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12/16/2025

Great information! The more we know as pet owners, the better choices we can make for our situations and pets health.

Check Your Probiotic Label for Enterococcus Faecium!🦠

Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest health threats in the world. It happens when bacteria learn how to survive antibiotics, making infections harder, or sometimes impossible, to treat. This problem affects people, animals, and the environment, which is why it is called a One Health issue.

While Enterococcus faecium SF68 itself is often characterized as safe, genomic safety evaluations of SF68 indicate that it has not acquired the important resistance determinants that are most problematic in clinical antibiotic-resistant Enterococcus strains. However, Enterococcus faecium as a species is known to be capable of acquiring and carrying antibiotic-resistance genes, especially on mobile elements like plasmids and transposons that can spread between bacteria.

Because of this, scientists are looking for ways to reduce antibiotic use. Probiotics are often suggested as one option because they can support gut health and may reduce the need for antibiotics. However, there is an important concern. Some probiotics may carry antibiotic resistance genes that bacteria can pass to one another.

Researchers in a new peer-reviewed study published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science, tested 10 popular probiotic products for dogs and cats. They examined whether the bacteria in these products resisted common antibiotics and whether they carried genes that cause antibiotic resistance. A total of 19 different antibiotic resistance genes were found across the products. Bacteria in a pet’s gut can share these resistance genes with harmful bacteria, which can make future infections in pets, and potentially in people, harder to treat.

Enterococcus faecium, a strain clinically proven to treat diarrhea, was the most frequently used probiotic species in pet products. It also carried the highest number of resistance genes and showed a higher potential risk. Some products tested showed resistance to antibiotics used in both veterinary and human medicine.

The bottom line is that probiotics are not automatically safe just because they are natural. This is one reason it may be important to rotate between different probiotic products and strains, and to avoid long-term use of strains like enterococcus faecium to help reduce the risk of spreading antibiotic resistance genes.

The researchers recommend stronger testing requirements for pet probiotics similar to those used for livestock, screening probiotic strains before they reach the market, and avoiding strains that carry resistance genes, especially those that can spread easily.

12/16/2025

Good morning from the ranch!

12/15/2025

Beware of these products that are dangerous for pets.

12/14/2025

I’ve not had to pony a horse often in my time of having or riding horses.
I’m doing fine on our property, although being mostly a 2 handed rider sometimes the extra rope is cumbersome. That said, I’m working on my 1 handed skills more but it’s still semi cumbersome in the learning phase. Thankfully both these ponies are amazing and calm. Suggestions welcome!

12/14/2025

Did you know kibble fed dogs (and cats) need Whole Foods?

If your pet doesn’t already get Whole Foods in their diet, here’s great information as to why it’s important .

This information from Planet Paws and Rodney Habib.

HERE’S WHY IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO ADD FRESH “HUMAN FOOD” TO YOUR PET’S KIBBLE

Today, ninety-six percent of pet owners around the globe are feeding dry commercial pet foods. Of those 96%, there is a large majority that believes dried commercial pet food is really all their pet needs and would never stop to consider the benefits of adding fresh “human food”.

(“Human food” definition in this article: clean sources of meat-based proteins and some organic plant matter, not beer and nachos 😉)

There are many reasons why some of these pet parents feel this way, however the most popular reason today seems to be the 50-year-old rumor that is in existence and still spreading.

You know the one: “Giving your animal table scraps is bad!”

How or when did this terrible rumor start?

Well, if we go back in time, research shows that shortly after the invention of processed pet foods, manufacturers were having a hard time convincing pet parents to make the switch from foods in their refrigerators to their commercial pet foods.

So in 1964, the pet food industry, along with the PFI, joined together with a whole bunch of marketing dollars and launched one of the most influential campaigns the pet world had ever seen: the “Ban All Table Scraps from your Pets’ Bowls” campaign!

Through thousands of newspapers, magazines, and news stations, the public was warned about the dangers of table food scraps or “human food” and the importance of feeding “processed” commercial pet food. From there, the giant smear campaign took off!

Not only did this clever campaign work, but it was so impactful that now, 50 years later, folks are still in fear of offering anything that is not labeled pet food.

SO IS IT A GOOD THING TO ONLY OFFER YOUR PET DRIED KIBBLE?

Not according to ongoing research it isn’t, especially with today’s cancer rates being 1 in 2 dogs!

In a 2005 study conducted at Purdue University on Scottish Terriers, the results showed that adding fresh vegetables to dry commercial kibble actually prevented and/or slowed down the development of transitional cell carcinoma (aka bladder cancer)!

In the study, dogs ate a diet of dry commercial pet food, while some got an assortment of vegetables added to the mix at least 3 times per week.

When the study was concluded, according to the researchers, they weren’t really shocked by the results.

Here’s what they found:

Dogs that ate any green leafy vegetables, like broccoli, had reduced the risk of developing bladder cancer by 90% and the dogs that consumed any yellow – orange vegetables like carrots reduced the risk by 70%!

Seriously! A lousy carrot helped smash the potential of cancer.

( http://ilarjournal.oxfordjournals.org/content/55/1/100.full ) (Raghavan, Knapp, Bonney, 2005) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/16013542/

Yes, of course cats are obligate carnivores (must have meat to survive) and our dogs are facultative carnivores (carnivores with omnivorous potential if circumstances demand) so offering clean meat-based protein sources should always be top priority and essential.

However, because today’s world is ever-so changing due to factory farmed livestock being fed genetically modified grains and our planet being contaminated with every type of pesticide, fungicide and larvicide, the importance of fresh, organic plant matter to help detox the body couldn’t be more crucial.

So if the “cancer reducing benefit” doesn’t tickle your fancy enough to convince you to add any “human fresh foods” to your pet’s bowl, then maybe think of it this way:

How bad would it suck if someone forced you to eat dry processed foods your whole lIfe?!

By: Rodney Habib

"An educated, informed and well-researched community of pet owners can only put more pressure on the pet food industry to be better! When pet owners know better, they will only do better!"

12/09/2025

Thank you to everyone who visited us and all the other vendors Summit Dog Training Winter Pet Market on Sunday. It was a great success and we loved meeting you and your pets. I truly could not have done this without the assistance of my sister Laura and friend, Elin!

We have some items that were on sale for the event and we decided to leave prices as marked until gone. Limited supply of the items so act fast to take advantage of the prices.

The items will be posted here over the next day or so. They can be delivered if in delivery zone, shipped at buyers expense or picked up here at the ranch.

We take Venmo, Zelle, PayPal and cash/check for those in person. Soon we will have card option available when the website is up for ordering!

Thank you for supporting a small business!

12/01/2025

Doing prep work for the 12/7 Winter Pet Market Summit Dog Training and Brick is doing his best not to steal his absolute favorite wheezy wrap- water buffalo trachea wrapped in lung made by Honey I’m Home. We will have these for purchase at the market!

11/26/2025

We are honored to be part of the Winter Pet Market at Summit Dog Training in Fort Collins on 12/7! This is our first public event for the ranch! We will have dog coats from Coats For A Cause, pet treats, toys and other items for sale!! Great specials that day to take advantage of for buying gifts for your pet or others!
Stop by to see everyone!