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Rethinking Parasite Prevention With Bug-K9
The parasite prevention revolution is here, and it's changing how we think about protecting our dogs from fleas, ticks, worms, and other unwanted visitors. Did you know that approximately 15% of dogs carry Giardia? With roughly 25 million dogs and cats in the UK, that's a staggering 3.75 million potential carriers spreading these parasites throughout our environment.
For decades, we've trusted conventional veterinary treatments without question, applying chemical spot-ons and administering worming tablets as directed. But what if there's a better way? This eye-opening conversation explores the dark side of traditional parasite treatments – from their environmental impact (one dose for a large dog can kill 25 million bees!) to documented side effects including seizures, tremors, and autoimmune responses in our beloved pets. Most shocking perhaps is learning that many ingredients in these products are banned for agricultural use yet deemed acceptable to apply directly to our dogs.
Bug-K9 offers a natural alternative that's revolutionising parasite prevention. With powerful ingredients like pumpkin seed, black cumin seed, fennel, ginger, cinnamon, peppermint, and more, this herbal blend creates an environment parasites simply don't want to inhabit. Unlike chemical treatments that work by circulating toxins through your dog's system, this preventative approach makes your dog naturally unattractive to parasites while simultaneously supporting their overall health.
The five-pronged approach combines internal supplementation with external products like natural shampoos, sprays and balms – all human-grade and safe enough to use yourself. The powder format ensures maximum efficacy (80% bioavailability compared to just 30-40% in tablet form), and regular worm count tests consistently confirm its effectiveness even in high-risk environments.
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Welcome to the Absolute Dog Sex in a Squirrel podcast. I'm Lauren Langman. I'm one of the world's leading dog trainers and it's my mission to help owners become their dog's top priority. In each episode, you'll discover how to gain trust and communicate with your dog like never before, creating unbreakable bonds that make you the most exciting part of their world. Okay, today we are talking bug.
Speaker 1:Now, when I say bug, we're talking all of the itchy flea, tick, giardia, worms, all of the nasties, all of the things that you just don't want in your house, you don't want in your dog, in fact, you just don't want right not at all, and if I start itching I promise I don't have any, but just talking about those things makes me like a little bit a few funny stories about uh, people and wormers, but anyway, we won't go there.
Speaker 1:Let's not go there now. I've seen one of the stats on the board and it's 15 of dogs have giardia.
Speaker 2:Yes, like that scares me, oh, my goodness. I mean. Then, when you look at it further, they estimate there's roughly 25 million dogs and cats in the uk.
Speaker 1:So when you do the math on that one, it's 3.75 million potential dogs and cats can be carrying giardia and if you think about it with the shedding, the fact that then if those say four million are shedding um at the same time, uh, that potentially means the spread is quite big. Now let's talk fleas, ticks, worms, giardia, all of the things. Prevention like prevention, because I think this is big. Now, 25 years ago, I would not question what my vet suggested. I put my dog and I love my vet, I really love my vet and my vet practice. They're just fantastic. So big shout out to my lovely vet and we would do things like frontline and and more recently, things like provecto and um, seresto, collars and and drontal and all the other things.
Speaker 1:And I suppose about five years ago I started to really question it. I had a dog with um cancer I she was young diagnosed like three years old, diagnosed with quite severe cancer, melanoma, and malignant, like it was malignant, it was potentially life-threatening, and it really made me question a few things. And my dad the same. He was diagnosed with cancer and it was fatal, like it was going to be a final cancer, it was going to be a non-curative and it just made me think about what we put on our hands, what we put in our households, what we put on our skin, what we put on our dog's skin, what we put in our environment, what we put in our dog's food, what we maybe inject in our dogs or maybe what we allow them to ingest or we actively put on their skin, and I suppose I got a bit curious. I a bit curious, I think probably this is around seven years ago, but around five years ago, really curious and that's when I started using um, more natural herbal alternatives herb would be the way that my clients like me to say it, but herbal alternatives and I know that for me there is now a better way. Yes, and I have not looked back.
Speaker 1:Now I can say that, uh, my dog with cancer you know what she has um was given only a three month um diagnosis and, and, like you, will last three months. We completely changed her diet. We completely changed her, so she went completely 100% raw. So 100% raw. And we stopped using any um vet prescribed treatments unless under emergency. For example, we would use like an antibiotic in emergency or a anesthesia in in emergency, but 100% raw.
