About Mark Poveromo


My professional career in animal nutrition, breeding, and training has an interesting genesis. In 1979 I was teaching high school physics and environmental science classes, but as the days passed, I knew I needed to supplement my meager teacher's salary of $12,000 a year to support my family of four. I decided to operate a part-time landscaping and lawn maintenance business. My days were long. Sometimes I worked twelve to fourteen hours a day (depending on the time of year) at my various jobs. Moreover, as my years of teaching in an inner-city school accumulated, I began to desire a career change. Early in my teaching career, I remember thinking that upon retiring after thirty-five years in education I would-with luck-perhaps open up a small business. I wanted a small town atmosphere and community that would support such a venture. Eventually, I decided on the town of Thomaston, Connecticut.

Then, in April 1988, Lady Luck visited me.

Safari Club International selected me as its Teacher of the Year in Connecticut, and as part of the award I had the opportunity to travel to the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Park. So it was that while hiking in the Grand Tetons in Wyoming on that exceptional two-week field course my obsession with animal nutrition began. As one of twenty-eight teachers selected from around the country to study the various habits of bears, coyotes, elk, moose, and mountain lions in Yellowstone, I knew I was having the experience of a lifetime. I decided then and there to leave the teaching profession as soon as it was financially possible to do so, to continue my education in nutrition, and to start a dog and cat food business. After returning to Connecticut with my new calling, I was fortunate to find an eight-hundred-square-foot store in Thomaston called the Outpost Supply, the same building where the Thomaston Feed & Supply, the local feed store, had been located since the early 1900s. There I opened my business as we entered the '90s. (And the addition of chocolate Lab Drake to our household was all I needed to round out my obsession.)

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To Your Dog's Health!

"If you are what you eat then so are your canine companions. Unfortunately, we have been incredibly blind sided by the false science handed to us by the pet food industry. As a result, Mans' Best Friend has suffered. Mark, in his book, To Your Dog's Health, concisely and in a very clear cut manner, reveals to us the truth about proper canine nutrition. A must read for every person caring for a dog."

- Martin Goldstein, D.V.M. & host of "Ask Martha's Vet" on Sirius Satellite

As a result of author Mark Poveromo's undergraduate and graduate studies, his thirst for information about dog nutrition has only intensified. Over the course of many years, during which he cared for thirteen Labs, Poveromo wanted to provide the best food available for them and other's special pets so they could live long and healthy lives.

After reading To Your Dog's Health!, your understanding of basic dog nutrition will improve greatly and become a paramount objective in your life with your dog. Don't be surprised if this book makes you apologize to Fido or Fifi for all the years you just opened up any old can or bag of food, put it in a bowl, and left for the day.

To Your Dog's Health! might just be your wake-up call. It's up to you.

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