Happygoluckypaws

07/04/2025

Get Ready for Our Flea & Tick Prevention Series! 🐾🌲

With warmer weather right around the corner, it's the perfect time to start thinking about protecting your pet from fleas, ticks, and heart-worm. 🦟 So, we're excited to launch our Flea & Tick Prevention Series, featuring a team of experts—including veterinarians, herbalists, and scientists—who will provide you with everything you need to keep your pet safe and healthy this season.

Kicking off this Sunday on the Inside Scoop:

We’re starting the series with essential tips on both chemical and natural prevention options. Whether you're looking for safer chemical solutions or effective natural remedies, our experts will help you make the best choices for your pet's well-being.

In this first episode, you’ll discover:

🦟 Best to Worst Chemical Preventives: What works, what to avoid, and the safest options for your pet.
🦟 Top Natural Strategies: DIY repellents, essential oils, ultrasonic devices, amber collars, and more.
🦟 Combining Chemical and Natural Solutions: How to effectively mix both methods when necessary for maximum protection.
🦟 Detoxing After Chemical Use: Supplements and protocols to minimize and prevent adverse reactions after using chemical preventives.

This is just the beginning! Over the next several weeks, we’ll continue bringing in expert insights on various aspects of flea and tick prevention.

Be sure to join us today at 12pm ET for expert advice from our panel of veterinarians across California, Florida, Arizona, and New York. Each vet will share region-specific insights—from year-round prevention in Florida to managing tick-heavy areas like New York. 🌎

Comment “SCOOPERS” and we’ll send you the link to join Inside Scoop, a Planet Paws monthly subscription group. Enjoy access to all live podcasts, plus over 5 years of content, including past live podcasts, interviews, ebook downloads, and more!

SUPPLEMENTS FOR GENERAL CHEMICAL DETOX (AND TO HELP PREVENT ADVERSE REACTIONS)

Give once a day for a week following pesticide ingestion or application (use concurrently when giving pesticides):

• Milk Thistle: 100 mg per 10 lbs
• GABA (gamma aminobutyric acid): 100 mg per 20 lbs
• N-acetyl cysteine (NAC): 100 mg per 10 lbs
• SOD (superoxide dismutase): 50 mg per 10 lbs
• Glutathione: 100 mg per 10 lbs
• DHA & EPA: 340 mg per 10 lbs

07/04/2025

Mr. Cosmo is joining Happygoluckypaws crew.

It's his first social group walk and this was 2 weeks ago

Apart from me and Cosmo have the best teachers which is all his friends that will guide him to be a confident puppy.

I communicate with Cosmo's mum to see how he is after the walk on that day, his mum said he was fine. I am so glad to hear this.

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07/04/2025

Mr. Cosmo is joining Happygoluckypaws crew.

It's his first social group walk and this was 2 weeks ago

Apart from me and Cosmo have the best teachers which is all his friends that will guide him to be a confident puppy.

INTERESTED IN JOINING OUR SOCIAL DOG WALKS?
CONTACT EVELINA

28/03/2025

26/03/2025

Run for longer ❓ Walk faster ⏱️Throw that ball for longer ⚽
When is enough, enough ....because these dogs just won't stop!
We can inadvertently "feed" these dogs insatiable need for movement and exercise.
With the best of intentions we think we are helping to tire them out when many times all we are doing is creating a dog with incredible stamina that is hooked into an adrenaline fueled cycle that we have inadvertently created.
Is a tired dog a "good" dog or are they just physically exhausted and when they wake the never ending loop begins all over again.
In the comments is a bit of an eye opening video that can help you and your dog get out of this eternal cycle.

This dog training graphic is available through https://www.abcdogsnz.com/product-page/abc-dogs-nz-no-off-switch?srsltid=AfmBOoqRXrHNX4oxzH-bYYeoaaKQcVPsbWY2uexEDsXNXes4WBbXJi4-

24/03/2025

RAW V DRY, WHICH IS SAFER?!! COME ON, YOU'RE NOT STILL ASKING THAT...
There are studies out there showing some raw dog foods can be higher in bacteria you wish weren't in there. No doubt. And those companies should be dealt with the same way as any other food company. Because it's never OK.

Hazardous microbiological contamination can be avoided with good sourcing, good manufacturing and good storage practices, as the majority of other raw dog food manufacturers are clearly showing us.

