Big Dog Pet Foods
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A podcast series brought to you by Big Dog Pet Foods, the leading pet nutrition provider in Australia, with over 20 years’ experience in the pet industry. Hosted by various members of our Big Dog team, we bring you interviews and deep dives into pet nutrition and care, training, and regular ‘Ask a Vet’ segments.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Johnny Manning turns canine nutrition and care into practical conversations that connect everyday owner questions with veterinary detail.
Paws and Listen turns dog-health questions into roomy, plainspoken interviews led by Johnny Manning. Conversations with Dr. Nicole Rouse repeatedly move from broad concerns to decisions a pet owner can recognize: when scratching warrants attention, how diet may relate to…
The raw bone gets cross-examined before your dog gets to make its case.
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A practical, unsentimental look at when a cat's urinary trouble needs urgent attention.
This review takes a clear look at blocked bladders and urinary trouble in cats, starting where it should: with how a vet separates mild signs from something more serious. Dr.
A practical look at keto, fasting windows, and meal timing in canine diets.
Johnny Manning and Dr. Nicole Rouse keep the conversation grounded in ketogenic principles, fasting windows, and the place of snacking in canine diets. The focus stays practical, with enough room for the point that dogs do not all need the same routine.
A holistic vet presents food energetics as a practical, individualized way to think about raw feeding.
Pause and Listen follows Dr. Neil Lowe as he frames food energetics as a more individual way to think about raw feeding and fresh food feeding.
A calm, practical check on common household hazards that can make a home safer for pets.
A practical conversation about ordinary household hazards that can harm pets, with weed killers and toxic plants as the clearest examples. Johnny Manning and Dr.
A practical look at medicinal mushrooms, with enough chemistry to stay useful and a light caveat for patience.
Medicinal mushrooms are the episode's strongest thread, especially when Dr. Nicole turns a fashionable supplement topic into clear advice for pet owners.
A blunt, useful look at how familiar dog food advice takes hold in vet practice.
Dr Nicole Rouse gives the conversation a steady, practical tone as it looks at why vets often point owners toward familiar dog food. It follows her attention to ingredient labels, including the difference between byproducts and meal and the small detail of where salt appears on…
A clear look at what the complete and balanced claim does, and does not, tell you.
This episode takes a plainspoken look at the complete and balanced claim, and it stays grounded in pet food instead of drifting into marketing language.
A prevention-first look at dog joints, food, digestion, and why supplements are only part of the picture.
The episode starts with joint health, then moves into food, digestion, and prevention through a naturopathic lens. Dominique Maguire, a clinical naturopath from Pillars Naturopathy, keeps the focus on practical ideas: biologically appropriate raw food, gut health, stomach acid,…
Shawn Stevenson interviews researchers and coaches on nutrition, sleep, hormones, and fitness.
Supplement labels, decoded with conviction.
Practical health conversations for reducing overwhelm.
Johnny Manning and Dr.
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Lauren LG joins Johnny Manning for a broad talk about pet care, breeding, nutrition, and behaviour.
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Johnny Manning opens with a blunt question about highly processed food and canine health.
Yvie Jones says dogs are "the best humans I know," then backs it up with stories about foster care, Delta therapy dogs at Royal Melbourne Hospital, and two rescue failures she called "foster failed." She gives specific rescue numbers, including about 240 foster dogs over 20 years and a system where one dog can attract 50 applicants while another gets none.
Johnny Manning opens with the old six-month desexing rule and asks why it has stayed so sticky for so long.
Johnny Manning and Britt Musket dig into the standard behind the "complete and balanced" claim.
The episode starts with a blunt question.
Johnny Manning talks with clinical naturopath Dominique Maguire about joint health in dogs.
Johnny Manning opens the show by welcoming Dr.