Karl Poglitsch

Maui is one of our furry children, now almost 3 years old, but we've had him since he was 10 weeks old. He's got quite the medical history, ranging from kennel cough before he joined us, calcinosis, meniscal tear, and probably a few other things we've forgotten about. Not to downplay any of these, but one issue we were unable to resolve since taking him home was constant regurgitation. For a while we thought it was more about his water intake and rough housing, but it progressively got worse over close to 2 years and culminated in episodes almost every couple of hours and us following him around to clean up constantly. At the time Naja was doing occasional pet sitting for us, one trip we mentioned to her that his condition was acting up and to try to keep an eye on him, we had a vet appointment during the next week. After the trip, Naja mentioned in passing that maybe it was caused by inflammation due to kibble and asked if we ever considered a raw diet? No pressure, just a casual conversation and she followed up with some reading materials for us.

I did some research into the B.A.R.F. diet and we had nothing else to lose so we tried it. Incredibly, almost overnight, Maui stopped regurgitating. We had heard of raw diets, etc, but had been feeding kibble to our dogs going on 20 years and thought of going raw as more of an unnecessary luxury more for bragging rights than anything else. Utterly floored by the results, but were still unsure in our knowledge to provide a balanced diet appropriate for our Maui. We had known Naja for a while, but weren't aware of her expertise as a Holistic Pet Health Coach. We reached out for a consultation; thinking that maybe she could give us a few ideas or recipes, etc., but couldn't have been more wrong! Naja reviewed his entire medical history, suggested sensitivity tests, etc and came back with so much helpful advice! We left our meeting pretty overwhelmed with the amount of good information she was able to provide, steering us in a direction we wouldn't have been able to navigate on our own. To this day she still checks in on Maui and his sister Annie and is always quick to respond to questions we might have.

Maui has been on a raw diet for almost a year now. His vet had nothing but good things to say about his condition, his coat, his temperament, etc. He's really a whole new dog, not just at feeding time, although he thoroughly enjoys his meals these days! We owe a lot of this to Naja and her wealth of knowledge and are always happy to provide her name as a resource to others considering giving their pets the very best!