Yes, fresh food can harbour nasties - carrots and leafy greens lay out 100's of us a year - it's not a reason to avoid them in favour of.....what's a nutritious food product made by Mars or Nestle for humans?!! Answers on a postcard....it's a reason to clean up the food chain.

And remember, as ever, you have to choose your monster. Vets, if you're going to scare folk away from fresh food, where are you sending them to? Do dry food?! On what basis would that be?!!

To recap where dry food is in the debate:

A recent study of healthy dry-fed dogs found they house MORE species of E.coli and in greater abundance in their faeces and around their a**s than raw-fed dogs.

This stands to reason - studies show raw feeding promotes gut health. It feeds a more healthy gut biome, reducing gut dysbiosis and Clostridium species.

I mean, did you know that, unlike raw dog food, authors have isolated the same species of drug-resistant Campylobacter jejuni from a dog fed a commercial dry diet as detected in a girl infected with the same species.

And as ever, recalls for Salmonella in dry dog food dwarf those in raw. From 2020-2023, dry food accounted for 99% of the pet food recalled (by weight) for Salmonella in the US, despite it only being 59% of the market.

A study in 2022 analysed 162 dry and canned pet foods and found Salmonella in 41% of brands (and 64% contained Listeria!).

Worse again, just a year later, a study in 2023 analysed 35 EU dry pet foods and found that 100% of the dry dog foods were contaminated with pathogenic bacteria. The presence of Coliform bacteria is one measure of a product's quality. You don't want too much of them. Coliform bacteria were present in 52% of the grain-free dry foods analysed and 67% of the grain-containing dry foods! Staphylococcus spp. were found in >9% of both types of dry food. 17% of dry foods tested positive for Clostridium. And E.coli? Well, 43% of grain free pet foods and 33% of the grain-containing foods failed for that too.

One third.

So, I can say with some surety, dry dog food too has some MAJOR microbiological concerns and with not so much as a dickie bird from the likes of the BVA or RCVS, people are going to get harmed by these products.

In fact, in the US alone (as they're the only ones really trying to record it...), from 2006-2016, dry-fed dogs poisoned 140 people, half of them TODDLERS under two years of age.

Never mentioned by vets or mainstream media that one.

In that time exactly ZERO people were harmed by raw dog food.

Just last year the CDC said another 7 cases of humans getting food poisoned across 6 states - all dry dog food again, all toddlers.

And lest we forget, our side has the retrospective safety studies in our pockets, not dry dog food supporters. The most important work in that regard found 3 potential cases of food poisoning across 16,750 households (that is over their lifetime, thus millions of dog meals). In other words, that is a vanishing small risk, smaller than say, the risk of consuming raw carrots in the UK

A similar work containing more than 2000 homes in New York verified these figures almost exactly. That is a vanishingly rare instance of cross-contamination. No such safety analysis has ever been conducted on dry dog food.

And this is just the microbiology.

Can we talk about excess mineral toxicity events? Do you know how rife aflatoxin is in cereal-based pet food?! Did you hear that concentrations above the MAXIMUM TOLERABLE LIMIT for aluminum (32% of dog foods tested, 11% of cat foods), mercury (100% of dog foods, 86% of cat foods), lead (81% of dog food, 32% of cat food), uranium (96% of dog food, 86% of cat food), and vanadium (75% of dog food, 29% of cat food) has been found in many brands?

On and on and on.

And, as ever, why is nobody talking about the fact tens of thousands of pets have died eating the stuff over the last few decades alone? Complete raw has killed less than 10.

Looking forward to hitting South Africa next week to set the record straight.

24/03/2025

I made this fuelled on oxytocin whilst handrearing a Twig 😂 we expect so much of puppies and take them away from everything they know and expect them to fit in our world with minimal fuss. In reality, we should be striving to understand and meet their needs as actually it’s not that difficult if you have the right mindset ❤️

21/03/2025

Watching.👀
Sometimes waiting for hours on end ⚠️
Scanning, fixating and then 💥back to their favourite spot again to wait and wait👀.
Window reactivity is a highly problematic behaviour.
It can add more "fuel" to anxiousness and if you have a reactive dog (leash reactive, fear reactive, over excited etc), it can negatively impact the work you are putting in elsewhere.
Some people view this behaviour as fun, a game for their dog, its "entertaining" for them....unfortunately it is a "game" that can have far reaching consequences into other areas of their life.
There is a video in the comments about how to help this as it can be a slippery slope indeed.
This dog training graphic (and over 130 more) available from https://www.abcdogsnz.com/product-page/barking-through-windows-abc-dogs-nz-dog-training-handouts

13/03/2025

11/03/2025

The Fart Examination …

10/03/2025

🄼🅾🄽🅳🄰🆈 🅼🄸🅽🄳🆂🄴🆃 🧬🤓

𝑭𝒂𝒔𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒂𝒔𝒄𝒊𝒂 ….. 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒚 𝒔𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒎 !
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒌𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒏𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒍’𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉!

