Nutrition – Page 10 – Healthy Dog Club

Different Diets Mean Different Values For Your Pet!

March 31, 2015April 20, 2015 Healthy Dog Club

Processing and a coat of preservatives allow foods to sit in warehouses unrefrigerated. Fats, proteins, carbohydrates, and all the major nutrients in food are changed when cooked. The greater the changes, the more indigestible that food becomes. Also, the more the body regards such molecules as foreign. These foreign chemicals can result in allergic reactions and raised blood values. Here’s something all raw feeders should be aware of as well as those of you who are new to raw feeding. “Blood testing results from raw fed dogs…

Animal Chiropractic Treatments 101

March 26, 2015April 20, 2015 Healthy Dog Club

Who Says You Can’t Treat An Old Dog New Tricks! By: Robert Mueller (Robert Mueller, BSc, Pharm. is a registered pharmacist, author of “Living Enzymes: The World’s Best Kept Pet Food Secret”.) Small adjustments to the vertebrae can make a huge difference in your pet’s mobility. For the last hundred years, humankind has been helped by chiropractic therapy, despite discrimination by the American Medical Association. This applies to services provided for humans as well as to our beloved members of the animal kingdom. And it’s really just because many physicians…

Why Home Prepared Meals Can Be Difficult And Dangerous

March 26, 2015March 26, 2015 Healthy Dog Club

By: Dr. Bill Ormston Many people never discuss their dog or cat’s diet with their veterinarians. Homemade, cooked diets are the diets that veterinarians worry may be nutritionally deficient hence the ones they complain about. When dogs show up in a veterinary clinic with a nutritional deficiency or imbalance it is generally because of a home-cooked diet that is severely lacking in one or several nutrients, or one that has been over-supplemented. When first starting on a home cooked diet, dogs initially do better. Cooked homemade diets are definitely better…

How your dog benefits from coconut oil

November 7, 2014November 7, 2014 Healthy Dog Club

Dogs Naturally: Although supplements can be a confusing topic for many pet owners, most dog owners have heard of the benefits of feeding fish oils. There are however, a variety of oils that you can also use to your dog’s benefit, each with different actions and benefits. Coconut oil consists of more than 90% saturated fats, with traces of few unsaturated fatty acids, such as monounsaturated fatty acids and polyunsaturated fatty acids. Most of the saturated fats in coconut oil are Medium Chain Triglycerides (MCTs). The main component (more…

Is cancer in pets preventable?

August 15, 2014August 15, 2014 Healthy Dog Club

By Robert Mueller, B. Pharm. The rate of humans contracting cancer is ever increasing and unfortunately this trend is as prevalent in veterinary clinics as it is in medical facilities across the United States. It has been reported that cancer is a major killer in our pet population and is thought to be responsible for 45% of dog deaths (in pets that have lived at least 10 years). In humans, the statistics support that one in four will contract cancer.[1] Even with the advances in medical techniques and new…

It’s All About Choices

August 6, 2014August 6, 2014 Healthy Dog Club

“By nature, dogs are scavengers and will eat whatever they are able to. Since our modern day pet does not have to live so opportunistically, it is the owner’s prerogative to seek out the best CHOICE of diet for our four-legged companions.” By Robert Mueller, BSc, Pharm. Here in America, we are very fortunate to be able to choose what we want to eat, enjoy it when we are ready, and have it cooked (or not cooked) exactly to our liking. This is called freedom of choice. Our pet…

Ask an expert: What’s Really Causing Those Hot Spots and Itchy Skin?

July 15, 2014July 15, 2014 Healthy Dog Club

By By Robert Mueller, B. Pharmacist What’s causing my dog to itch and scratch so much…why the hot spots and what can I do to stop it? I can’t bear to watch it anymore…it really hurts me to see my dog suffer. I thought for a while before I replied to her because the solution she was looking for was complicated… like isolating the cause of cancer. There is simply not a one-word answer…because skin and allergy issues are normally the result of several triggers…and in the end it…

Does Vitamin D play a role in our pets health?

May 7, 2014April 20, 2015 Healthy Dog Club

Source – Dr. Mauria O’Brien Got vitamin D? Most people know that this compound, a supplement frequently added to milk, plays a role in developing and maintaining healthy bones. But recent findings in humans suggest that vitamin D has a much broader effect on health and immune function. Dr. Mauria O’Brien, a specialist in emergency and critical care at the University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Urbana, is determined to find out what this means for animals. “Many studies in humans have found that low vitamin D status…