
Anyone who has followed me for a while knows that I ask a lot of questions, and being told “this is how we do it” generally gives me a few more. I have been using mistletoe with my own dogs for a couple of years now, and I listened to Dr. Cláudia Costa speak about…
Someone recently posted in a group asking for thoughts on Western versus Eastern holistic medicine. My mind immediately went to conventional Western medicine because that is what most of us understand when we hear the word “Western” used in a healthcare discussion. We think about bloodwork, imaging, pharmaceuticals, surgery, specialists and a diagnosis attached to…
My cat Thomas taught me something about modern veterinary medicine that I have never been able to forget. When he developed a urinary blockage, I was presented with two choices. I could authorize approximately $5,500 in treatment, or I could euthanize him. Somewhere between comprehensive hospitalization and death, every other possibility had disappeared. That moment…
Many years ago I found myself sitting in Arizona attending a Zoopharmacognosy course taught by Caroline Ingraham, and at the time I had no idea that a single class would permanently change the way I looked at animals interact with herbs. Like many people working with dogs, I had spent years learning nutrition, health, behavior,…
I had one of those moments recently where the freezer was humming in the background, one of the dogs was watching me with that suspiciously intelligent poodle expression that always makes me feel like I am the one being evaluated, not them, and I was standing there with my phone in one hand and a…
A few days ago, Dr. Kristy Wilson asked me a question that opened the door to a much larger conversation. The question was not whether hormones matter, but what responsible hormone preservation looks like in everyday life. How do families manage intact dogs, prevent unplanned litters, and navigate the realities that come with preserving reproductive…
This will be another long post, but one I believe is worth your time, because what I am about to share is more than an abstract theory—it is a bridge between veterinary science, physics, and the kind of lived experience that leaves you forever changed. At the AHVMA conference I sat in on a session…