Sniff and Wag

Sniff and Wag Sniff & Wag provides consultations on nutrition, behaviour and training. Coming soon, scentwork for My name is Robyn, welcome to Sniff & Wag.
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My name is Robyn and I help people with their dog's nutrition. There are many reasons why a pet parent may decide to feed their beloved pet a commercial brand of pet food. They are convenient to purchase, available straight off the shelf from the supermarket or pet store, they come with feeding instructions and offer varieties that meet the needs of budget considerations. Each meal is manufactured

to be complete and nutritionally balanced and are available in dry, semi-moist and canned styles. When fed in the correct proportions, these commercially manufactured pet foods have been designed to provide sufficient quantities of each required nutrient. A pet food that is out of balance, with too much or too little vitamins or minerals, may cause toxicity or a deficit and in this context, nutritionally complete and balanced commercial foods have been developed to provide all the pet’s nutritional needs to survive. The convenient, easy to feed and widely available dry dog food does, however, have some disadvantages. Questionable ingredients are in the brightly designed, not always honest packaging, enticing vulnerable pet parents to buy their product. After high heat processing, commercial dry dog food is nothing more than a ‘dead’ food. Proteins have been denatured, any beneficial bacteria are dead and natural digestive enzymes inactive. Synthetic vitamins and minerals are added back into the food in an effort to replace some of the lost nutritional value and to ensure their formula complies with the “complete and balanced” AAFCO standards. The alternative to commercial foods is one of the natural feeding methods or a homemade diet for which there are many recipes (some better than others) and they will require a little research from the pet parent as to what to feed and how much. To assist the novice fresh food feeder transition away from commercial, off the shelf dry food, I am able to assist and guide you when constructing a balanced meal plan.

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Melbourne, VIC
3198

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Monday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Saturday 10:30am - 2:30pm

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Gut Health for dogs

I love dogs. Big dogs, small dogs, fluffy dogs, slow dogs, fast dogs. Give me a four (or three) legged bundle of fur with a cold wet nose and I am in my happy place.

Over many years I’ve done lots of things, worked at some amazing businesses and met people I’m proud to call my friends, but the one career direction that has given me the most joy and sense of purpose is Sniff & Wag.

Sniff & Wag may well have started from the very moment I bought Harley home in 2006, that tiny doggo that looked to me for food, security, sensory enrichment and leisurely strolls for a sniffari around the neighbourhood. Then we welcomed Tia, a brindle rescue dog from Gympie, she was 3 years old when she joined us in 2012, she is now 11.

These last few years as they have gotten older, I began to question how I was meeting their nutritional needs, how I could do better, what does ‘balanced and complete’ mean, what more did I need to know? I so desperately want to make sure that these last few years for my puppers are good ones.