Dog care, symptoms, health issues, and dog health advocacy from an owner's perspective. In loving memory of Jasmine.
Fur analysis is an underappreciated way of learning things about your dog’s health. Can fur analysis uncover quiet problems such as mineral deficiencies and toxicities, presence of heavy metals, and even state of your dog’s metabolism? Toxins? Toxins. Fascinating topic. On one hand, we have holistic vets talking about the toxic load our dogs have to bear, and on the…
Infrared thermography detects heat patterns in the infrared wave-length spectrum that are not visible to the eye. I have been excited about the veterinary thermal imaging stuff for a long time. It’s non-invasive, and I feel it can offer unique insights. I’ve been trying to get any of our vets or physical therapists to get one of these. I talked…
As technology evolves, there is more and more your veterinarian can do for your dog without your dog’s physical presence. One day, you might just have your smartphone collect vital data and transmit the information to your vet for assessment without the need for an office visit for most things. We are not that far yet but there is veterinary…
Precious was ill since the end of the year. An exploratory surgery, three vets, four months, and several treatments later, he was not getting better. His guts were not happy and nobody could figure out why. Precious’ story Precious was a 3-year-old Rottweiler, happy and always healthy prior to this event. The problem started on the 29th of December after…