Speaker 1:We stopped using any vet prescribed treatments unless under emergency. For example, we would use like an antibiotic in emergency or an anesthesia in emergency but we wouldn't use it sort of day to day. So I stopped using all sort of vet prescribed chemical wormers and I also started to T to test instead of vaccinate, and it really gave me a new sense of purpose in finding out way more information for her. Now, bug Canine we developed so Bug Canine's here and since then our dogs, your dogs, my dogs, have all had Bug Canine. I think the very exciting thing is that I have 10 dogs and they are all on Bug Canine in their supplement and especially where I live like we live in an area that's high ticks like yes, how many sheep around here, michelle, uh, I dare not count.
Speaker 1:This morning I had a bar conversation.
Speaker 2:We were like but, but, but, but like it was so much fun.
Speaker 1:Liza was riding and they were buying back and well, we thought we felt they were. But you know what it's like when we're hacking. I mean sheep everywhere, way more sheep than population. Yes, right, that like we are outnumbered. If they decided to turn on us like we would be losing in the battle. Um, so yeah, the ticks are everywhere, the jar is for sure everywhere, and yet my dogs tested. Um, so we do like a worm count and uh, we obviously put our hands all over our dogs and check and I haven't had any ticks on my dogs this year and it's warm and it's wet and it's damp, and so I've had no ticks, I've had no Giardia, I've had no worms. I do worm counts regularly and for me and a group of 10 dogs, that's massive, like what a win. High five to this, because I think this is just.
Speaker 1:I genuinely think it's pretty beautiful and it should be open. It's open, it's open, good. And when I open this packet, what am I going to smell? Here, michelle, I want a curry dinner.
Speaker 2:I already know what it smells like. It smells amazing. But for anybody who's listening, who's not in the UK, and certainly I wasn't aware of this until I moved here. But Giardia is a parasite and a lot of dogs are carriers of it but show no symptoms. But show no symptoms and it's especially where we live here.
Speaker 1:Anywhere that's got a lot of moisture, high populations of dogs, of dog parks, busy areas, is transmitted through poo, essentially um, and so if your dog's out there sniffing poo or licking the ground, or, and and you know, if you own a male dog, they do things like that right, females too. So I'm not going to just go one way or the other but males in particular, are going to go around the ground licking the floor at times, because that is kind of what they do with licking.
Speaker 1:Licking girl wee and things like that is what you tend to find dogs doing.
Speaker 2:But yeah, for sure it's big right yep, and it can be in water, contaminated water. It's a lot more prevalent than people actually realized and in some areas it's up to 45 percent of the dog population actually has it, which is is crazy.
Speaker 1:Now, if we look at the ingredients here, we've got inulin, pumpkin seed, black cumin seed, fennel, ginger, cinnamon, fenugreek, peppermint, zinc, selenium, vitamin a and great probiotics. What really? I'm very excited by this because the world's waking up to it, yeah, and I don't mind whether people use bug, canine or um any other, um, great herbs or herbs on the market. For me, this is the best. That is why I use it and that's why, um, we love it and we're really proud of, like, the dogs who are, who are looking so great and feeling so much better. I feel for not having things like seresto, collars and um, all of the, um potential nasties that we might be putting on them and in them, like, like, for me, it really scares me that you get them to ingest something that is going to go um and basically get involved in their internal organs but that freaks me out and and it's um, there's not many things that are actually can kill something like urethra, so you're limited in what you can actually give your dog.
Speaker 2:Um, and it's an antibiotic basically. So you're killing everything that's good in their gut as well, not just the urethia, but all the good microbiome that they need to stay healthy so prevention is really, really important and giving your dogs all of the good stuff which which um like I said, for me it's bug canine.
Speaker 1:You may find an alternative and I'm not saying, just use this one, but I think it's really. I just think it's great that we've got this option, um for dogs. Now, if we think about um typical wormers and typical um like the bravectos and the serestos, what damage are we doing to the environment? Potentially by putting these on our dogs or in our dogs?
Speaker 2:well, the bit that really frightened me was a lot of the chemicals that are in some of these spot-on treatments are actually banned agriculturally, so they're not used on the foods that we eat. When they're being grown they're banned, yet it's absolutely fine for them to be put in a spot-on treatment that we're putting on our dogs and you're not only putting it on your dog.
Speaker 1:So number one for me, the poor dog. Like I don't like it for the dog and the fact that that is going to travel through your dog's organs, it's going to be in their organs. And then we worry about why, like, cancers on on the rise or all of these um sort of fatal, um sort of diseases are potentially um, like autoimmune triggers and things like that. Like for me, this is really big information that we need to at least ask the question. So the whole, like, sign up monthly and do the monthly, get the wormer and do the monthly, get the flea treatment and do the monthly.
