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A Balanced Canine LLC

9+ Years!📍DE • DC | Karen Pryor Academy-Canine Training and behavior
Cert Canine & Feline Nutritionist - College of Integrative Veterinary Therapies

11/10/2025

$400 in donations, and 8 families helped so far! Let’s keep this going, financial reasons are among the most common reasons pets are rehomed!

11/06/2025

Pet Food Assistance Funnel ‼️

So far $400 has been donated to the Pet Food Assistance Funnel and 8 families have been helped!

Financial constraints are one of the most common reasons pets are rehomed. With snap benefits lapsing more than 42 million Americans are currently struggling to feed their families. This Pet Food Assistance Funnel has the potential to help so many families in need right now by taking one more financial stressor off their plate and potentially helping to keep pets in their homes!

If you are in need of pet food assistance please follow this link, it is anonymous, it does require an email address so I can deliver the egift card with Chewy to you. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfXv-z9tUkLDAhyJzBaLuhIEZ9rod9acxIZ6p95DAatdp1HLw/viewform?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwN5zlpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAafq8xB6xKICAvV2wjO1bLiaCHHZM4xkj-PxH-lLD0HgduimxoDyFB3e1yBYgw_aem_Q652KArgRIHBk5Ca3CcytA

If you are in a position to contribute please follow this link and then donate what you would like here: https://venmo.com/u/abalancedcanine
Once your funds have been allocated, I will email you a receipt.

If you would like to help, but cannot donate funds, please share this post so we can get it in front of as many eyes as possible!

11/04/2025

FOOD ASSISTANCE FUNNEL - Need Help? Able to donate?

42 Million Americans have lost access to food assistance, while many Americans struggle to figure out how to feed their families, pet food should not also have to weigh heavily on their minds. One of the biggest reasons pets are rehomed is due to financial constraints related to medical care, training and food costs. In times like these it’s important to remember that a fed pet is the best pet. The ability to feed pets whole foods is a privilege and one not available to everyone.
If you need pet food assistance, please add your email address below, and whether you have a cat or dog or both - no questions asked - a virtual gift card to a pet food store will be provided.
If you have the ability to donate, please submit whether you would like to make a one time donation or a monthly donation - send the amount you can donate to Venmo, as well as your email address and a receipt will be provided to verify that your donation was distributed. Your donation will go to an anonymous person in need, this will be in the form of a virtual gift card to a pet food store.

If you are donating - Please give us a few days to organize money and needs, CHECK SPAM FOLDERS!
Send Money to: on Venmo with “PFD” in the description.

Minimum gift card amounts on chewy are $25, please donate whatever you are able to, even if it is less than that amount, every little bit helps, we will combine donations from multiple people if needed. The minimum gift card amount provided to each person will be $25, more if possible.

FILL OUT THE FORM TO DONATE OR FOR ASSISTANCE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfXv-z9tUkLDAhyJzBaLuhIEZ9rod9acxIZ6p95DAatdp1HLw/viewform?usp=header

If you apply for assistance I cannot guarantee assistance, it will depend on how many people we can get this in front of and how many donations we can collect, but I will do my very best to get assistance for those who apply! Please share this, comment resources for others below, and if you would like to collaborate on this please reach out, the more people who see this the more people that we can help!

Check Caption for resources!

11/01/2025

Last week, a veterinary social media influencer shared a video of a dog "gulping" chunks of a raw diet, including what looked like chicken wings, small drumsticks, and other typical raw meal components. She criticized the video for showing a dog not "chewing" his food, implying that chewing kibble was better for the dog.

Newsflash 1: (except for anyone who had cleaned up vomitus from a kibble-fed dog) Dogs do not chew kibble!

Newsflash 2: Dogs are not biologically designed to chew their food! Compare the dentition of a dog, with its sharp, pointed teeth, to that of a cow, with flat molars that grind when the cow first ingests grass, hay, silage, etc. And then re-grinds it when the how regurgitates it to chew its cud.

Newsflash 3: Dogs produce copious amounts of saliva, to lubricate the passage of chunks of food (meat) for swallowing. Animals designed to chew produce less, but mix it into their food by chewing and grinding the food to a small particle size.

Newsflash 4: None of this info is pointed out, in even the most casual way, in most veterinary programs. So please do NOT troll anyone who does not know this! It's not their fault, but rather that of the educational system that fails to promote feeding an animal in accordance with their biology. Zoo veterinarians get it, feeding the varied species they care for appropriately. Even pet stores get it, stocking everything from mice to crickets to other biologically appropriate foods for exotic pets they sell. Yet we still nutritionally abuse our dogs and cats with kibble/dry foods. And they pay the price in more illnesses, poor dental health, and chronic health conditions. We pay the price in higher vet bills.

