09 Mar 2016
Posted by Healthy Dog Club https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTWHxvjI_as Proactive veterinarian Dr. Karen Becker visits an upscale pet boutique to evaluate the quality of the different types of pet food. (Part 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdDPi-1Yjy0 Proactive veterinarian Dr. Karen Becker visits an upscale pet boutique...
Read more → 12 Jan 2016
Posted by Healthy Dog Club 
By Dr. Karen Becker For many couples, their dog or cat is the first ‘baby’ in the family. Then one day a human baby arrives on the scene, and the family dynamic changes. Getting your dog ready for the new baby is important. This is often not a happy state of affairs for the furry,...
Read more → 24 Jun 2015
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We are going to talk about acupuncture and how it benefits your pooch. Zuzu's story When Lisa Carp's Labrador retriever, Zuzu, was diagnosed with leukemia 3 years ago, she was devastated. Zuzu, now 9, began chemotherapy treatments, but Carp wanted to find holistic ways to complement his medical...
Read more → 08 Jun 2015
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Short-term memory The first test looks at short-term memory. You may observe failures in your own short term memory in situations when you ask for a phone number from an operator and correctly dial it immediately, meaning that the number is stored in your short-term memory. However, when you get a busy...
Read more → 15 May 2015
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Fifty percent of dogs over the age of 10 develop cancer at some point. We see malignant lymphoma, which is a tumor of the lymph nodes. We see mast cell tumors, which is a form of skin cancer. There are mammary gland tumors, or breast cancer, and soft tissue sarcomas. An excerpt from Raw Meaty...
Read more → 15 Mar 2014
Posted by Healthy Dog Club 
by Doggy Dan Clients often ask what the proper thing to do is if you’re approached by a potentially aggressive dog. It’s a good question and a common enough scenario that pet owners will eventually find themselves in. An unfamiliar dog off the leash might come running up to you while you’re...
Read more → 11 Dec 2012
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Dogs learning to associate words with objects form these associations in different ways than humans do, according to research published November 21 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Emile van der Zee and colleagues from the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom . Previous studies have shown...
Read more → 07 Dec 2012
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Before I even start writing about this I need to point this out: Regardless of a dog's size, all dogs should be treated equally. We have a tendency to view small dogs as needing us more than a larger dog. We see things that small dogs do as cute, but if a big dog did the same thing, we would consider...
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