About
Hello, I'm Angelique Mogavero, Ph.D.
I'm the President of a nonprofit Loving Labradoodles For Children and Veterans With Disabilities. I have been a foster parent to multiple pets and a pet parent to seven dogs myself. Like many pet parents, my fur babies are family.
This blog aims to help share the hours of research I do to keep up with all current pet health issues, learning toys, best training methods, most nutritious food and treats, healest supplements on the market, and more. My goal is to make it as easy as possible for every pet owner to have healthy pets that live a long, high-quality life.
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After years of having pets, despite doing everything our vets told us was best for them, I found many of my pets would get sick. Some had food allergies, chronic ear infections, diabetes, and heartbreaking cancer. I started researching why pets get sick with "high quality" food and proper vet care. I found multiple chat sites and forums with pet owners looking for answers as well. Some were spending thousands of dollars a month trying anything to get their pet healthy with no luck.
I found that veterinarians have very little training in pet nutrition. To become a veterinarian nutritionist, one must complete veterinary school and apply to another college for additional pet nutrition training. Most people don't want the added cost and delayed time to start their career for this further education. And honestly, with the skyrocketing cost of higher education, who could blame them. My vet, at the time, told me that most Vets rely on food company reps to tell them how their companies' food is balanced and healthy. The food companies also sell their pet food to the Vet's office at a lower cost so the Vet can profit from selling the food.
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I then started looking at the food recommended by my then veterinarian. I found it had large amounts of fillers with no nutritional value for my pets, including preservatives to keep the food from going bad for years and components that cause a list of health problems, including cancer.
I suddenly felt a whirlwind of emotions. I felt utterly deceived by my veterinarian, angry at the pet food company for adding ingredients that made my pets sick, and guilty for feeding my pets something that made them ill and not doing the research sooner.
I now research everything my pets eat, play with and wear. Because of this, my pets rarely ever need to see our Vet for anything but wellness check-ups and routine shots. I'm now delighted with my pet's health, and I'm here to share what I've learned from my continued research to keep my pets healthy and help other pet owners do the same.
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