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08/23/2024

08/19/2024

Avery is still missing and they believe she took a flight to New York Please keep sharing her photos

08/17/2024

Avery is still missing. She never came home on 8/14. Please be on the lookout she was last seen in NWHouston area. Pray for her safe return home 🙏🏻

07/20/2024

Today marks 6 months since K9 Nala was senselessly and abruptly torn from her home and handler of over two years. This has been a difficult road, with many dreadful turns and twists along the way. We certainly hoped to have this resolved LONG LONG before this point. However, we remain faithful that we are fighting a fight worth while and we are still hopeful that we will successfully where she belongs.

Chris has been in touch with his attorneys, there is movement, the appeal process is moving forward with a pre-hearing meeting scheduled for early August. We want to thank you all for your continued love and support, it is greatly appreciated and it is making a difference. Attorney fees thus far are over $7300 and continuing to climb. So again a huge thank you to every donation, support via purchasing t-shirts, stickers etc.!

On that note, we will be sharing a beautiful handmade quilt in the comments and will share to the page as well. This was thoughtfully and generously made by Kristina Bordelon Pickens and is an approved fundraiser. You will be able to purchase tickets for a chance to win the quilt and proceeds will be donated directly to Chris to support the fight to Bring K9 Nala Home. *We will also note this when sharing to the page, but for any supporter wishing to buy a ticket(s) that isn’t local, we will cover the shipping to anywhere in the lower 48 states 🇺🇸*

Please continue to keep Nala in your prayers and our entire situation and pray that we soon will be able to 🙏💙🐾
Thank you all!

06/29/2024

Heat Alert reminder for folks in areas with Heats Waves predicted all weekend

Do NOT rely on keeping your AC turned on while away from your vehicle Some cars automatically shut down the AC to conserve gas

06/05/2024

So Excited to get this 😊 if you didn’t order a copy you should!
Rodney and Dr Becker did an amazing job!!

05/08/2024

Here's your updated herb🌿 & supplement💊 guide for raising the oldest dogs and cats in the world🐾. Obviously, there are many stellar herbs & supplements your pet can really benefit from, but these are the most popular in 2024 (and all we could fit on one page). These amazing powders support the body 🐕🧠🫁🫀👀🐈‍⬛ in many ways, so dose🥄 and frequency depend on your specific health goal.

For more herbs & supplements, DROP A ❤️ IN THE COMMENTS and we’ll message you the link to The Forever Dog LIFE where in "Chapter 2 - Forever Foods: the section titled ‘Herbs for Health’ we cover the best herbs & spices to include in your pet food toppers, treats, or meals, plus the benefits of blending herbs for the gut and which herbs to avoid🙅🏻‍♀️. Get your copy now and claim over $250 in digital FREEBIES, offer ends June 4th!

04/30/2024

Veggies are fantastic portable snacks for your dog when chopped and served raw, and they’re rich in fiber and nutrients. But some vegetables might be even better when cooked!🥕🫑

Here are a few to consider cooking up for your Forever Dog 🐶(or Cat 🐱!):

🥬Cooking makes the calcium in Spinach easier to absorb, and it decreases the oxalate content.

🌿Asparagus has tough cell walls, so cooking helps break them down - which makes its vitamins B9, C and E, and the flavonoid rutin (helpful for blood sugar metabolism) - more accessible.

🍄When mushrooms are cooked, the antioxidant ergothioneine is released. This helps protect against free radical damage.

🍅 Tomatoes are a rich source of lycopene (which stimulates apoptosis - the process that gets rid of cells whose time has passed), and cooking increases the amount of bioavailable lycopene by 50%. But on the flip side, cooking reduces the vitamin C content in tomatoes by 29%.

🥕The beta-carotene in carrots increases with cooking, for even better support of eyes and immune system.

🫑Bell peppers benefit from cooking to release antioxidants from the cell walls - but, just like tomatoes, the vitamin C content decreases with cooking

🌱Similar to bell peppers, the antioxidants in green beans are more available when they are cooked .

Whether raw or cooked, a variety of vegetables (all of them, except onions/leeks) and fruits (all of them, except grapes/raisins) build your pet’s microbiome, so it’s a smart move to feed the rainbow🌈. As part of complete and balanced meals, as treats, or as toppers, fruits and veggies provide crucial fiber and valuable polyphenols.

