Ben came to me as a 2-year-old Collie who started life normally. He was an active and friendly puppy, full of fun and mischief. The first clue that something was amiss came when Ben was just five months old. He began vomiting, almost on a daily basis, no matter what kind of puppy food he was fed. When Ben was a year old his veterinarian noticed an even stranger symptom. When he was at the clinic to be neutered, the veterinarian noted that Ben's teeth were encrusted with tarta

Thank you so much for attending my talk at the Dane Nationals in Lancaster, PA, 2014. I am thrilled that you are interested in alternative approaches to building health of your breed. A great resource for you is Theda Askew (zoedane@aol.com) as she has raised Danes for generations. 1. 7 Keys to healthy animals has links to other pages of interest. 2. Feed the best – I do feel that a raw meat/pureed vegetable diet made by you from local, sustainable, organic meats fed non GMO

Cradle to cradle. Flowers are not, then they are a bud, then they blossom, then fade, then wither, then reappear as a bud…or is it the same bud. Thich Nhat Hanh, a Zen monk, teacher, poet, peace activist, and the author of No Death, No Fear said he asked a new camellia bud if it were the same one that had died 3 weeks before of frost, or if it were a new one. The bud told him it was neither – energetically the flower always exists, sometimes in physical form and sometimes no