The Pet Diet

04/05/2025

My canine enrichment herb garden book is well underway and should be ready shortly. It covers everything you will need to know about designing and planting an enrichment space, which herbs to use, adding in texture and other sensory items, plus I touch on canine anatomy and physiology to understand what is actually happening as they interact with the area, and importantly, how you will benefit too.
I am hoping to offer a short course to accompany the book. Please comment below if that is something you would be interested in.

26/03/2025

SPRING TITRE CLINICS - Friday 4th April (2 SPACES REMAIN!) & Saturday 3rd May

***Bookings for Independent Pet Co on 3rd May must come through me please on [email protected] from 1st April***

I have 2 titre clinics coming up this Spring. As always I will be at the Independent Pet Co in Weston Super Mare in May - Saturday 3rd May this year. And I will be running a new clinic at Shop Raw North Devon in April - Friday 4th April.

Both clinics are offering titre testing at £60 per dog. Bookings are taken by the respective locations, not through me. Payment is in advance by BACS, or by cash on the day by prior agreement. See each event link below for more info.

Shop Raw North Devon:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1124533169212381?post_id=1133384784993886&acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22home%22%7D%2C%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22footer_attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

Independent Pet Co:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1597442474272869/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22search%22%7D%2C%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

Test then Treat.
Stay Healthy, Stay Happy.
Vx

26/03/2025

The art of doing nothing is an important skill to learn.

When rescue Lab Violet arrived, she was completely wired and didn`t know how to settle. She would pace the whole time and barely sit or lie down. When she finally crashed in the evening, you dared not move for fear of setting her off again. It was unpleasant for her and very stressful to live with.

Dogs are not supposed to be "switched on" and overstimulated all the time, and this particularly applies to high-drive, working breeds.

While it is valuable to train, exercise, and do fun stuff with our dogs, it is also essential that they have an off switch.

More Being, less doing. Maybe we could learn a valuable lesson from that, too, and be better role models for our dogs.

🪴The enrichment garden will help us and our dogs do just that.

25/03/2025

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11/03/2025

Looking forward to following this

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Sharing life with our dogs through herbs, gardening, nature & foraging.

26/02/2025

A guide to the most popular joint supplements to help you spend your money wisely.

Joint supplements are the most popular addition to a dogs diet, and rightly so as we loose alot of these naturally occurring nutrients when we feed a processed diets.

Giant and large breeds and working dogs can benefit from joint supplements too.

There is a clear winner below !

24/12/2024

Merry Christmas to you all and you four legged friends. Thank you for trusting me with their health and well being this year, its never taken for granted and I hope we can continue working together to reach optimal health in 2025 !

03/11/2024

🐾 🤩 Super excited to announce that I have teamed up once again with the very lovely canine nutritionist, Katie McCaul who will be talking all about “fussy” dogs and dogs who are not food motivated alongside all aspects of appropriate canine nutrition.

Katie’s knowledge and insight is huge and she offers a wealth of practical information and advice.
Those who attended the first talk held, when I also owned Calne Pet Supplies, couldn’t believe how much they had learnt and how much there was to learn.

What we feed our dogs and our understanding of what our dogs need, has changed enormously in the last ten years. There is a mind boggling array of foods available but it is so important to look beyond the marketing.

I’m passionate about canine nutrition - it affects everything from day-to-day health to behaviour, potential lifespan to the ability to listen, risk of disease to the ability to switch off and relax and so much more.
This is an incredible opportunity to be able to access sound, impartial facts, ask questions and improve your own knowledge.

There will also be details of a special offer for a 45 minute 1:1 zoom consultation with Katie for anyone attending.

This is not yet on my website so to reserve your place, please book using the direct link below:

https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=25269955&appointmentType=70442528