Newsletter Reference by Topic — 2017

I receive many calls and emails pertaining to dog health issues, but the two most common questions are about:

Suspected food allergies in their dogs or;
Their dog’s inability to eat certain foods because it has a ‘sensitive stomach’

This month I will give you some answers to these very common questions and health issues. Both food allergies and sensitive stomachs oftentimes get mislabeled and can send dog owners spinning down a rabbit hole of despair. Stop the despair and please read on!

I started breeding dogs in the late 1980’s and I have shown dogs in AKC conformation and performance since 1974. I did not get real interested in breeding dogs until I had learned a lot more about my breed at the time, which was Rottweilers. At that time, I was…

I have written many articles on the raw diet for dogs, but it was not until I got a toy dog, that I realized some modifications might be necessary! My breed, a Brussels Griffon, is not only small, but also has an undershot bite. As a result, I had to…

Last week, I wrote a letter to the Delta Society, a nonprofit group based in Washington that offers pet therapy certifications for dogs. Unfortunately, they recently banned dogs in their program that are fed a raw diet. They called ‘protein based’ diets unsafe, in that they may spread salmonella and…

With the vast array of supplements available on the market today, it isn’t difficult to get overwhelmed and confused as to which supplements are best for your dog. With all the vitamins, oils, herbs and digestion aids to choose from, which will provide the best results? There are magazine articles with provocative headlines that make the most tried and true supplements sound deadly and we are bombarded with advertisements for exotic oils and herbs that promise to cure cancer, viruses, bacteria and every ailment that medical research has somehow missed. We read on the Internet on how a single nutrient helped someone’s dog recover from cancer, renal disease, and parvovirus and liver problems with just a few doses. The information is so overwhelming, yet also so convincing, that we find ourselves dosing our dogs with 10-20 different supplements each day, hoping we have found just the right combination to cure their health issue or to keep one from happening.