Over the last few weeks I have talked about 𝐛i𝐨f𝐢e𝐥d𝐬, energy fields around the body, but energy is within the body as well, we just don’t realize it!😲

Okay so your animal has bones, muscles and ligaments, and everyone understands that but what many don’t know is that there is this amazing web of connective tissue called Fascia ! An often-overlooked structure, fascia plays a key role in holding our bodies together. Fascia is a connective tissue that surrounds and supports muscles, bones, organs, and other structures within the body. It is composed of collagen, elastin, and other proteins, forming a web-like structure that provides structural integrity and helps transmit mechanical forces throughout the body.

𝙊𝙪𝙧 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙡’𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙜 𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙣𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙢! ⚡️ Together, the lay of the muscles, and the surrounding fascia serve as the wiring system for the body, moving electricity and fluid throughout the body.🐕

As explained by world-renowned physician, Dr. Jerry Tennant in his book titled, 𝑯𝙚𝒂𝙡𝒊𝙣𝒈 𝒊𝙨 𝙑𝒐𝙡𝒕𝙖𝒈𝙚: 𝑻𝙝𝒆 𝑯𝙖𝒏𝙙𝒃𝙤𝒐𝙠, 📚 to heal, we must make new cells. Every cell in the body is designed to run at -20 to -25 millivolts. To make a new cell requires -50 millivolts. Chronic disease occurs when voltage drops below -20 and/or you cannot achieve -50 millivolts to make new cells. Thus, chronic disease is always defined by having low voltage. So there is a lot to energy , that we have to be thankful for! 🙌

𝙁𝒂𝙨𝒄𝙞𝒂 𝒂𝙣𝒅 𝒎𝙤𝒗𝙚𝒎𝙚𝒏𝙩 – 𝙥𝒂𝙞𝒏 𝒂𝙣𝒅 𝒓𝙚𝒔𝙩𝒓𝙞𝒄𝙩𝒊𝙤𝒏 𝒂𝙣𝒅 𝒗𝙤𝒍𝙩𝒂𝙜𝒆
30-40% of force generated by muscle, is a result of its surrounding and supportive fascia. Fascia can change in viscosity and flexibility, and electroconductivity which in turn affects movement. Fascia has latitudinal and longitudinal connections as slings, sheets and connections of areolar tissue. An understanding of fascial lines allows us to help map out the source of any issues and then by releasing the fascia at key locations, we can improve circulation, electroconductivity and help the muscle move more freely.

The fascial planes often line up exactly with acupuncture channels, at both superficial and deep levels. These channels also connect Qi ( energy lines in the body ) and organising centres. Fascia is composed of collagen, which means it generates an electric charge with mechanical stress.🏇💫

Our bodies and our animal’s bodies have mechanical stress all the time from gravity, movement and exercise, and the electrical charge generated through the collagen keeps our bones strong.💪

To understand that fascia relates to the entire body can also help us understand referred pain when one area of the body is injured it can affect other areas as the force acting on those tissues can be distributed and offset another area ~”𝐞n𝐞r𝐠y b𝐥o𝐜k𝐬”. The importance of this union of fascia throughout the body is also reflected by the term ‘myofascial’. Dysfunction in the fascia can cause trigger points, areas of tightening and pain due to the nociceptors within the fascia. Nociceptors trigger the pain pathway and become highly sensitized once this cycle has begun and can become a chronic condition.

The best way of interacting with the body’s fascial energy is through energy therapy, and this can be done in many ways, but touch and gentle touch in itself, is quite powerful. What we are doing is harnessing the body’s natural bioelectricity to supercharge the natural healing process. It stimulates fascia to increase energy flow and ultimately increasing functional movement.

Working to release fascia reduces tension and the perception of pain, ( through the sensitization of the nociceptors) So not only does fascia play a physical role but due to its ability to trigger pain can result in changes in animal behavior as a consequence.

