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I was consulting with a lady whose vet had given her dog an injection of ProHeart 12. This is an injectable parasiticide for preventing heartworms. Shortly after the injection was given, the dog started having nervous ticks and twitching and later developed grand-mal seizures. I did a little research on the drug and found that…

I Think, Therefore I Am “Ego cogito, ergo sum” … Rene Descartes Most of us have heard the statement, “I think, therefore I am,” by Rene Descartes, the French scientist and philosopher.  The time was the 1600s and it was a great time for thinking and understanding.  What made this philosophical quote one for the…

If you have been researching pet food recently, you will know that feeding dogs and cats is a hot topic.  I would go so far as to say there is a war going on between the naturalists and the pet food industry and unfortunately, the pet caretaker is caught in the crossfire.  Let’s take a…

Soon after I started vet school, a scientific report was released that that said if you drink more than two cups of coffee a day, you would get pancreatic cancer.  This meant that I was going to have to spend about 14 hours a day, studying, going to class, taking early exams and doing clinic…

In the last two blogs, I discussed the meaning of holistic health care, why conventional veterinary medicine is a conditioned perspective dealing with an imbalanced mindset and why it is imperative that a new paradigm occurs if we are to truly move into a holistic health care for our pets and ourselves.  Only then will…

In the last blog, I discussed the meaning of the word, holistic, and how it is been applied to health care.  I defined a holistic health care approach as one that comes from a balanced brain/mind.  Conventional veterinary (and human) medicine is steeped heavily in left brain (rational, intellectual) thinking and has created a conditioned…

Here in the US, we are really into trends.  All you have to do is look around, watch the television ads and peruse FaceBook to see what is the latest trend.  In health care, the trend is holistic health care, also known as functional and natural medicine.  There is nothing wrong with this trend as…

In many far east countries, people hang bells on doors in their homes so that when someone opens the door, the bells ring.  They call these “mindful bells” and their purpose is to remind them to return to the present moment and be mindful. We humans have become so thought-focused that we spend very little…

Imagine waking up one morning and noticing that your cat is ill.  He has vomited a couple of times during the night and he is listless and has no interest in his food or water.  You gather him up and rush him to the veterinary clinic.  The veterinarian examines him, takes some blood for analysis…

“In acceptance, there is a decreased preoccupation with “doingness,” a growing focus on the quality of beingness itself,”  ― David R. Hawkins, Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender For many years now, I have focused on helping people empower themselves to take charge of health care for themselves and their pets.  This mantra seems to…