PUPtection Health & Nutrition Center is a full-service nutrition clinic with a vast selection of natural and organic pet food, serving's dogs and cats throughout Chicago and the greater Chicagoland area.
This journey all started when our founder, Dr. Dennis A. Bradford DVM, PhD was grief stricken by a terminal cancer diagnoses in his beloved German Sheppard, Marco, even though he had been on what he thought was the best dog food on market. After months of chemotherapy induced little to no effect he decided to turn away from the traditional veterinary treatment cancer and searched for more effective solutions that were being used for cancer in humans. It was during this time that a veil was lifted from his eyes about the real cause of most illnesses in pets. He began to learn about the truly health collapsing effects of the ingredients used in pet foods as well as the “clever language & definitions” used to cover them up. He realized that grain free and holistic foods, wet or dry, were still using cheap protein “meals”, indigestible starches and even worst, yeast, as fillers and then trying to disguise them with synthetic vitamins that are practically non-absorbable.
He began to understand that pet nutrition was the main cause of the poor digestion, chronic inflammation, viruses, and bacterial infections that plagues our pets. This completely changed how he viewed illness and gave him a revolutionary idea for a new form of treatment for animals. So, after extensive research and in a last effort to save his companion, he began formulating his own blends of homemade dog foods and supplements using only organic, easily assimilated, therapeutic ingredients that were proven to have healing properties when ingested. He based his blends on the well-known nutritional therapies of food combining and the Alkaline/Acidic diet’s to optimize digestion, boost immunity and rapidly decrease inflammation in the body.
