Young Again
Dog Resources

Some human foods are safe in small amounts (like plain cooked chicken, carrots, or apples), but many are toxic to dogs, including chocolate, grapes, onions, garlic, and artificial sweeteners like xylitol.

Treats should make up no more than 10% of your dog’s daily calories. Always check before sharing your snacks.

While you can switch directly over to Young Again food immediately, the best way to transition your dog to YA food is by doing it gradually. Start with mixing your old food with your new food at a 50/50 split. After 1 week of 50/50 mixing, move down to 75% Young Again food and 25% of the old food for a week. After 1 more week, the dog can go fully to YA food.

Young Again Food is very nutrient dense, so some soft stool is to be expected the first few days. If the stool stay soft, it’s usually an indication of over eating on the new food. We do recommend feeding per the guidelines on your food bag until your dog is used to the new food. Overeating high protein food can lead to health problems for certain breeds.

Yes, Young Again Pet Food meets or exceeds AAFCO nutrient profiles. AAFCO does not approve any pet food on the market. AAFCO is only concerned that companies follow a uniform set of guidelines and their wording means the food has met AAFCO’s minimal requirements for adequate nutrition.

No. Young Again has never had a recall on any of our pet foods.

Every bag of our food has an expiration date. Beyond this date, we do not recommend using the food. Once you open the bag it is best to use it within 4 months even if the expiration date is further out.

Each bag of food we manufacture is nitrogen flushed to remove most of the oxygen from the bag. Oxygen is the main reason why a food goes rancid or spoils. Once you open the bag, you are letting oxygen back in to react with the fats in the food. We use natural preservatives in our foods, but they can only protect the food for so long. It’s hard to know when a food has spoiled, but cats are very sensitive to rancidity and can detect it long before you can.

Three conditions contribute to rancidity; light, temperature and oxygen. Oxygen can diffuse right through the standard plastic zipper bag, so freezing the food does not slow the rancidity process down. You will need an oxygen barrier bag similar to what is used in home vacuum sealers. If you are going to freeze our food, a chest freezer is best. Frost-free freezers stay frost free by warming from zero degrees Fahrenheit to approximately thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit one to four times daily. This causes moisture in the food to propagate from the warm side of the bag to the cold side of the bag forming a block of ice on the cold side of the bag.

People will often transfer our food to a pet food container. If the container is not cleaned thoroughly between fillings, the oils from the previous food can cause the new food to go rancid. If you transfer the food to a pet food container, be sure to thoroughly scrub the entire container (lids, seals and gaskets) with soap and a scrub brush then allow it to completely dry. Fats can become hard and be difficult to remove without scrubbing. You can also use the pet food bag or a disposable liner in the pet food container.

There really is no convenient way to store large amounts of pet food. Our best recommendation is to buy a six month supply of food at a time and store in a cool, dark, dry place. Follow these simple rules and your pet will always enjoy fresh, wholesome food.

Guar gum is a non-digestible soluble fiber that is produced from a bean. Guar gum has been extensively studied in both animals and humans and is considered safe and has been shown to have many health benefits. Guar gum has been proven to lower LDL cholesterol and triglycerides and will also increase glucose tolerance.

When the first ingredient is meat, it can mean very little since meat is at least 75% water. This means that if a diet listed itself as 25% meat, it would really only be 6% meat on a dry matter basis, which is exactly what you get when you dehydrate chicken into meal. You think you are buying a high protein diet, but the food is only 6% meat protein.

A byproduct is something that is left over after the desirable portion of the ingredient has been extracted for use elsewhere. A meal results when you remove the water from a product and grind the desired portions into a powder. Inclusion of bone (natural calcium) supplies needed minerals.

Young Again Pet Foods and treats have an 18-month shelf life and RAW premixes and supplements have a 12-month shelf life from the date of manufacture. This does not mean that you will have 18 or 12 months before they expire. Depending on when they are manufactured this will vary from product to product. We can not guarantee the nutritional quality of our products after the BEST BY date.

Keep the Young Again Pet Food in a cool dark place and leave in the original packaging. Oil from the food will coat other pet food containers and will go rancid over time, contaminating new food when it is placed into the old container. If you are still unsuccessful transitioning your cat with one of these options, please contact us. Flavor packets are available to make our food even more appealing to a finicky pet.

Poultry fat can only be comprised of chicken or turkey fat or a combination of both. We currently use fat from chicken, turkey, pork and fish. Chicken and turkey fat are collected and processed in the same way and are of equal quality.