How to Read Your Pet’s Food Labels
I often read pet food labels to clients when they come meet me for the first time. People are usually shocked. I mean, they know kibble is highly processed and not healthy. But they don’t KNOW. They just don’t know how bad it really is. Recently, I was working with a...
Convincing Cats to Eat Real Food
This might be the most difficult discussion I have with people! How to get their cats to stop eating junk food- and to eat healthy food. It’s not difficult because the humans don’t want to do it. It’s difficult because cats are worse than your sisters cousins aunt’s...
Fish Oil – and Its Associated Nitty-Gritty
Fish oil has had a reputation for decades as helping with itchy skin, dry skin, and allergies. Of course, this only works if your cat or dog is not allergic to fish, but that’s a different topic. So, let’s talk about how to pick a good fish oil. Anyone who has met...
Is “Socialization” Worth It?
We’ve heard our animals need to be socialized . Dogs and cats are better citizens when they get along with other dogs and cats. But what are the circumstances under which this can happen? Well, there’s doggy daycare. But animals are required to have “all of their...
Happy Turkey Day
No matter where you are in the world, there’s some kind of a celebration of thanks, and every country has different traditional “Thanksgiving” foods. It doesn’t really matter where you are, there’s a safe way to share Thanksgiving food with pets... and a not safe...
Keeping Your Pet Safe in the Kid’s Playroom
No, this is not a holiday shopping guide or even a holiday shopping avoidance guide! This is a pet safety guide. It was inspired by a question about someone’s dog who ate her daughter‘s crayons. Fortunately, crayon eating just leads to multicolored poop....
What To Do About Flaky Skin
We have a huge disconnect between humans and animals when it comes to flaky skin. Sometimes called dandruff. In humans, if we have flaky skin, we know what to do. We wash it. A lot. In animals, we are terrified to touch it, which makes it build up more. So we don’t...
All You Need to Know About Tuna
Is it dangerous? How much can I feed? I heard it is high in mercury? What about salt in it? Can I feed the tuna in oil? . This is just a list of some of the questions I’ve received about tuna. Especially when feeding tuna to cats. It’s crazy isn’t it? Because look...
The Emergency Room is NOT the Answer to Everything
I mean, do you want to take care of things yourself at home? Or do you want to rely on the western medical system? And you do know that the way prices have been set, has been determined by economics? The majority of people can afford to pay a certain amount. So the...
To Pluck or Not to Pluck
Let’s talk about when groomers pluck ear hair in dogs. I imagine it feels an awful lot like somebody yanking out pubic hair. It has to hurt, right?? And if the ears are even the least bit pink, red, swollen - it’s gonna hurt worse! And to top it off... If the...