If your dog or cat isn’t a fan of raw veggies, gently cooking them just might be the gateway you need to introduce new foods to their diet!😻

💡Have a hard time getting your dog to eat veggies?😰 Comment and we’ll message you the link to our The Forever Dog LIFE book with easy recipes that will entice even the pickiest dog (or cat!). And when you get your copy today, head over to the Learning Lab where I make our leftover veggie longevity broth and show you an easy hack on how to get cooked vegetables into the diet of even the pickiest dog!

04/29/2024

WANT TO HELP YOUR DOG LIVE LONGER? Try these inexpensive, polyphenol-rich longevity teas for you and your dog (or cat)!🫖

According to scientists at the University of Helsinki, over 70% of dogs exhibit noise sensitivity, separation anxiety, aggression, fear, compulsive behavior, and other behaviors associated with stress and anxiety.😿

Thankfully, one group of herbs🌿 known as adaptogens has proven to soothe and relax the nerves thereby reducing stress. Animal studies also show they are neuroprotective, and have anti-fatigue and anti-depressive activity. Additional studies have found that by regulating the body’s stress response, these powerful compounds can help reduce the effects of aging and may increase longevity. Researchers found one adaptogen, chamomile🌼, was associated with a 29% decrease of all-cause mortality!

🍵Using these herbs to make medicinal teas for our dog or cat is an inexpensive and easy way to create polyphenol-rich toppers (“gravies”) that infuse longevity benefits into every meal!

This is why we created this Calming Tea from our new book, The Forever Dog LIFE, using these three powerful herbs that you can share with your dog and enjoy as well:

🍃 Holy basil, aka tulsi, a potent adaptogen has been found to protect organs and tissues from physical stress including excessive noise, as well as from chemical stress from pollutants and heavy metals.

🍃 Lemon balm has been shown to reduce anxiety, especially when combined with other calming herbs like chamomile. High in flavonoids like quercetin, its high antioxidant activity has been show to protect against oxidative stress and the progression of degenerative diseases. In animal studies, lemon balm was found to have potent neuroprotective properties.

🍃 Chamomile contains a flavonoid, apigenin, that studies have shown significantly lower symptoms of anxiety and depression. In both human and animal studies, compounds in chamomile have benefits ranging from being anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial to potentially reducing the growth of cancer.

🙌For more ways to add longevity benefits to your pet's bowl, comment and we’ll message you the link to our new book where starting on page 149 in the section “Teas, Straight Up”, we take you through other powerful herbal combinations to make TUMMY Tea, COGNITION Tea, DETOX Tea and more! PLUS you’ll find a section on Herbs for Health where we cover important herbs and why you might want add them to your pet’s diet, along with dosages and recipe ideas.

04/15/2024

02/12/2024

02/10/2024

🏈 Alright, everybody, here's the Game Plan:

Aggieland Humane is partnering with Best Friends Animal Society to bring you FREE adoptions for Puppy Bowl XX! This adoption special kicks off tomorrow, February 7th, and runs through Wednesday, February 14th.

Get your game face on and check out our adoptable pets here: https://aggielandhumane.org/adopt-a-pet/

So, who are you recruiting to your team? 🐶🐱

𝘈 𝘱𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘺 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥/𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘍𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘺 14𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭.

02/04/2024

05/28/2023

Ready or not, the heat is here. 🥵

And if we know anything about Texas, it will only get hotter. So, we want to remind all pet owners that the heat is dangerous to our pets.

Here are 4 quick tips to keep your pet safe, happy, and healthy as the temps soar. It's National Heat Awareness Day, so don't forget to share with all your pet-loving friends!

10/01/2022

08/09/2022

06/25/2022

Recall Alert 🚨

Freshpet Voluntarily Recall

Freshpet Inc. is announcing a voluntary recall of a single lot of Freshpet Select Fresh From the Kitchen Home Cooked Chicken Recipe (4.5 lb. bag), with sell by date of 10/29/22, due to potential contamination with Salmonella.

