are.
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Jody Teiche: I'm not a food Nazi.
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Genie Joseph: Yeah.
00:26:36.840 --> 00:26:37.520
Genie Joseph: That's no fun.
00:26:37.700 --> 00:26:41.180
Jody Teiche: Some people are not ready, as you said.
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Jody Teiche: Some people have financial restrictions where they can't do freeze-dried yet, so maybe they can do less dry food and add some raw to that.
00:27:00.380 --> 00:27:00.680
Genie Joseph: Right.
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Jody Teiche: That's better than not.
00:27:02.120 --> 00:27:02.460
Jody Teiche: Right?
00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:02.860
Genie Joseph: Definitely.
00:27:02.860 --> 00:27:03.800
Genie Joseph: Any change is a good change.
00:27:04.680 --> 00:27:05.780
Genie Joseph: It's a journey, right?
00:27:05.800 --> 00:27:07.320
Genie Joseph: And every little step makes a difference.
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Jody Teiche: That's right.
00:27:08.260 --> 00:27:08.600
Genie Joseph: Right.
00:27:09.140 --> 00:27:11.080
Genie Joseph: Well, Jody, this has been absolutely delightful.
00:27:11.100 --> 00:27:18.020
Genie Joseph: How can people find you if they want to do a consultation and do one of these in-depth sessions with you to consult with their animals?
00:27:18.520 --> 00:27:19.040
Jody Teiche: Wonderful.
00:27:19.060 --> 00:27:19.700
Jody Teiche: Thank you, Genie.
00:27:20.400 --> 00:27:31.100
Jody Teiche: You can go on my site, Jody, J-O-D-Y, L for Lynn, Teiche, teiche.com, and you can book a session with me there.
00:27:31.120 --> 00:27:35.820
Jody Teiche: Or you can email me at Jody at jodylteiche.com.
00:27:36.340 --> 00:27:37.120
Jody Teiche: That's excellent.
00:27:37.580 --> 00:27:39.060
Genie Joseph: Well, I want to thank you so much.
00:27:39.100 --> 00:27:41.300
Genie Joseph: I know there's so much more we didn't have a chance to get to.
00:27:41.320 --> 00:27:42.380
Genie Joseph: We'll have to have you on again.
00:27:42.860 --> 00:27:43.440
Jody Teiche: I'd love it.
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Jody Teiche: Thank you so much, Genie.
00:27:44.800 --> 00:27:45.160
Genie Joseph: Yeah.
00:27:45.800 --> 00:27:49.720
Genie Joseph: And thank you all for being a part of the Human-Animal Connection podcast.
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Genie Joseph: We'll see you again real soon.
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