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Diagnosing Food Allergies in Pets: Elimination Diet Trial
Let’s chat about food allergies and elimination diet trials! What is a food allergy? A food allergy is the body’s abnormal reaction to a presence of an ingredient. When this happens your pet’s body can react in different ways. To diagnose if your pet has a food...
How to Clean Your Dog’s Ears
Ear infections can happen any time of year, but they can be more common during the spring and summer months. Swimming, splashing through puddles, and bathing can leave moisture in your dog’s ears, creating a warm, damp environment where bacteria and yeast can thrive....
Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine for Horses
Alternative medicine is being integrated with Western Medicine therapies more and more often. You may have seen horses getting massages, chiropractic adjustments, laser therapy, targeted pulsed electromagnetic therapy, and acupuncture. Most often, we are called in to...
Dental Diets for Better Oral Health
Just like us, we want our pets to have a healthy smile! Canine and Feline oral and dental health is very important to their overall health! Alongside brushing our pets' teeth, dental diets are a great source of daily preventative oral health. Dental diets are...
Acupuncture for Your Senior Pet
With National Senior Pet Month upon us we thought it would be a great time to reveal how we can help our beloved senior pets age with comfort and happiness. Though during our annual wellness exams, we often discuss regular screening bloodwork to stay ahead of common...
Different Forms of Leg Protection for your Equine Friend
Open front boot These are most commonly used by showjumpers to protect the ligaments of the horse’s leg. They wrap around the fetlock and along the back of the cannon bone, where the most sensitive and high-impact areas are on a horse’s leg. While jumping a course,...
What is A Diet Consult and How Can it Benefit Your Pet?
Just like humans, nutrition plays an important role for our fur babies. Proper nutrition has a positive impact on an animal's health as it enhances their quality of life and is an essential factor to maintain optimal health. When we think of a diet consult, it’s not...
They Say “a Horse’s Eye Is a Window to Their Soul”
They say, “a horse's eye is a window to their soul". That being said, ocular (eye) health for our horses is imperative. We see horses for ocular issues fairly commonly, and any issue with the eye is considered urgent because they can, unfortunately, progress quickly...
Equine Cushing’s or Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction (PPID)
One disease worth mentioning in senior horses is Cushing’s. Though it can present in horses 10-20 years old, its incidence increases immensely in senior horses, as much as 25% or more in some populations over 20 years old! It drives home how important yearly exams are...