Tui Na massage: Wouldn’t it be something if your horse could have a consistent, harmonious flow of stomach chi and could avoid colic, founder, stomach ulcers, and any other digestion issues horses are prone to have? Wild horses roam and … Read full article
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Homeopathy for Animals – Q&A with Shirley Moore
We receive a LOT of questions about homeopathy for animals: which remedies to use for various conditions, how to give the remedies, and most of all, questions around preventing and treating Lyme disease. Shirley has very kindly been responding to … Read full article
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Natural Remedies for Shingles
A recent bout with shingles gave me an opportunity to both try out a variety of complementary medicine therapies and to set a few misconceptions … Read full article
Business Monday: Animal Massage Laws and Practitioner Liability Insurance in Ontario, Canada
Thank you all who have been sending in lots of questions for the Business Monday series - we love hearing them. Keep them coming! We recently … Read full article
Acupressure for Feline Diabetes
Has your cat been diagnosed with diabetes? Don’t panic. A growing number of cats have it; the good news is that feline diabetes is … Read full article
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Animal Safety During Halloween, Fireworks Night and New Years
It is the time of year when animals are exposed to fireworks and firecrackers. Fireworks are being used more and more as a way for us to celebrate; they are now commonplace at birthday parties, Christmas celebrations and New Years celebrations. While we may … Continue Reading...
Animal Communicator Julie Lines of Voice Of The Animals
Today’s post is a guest post from Julie Lines, founder and owner of Voice of the Animals in Newton Solney, Staffordshire, England. Julie is an animal communicator and she started Voice of the Animals to raise awareness about the importance of animals and to … Continue Reading...
Business Monday: What Is A Target Market and How Do You Define Your Ideal Customer?
You’ve been leaving brochures in stores, put an ad in the local paper, volunteered to do massage at your favorite animal shelter, set up a booth at a rescue event, but you are still struggling to get customers. Where are they? Why aren’t people calling? Take a … Continue Reading...
The Puppy’s Environment And Canine Hip Dysplasia
I just the other day came across an interesting article from Norway: In doing research on hip dysplasia in dogs for her doctoral thesis, Randi I. Krontveit found that environment plays a bigger role than earlier thought when it comes to canine hip dysplasia … Continue Reading...
Holistic Or Integrative Medicine? Is Allopathic The Same As Conventional? And What Is Traditional Medicine?
In my previous post searching for definitions of the various terms describing health care modalities that fall outside of the conventional Western system, we looked at Alternative, Complementary, CAM/CAVM and eCAM. In today’s post, we will take a closer look … Continue Reading...
Shamanic Healing
I have to confess that I did not know anything at all about Shamanism before starting this series of posts, but what I have learned is fascinating. And now I want to know who my power animal is! What Is Shamanic Healing? Shamanism has been practiced for … Continue Reading...
How To Use Flower Essences With Animals
People are often unsure of how to use flower essences with animals and have lots of questions. Here, I am addressing the ones that I hear most often: Are Flower Essences safe for my pet? In over 80 years of use there has not been a single adverse reaction … Continue Reading...
Alternative Healing Modalities
There are many ways to promote health, and most holistic animal health practitioners are trained in more than one technique. And while most of us turn to one or several therapies to fix a problem or cure an illness, these are all wonderful as preventative … Continue Reading...
Friday Links: New Bird Species, Duck Gets New Foot, Dog Saves Owner
New Species of Bird Discovered in Cambodia Scientists have discovered a previously unknown bird species right in the capital city of Phnom Penh. The small, grey red-capped bird has been named Cambodian tailorbird, Orthotomus chaktomuk, and Simon Mahood of the … Continue Reading...
Applied Zoopharmacognosy And My Trip To England
Happy fall everyone! I hope you had a fantastic summer with lots of fun stuff going on. I finally got to go home to Sweden to see friends and family - it had been 3 years since my last visit, so that was a big treat. And while I was there, I took the chance to … Continue Reading...