The Possible Canine’s Blog
Check that Thyroid!
A quick entry today, related to my recent focus on herbs for the anxious or stressed out dog. In my clinical work I very often meet dogs who exhibit a range of seemingly unexplained symptoms that have frustrated the owner for a long time. Many of them will improve...
Herbal Nervines
This is a topic that has come up many, many times on all the groups and lists I've been part of over the past decade; how can we use herbs to help our nervous, hyperactive, thunderphobic, stressed out dogs? I've written a fair bit here, and elsewhere, on how to adjust...
Enhancing a Kibble Diet
So, with about 25 topics in the drafts folder and a bunch of assignments to mark today, I feel a pressing need to add this entry. It's mostly because I am asked about it all the time, because I have strong feelings about this, but also, well sometimes the spirit just...
Arsenic in rice? Sadly – yes there is.
I've been asked many times over the past month or so if I can comment on the problems with arsenic in rice, especially brown rice, and what should those who home- prepare a diet with rice do about it. I am taking the arsenic issue very seriously but as always, or most...
Supplements revisited
A few entries back I posted a cursory look at supplementation for canines - dividing them into Essential, General and Targeted. I find a great number of my clients present with (on the Intake form) a list of supplements they are adding, but often they've missed the...
Last article for The Bark- Myths and Misperceptions about Home Feeding
CANINE NUTRITION - 10 MYTHS DEBUNKED - It's been 20 months since the first melamine-related pet food recall, and during that time, more dog lovers than ever have decided to turn to home made diet - cooked or raw - as insurance against a potential problem with a...
Canine Nutrition – two versions now available
The Basics of Canine Nutrition This course is the foundation for all the others, insofar as here we learn about the topic from the ground up, starting with anatomy/digestion, nutrients and food sources, and basic nutrient requirements of dogs. I hear more...
Interview for The Bark
Below is a reprint of an early article I did with TheBark - an interview they conducted with me several years ago. It was pleasant to review this and see that everything I said then holds true now. Many things in nutrition change, but a personalized dietary approach...
Happy New Year! and a bit about me 🙂
Happy 2013, everyone! I woke up on this first day of the New Year, and thought, well this is a good time to begin. One of my strongest resolutions for the year is to update this blog more regularly. Between client work, my thesis, and teaching it can be a challenge to...