Speaker 1:Like, how about the environment? How about the fact that's going into your dog? How about the fact you're going to put your hand your dog? How about the fact your dog's going to rub up and down your sofa or hang around your baby or hang around your child? Like for me, I don't want it on the dog, I don't want it in the house, I don't want it around the bees, I don't want it around the wildlife population, I don't want it in water streams.
Speaker 2:I don't want it for the for it to end up in the water system. Um, you wash your hands afterwards. There's all these health warnings on, if it comes in contact with you, what you should do, and you're putting it on your dog's skin and um like, just just not brush over that one.
Speaker 1:you are told not to touch it, you're told not to put it anywhere near, you're told to wear gloves while putting it on. And then you're putting it on your loved one or your, your beloved pet. Like for me, my pets are family. When I lost my dad and when I lost my dog, I cannot tell you that like one was bigger than the other, like they were both catastrophic for me. I love my dog, like I love my family and for me, I cannot imagine why I would want to put that on my dog when you're told not to allow it to touch skin. It's not meant to touch skin. Why is it touching theirs? And I want to know. For me, I'm actively upset if I need to use a treatment like that, and the only time I would ever consider using it is if I am forced to use it on travel. Other than that, I really don't want to use it, and I don't want to use it in that situation either.
Speaker 2:What about the bee population? What was the stat on that? Because we had a stat there. Yeah, so one dose for a large dog of a spot-on treatment can kill 25 million bees and we've already got a declining bee population in the world and we need the bees to help things get pollinated and you look at things like the fish, and, and the fact that we number one we over fish anyway, but number two the water sort of systems, and and the fish, they're all in decline.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everything is in decline. We wonder what on earth we're doing to the environment. So, whilst I'm not some crazy eco warrior, I am absolutely passionate about us doing the best by our dogs, the best by our families, the best by our people and the best by our health and everybody's longevity, ultimately. So let's quickly go into bug canine. So pumpkin seed why are we feeling? Pumpkin seed?
Speaker 2:so pumpkin seeds great at removing worms, so it's going to help clear out the digestive system. It's absolutely brilliant. There's an amino acid in it that actually kills the worms, so it's brilliant. It's natural and you know what?
Speaker 1:the thing is, everything's so ground so well. This was's brilliant, it's natural. It's pumpkin seeds and, and you know what the thing is, everything's so ground so well. This was tokyo's favorite tokyo. If he could smell bug, he was on you like. He was like a rat. She was like. I love that stuff and that for me is also important that this is stuff that I put in their food and my dogs. I feel really good about feeding them. I feel really good about feeding them. I feel really like it's a good part of my day. Now there's loads of ingredients here, so we'll just run through a few. But black cumin seed I know during covid it was one of the oils that I I took. Um, oh my god, it tasted disgusting, so I'm not going to recommend you take it. But it is in here and it's blended really nicely. You really can't take it like, taste it rather. The best bit is, if you want to take this too, you can put it in your curry. There is nothing stopping you everything it smells perfect, everything is perfect.
Speaker 1:And the other thing is it's all human grade. So if you get anything from we're talking about bug canine, from aok9, it's all human grade. So it's all human grade, you can take anything yourself. In fact, I, just before I got out here, I had a quick mushroom coffee. So I had a shroom, a shroom latte, and why I've just had a full-on day, so I had a shroom, a shroom latte, and why I've just had a full on day. It's been a great full on day, but I was like I'm just gonna have a boost and mushrooms, for me, are a great thing to take in the morning and a great thing to take in the evening. So I tend to have a scoop in the morning, a scoop in the evening, shroom, amazing.
Speaker 1:So yeah, and if it's going to be a code, I've just decided this right now, and there's going to be a code and it's going to be love dogs L-O-V-E-D-O-G-S. So it's going to be love dogs and it's going to give you £10 off your first order. So it's going to give you £10 off your first order. Or, if you've already had your first order, you know what you can use £10 off anyway. We love you, so you can get £10 off your order. Now we've got a few other ingredients. I don't know if you want to tackle a couple of them.
Speaker 2:Yes. So there's fennel in there. I absolutely love fennel. I had it in my salad actually at lunchtime. You've got ginger. Ginger is really good for inflammation, overall health. There's so many health benefits of ginger. I put it in just about everything I can possibly put it, I love all your ginger dishes.
Speaker 1:You have so many lovely ginger dishes and I love your ginger juice and I love your ginger cordial. I love all of your ginger dishes. So, yeah, ginger is good.
