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Keep an Animal Health Journal
Keeping a journal about your animal’s health challenges, dietary and behavioral observations will help you communicate better with your animal’s health care providers. KEYS PARTS OF A JOURNAL Beginning: Where you got the animal and when. Any history you could glean. Situation she came from. How he reacted when first with you. Illnesses: For each illness record anything the veterinarian tells you and shows you. Be specific about how things looked, not just the diagnosis. (“Gin

Christina Chambreau, DVM
May 82 min read


Traveling With Your Companion Animals – Car Trips
Many people travel with their animals in the summer, in the fall going to college, for Thanksgiving and of course at Christmas. Just like people, every animal has a different tolerance for car or plane rides. One client of mine had a cat who liked 2 hour leash walks around New York City, so I was not surprised when he loved travel, as well. He loved hours in the car and exploring new hotel rooms. Few cats are like this, though and even many dogs also have travel issues. Healt

Christina Chambreau, DVM
May 85 min read


Heartworm prevention issues
There is a lot of controversy about heartworm preventative. The drugs adversely affect many dogs. Any symptoms can become worse (weakened energy field produces many symptoms). Most dogs seem to recover from heartworm infection without the conventional drugs and without serious heart problems although they need careful and professional monitoring.. There is, of course, a risk that your dog has an energy weakness for heart problems and if infected, will have serious problems. O

Christina Chambreau, DVM
May 84 min read


Overview Of Homeopathy - History, Principles And Use
Although formally conceived by Samuel Hahnemann, MD, a brilliant German physician in 1800, the roots of homeopathy go back to Hippocrates, Paracelsus, the Mayans, Chinese, Greeks, Indians (Asian & American), and Egyptians. All used the philosophy of like cures like. Hippocrates and other Greek physicians observed that if a person chronically ill with one disease was infected with a more severe disease that had similar symptoms – the chronic disease would disappear

Christina Chambreau, DVM
Apr 114 min read


Ways To Lessen Damage From Vaccines
Most importantly, follow the package insert which says “for use in healthy animals only”. If you are dealing with chronic illness, see if the vaccine can be postponed, but know the legal risks of doing this in your local area. Muscle test/ask nature or contact an intuitive to see if this is a safe (or sort of safe) time to give the vaccine. Even if you are forced to give the vaccine, keep your thoughts very positive, knowing that in almost every case, any negative effects can

Christina Chambreau, DVM
Mar 202 min read


Selecting and Working With An Integrative Veterinarian
Your cherished companion is ill and you do not like the conventional suggestions, or they have not been working. Better yet, you know now that there must be better ways to maintain health and increased longevity, so you want to find a holistic veterinarian. You have done internet searches and found no one near you. You may have found a website with referrals, but no one local or you went and they suggested the same old conventional treatments. So frustrating!!! I am here to h

Christina Chambreau, DVM
Mar 48 min read