July/August 2011 Issue By: Chris Bessent DVM with Jean Scherwenka Chinese Herbs For Allergies Stanley, an eight-year-old Golden Retriever, owes his life to Chinese herbs. “I got Stanley when he was a year old, just a baby,” says Nancy Schaff, Stanley’s mom. “The first year he was fine, the second year he was itchy, the [...]
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and what do they do for your dog? November/December 2010 Issue By Lucy Postins One aspect of pet food that many dog owners find mystifying is regulation. Some pet owners and stores believe that AAFCO, The Association of American Feed Control Officials, is responsible for approving pet foods but in fact this isn’t the case. [...]
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November/December 2010 issue By: Dana Scott Tripe: the magical mystery meat that dogs crave and humans fear! Tripe seems to be the line in the sand drawn between beginning raw feeders and the ‘been there, done that’ old pros. If you are among the uninitiated, then you will find feeding tripe to be a real [...]
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May/June 2011 Issue By: Catherine O’Driscoll People often ask my advice about the best time to vaccinate their puppies, and which schedule they should adopt. However, I don’t vaccinate – at all. I fully appreciate that my stance is a radical one, and that it might be scary for the majority of dog lovers to [...]
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By: Deva Khalsa DVM May/June 2011 Issue For loving dog owners, cancer is the most feared disease. In the United States, cancer is the primary cause of death in dogs over two years of age. That’s truly significant. Unless the mass is bulging out noticeably from the skin, most cancer grows invisibly, inside the body. [...]
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Everything you wanted to know…and some things you wish you didn’t July/August 2011 Issue By: Patricia Jordan DVM, Catherine O’Driscoll and Dana Scott Back in June of 1997, the Sunday Times featured an article by Clare Thompson about emerging viruses, with the heading: “DEAD RECKONING” Beneath the title, the summary stated: “New killer viruses are [...]
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By: Catherine O’Driscoll March/April 2011 issue It says in the Bible that suffering brings wisdom. But what is wisdom? What makes a person wise, and what makes a person a wise animal guardian? And do we always have to suffer before we become wise? Importantly, as we are our dogs’ guardians and we make all [...]
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by: Joanne Suresh Our environment is constantly bombarded with toxic waste, by-products and gases from large manufacturing corporations, pharmaceutical companies and a host of other industries. The earth’s most precious resource, its water supply, is also laden with toxic pollutants, including our public water supply. What is it in water that makes it so toxic [...]
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