Tailored Tummy Co. Canine Nutrition

Tailored Tummy Co. Canine Nutrition Canine Nutrition Consultant
📍Bangor, ME (worldwide virtual consults)

03/28/2026

Did you know…? 👀

I have a collection of instant download, balanced dog food recipes available right on my website and it’s been *way* too long since I’ve added to it

I’m really excited to share that TWO brand new recipes are now live!🎉

Both of these recipes are formulated to be under 10% fat (dry matter basis), making them a great option for dogs with a history of pancreatitis who need lower fat diets.

But an important reminder ⬇️
Low fat alone doesn’t automatically make a diet appropriate for dogs with a history of pancreatitis. Nutrient balance, ingredient selection, and your dog’s individual needs all matter just as much.

If you’ve been looking for thoughtfully formulated, ready-to-use recipes, these are ready for you 🐾

Have questions about whether they’re a good fit for your dog? Drop them below or send me a message!

There's lots of new followers so I figured it's time to reintroduce myself🐾My name is Ashlyn and this handsome boy next ...
03/20/2026

There's lots of new followers so I figured it's time to reintroduce myself

🐾My name is Ashlyn and this handsome boy next to me is my best friend Milo. He's 9 years old and the reason behind this entire business.

🐾While I will always support fresh food diets and do believe they provide the best nutrition (when formulated properly), I will never degrade kibble nor will I speak down on it to promote fresh feeding. Feed the dog in front of you!

🐾I utilize nutritional requirements (NRC) and will use supplements when needed to meet them. Whole foods first, supplements second but I will never compromise the integrity of my formulations by using ingredients with poor bioavailability or absorption. You won't see seeds or spices in my formulations.

🐾Every formulation is completely tailored to your dog. Additionally, your budget, ingredient availability and prep ability are all taken into account when formulating. My goal is always to provide a recipe that fits into your lifestyle and perfectly suits your dogs individual needs.

🐾I'm awful at coming up with what to post on social media. While I love to educate on canine nutrition, the ideas never translate to posts. If you've made it this far, let me know in the comments what you'd like to see and/or learn!

Every dog is different, and that’s why personalized nutrition matters. Here’s a message from a client that perfectly cap...
12/28/2025

Every dog is different, and that’s why personalized nutrition matters. Here’s a message from a client that perfectly captures what tailored support can do over time.

Interested in taking your dogs raw or cooked diet to the next level? Reach out to discuss how a tailored diet can make a difference!

Traveling with your dog when you feed a homemade diet can be daunting! This is what Milo’s eating for the next week whil...
12/23/2025

Traveling with your dog when you feed a homemade diet can be daunting! This is what Milo’s eating for the next week while we visit with family. Is it balanced? Nope! For healthy adult dogs, eating an unbalanced diet for a week isn’t going to do any damage and making this simple meal while we juggle visiting all of our friends and family that we only see a couple times a year is much more realistic.

If you travel a lot and have a puppy or dog with therapeutic requirements a simple travel friendly meal plan can be formulated to make travel less stressful!

Feeling extra grateful this week 💕This year I’ve helped 40+ dogs transition to balanced homemade diets — and every singl...
11/29/2025

Feeling extra grateful this week 💕

This year I’ve helped 40+ dogs transition to balanced homemade diets — and every single one has reminded me why I love what I do.

In honor of Small Business Saturday, I’m offering a special sale as a thank-you for all your support. Whether you’re ready to start now or want to lock in the savings for later, this is the perfect time to take the next step toward a healthier, homemade diet for your pup.

Thank you for trusting me, supporting my small business, and choosing the best for your dogs. Here’s to helping even more dogs in 2026 🐾

Milo’s dreaming of seeing his best friend, grandma and grandpa in a month! Let’s talk holiday schedules. If you’ve been ...
11/21/2025

Milo’s dreaming of seeing his best friend, grandma and grandpa in a month! Let’s talk holiday schedules.

If you’ve been considering purchasing a formulation now is the time to do so to guarantee it’s finished before the new year. I will be on vacation from December 14 through the end of the year. Since I typically guarantee a 2 week turnaround here’s what that means for any formulations purchased.

All formulations purchased between now and December 7th will be completed prior to vacation.

Formulations purchased between Dec 7-14th are not guaranteed. I will do my very best to get these out within a normal time frame.

Anything purchased after the 14th will likely not be started until I return so I can spend as much time with family as possible.

Thank you for understanding!

Time for a Milo update since it was his birthday yesterday! Milo is doing better now at 9 than he was at 2 years old. Of...
10/29/2025

Time for a Milo update since it was his birthday yesterday!

Milo is doing better now at 9 than he was at 2 years old. Of course I attribute diet to a lot of his progress but I’d be lying if I said it fixed everything.

🐾 He’s 100% transitioned to a raw diet! I never once thought this would happen based on his past but we are here and he’s absolutely loving it. The volume of his meals have more than doubled but the calories are the same!

🐾 It has been 3 years since his last IBD flare which I attribute to a good medication routine and far less stress since moving to Maine.

