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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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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Well, let’s see. Black Dog Bakehouse was conceived in 2007 but wasn’t born until 2017. Yes, that is 10 years in the making. But like good wine and cheese, it needs to be aged and cared for so that when the time comes, it will be amazing. Black Dog Bakehouse actually started off as just a bakery with treats. I baked some treats, sold some treats, made cakes, more treats
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