Dog care, symptoms, health issues, and dog health advocacy from an owner's perspective. In loving memory of Jasmine.
We miss Jasmine painfully. She has become not only an integral part of our lives but part of ourselves. Objectively, considering the hand she’s been dealt, it is nothing short of a miracle that she’s been with us as long as she has, with the quality of life she got to enjoy. We always pulled out all the stops and…
Many dogs end up suffering from arthritis at some point in their lives. It can become a crippling problem for your dog. Apart from weight management and physical therapy, the standard treatment consists of anti-inflammatory medications. While many dogs do well on these drugs, they can be damaging to the dog’s health. Further, sometimes the arthritis pain exceeds the ability…
Spinal cord injuries are one of the most horrifying injuries your dog can sustain. Nobody want’s to see their dog paralyzed and in pain. Prognosis depends on the severity of the injury. There is a surgical treatment which can help. But what if there is a better way? A pioneering new treatment, developed at the University of Cambridge, is allowing…
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.…
Jasmine, our female Rottweiler, was five and a half years old when, after persistent lameness, she was diagnosed with bilateral ACL injuries. It was found that she had a partial ACL tear in her left knee and a partial tear or a stretched ligament in her right knee. The suggested solution, a TPLO to repair her lame leg, with a…