Speaker 2:And yeah, people might be wondering why I'm wearing a chef's smock, but I love to cook and I love to cook for my dogs. So the fact that it's got cinnamon, fenugreek, peppermint, these are all things that I put in my own food. But for me, I'm trying to figure out how much do I put in. So one of the common questions I get from people who join me on my bake-offs is how much of this do I feed my dog? So, to help them out with keeping their tummies healthy, they want to know if I'm going to feed pumpkin seed. How much do I feed? Just get both canine.
Speaker 1:You don't have to worry about measuring, you don't have to worry about figuring it out that is the reason that I started um, bringing a few of the supplements to the to the fore, like the reason I brought out shroom was because I wanted all of those shrooms and I couldn't get a hold of them in one packet. And I was like you know what? It'd be way easier if we just had our own and that's what I gave my dogs and that's what I gave them before, but it was a lot more expensive. When you're trying to combine five and you're trying to figure out and your blend isn't done for you, I like a done for you and I'd like to know like this has.
Speaker 1:This has got great sort of long lasting life on it and at the same time you open it and it always is consistent. It always smells great. But yeah, it's all blended for you. So for me it's a done for you solution. You haven't got to think about it. For me, my dogs get it all the time, all year round. I might give it a little bit more heavily during the summer and the warmer months and a little bit less in tip for feeding for you. Yes, I love doing this.
Speaker 1:I just added a bit more at home and I make one tub and I put my shroom, my bug, my prime, uh, minor, on some pro bio, um, some flexi. I put them all in, I mix it up, I go roughly right. I own 10 dogs. I look at them, I see how great they're looking or not, and if they're not looking great, I might add say, for example, the skin's not looking great, I might add some more prime and shine. Or say, for example, they've got slightly dodgy tummies, I might add some more pro bio. Or say, for example, it's like I've seen ticks on other people's dogs, I'm like, right, let's add another pack of bug in here. Yeah, so I just will tweak and play with it. I, I tweak and play and I think the best bit is you can't overdose. And even better than that for me your dogs smell great from having it, they look great from having it.
Speaker 1:You can't have this. Oh, you can combine everything. Yeah, so you can combine everything. So all of the range can be it's herbs or herbs, so you can combine them.
Speaker 1:And if you think about why, without getting too controversial pharmaceutical companies, they make a heck of a lot of money through lots of different things, from vaccines to meds to other things. Too controversial pharmaceutical companies are, they make a heck of a lot of money through, um, lots of different things, from vaccines to um, meds to other things. And, of course, there's a place for conventional medicine. But so many herbalists and um, alternative options have been squashed by by massive pharmaceutical companies, purely driven by the fact that they are like they're so up there the pharmaceutical spaces, whereas for me there's such a massive place for herbs, there's a massive place for spices and blends and natural options, and I I really I love that, since my dogs have been doing this.
Speaker 1:So we're talking like five years, but definitely three hard, like three, where I really haven't messed with it, five where I think I was a bit scared of taking them off, and we understand if you are for me. I have not had a worm count come back with a problem. They've all said they're completely clear and I think yet some people are out there getting their weekly monthly drawn tool and getting their breveto and getting their seresto and you're using an ant's nest, guys, sorry, you're using a bomb to kill an ant's nest. Like this is mad. And sometimes there's not even an ant's nest. In fact there's not even an ant, there's not even a remnant of an ant like there's not even the dirt, like you know what.
Speaker 1:That's a scary bit sometimes. We're, we're, we're doing the take the pill. There's actually nothing wrong, like there's, there's nothing there in so many dogs and I I think prevention for sure, and like this, what I love is um, you've got um so many good things in it that not only do they not do any harm, but they've got some lovely benefits alongside. Right, like preventatively, they've got some lovely benefits, but also they do good yeah, yeah, it's all healthy for your dog.
Speaker 2:There's other benefits, not just worms, fleas, ticks, ear mites. It's going to help out just with their overall good health.
Speaker 1:Yeah, good health, gut health, skin health, like I love how my dogs look and smell.
Speaker 2:I love the most that it's a powder form, so people listening may not they can't see the packet.
Speaker 1:Yes, so it understand powder form. Powder form the reason we do it is the best um way of getting the the best bang for your buck, really. So it's the most efficacy for for the gram. So when you give your dog a tablet, I think it can be up to like 30 40 percent. When you give your dog um a powder, it can be 80 plus. So some of the powders are almost 100. So plaque, which we don't have here with us, but plaque is almost 100, yeah, in fact I think it is 100% efficacy or usability, or the fact that everything in it is used and necessary and needed. There's like no anything else. You don't need anything to even bind it or anything, whereas most powders 80% plus most tablets under 40, which is insane. So powder form is the way to go with your own supplements. And I said I take shroom myself, I could take bug myself in my curries. In fact we should put it in our next curry, that's not a bad idea.
