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08/27/2026

🐾 Another Cause for Itchy Paws
If your dog is constantly licking or chewing her paws, allergies may not be the whole story.
Every time your dog walks through grass, yards, sidewalks, or outdoor spaces, her paws can collect pollen, mold spores, dust, fertilizers, pesticides, and other environmental irritants. Think of those furry feet as little Swiffers picking up everything in their path!
And simply wiping the paws off often isn’t enough. Irritants can hide between the toes, around the nailbeds, and deep in the paw pads.
One of my favorite simple strategies is a regular paw soak. 💚
A soothing foot soak can help physically remove environmental allergens and irritants from the skin while giving those hard-working paws a little TLC. For many dogs with seasonal paw licking, reducing their daily exposure can make a meaningful difference.
🐾 For medium and large dogs: use a bucket or basin and soak one paw at a time.
🐾 For small dogs: a shallow basin or sink works well.
🐾 Afterward: rinse with clean water and dry thoroughly, especially between the toes.
I’ve also included my Detoxifying Paw Soak recipe with green tea, apple cider vinegar, Epsom salts, and an optional antimicrobial addition.
Save this recipe for your next itchy-paw flare-up! 🌿🐶
And remember: if your dog’s paws are persistently red, swollen, painful, smelly, or she’s licking them obsessively, don’t assume it’s just allergies. Yeast, bacterial infections, parasites, foreign bodies, and other underlying problems can also cause paw irritation and deserve a veterinary evaluation.
Healthy paws start with reducing what touches them every day. 💚 Grab the recipe details in my blog, link in comments 🐾

08/09/2026

This⬇️ fresh food hands down best for any living thing!!

Fast food does not equal health and longevity!

I am a certified in TCVM food therapy for raw and lightly cooked for K-9 want to learn more on how to feed your puppy or young adult dog or adult dog reach out for a consultation. I have tiered consultations!

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🧬 CAN WHAT YOUR DOG EATS CHANGE HOW FAST THEIR BODY AGES?

A fascinating new peer-reviewed pilot study suggests it might.
Researchers followed pugs for 6 months, comparing dogs that stayed on extruded dry kibble with dogs switched to a cooked, minimally processed, human-grade diet formulated by a board-certified veterinary nutritionist.

Instead of just measuring weight or bloodwork, researchers looked at changes in the dogs’ DNA associated with biological aging — essentially, how old their bodies appeared compared with their actual age.

🥩 The surprising finding? Dogs switched to fresh food showed a nearly 1-year shift toward a younger biological age in just 6 months, while dogs that stayed on kibble did not show a significant change.

🥩 Fresh food: +2.75 years → +1.80 years
🥣 Kibble: +2.77 years → +2.46 years

Even more interesting, the dogs’ bodyweights remained stable, suggesting the shift wasn’t simply due to weight loss. Researchers also found significant changes involving KISS1R, a gene associated with metabolism and obesity, in the fresh-fed dogs but not the kibble-fed dogs.

Published in Veterinary Record Open, a peer-reviewed journal of the British Veterinary Association published by Wiley, the study adds to growing research on the potential benefits of balanced, minimally processed foods.

🥦 Want to add more fresh food to your pet’s bowl but aren’t sure where to start? That’s why Dr. Karen Becker and Rodney Habib wrote The Forever Dog LIFE.

It includes 30+ complete and balanced fresh-food recipes that can be served raw, poached, slow-cooked, or baked, with versions for dogs and cats, different activity levels and life stages, plus hundreds of variations online.

Whether you feed fully fresh or simply want to add more fresh food, The Forever Dog LIFE helps you do fresh food right. 🐶🐱🥩🥦

07/28/2026

Please read and think about what the words mean to your puppy or dog!!

Ovaries and te**es aren’t just reproductive organs, they’re endocrine organs involved in metabolism, behavior, and musculoskeletal health.🦴

⚠️That does not mean dogs shouldn’t be spayed or neutered. Sterilization can provide important health benefits, including protection against pyometra, mammary disease, testicular disease, and benign prostate enlargement, and in some situations traditional spay or neuter may be the only choice.

But there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach. Talk with your veterinarian about whether it makes sense to wait until your dog is physically mature before removing the go**ds, or whether a gonad-sparing sterilization procedure that prevents reproduction while preserving natural hormone production, such as a vasectomy or ovary-sparing spay, could be appropriate.

✂️ Already spayed or neutered? You can’t change the surgery, but you can change what you watch for. Research suggests that dogs who have undergone traditional spay/neuter may have different lifelong risks for obesity, urinary incontinence, orthopedic disease, and certain cancers. Those risks vary by breed, size, s*x, and age at surgery.

For example, some studies have reported 1.5–3.3× higher odds of obesity following gonadectomy, while early gonadectomy has been associated with increased orthopedic risk in some medium, large, and giant breeds. In female dogs, urinary incontinence is another important concern, particularly following early spay.

The goal isn’t to say “don’t spay or neuter.” It’s to ask a better question: What’s the best sterilization choice, and the best timing, for this individual dog? 🙌

Today at 12pm EDT, Dr. Kären Marsden joins us to explain different sterilization options, the long-term effects of sterilization, common urinary and reproductive disorders, and integrative strategies to help prevent and manage UTIs, incontinence, pyometra, and prostate problems.

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07/11/2026