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07/04/2025

07/04/2025

Is Your Home Unknowingly a Hazard for Your Pet? 🏠❗

Every year, thousands of dogs and cats end up at the vet because they’ve gotten into something they shouldn’t have. 😿 The scary part? Most of these accidents happen right at home. 😨 Here are some of the most common items you should always keep out of reach to help prevent a trip to the emergency vet. ⚠️

Got any other items you think should make the list? 🤔

For a full list of toxic household items for pets, head to today’s free pet health article (linked below).

07/04/2025

Yes, your pet's paws need a thorough cleaning to remove dirt and allergens accumulated from outdoor walks. But what's the safest way to do it? 🐾🤔

Stay tuned tomorrow for the answer reveal!

07/04/2025

How to Help Keep Your Dog Safe and Stress-Free This Fourth of July 🐶💛

For many Americans, the Fourth of July means fireworks, barbecues, and fun-filled gatherings. But for your dog, it can feel like the scariest night of the year. Loud noises, flashing lights, and unfamiliar crowds can cause major stress for your furry friend. 🎆⚠️

To help ease their anxiety, we’ve prepared a helpful checklist. Creating a quiet, cozy space ahead of time can go a long way in keeping your pet calm and feeling secure during all the Fourth of July commotion. ❤️‍🩹

Visit our latest article (linked below) for more tips to keep your dog secure during the festivities. 👇

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07/04/2025

Ticks on dogs are small, spider-like creatures which feed on the blood of animals including dogs and humans. They vary in size, usually between 1mm to 1cm

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07/04/2025

🦠🐾 WHY DUST MITES ALWAYS APPEAR IN THOSE "ALLERGY" TESTS...AND WHY TOPICAL PROBIOTICS CAN HELP 🦠🐾

We see it all the time. Very inflamed little dogs that go for allergy tests (saliva or otherwise) and the readings come back with pollen and dust mite allergies.

Thus begins the downward spiral of product usage 📉 - anti-histamines, non-steroidals anti-inflammatories to cool the itch, various creams and shampoos, maybe even immunotherapy, and always some magic kibble that never does anything to resolve the issue for the patient.

As we always say, and as studies very much show us, much of this inflammation, from atopic dermatitis to recurring ear conditions, is resolved with a focus on dietary shift and gut health. It's certainly the first step.

And it makes sense. 80% of your immune system is around your gut so when that is antagonised or overactive, it's like leaving the radiator on inside the dog.

Switch it off via decent food and some natural additions (maybe get rid of a hidden yeast infection) and P**F all your dust mite "allergies" suddenly evaporate.

(See the free Step 1-5 vids over on drconorbrady .com for more).

But we didn't get rid of all the dustmites. With a true allergy, that's what you have to do. Got a peanut allergy? You must stop eating peanuts. Nothing else is going to help you.

Instead, by simply addressing the thing that had the immune system in a tizzy, we cool things off, boosting the dog's immune-threshold (ability to deal with stuff). Now, with gut and thus skin biome recovering, dust mite poops are no longer an issue.

But know that t's not the little mites themselves that cause the trouble, it’s their poo. Dust mites are ubiquitous. They're everywhere. It contains cysteine enzymes like Der p 1, which the mite uses to digest all the yummy dead skin and organic debris about the place, but they also poo a fair bit of it out too.

In dogs with poor skin - hot, itchy, inflamed skin, stemming from the problem in their gut - this little enzyme can cause havoc, breaking down tight cysteine-based junctions in the skin barrier.

This allows allergens, microbes, and irritants to pe*****te more easily, triggering the immune system in the skin to react with all the itchy stuff (mast cells, histamines, cytokines).

It's not that your dog has suddenly got a dust mite allergy, it's that your dog has suddenly lost basic skin function allowing dust mite poo to be an issue.

While we're trying to fix these dogs, I find topical probiotics work great to help get that skin flora back into some sort of shape.

First and foremost, they eat organic debris for sustenance. So letting them feast on dustmite poo is a very good idea right now. And when they do, by force of sheer numbers, they crowd out the more inflammatory bacterial groups likely blooming at that time, like Staphylococcus pseudintermedius.

They also strengthen the skin barrier by modulating immune responses, cooling off inflammation and promoting ceramide and antimicrobial peptide production.

The attached study shows that topical probiotic strains were highly effective at reducing itching and inflammation in dogs with atopic dermatitis

👨‍⚕️ BOTTOM LINE: Dust mite droppings irritate via enzyme-driven skin disruption, but ONLY in dogs whose skin biome is malfunctioning in the first place. That is where your focus should be, starting with the gut. While you're doing that, topical probiotics can restore the skin's natural defences, offering some natural, drug-free relief.

06/10/2025

Omni at it, again.

Just found this up on their blog - Bramble, the largely vegan fed collie, who died in 2003 at stately old age of 25yrs old, was a RECORD BREAKER!

But if you were to ask Omni what she broke a record in, they wouldn't have an answer, and the article, as their info tends to be, was a bit light on the details.

What they seem to be alluding to here is that Bramble was, at least at some stage, the longest living dog in the world.

Most of us have heard that one, haven't we?

It's just that Bluey, an Australian blue heeler, pipped her to the post...65yrs previously, and he was nearly 30, as the Guiness Book of Records has been telling us since.

Everyone and their dog knows that, surely?

Bluey's entrance into the Guinness Book of Records required a fair bit of evidence to get in - old photos, some records, various testimonies, etc.

It happened that Bluey ate a high-protein diet of kangaroo, rabbit, emu and some table scraps.

Meat.

Recently Bobbi in Portugal replaced him, if only shortly. He was 31 years old when he died and consumed a homemade mix of raw/cooked meat and fish with raw organic vegetables from the garden.

More meat.

Despite a plethora of evidence showing Bobbi was 31yrs old, the GBR, rumoured to be under a strange amount of pressure, decided to revoke Bobbi's claim, re-instating Bluey as the oldest dog in the world.

What we can be sure about is both these dog were very, very, very old when they died, both around 30 years, both were meat eaters and both came with a LOT of evidence that that was the case.

Like, a LOT.

Now, compare this to Bramble the vegan collie, the talisman of the vegan pet food sector. She is, to date, the longest living vegan dog out there, apparently. I say apparently as her owner, Anne Heritage, a committed vegan and animal rights advocate, offered exactly zero evidence in support of her claim. In her book she tells us she got Bramble as an ADULT with NO PAPERWORK and GUESSED her age. Bramble lived on a farm where, in the owners words, she would open the door in the morning and the dog would come back at night for lentils and rice. She has no vet records. No photos. Nothing at all.

And she just happened to make and sell vegan pet food, launching UK's first vegan pet food brand with the story.

This story perfectly sums up where the real v vegan pet food sectors are today.

Bramble remains today the only long-lived vegan dog that we know of.