Speaker 2:Let's do it, or my chili let's do it next time.
Speaker 1:how about um the fact that so many dogs have problems from vet treatments?
Speaker 2:And I think this is really under known.
Speaker 1:And it's not talked about. So I had a client's dog not so long ago, had a treatment of Brevecto and fitted very shortly after I'm talking, like within four hours, and the vet said nothing to do with it and obviously a coincidence, but for me it was too major, too catastrophic. The dog didn't stop fitting after that.
Speaker 2:So the dog has had a series of fits and uh, border collie, um and tremors, seizures, um, really has continued with issues and it never had provecto before yeah, I had a client this week actually that um came to us for some help with their dog and um her little Spaniel's got autoimmune issues and is coming out the other side of it. But they suspect it might have been from spot-on treatment plus a few other things going on, but basically lost all its hair. So she's actually looked into it, did her own research and she's bought AOK9 Bug and swapped to it and going the whole natural route and the dog looks amazing.
Speaker 1:I think this is the biggest thing to know, guys, that you don't. You don't need to use the bravete, the seresto, the drontal, um, especially not in the uk. I mean, do your own diligence and research in different spaces, but um, for me, there are so many things that are allowed in animals that, like michelle said, abandon agriculture, yes, and that scares me. Huge risk to aquatic life, huge risk to wildlife, huge risk, risk to um, all of our, all of our countryside, and yet, um, off we go and we still pay our 50 pound a month for our um bravecta or our seresto or whatever it is we might need.
Speaker 1:Now, they, for me, are something that you initially, when you stop using them, you worry, you get anxious, you get upset, or a flea or a tick or whatever else can still bite your dog. It's just how quickly they die afterwards really is what we're looking at. But for me, when I'm considering this, I genuinely I'm trying to prevent it before they ever get near my dog. So I really want my dog to to not be attractive. So a couple of other things we should talk about. Because I have a five-prong attack. I use a shampoo, yes, and so my shampoo is bug canine shampoo. And why do I use that? Because I want them to be silky, smooth and so that nothing can really grip on them. Yeah, and I want them to be smelling like repellent, and so it smells amazing actually so you've got lavender eucalyptus witch hazel and neem oil.
Speaker 1:So lovely, lovely, natural, natural, natural ingredients again, and lovely essential oils and that just smells amazing. So you have a sniff and so I use that once. That's my number one. So I make sure my dog is um is bathed, and not constantly, but just when I need to. I'm going to use that because it's preventative. Again, I use my bug canine food. Mine get fed raw food. I mix it with their other supplements. They get fed mixed in the raw. If I'm not going to feed raw, I might mix it in a raw egg. I don't know what else people might do so we.
Speaker 2:Um, I basically like my lunchbox so, and I might have stolen an egg from your chicken coop, um, but it's really simple. Um, I had a banana in my lunchbox so I chopped that up. We can put the powder in, mash the banana up. A bit of yogurt sharing sharing is caring, um, but some yogurt mix some bug canine in, and yogurt's really good for my dogs. Bananas are really good, eggs really good as well. So you want to keep it simple and I know that they're getting all good things when I see you could just mix your supplement with that, so it doesn't need to be.
Speaker 1:If you feed kibble, you can just use, maybe, a raw egg. A regular day is fantastic for your dog, or another thing that might be good for your dog um, banana, like michelle said. Um, maybe you're cooking some mints for yourself and you could add your own mints, so I bought some sardines today. Actually, here's an interesting one sardines have been overfished and, um, basically they won't be able to get them fresh over the counter from now on, we they?
Speaker 1:there's a ban here on on fishing them, so shocking, interesting. So I mean getting tins still because of the fact that they've been frozen for a long time, so you will not get them fresh right now. Sardines and mackerel it's crazy, yeah, and I eat a lot of them, and it's because obviously, the world wants oily fish, so um so yeah, but yeah, sardines and tuna.
