If you would have asked me 3 years ago if I thought pet insurance was a good idea, I would have told you probably not. This morning I opened my Care Credit bill and there is a balance of $2300 for vet bills for Guinness. Yes I am still paying on them and it’s been almost a year. It breaks my heart and reminds me of the struggles to keep
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What a long gap in between postings. Forgive me for that but I have been quite productive during that time. I completed the Feline Nutrition portion of my Clinical Pet Nutrition Program studies. I was finally able to purchase Dr. Karen Becker’s book Real Food for Health Dogs & Cats for the course and I love how simple it is to prepare foods for our pets. In her book she
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This is not a post about nutrition or a post about healthy foods and treats, this post is a tribute to the Black Dog in Black Dog Bakehouse. I met Guinness on June 18, 2009. I was looking to adopt another dog after more than four years without one and that’s when I found Tally (that was his name when we met and he asked me to change it. He
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I was blessed to have grandparents who spent countless hours in the kitchen creating lovely and delicious food. There was always some sort of meat bones simmering on the stove on cold winter days as a base for wonderful soups. The tantalizing aromas wafting through the house always made me feel like home. But did you know how good the simmered bone broth is for your dog? Bone broth is
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Happy New Year everyone! I don’t know about you but I’m not sorry to see 2017 go. It was a rollercoaster of a year and even the last day of the year wouldn’t leave me alone, the alternator on my 4Runner died. But I’m bringing in the New Year with a bang or at least a pop and a 4Runner that runs! “Less is more”. This is my newly adopted
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I love the holidays. I remember my first Christmas with Guinness. It was a magical time since I had not spent a holiday with a dog in 5 years and I had no idea how much I missed spending the holidays with a dog. My heart was happy and so was Guinness. I had decorated the house with my Dickens’s Department 56 houses, put up the small trees, stockings and
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“I never feed my dog people food.” I have heard this numerous times and I have even said it as well. Personally I don’t feed my dog people food but I do feed my dog real food. What is the difference? To me people food is table scraps, leftovers from your dinner that consist of fat or skin from your steak or chicken, salt, pepper and butter laden potatoes, garlic
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December 2016 was quite the month. Guinness had dental surgery on December 8th and I learned so much about my dog and myself in the weeks to follow. The most important thing I learned is that he is a fighter, just like his mom. After his dental surgery, Guinness had a neurological reaction to one of the medications he was taking. He would stand in the living room and sway.
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Healing Touch for Animals (HTA) is a holistic approach to maintaining health and well-being for animals by providing energy medicine therapy, applications of essential oils, and vibrational sound therapy to help bring your pet’s body energy into balance. Energy medicine therapies – recognized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) – are used to integrate, balance and clear the energy body. Energy medicine therapy works by releasing endorphins to establish
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I read my cookbooks like they are collections of short stories. These stories take me to a place where I can dream of eating in a small cafe in Italy or the pizza place down the street from where I grew up. My favorite smells in the kitchen, onions being sautéed in butter, butter and sugar mingling together in the oven becoming decadent cookies, and pasta sauce loaded with garlic
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