Diabetes – Treatment Options For Your Diabetic Dog

If your dog has been diagnosed with diabetes, early treatment by your veterinarian will help prevent further complications from this disease. Your pet may be saved from the painful experience of nerve damage as well as avoiding blindness. Conventional treatments will go a long way to keeping your dog healthy.
Insulin Injections
Depending upon your dog’s needs, [...]

Diabetes – How Your Dog May Become A Diabetic

Did you know that diabetes is becoming increasingly more common in our household pets? The latest research shows that 1 in every 100 dogs gets diagnosed with diabetes. Therefore it is only reasonable that you understand what causes this disease and take preventative measures to protect your dog’s health.
How Do Dogs Get Diabetes?
In some cases, [...]

Diarrhea & Your Dog

Most dog owners are familiar with diarrhea of their pets; the condition is a very common one. But only a handful of owners really know anything about diarrhea’s varieties and causes.
Perhaps the greatest single cause of diarrhea is a change of diet. Thus, a dog that has been used to eating a commercial brand dog [...]

Signs of Ill Health

Signs of ill health are the most important signs of the health status in your dogs. For example, if the dog has continuous nasal discharge, it indicates the presence of nasal congestion and if the discharge is thick, most of the times, the dog may have pneumonia.
If the dog vomits one or two [...]

Are Vaccinations for Dogs Really Necessary?

If you have been following the standard guidelines for pet vaccinations you have probably been submitting your dog to a painful shot as well as the anxiety of a visit to the vet every year in an effort to provide them the best health possible.
Vaccinations are a big business. Owners will spend what they are [...]

Holistic Dog Health Q & A – Part 1

Controlling Seizures Caused By Distemper
I have a four-year-old Labrador mix that contracted distemper from an old neighbor’s puppy. The initial acute period of the disease went by with little problems thanks to homeopathy, but within weeks she was having seizures on a daily basis. After doing a lot of research and talking with my veterinarian, [...]

4 Ways In Which You Can Show Your Dog How Much You Love Him

Do you have at least one framed photo of your dog somewhere in your house… or maybe in your wallet? Is your dog pretty darn close to being the very center of your universe? Do you love spoiling him, responds to his every whimper and cry, and spend hundreds of dollars on [...]

3 Tips For Dealing With Dog Emergencies

Have you ever thought about what you need to do should your dog – or another dog – ever suffer a serious, life-threatening injury? What if they have a severe allergy to an insect bite or a bee sting?
It’s great to know your vet’s phone number, but what if something happens during [...]

4 Things Frustrated Dog Owners Should Know Articles

You’ve probably had a day or two when you felt like your dog just wasn’t paying any attention to you at all, right? You talked, you yelled, you shouted, maybe you jumped up and down and waved your arms, but she just wasn’t interested in anything you had to say to her [...]

Natural Ways To Calm The Overexcited & Stress Out Dog

Does your dog become anxious and extremely fearful for no apparent reason at all? You have probably researched and read a lot about dog psychology and behavior issues that result from aggression or fear, however, sometimes the problem is not as complicated is we make it out to be.
Anxiety and fear are not necessarily the [...]