Speaker 1:You can put them in something like that. A little bit of that is great. So they take the supplement. So that's internal, everything in it's great peppermint, zinc, selenium, vitamin A, fenugreek, cinnamon, ginger, fennel, black cumin seed, tasty, yummy pumpkin seed all of the good stuff smells amazing. We've shampooed, now we're going to spray. So we're going to spray. Now you can spray routinely, like before you go out on a walk or before you go near woodland or moorland or anywhere that you think you're going to be in trouble, maybe at dog shows or around other dogs, around with people. Your dog's going to smell amazing. And here's how much I trust the product and I think this is really important. So I trust the product. Where am I putting the shelf?
Speaker 2:all around your neck and in your, in your jumper as well and I have no problem putting that on myself.
Speaker 1:I would never put frontline on myself.
Speaker 2:I would never, ever put spot on my skin and I use it actually when I'm outside in the evenings. We're starting to get midges. I'm an absolute midge magnet.
Speaker 1:They're all around my head, all around my face and my ankles.
Speaker 2:I get little tiny bites on my ankles.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I spray it on myself, yeah, and it's lovely for that, as is calm bomb, actually, and bug bomb they're both really really nice. So it smells. They smell great, don't they? They smell great, and the fact that you're willing to put things on your skin, I think, tells you a lot. So for me, I'm very. That's my favorite. I think that's my favorite. So we're now using the balm. So the balm I put around my dog's neck, under my dog's arms, um it, this could be sold in like a neil jodd, like it is like that good um, it just smells amazing.
Speaker 1:That, for me, is my favorite, so if you haven't already that's that's my favorite of the smells. So that smells amazing.
Speaker 2:It fits in really nicely with what I've been doing with myself. So I've been getting away from chemicals, so I've changed to a natural deodorant. Yeah, I don't really wear makeup. I try to put natural creams on my skin because you're absorbing the toxins. So if I'm looking at that for my own health, for the cleaners that I'm using in my house, this fits nicely with what I'm doing for my dogs?
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely, I mean essential oils where you can. There is so much good in what we're doing here in my opinion. It's funny you know what? The AOK9's biggest selling supplement has always been Calm, but interestingly this is coming up to rival it. It doesn't surprise me. I am so happy with that, I'm so proud of that. Like from a supplement that never had a like a market here to being like a real boom, like I love that.
Speaker 2:It tells you how curious people are getting Well, you get side effects from a spoton treatment and it can cause nervous system effects. So I had a client that was grappling with a dry eye on her little dog and going back and forth with the vets and it'd been going on for ages. She kept a diary and she realized that every time her dog got spot-on treatment the dry eye popped in. So she asked the vet and the vet was like oh, absolutely, it can cause nervous system issues. Stop the spot on treatment. Eyes are clear, no issues whatsoever absolutely shocking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and for me there just is no need, like there's no need. The other thing is a new prescription needed, here you just grab it right, yeah, you don't have to get any prescription, you don't have to visit, you don't have to do anything and I love the fact.
Speaker 1:I love, I love my vet. I really love my vet. She's such a lovely lady, but I don't want to see her for for this. I want to like give my dogs the best stuff. I don't want to give them that stuff on their body. I don't want to put it near them.
Speaker 1:Now, if I do get a tick on a dog and, like I said, I haven't had one this year which I'm really happy with and I'm going to use a tick twister, I'm going to use a tick twister. I'm going to use that tick twister to get it straight off and it's going to come off as quick as possible. I'm going to spin it off and off it goes and I'm not having it there. I will kill it. I'm sorry for that, but I will kill it and squish it with their head and then it's gone and I don't want the chance of that one coming back. And I haven't had to take any off and my dogs I have had to take one off a client yeah, so we've had a client with one which I was again saying you guys need to spray yourself with bug canine and you need to put your bug canine on and you can use all of this.
Speaker 2:That's the human, yeah, the human, when she's saying the client, the human had it.
Speaker 1:The human had it. The human had the tick, which was scary. Yeah, he on his chest. Now, if my dog does have a bite or any type of bite, you can use a soothing canine now again.
Speaker 2:How lovely does soothing smell. I use it on myself, so, um, I get rubs on my hands from the horses and from little nicks occasionally. Oh, I absolutely love it. I have to keep stocked up on it. I love it before it gets to the dogs. I mean, I've used it.
Speaker 1:I love it. The other thing is really funny, classic. I had her out the other day and what did she try and and do.
Speaker 2:She was licking it, she liked to eat it. Yeah, she was like licking the pot.
Speaker 1:And the fun thing is here everything in it's great and you can see why she's licking it. It's jojoba oil, it's coconut oil, it's really lovely calendula, it's good stuff, like it's really good stuff, one I do use myself. I've been abroad a few times in the last five years. Um, and I've taken that with me and if I've got a bite, or if I've got like a mozzie bite or a um, like an itchy spot from um, any sort of like midges, that's brilliant. Yeah, so you can put that right on as well. So really, really nice to um, calm, a calm, a bite down. I've had a few my face which haven't been nice.
