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18/10/2024

Be Cautious with Synthetic Vitamins for Your Dog's Health 🐾

While synthetic vitamins and minerals can play a role in your dog’s diet, it's essential to understand their potential drawbacks to ensure you’re making the best choices. Here’s why a bit of caution can go a long way:

1️⃣ Lower Bioavailability
Synthetic vitamins may not be absorbed or utilized by the body as efficiently as natural ones, which means your dog might not fully benefit from them.

2️⃣ Risk of Overdosing
These concentrated nutrients can sometimes lead to imbalances or even toxicity, especially with fat-soluble vitamins like A and D.

3️⃣ Potential Side Effects
Some dogs may experience digestive issues or allergic reactions from synthetic additives, particularly if the source materials contain allergens.

4️⃣ Nutrient Interactions
High doses of synthetic vitamins can interfere with the absorption of other essential nutrients, disrupting your dog’s nutrient balance.

5️⃣ Long-Term Impact Unknown
Since synthetic vitamins don't interact with the body like naturally occurring ones, the long-term effects of continuous use are not fully understood.

Choosing whole food sources for your dog’s vitamins and minerals ensures they also benefit from natural co-factors, enzymes, and phytochemicals that synthetic nutrients often lack.

If you’d like to dive deeper into this topic, check out my blog, 'The Pitfalls of Synthetic Vitamins and Minerals in Canine Diets: What Every Dog Guardian Should Know.' Link is in the comments!

If you're looking for a place to gain trusted insights and support, my 💖 Dog Mom Society 🐾 will be re-opening in the next few weeks, you can join the waitlist in the second link below !

14/10/2024

With autumn just around the corner, chances are you'll be seeing more of this sweet, crunchy fruit in your local markets. It's loaded with immune-boosting antioxidants, and has been valued for its anti-inflammatory benefits ever since the early times. Has your pet tasted it yet?

06/10/2024

EPA and DHA play an essential role in a dog’s diet, particularly for growing dogs!🐶 These Omega-3s🐟 are essential for brain and eye development in puppies, important for reducing the risk of various diseases, plus they’re beneficial in improving conditions such as osteoarthritis and skin allergies, and can also have anti-anxiety benefits.

🐟 Serving suggestions: feed one fresh sardine or two canned sardines for every 20 lbs of body weight, 2-3 times a week.

💊When supplementing, consider a general maintenance dose of 30mg per pound of body weight for healthy animals.

Today at 12pm in the Inside Scoop, Dr. Laurie Coger and Suzanne Clothier will be discussing how to create a healthy mind🧠 in a healthy body🐕 for puppies (and adult pups) as well as what you need to know when bringing home a new dog!🏡

They'll tackle essential topics, including:

💉What boosters does your new puppy really need?...and when!

🥩 Wondering how to introduce your new dog to a fresh food diet? We’ll discuss tips and strategies to make the transition smooth for your pup.

👀 How to observe and interpret your pup's behaviors, helping you provide the right experiences they need to navigate and understand the world around them.

💊 Learn about the best supplements to support your puppy's growth and overall health...and much more!

Whether you’re welcoming a puppy into your home or bringing home a new adult pup, this episode is packed with valuable insights and practical advice.

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03/10/2024

NEW NATURAL SOLUTION FOR CHRONIC CANINE GUT ISSUES

This is the second product in the Dr Brady's range - Gut Regen12.

I've been waiting to bring this out for ages. It was borne out of pure necessity. While I love BioFunction8, which is a relatively simple but effective product for milder cases, we have learned so much here about IBD, acid reflux and the biome as a whole over the last 8 years that a new, more precise method was needed. So far, it seems to be working charm.

Regen12 contains everything you will need to soothe and heal a troubled gut, in their very best form and in the dose they need them. Simple.

It contains:

👍 Organic chamomile and ginger work to settle and soothe the gut, helping to reduce inflammation.

👍 Activated charcoal helps to reduce bloating while Boswelia alleviates intestinal discomfort.