Therefore, having a wider appreciation of the intricacies of our and animal's bodies, can provide new avenues to help particularly around chronic pain and other degenerative conditions. 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐮𝐩!
🙏🥰🤠

09/03/2025

Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of behavior cases where dogs are hyperactive and overly responsive to all kinds of stimuli in their environment. This often points to a lack of self-regulation and an inability to assimilate and integrate sensory information to produce adaptive behavior. In my experience, these cases usually stem from two possible causes (which can sometimes overlap):

𝟏. 𝐀 𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐩𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠.
This can happen in two ways: either through a philosophy of raising a dog as freely as possible, without boundaries or limitations, or by focusing on obedience and impulse control to achieve adaptive behavior. Often, these two approaches blend to some extent. However, neither truly guides a dog toward self-regulation. The result can be a hyperactive dog who struggles to cope with the flood of sensory stimuli in everyday life.

𝟐. 𝐀 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬—𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲.
From what I’ve observed, digestive issues seem more likely to contribute to this than problems in the musculoskeletal system. That said, chronic health conditions can sometimes lead to a paradoxical situation: a high degree of self-regulation, yet still failing to regulate effectively.

I might need a webinar to dive deeper into this topic. 🤔

09/03/2025

Has your dog growled recently? Growling isn't a bad thing- in fact it's vital! This is your dog's way of telling you there is something up. Always listen to them and never punish for it. Listen to what they are saying. With special thanks to The Dog Guy on this one.

06/03/2025

🍫🦪PEARL NEEDS A FOSTER 🦪🍫

Did you know there is now an oyster emoji?

Me either....

Now back to this sweet chocolate baby named Pearl.

Pearl is coming from a puppy farm. Now while to a 5 year old, a puppy farm sounds like a magical place where there a fields and fields of free range, organic puppies, playing in fountains under rainbows 🌈

Snap back down to reality and it's a cruel and barbaric place. Puppy farms are rows and rows 9f dirty, filthy cages stacks in top of each other. The dogs are confined their entire lives, living in their own excrement and losing their muscles over time as they atrophy in the tiny, dark, cramped conditions.

Their only use? Their uterus.

Pumping out puppies like a vending machine so you can have your "teacup jackipoo" or your "3rd gen cavoodle". Once their uterus is riddled with infection or can no longer produce puppies, they are discarded like trash.

Pearl is a product of one of these evil yet very prevalent places.

Little to no socialisation.
Not been raised with love or care.
Not been able to run and play and jump all over her mother.

Ripped away and shoved in those pet shop glass boxes for someone with impulse issues to purchase.

We are looking for a quiet home with another dog (similar breed preferred) to help Pearl come out her shell and experience life the way it should be.

Eastern coast of Victoria, NSW or SEQ. We can not get transport to inland regions sadly.

To foster Pearl please email [email protected]

04/03/2025

📢 Stérilisation des chiens : ce que la science nous apprend aujourd’hui ! 🐕❌

Suite aux nombreuses discussions récentes sur la castration et la stérilisation, voici plus d’informations sur les recommandations actuelles de la WASAVA et les pratiques modernes concernant la gestion de la reproduction chez les chiens.

🔬 Les faits :

La castration des chiens en bonne santé doit cesser. Les recherches montrent que la gonadectomie (ablation des ovaires ou testicules) peut entraîner de nombreux problèmes de santé, notamment des troubles orthopédiques, des cancers et des déséquilibres hormonaux.

La stérilisation n’est pas forcément synonyme de castration. Des techniques alternatives existent :
✅ Vasectomie : permet de stériliser sans perturber les hormones.
✅ Hystérectomie : enlève l’utérus tout en préservant les hormones naturelles.

💡 Si votre vétérinaire ne propose pas ces options, il est peut-être temps de chercher un spécialiste qui les pratique. Voici un lien pour en trouver un : https://www.ebvs.eu/specialists #

⚠️ Et encore, je n’ai même pas abordé les risques liés à ces interventions chirurgicales abdominales majeures…

🔗 Lisez mon dernier article pour en savoir plus ! https://drvictoria.vet/blog/evolutions-dans-la-pratique-de-la-castration-et-sterilisation-chez-le-chien

➡️ Partagez votre expérience en commentaire.
Votre chien a-t-il subi une castration ?
Avez-vous observé des effets secondaires ?

04/03/2025

When all the dogs come and show the part of their body that needs some

This is a complementary offer for all my furry clients.


INTERESTED IN JOINING OUR SOCIAL DOG WALKS.
PLEASE CONTACT Evelina

03/03/2025

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