Speaker 2:Again put that one on and so again another really nice use for it yeah, and something that we've not talked about, which I think is important for everybody to realize. We know about it with antibiotics, antibiotics becoming resistant, so bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics.
Speaker 1:I should say it's happening with the tick treatments the they've been used for so long and they've been used so numerous as well, like, routinely, like they've been used every week, month, um sort of regular, regular, regular, regular, regular, and they've been used so like, routinely, like they've been used every week, month, um sort of regular, regular, regular, regular, regular, and they haven't changed anything in them.
Speaker 2:No, it's just natural selection the, the fleas, the ticks, um the bad guys. Basically, some of them are surviving, they're resistant to it, they're multiplying and the next minute you've got a spot-on treatment that's not working at all.
Speaker 1:And you've got a dog that's got fleas and and we've got, like we said, 25 million cats and dogs in the uk and a huge proportion of those on the monthly like vet monthly clubs. I can categorically say I will never be finding myself on any vet monthly club for my dogs and my treatments why not do this monthly absolutely?
Speaker 1:absolutely, in fact, if you do do a subscription, a bug you get. I think it's 15, 20 percent off. It's, you get good, you get a good. Um, in fact, I think if you I don't know, it depends when you're listening to this but I think it's 26 pounds when you subscribe to it, which is a mega bargain, and for some dogs that's going to last them um to 50 days. A good, yeah, a good, a good 50 to 100 days, potentially with your real small dogs. Um, so it's. It's beautiful ingredients and repels nasty parasites, controls and halts any infection. It's a 50 day plus supply, depending on the size of your size of your dog, and I just, I just think it's the only way I want to treat my dog. I don't want to treat my dog um, any other way. I want them to have the best and I want them to be supported naturally and it's got so many good things in it.
Speaker 2:It's going to help out their microbiome and basically, by keeping their tummy healthy, there's no room for anything else to live there. Yeah, so made it. You've made it unattractive, exactly, exactly, and there's nutritional benefits to bug as well. Not just keeping the bad guys away, but actually it's all natural, natural ingredients that are going to actually help your dog promote their health. I just smell it.
Speaker 1:It's so nice, oh, yeah, so. So guys, loads and loads and loads to think about. Now, if you're sat on the fence and you just want to ask some questions, I think that's a good place to be Like sit on the fence and ask some questions, just at least stay curious. If you want to try it, you've got the code. So you've got your Love Dogs code. Your Love Dogs is going to get you £10 off. Anything. Even if you head over there and buy something like like this is £16. Just buy that and get yourself like a complete bargain so you can get anything.
Speaker 1:We need to tell them where they need to head over. Yeah, where do you need to go to? A hyphen o k number nine dot com. There you go. It's aok9.com, a hyphen o k nine, the number dot com. There you go, easy, and you're going to type in the code so that you can get your love dogs discount. And we love dogs. We want dogs to succeed when it comes to this and we also want to prevent dogs having all of these like autoimmune, early cancers, so many struggles, like nervous system issues and fitting and all of the things that are kind of squashed and hidden.
Speaker 2:But you know what they're out there yes and they're pretty darn scary and and they're life-changing for some dogs right, massively life-changing definitely, and for the owners as well, because, I mean, my dogs are my member of my family, like um, I don't want anything bad to happen to them. But then, when you look more broadly, we're affecting the waterways, we're affecting the streams, we're affecting what lives in the aquatic life wildlife by putting these treatments on our dogs. And they're only just realizing it. So they now have the, they're able to actually test the water and see what's in it, and they haven't tested all the waterways yet.
Speaker 1:But what they're finding are they're finding the ingredients that are in these spot-on treatments in the waterways and it's it's killing the fish so, guys, you have the opportunity to explore something new, to do something different, to test the water for you, and we've we've already, we've already trodden the path like we've trodden the path. We're five years in. We've trodden the path and I own 10 dogs, so I've trodden it well and I know that with a multi-dog household it works. I know that it's very, very doable. You can test their poo with one of the worm counts that you just send online. I would always use it for about a month and then I would send my test away so it can be used alongside testing. So, you, at least a month, I would get them on it and I personally would never use any other worms again unless they had a real issue.
