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Tips for Keeping Your Senior Dog in Top Form – And Out of the Vet’s Office!
By Sarah Griffiths, DCH Senior dogs are an absolute joy to have around. For those of us who’ve had our dogs since puppyhood, all of the hard work we’ve put into integrating them as younger dogs starts to really pay off as they age. They become so easy, effortless and...
Fear-Free Animal Care: How to Confidently Navigate Your Animal’s Health
By Sarah Griffiths, DCH When your animal isn’t feeling well, do you go into fight or flight mode? Do you make decisions out of fear or with presence? Your anxiety could be putting your pet’s health at risk… and yours! It can also have environmental impacts. Let’s talk...
Canine Nutrition: What Should They Really Eat?
By Sarah Griffiths, DCH There’s a great debate about dog nutrition among pet parents, animal care professionals and pet food companies. Some believe they should be eating whole prey. Others believe they should have vegetables in their diet. There’s also the...
Understanding Hay Analysis
In my recent article on the benefits of turnout for horses, I talked about the importance of grass turnout. In North America, we have seasonal ebbs and flows and it’s not always safe to turn your horse out. So, the next best thing? Quality hay! It’s important that you...
Equine Gastric Ulcers: An Epidemic
Have you ever heard the term “You’re giving me an ulcer”? Basically, it means “you’re stressing me out!” Research shows that stress really does cause gastric ulcers in horses (1). Gut disease has reached epidemic proportions in domestic horses. Studies confirm that...
Feline Nutrition: What Makes Cats So Unique?
Did you know that cats are totally unique, especially when it comes to nutrition? Of all the animals we’ve chosen to share our lives with, cats have the shortest history in human civilization. Until approximately 5000 years ago, cats were wild. They didn’t have the...
Science Says Your Horse Needs Field Turnout
Horses give their all for us. They are a gift to those of us lucky to share our lives with them. Whatever our equestrian discipline may be, we must honour that horses need to be horses outside of our human world. Field turnout is an essential part of equine wellness....
Equine Metabolic Syndrome: Risk Assessment (Part 1)
OVERVIEW: It’s likely that you know someone or maybe you even have a horse with equine insulin resistance (IR) or metabolic syndrome (EMS). EMS is a growing issue among modern horses. It is defined as the failure of tissues to adequately respond to circulating...