🐾 He has passed 1 year of eating every single meal and begging for more which is only because of a lymphoplasmacytic rhinitis diagnosis and daily treatment. Milo would go days without eating prior to this which was stressful for both myself and him. We celebrate him eating without issue everyday

🐾 His energy levels are high most days but if we overdo it he’s definitely much more tired the next day. His days of hiking multiple times a week and spending hours at the dog park are long gone. Now we mostly plan high activity days around his rehab schedule.

🐾 He lives with (what I think is) a decent amount of pain most days but rehab, medication and supplements help immensely. Between spondylosis and a growth between his toes he definitely has moments where he lets his guard down. His diet is formulated to help inflammation in the body but there is only so much diet can do. Traditional treatments are critical in my opinion!

There’s really so much more that I could say about all of this. At the end of the day I’m so thankful that he has had such great vets across the years that have believed me when I told them something was wrong and investigated.

✨Potassium is a key electrolyte and macromineral that supports muscle contractions, nerve impulses, heart rhythm, fluid ...
10/27/2025

✨Potassium is a key electrolyte and macromineral that supports muscle contractions, nerve impulses, heart rhythm, fluid and acid-base balance in dogs. It works hand-in-hand with sodium and chloride to regulate fluids inside and outside cells, helping to keep everything in check.

✨Since potassium is needed in such high amounts, it can be difficult to meet requirements with higher fat meat based diets especially those with minimal carbohydrates. Dogs with lower energy requirements are at an even higher risk of being deficient

✨Certain medical conditions require specialized potassium levels (kidney disease, heart disease, etc). Some medications also interfere with potassium absorption. If your dog has a medical condition it is extremely important to ensure potassium levels are in check.

✨Cooking methods greatly change potassium levels as seen in the last slide with levels of potassium in sweet potato! Boiling ingredients reduces potassium levels greatly. It is very important to formulate a diet using the cooking method you are using!

Who remembers Lucie from my post at the beginning of August? The first picture is before she started a balanced homemade...
10/26/2025

Who remembers Lucie from my post at the beginning of August? The first picture is before she started a balanced homemade diet. Miss Lucie was always a picky eater (weird for a beagle I know!) and also has some pretty severe health conditions including a history of chronic pancreatitis, epilepsy and a heart murmur. She always had a pot bellied appearance as seen in the first picture which was just attributed to her health conditions.

After just a month on a homemade diet and look how good she looks! Her mom sent me this picture at the beginning of September but I've been neglecting social media so it's a bit late. While she looks so much smaller she actually has not lost any weight. It's amazing what fresh food can do!

✨Iron is found in all cells in the body and is necessary for many processes in the body ✨Clinical signs of deficiency ar...
10/25/2025

✨Iron is found in all cells in the body and is necessary for many processes in the body

✨Clinical signs of deficiency are not common but that doesn’t mean we want to feed a diet deficient in iron!

✨If ingredients high in iron such as spleen, heart or duck is not fed, it is fairly common to not be providing enough. Along those lines, feeding 5% of most species of heart is unlikely to meet requirements

✨Puppies have crazy high iron requirements! It is very difficult to meet their requirements without spleen.

✨Notice how I didn’t mention dark, leafy greens as a source of iron- the form of iron found in plants is non-heme iron which is not absorbed well by dogs. Therefore, while these ingredients may have a lot of iron on paper, we cannot rely on them to provide iron. This is where knowing bioavailability is incredibly important when formulating!

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐡𝐲𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 (𝐂𝐓𝐓) 𝐔𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐬 – 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐍𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰Please share with your fellow pet parents!Lately, I’...
09/08/2025

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐡𝐲𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 (𝐂𝐓𝐓) 𝐔𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐬 – 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐍𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰

Please share with your fellow pet parents!

Lately, I’ve seen a wave of social media posts warning pet parents that feeding fresh food causes a newly identified type of stone: calcium tartrate tetrahydrate (CTT) uroliths. These posts are misleading and lack important context, so I took a closer look at the research.

The study: https://doi.org/10.1111/jvim.70093

The Facts:

✨ CTT stones were first discovered in rodents (2001-2002) after consuming diets containing choline bitartrate. Tartaric acid, poorly metabolized by the body, is excreted through urine-when levels get too high, stones can form.

✨Between Jan 1, 2020-Dec 31, 2024, the Minnesota Urolith Center analyzed 318,147 urolith submissions. Of these, only 63 dogs (0.02%) had CTT stones.

✨Only 33 owners provided follow-up information, and just 29 shared diet details.

✨Of those 29 dogs, 23 ate 17 commercially formulated diets; 12 of those diets contained choline bitartrate.

✨10 dogs (34%) were on prescription renal diets (Just Food for Dogs, Royal Canin, Hill’s), which already predispose dogs to stone formation.

✨5 dogs (17%) had no known dietary source of choline bitartrate. None of them were eating fresh commercial diets.

✨In 28% of cases, no source of tartaric acid was identified, showing there’s still more to learn.

CTT stones are extremely rare, and current evidence points to choline bitartrate-not fresh foods-as the main concern. Please don’t take viral posts at face value. ALWAYS do your research and question the source, especially when one isn’t given.

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