It needs to stop. When you know better, you can do better.

10/31/2025

Premade Fresh Food brands for Dogs with IBD

IBD can be very limiting, particularly when we are dealing with a variety of food sensitives as well. I do prefer to make balanced IBD recipes as fat is not the only component to pay close attention to, we also need to watch potassium, Vitamin K, fiber, EPA & DHA and other nutrients. The diet parameters for Pancreatitis and IBD are not the same, that being said, for some pet owners that are desperate for a premade fresh food I have seen success in some cases with the diets mentioned above.

ABalancedCanine.net/nutrition-counseling

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10/27/2025

Understanding Sarcopenia in Dogs & Cats - How Nutrition can help 🥩

Both dogs & cats can also experience age-related Sarcopenia just like people. As our pets age it becomes particularly important that we focus on supplying anti-inflammatory, highly digestible food, particularly more minimally processed, animal based dietary protein, not less.

While focusing on the diet, don’t forget exercise which will be equally important in maintaining healthy muscle mass, get those pets moving! If you notice reduced movement in your pet, assess their pain and look at what changes you can make to their diet and what supplements can be included to soothe discomfort and encourage movement.
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10/21/2025

Emergency Kit for HUA Dalmatians

Emergency kits are needed for a wide variety of purposes; natural disasters, evacuations, etc. While having a ready-to-go back is a great idea for ANY household, having one for HUA dogs can be particularly important. Not only does it take one less thing off your plate, for an HUA dog it may also be the difference between a blockage or not.

This was a question that came in our weekly story Q&A on Instagram and was the topic of our 10th newsletter this week as well! We don’t always turn these into posts and blog articles so if you have a Dalmatian make sure you’re signed up for The Dal Hub (a FREE HUA & LUA resource- link in bio)

Cert. Canine & Feline Nutritionist
Food Therapy & Disease Management Diets
ABalancedCanine.net/nutrition-counseling
International Help available ☎️

09/24/2025

Meet Jasper, our 7yo HUA Dalmatian client!

Jasper’s progress has been fast and remarkable, this is an impressive turnaround within a 2 month time frame, but it was not without its hiccups! On top of Jasper’s various conflicting health conditions which made diet formulation limiting, he is also an extremely finicky eater and it took a lot of patience and dedication on his owner’s part, and tweaks on our end to find a combination that worked for him and that he would also choose to eat. Jasper is doing very well and much to his owner’s relief, enjoying his current meals lol. In HUA diets, a large portion of eggs is often used to contribute essential vitamins and minerals and a low purine protein source, however eggs are not appropriate in diets formulated to resolve high cholesterol which required a lot of creativity on our end, healthy unrenedered fats are often a macronutrient we lean into on HUA diets to avoid a high carb load or excessively high protein, that was also not possible on this diet, this was a very specific and unique set of diet parameters!

Jasper still has some weight to lose which we will continue to monitor but he is doing very well and his owner has an even noted in improvement in his mood and energy levels, Jasper’s vet is also very pleased with his progress on his new diet!

09/20/2025

Save this Seasonal Shopping List for your next trip 🛒
What is in-season can change depending on your area! Check out the website below to see what’s in-season near you!

*Remember that while dogs can benefit from these - think a paw’s worth or less at a time of veg and fruit should just be a few small pieces - cats are obligate carnivores and as such would benefit more from a meat topper-

SeasonalFoodGuide.org

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09/17/2025

Evolutionary biologist Anjali Goswami calls cats “evolutionarily perfect” because they’ve mastered one ecological role so completely that little about them has changed for millions of years.

From tiny housecats to lions and tigers, felines remain nearly identical in form, with skulls so similar that experts can hardly tell them apart.

Unlike bears, which evolved into varied diets and lifestyles, cats specialize as sleek, solitary hunters.

Their evolutionary stasis reflects not weakness but success: refining a design so effective that rivals can’t outcompete it. Evolution doesn’t always favor variety, sometimes it rewards perfection in one role.

09/15/2025

Answering YOUR questions - Oma’s PrideAlthough not one of my top choices, I do like Oma’s Pride. As far as ingredients go, their recipes are less whole-focused than I prefer, their blends include a long list of supplementation, produce is not exclusively organic. The positives are that the meats are antibiotic & hormone free although they are not pasture-raised (pasture-raised meats will increase the cost of food). This is a small company and they do have some unique products that I love like the Ground Ocean Blend and freeze-dried lung treats! The cat blends “Purr Complete” are also PMR style which is a plus!••••

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