👍 DAO digestive enzyme is normally produced by the gut lining. It digests histamine, the stuff that drives the inflammation process. But dogs with chronic gut issues have malfunctioning gut membranes. Lacking DAO, histamine can build in the gut of gut-sick dogs.

👍 Organic marshmallow root replenishes the mucous lining where your gut flora live (which we nourish with inulin from chicory root).

👍 S. boulardii is the only probiotic that I now use. It's actually a yeast. A normal part of our biome, lots of studies show S.b reduces the overgrowths of pathogenic bacteria whilst leaving the good guys alone. In this way, it promotes symbiosis, offering your pet a real solution to their long-term tummy troubles. Each scoop contains around 0.5bil CFU.

👍 While we're waiting for S.b to work, EU organic chlorella binds any toxins that the baddies may be producing

👍 Finally, on the nutritional front, we add a pinch of Celtic salt to help replace lost electrolytes as well as two Atlantic seaweeds, which help replace lost nutrients to gut-sick patients that are now, no doubt, suffering a little malnutrition-from-malabsorption (and one of which might even keep the worms away in these susceptible dogs).

HOW TO FEED

02/10/2024

DON’T FORCE ME TO BE SOCIAL!
It may be really disappointing and frustrating when our dogs are not the social beings we expected them to be.

Many believe dogs should just naturally get along with other dogs, after all they’re the same species.

Some believe the “unsociable” dog has a behaviour problem that needs to be “fixed”.

Early, appropriately timed and correct socialisation is vitally important, but sometimes despite all of this, some dogs are just not that sociable.

Sometimes this can be improved, especially if the cause is from a negative experience, but genetics, breed tendencies, individual personalities, health and age all contribute to tolerance and sociability, which also change throughout life.

If we, as a human species, don’t get along with everyone we meet, how can we expect our dogs to?

Do we label every person that has an argument, doesn’t make friends with everyone they meet, doesn’t like every other person, prefers not to socialise - as having a problem that needs to be fixed?

Why is it so easy to accept that every individual person is different than to accept that every individual dog is different?

When we have done what we can to improve our dogs’ social skills, we need to accept and acknowledge our dogs for the individuals they are, allow and respect their choice of whether to be sociable or not and never force interactions that a dog is not comfortable with.

10/09/2024

Beautiful Max

07/09/2024

Sadly, the overweight and obesity epidemic in dogs and cats in the U.S. is also leading to an increase in lifestyle-related diabetes. 🐶😿 Most pets develop diabetes due to obesity, high-carb diets, a sedentary lifestyle, and over-vaccination. Once diabetes sets in, it can be tough and costly to manage. Even more heartbreaking, the leading cause of death in diabetic pets isn’t the disease itself but euthanasia, as many pet parents find managing the condition too difficult. 💔

Help prevent diabetes by promoting a healthy, active lifestyle for your furry family member. Learn more in today’s free article, linked in the comments.

28/08/2024

Easy bone broth to make for your dog

Inexpensive to make, easy to prepare, and easy to digest, bone broth is the most intense healing food you can make at home! 🤎 🌟

Visit today’s free pet health article (link in comments) to learn more about the benefits of feeding bone broth to your pet. 🐶🐱

06/07/2024

Amazing info

Benefits Of Milk Thistle

Liver Support
The liver is the most dynamic organ of the body and is responsible for hundreds of biological actions that the body needs to survive. The liver protects the body from toxins by detoxification.

Silymarin has been traditionally used to treat liver disease and most scientific information available is in reference to human use. The biological mechanism of action is yet unknown but several theories exist.

