Dog care, symptoms, health issues, and dog health advocacy from an owner's perspective. In loving memory of Jasmine.
Every medication or preventive has the potential to cause an adverse reaction. After all, you’re introducing a foreign substance into the body. Even though drugs are tested for safety and common side effects are usually mild to moderate, a tragedy can occur. Further, sometimes a drug can be safe on its own but not in combination with something else. For…
Viva was diagnosed with Cushing’s disease. Cushing’s disease is caused by excessive levels of the hormone cortisol. Most of the time, the underlying cause is a tumor on the pitutiary or adrenal glands. It can, however, also develop in dogs who are on a long-term treatment with steroids. Treatment is aimed at normalizing cortisol levels. Thank you, Kenzo, for sharing…
Regenerative therapy is high on our list of treatments that were most beneficial for Jasmine. On a gut level, this approach made sense to me from the first time I’ve heard about it and I couldn’t be happier we decided to take that path. Jasmine received stem cell therapy repeatedly and we treated Cookie’s partial CCL tears with platelet-rich plasma.…
In theory, a healing crisis is a temporary worsening of the patient’s symptoms during stage(s) of treatment. Is healing crisis really a thing? Is that was Jasmine experienced? Frankly, I don’t know but it surely looked like it and it was our working theory to explain what happened. The fact is, that after the initial worsening of her symptoms, Jasmine…
Sometimes you hear a word so often that it loses its meaning. Hip dysplasia is a common orthopedic issue in dogs. That doesn’t mean that it cannot be debilitating. There are still dogs who are euthanized because of the severe effects of hip dysplasia. Thank you, Dr. Mark D Newkirk, for sharing Hunter’s story. Hunter’s story Hunter, a one-year-old yellow…