Speaker 1:And obviously, if you're in the middle of an infestation, you've got a massive issue. Slightly different, yeah, slightly different like you're not, you're not in the same space. We're talking, uh, people that go in week by week, day by day, month by month, and carry on using things without ever doing due diligence and asking the questions do you actually need it? Uh, can you do anything else preventatively? Is there space for anything else? And for me there really is. And and there's a really nice space. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2:The other thing you can get is bundle so you can bundle all of these and that does save you.
Speaker 1:I know you got one recently, didn't you?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, and it's really good. It all comes all packaged up for you, um and um. You're good to go, you don't have to think about anything. So the shampoo, the balm, the spray, the tick twisters and the bug supplement, you get it as one big bundle.
Speaker 1:So a nice little defense kit, and that's what we want is we want you to feel like you can defend your dog without having to use something that really isn't good for you or your house or your family or your dog. And and, of course, yeah, it might kill fleas, but what else does it cause? And I think that's where we've got to ask those questions. So please share this message. Yes, because I know I talked to a lot of people about it and they often ask me like how and and where and why and and for my dogs. I'll give you five ways I might feed it. I might give it in their mince mix, in a um, in a calm or a filled bone or something. They can have it in their, in their mix. I might give it um in their um, raw egg or yogurt or banana. How about you, michelle?
Speaker 2:so I, um, I get the AOK9 squeezy tubes and I'll take an egg and some of their raw and I mix their supplements in it and I'll take this on a walk with me and they lick the food out of it. Um, I also feed, um, I use it's getting warmer here in the uk, so happy about this. Yes, um, and I use fresh canine to keep them well hydrated. So I'll take some of the bug canine, I'll sprinkle it into their hydration mix and they drink it and they absolutely love it. So I know they're getting everything in them. So while they're getting hydrated with their fresh canine, they're getting their bug canine too.
Speaker 1:Another thing that I know Michelle and I both do is sometimes we'll got a little bit of foraging and we'll maybe grab some sticky weed or some wild garlic or some other things, and garlic's another one. So many people think that dogs aren't allowed to have garlic, but they are absolutely um so it's got.
Speaker 2:It's anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial. There's so many health benefits. It's good for you, good for your cardiovascular system, great for your heart. Um so many reasons to take it. Um so yeah.
Speaker 1:Liza made the most amazing wild garlic pesto the other day, so definitely eat your wild garlic and your dog can have it too. Um, but I definitely know for my dogs. I might give them their supplement in something like an enrichment bowl, yes, so they might have it in in in one of those or they might have it in their squeezy tube. But I was going to say the other thing we both do is we, we go foraging and then we might blend all that down and you could add your um bug canine to that blend, yes, and then you just pop that blend out into their meal. So if their meal is a raw meal, you pop your blend and then you've got your veggie mix in the meal and it's already pre-made and I love doing that, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I'm really sad because wild garlic is starting to disappear, so I picked a whole bunch and I blended it in my blender and I put it into ice cube trays Nice. So then the bug canines in it. It's all good to go. I can pop one out, I can add it to their meal, and it makes it really simple and really easy, just really easy, like really easy.
Speaker 1:So, guys, loads of different ways you can use it, loads of different ways you can make it work for you and your dog. Loads of different options. The biggest thing we want you to do is go and try it. Talk to a friend about it, talk to your neighbor, your sister, your mother, your brother, your long lost lover. Talk to people, share the message. If you want to be a partner of aocanine, there's also partner opportunities. Just email us or check out the website and we'll we'll give you a hand, just to get you on board. The best part is, this is moving fast, like it's life-changing, it's revolutionary. Herbs have power and these guys have superpowers. You're using antioxidants, you're using all of the good stuff, you're using foods that really are paving the way of the future and I really feel in the next five years, you're going to see so much boom in this space because people are starting to really wake up and that wake up is quite exciting.
Speaker 2:Oh, it is. It's really exciting and it's just going to make us all healthier. It's going to make our dogs healthier, which means you're going to live longer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's super nice and I think for you guys today, if you want to take one step, go over and take the quiz on the AO Canine site there's a quiz over there or maybe jump in and literally get involved in the Love Dogs Code. You get £10 off your your order. You can get things from like 15 pounds, so you go and grab something. Whatever you might grab, whatever you might find, go and grab something for you, make it special. Thank you, michelle, for joining me. We are changing the path of uh, dogs and treatments. I know it, one paw at a time, and we'll see you next week where I know you're going to be pretty excited about the learning. Share this podcast, review this podcast. We thank you for being here, for learning and for staying curious, and we'll see you real soon. Remember, guys, stay sexy.