10 Tips to Help Your Dog”s Immune System Fight Cancer from Donna Kelleher, DVM Taken from the Green Juju website: Dr. Donna is Bailey”s holistic vet who we began working with when Bailey was diagnosed with cancer. Dr. Donna taught me more about cancer in the first five minutes than I had learned from every other source combined that… Read more →
Category: Diet
Reaction to NY Times article on Dog foods and heart disease
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/29/us/dog-food-heart-disease-fda.html I submitted this to the NY times this morning: The article on brands linked to heart disease was not based on a double-blind study nor did it even mention taurine, the primary amino acid of interest nor did the reporter contact anyone outside of the Pet Food Institute which is nothing other than a corporate megaphone for big companies.… Read more →
Canine Nutrition class November 9, 2019 9 am to 1 pm
Hi folks! I hope you can join me for a fun-filled nutrition class in Ballard, Seattle. We will be covering many topics and include lots of time for discussion. Here are some of the topics covered: What is the “correct” amount of protein to feed my dog? Are all carbohydrates bad for my dog? What are the important nutritional requirements… Read more →
Dr. Donna teaches Saturday Dec 1 class, “Canine Nutrition”
We touched on why kibble is not good for dogs or cats, the dangers of treated water, raw versus cooked diets, the role of vitamins and minerals for our canine friends, omega fatty acids and oxidative stresses. I know these sound dry but in an effort to keep up the motivation, we worked on our own breathing. Inhaling up through… Read more →
Put on your Chef’s hat and let the healing begin!
Did you know you can help your pet’s health just by adding 1/2 tsp parsley to his or her food? Add in 1/2 hard-boiled egg and 1 tsp of goat’s yogurt and you are started adding some live, vital foods to your pet’s diet. You can learn to make vitamin powder from my website (under nutrition from ground sunflower seeds,… Read more →
Changing foods safely. How to wean on to a better diet.
Weaning pets off and on foods can be a challenge but there is so much to know about this subject! Kibble fed dogs switching to raw requires a great change within each liver cell and within the entire mucosal layer of the GI tract. Did you know when we change foods we change the type of good bacteria in the… Read more →
Your Cat’s Urinary Health
Boris is only four years old. When he was very young, he started getting urinary infections with crystals and it seemed likely he might soon block (urethral obstruction). At that point, we developed a diet and herbal regime that has worked for him ever since. There is not one answer for these kitties but one thing is for sure, if… Read more →
Morty’s Ruptured CCL
Meet Morty. He is a 12 year old mixed breed guy, very sweet and strong. Several years ago he ruptured a ligament in his knee called the ACL in humans Cranial Cruciate Ligament in dogs. Regular acupuncture, a raw diet and a great home life with lots of exercise has kept his arthritis minimal, especially for his age. His mom… Read more →