It specifically protects the liver by:

Reducing toxins (including some drugs and heavy metals)
Activating protein synthesis
Stimulates growth of new liver cells to replace those that are dead or damaged.
Its strong antioxidant properties (destroys oxygen free radicals) and anti-inflammatory actions.
In human patients with cirrhotic livers, alcohol-induced hepatitis, and liver disease from Hepatitis C, silymarin has been shown to improve symptoms, laboratory tests, and survival. It has also traditionally been used to promote breast milk production, treat cancer and even protect the liver from snake bites and other environmental poisons. Silymarin has not been investigated formally for all liver diseases but it is a safe substance and should not cause problems if used in a liver situation where its benefit is unproven. Conventional medicine accepts milk thistle as one of the few herbs with medicinal value.

In dogs, silymarin has been shown to be helpful in cases of Aminita mushroom toxicity and it was protective after carbon tetrachloride administration (both are situations are toxic liver diseases). A study published in the Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics found that milk thistle effectively treated liver dysfunction in Beagles.

Cushing’s disease
While milk thistle will not treat the cause of Cushing’s disease, it has a cortisol-lowering effect and can help protect the liver from the increased levels of cortisol.

Diabetes
Milk thistle may slightly reduce the insulin needs in diabetic dogs. One human study suggests a role for milk thistle in diabetes mellitus through its normalizing effects on red blood cells. The valuable antioxidants found in milk thistles have been reported in experimental and clinical studies to help decrease blood sugar levels in people with insulin resistance. It may also help prevent diabetic neuropathy, a common complication of the disease that causes degeneration of the nerves controlling the hind limbs, which consequently produces weakness and an abnormal gait.

Pancreatitis
It may also be beneficial in the treatment of pancreatitis—both to protect the liver from pancreatic inflammation and promote the flow of bile.

Cancer
This study suggests that the antioxidant effects of silymarin may have some anticancer effects. Researchers at Case Western University concluded from their work that silymarin possesses exceptionally high protective effects against tumor promotion. Some animal studies have shown that milk thistle could be useful for reducing the side effects of cancer treatments. Silibinin, one of the flavonoids, demonstrated antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects by inhibiting the release of hydrogen peroxide and the production of tumor necrosis factor alpha. Other studies indicate the flavonoids in milk thistle exert anticancer effects by arresting the G1 and S phases of the cell cycle. Generally well tolerated and considered safe in combination with most medications, there are limited concerns for combination with chemo-radiation therapy.

Allergies
The body produces histamine to handle allergies. The liver plays a key role in this process by removing the histamine from the body. However, if your dog’s liver is not up to par then it is unable to effectively process toxins and eliminate them from the body.

This can lead to more allergic reactions because the liver gets backed up with toxins and histamines causing build-up in the body.

Detox the liver and the allergy symptoms may subside as a result.

Promotes Brain Health
Milk thistle has been found to help improve cognitive function. Researchers suggest that silymarin’s antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties may protect your brain from damage caused by free radicals. Milk thistle has been shown to increase resistance to oxidative stress which may help improve cognition and treat degenerative conditions that affect the mind.

Kidney Disease

Silymarin has been shown to reduce drug-induced kidney toxicity that leads to kidney failure in dogs.

Other Benefits
Milk thistle should be considered as an aid to healing after drug therapy, vaccinations, and infections such as canine parvovirus and leptospirosis.

Check out my full blog on how to add Milk Thistle to your dog's supplement list. Link is in the comments below ⬇️

01/07/2024

Do you need help with Dog food or a jacket so you can keep your dog at home with you?
If so pls pm me
Jen 🐕

We all know the cost of living is both challenging for us and our families and sadly in Victoria 100s of dogs are being abandoned at pounds weekly as families are struggling to feed themselves forcing many to make the heartbreaking decisions to surrender or abandon their
dogs 😢

At Australian K9 Rescue Vic we work with many community outreach programs to donate Dog food to help midigate this to alleviate pressure to those in need and ensure their dogs can stay with their families without the financial pressure of needing to purchase dog food while they are struggling .

We are actively searching for community groups that are needing assistance in Victoria who has families with dogs in need

If you are currently running an outreach / pantry program and would like to know more please feel free to contact our page via message

29/06/2024