Salmonella can affect animals eating the product and there is risk to humans, notably children, the elderly, and the immunocompromised, when handling contaminated products, especially if they have not thoroughly washed their hands after having contact with the products or surfaces exposed to these products. Read more: http://caninechronicle.com/?p=236583

06/22/2022

06/11/2022

Even a quick walk can be dangerous for your dog. The concrete was over 120 degrees around 12:30 p.m. Friday. Just 30 minutes later, it jumped over 130 degrees.

06/05/2022

We are not giving up on Izzie! Please keep an eye out for her.

Ways you can help:
1) Share her poster on social media. The more people looking for her, the better
2) There are so many vets, groomers, dog stores, doggy day cares out there. I’m trying to get to them all. Please help me by sharing her flyer with the ones you know!

05/27/2022

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HERBS TO EVER ADD TO YOUR PET’S DIET!

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers looked for the presence of toxic chemicals in umbilical cord blood of newborn babies. Of the more than 400 chemicals tested for, 287 were detected in umbilical cord blood. Of these, 180 cause cancer in humans or animals, 217 are toxic to the brain or nervous system, and 208 cause birth defects or abnormal development in animals. - Environmental Working Group

Hello toxic planet and the skyrocketing occurrences of cancer in our pets (and in ourselves)!

Let me introduce you to one of my top 5 most important herbs that needs to be in your pet’s life, if it isn’t already!

Milk thistle!

This herb has been used for over 2,000 years to help fix a zillion different problems!

Recently, scientists from the Radiological Physics and Advisory Division in India found in their study on milk thistle that silibinin, found in milk thistle, programmed cell death in breast cancer.

“Early laboratory studies show that silymarin and other active substances in milk thistle may have anticancer effects. These substances appear to stop cancer cells from dividing and reproducing, shorten their lifespan, and reduce blood supply to tumors.” - University of Maryland Medical Center

Personally though, I love it for its allergy-fighting properties! If your poor pet is constantly itching and scratching, milk thistle can help!

According to The Truth Cause of Allergies – It’s In The Liver:

“The liver has to process toxins and when it can’t do its job it stores them. If it stores them it also produces additional histamines to protect itself. If an allergen is present the brain sends a message: ‘Send out a few histamines! I think there’s an invader!!’ and the liver proceeds it releases too many, and you have the allergic response. Cleanse the liver and maybe [...] you’ll become allergy/asthma free.”

Dosages:

Use ¼ of a teaspoon per 20lbs of body weight.

Detoxification is such an important process, not only for us humans, but also for our pets. We can be feeding our furry loved ones the best foods in the world but pores clogged with toxins will not allow essential nutrients to pass, causing a weakened immune system. A pet’s weakened immune system equals a multitude of problems! Milk thistle is the boss of detoxifiers!

Rodney Habib Pet Health Media

04/22/2022

Baby Jeff is the best name. 💯
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When it's pouring rain, what do you cook for your family? In a blizzard, how do you make your family feel warm, cozy and loved? If you have a special recipe with a powerful story behind it, we want to hear from you. Email your story and recipe to [email protected] to get started.


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Credit: BrittanyMeansIt (Twitter)

04/15/2022

Now that spring is here🌞🌳, your dogs may not only be suffering from seasonal and environmental allergies but they are also at increased risk of being exposed to more pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers than any other time of year.🐶⚠️🧬

Giving your dog quercetin can not only improve their allergy symptoms, research shows it can support their liver during these toxic exposures.

Quercetin is an important dietary polyphenol that is found in several fruits and vegetables such as apples, berries, and green leafy vegetables.🍎🫐🥬 In addition to being a natural antihistamine, “nature’s Benadryl”, quercetin is a phytochemical powerhouse that supports the liver and kidneys from oxidative damage.

In one animal study, quercetin decreased elevated liver enzymes and improved vitamin C levels in animals exposed to Glyphosate and other toxicants. Supplementing with quercetin has also been shown to inhibit the absorption of chemicals in the kidney, thereby accelerating the elimination of these toxins. Animal-model studies have also found quercetin supplementation improved DNA damage induced by glyphosate exposure.🧬

💊Dose: Multiply the weight of your pet in pounds by eight (8). For example, a 50-lb dog should get 400 mg per day. Whatever amount you give your pet, always split the dosage into two separate portions throughout the day for best results. Hide capsules or powder in their meals or a treat.

👉To discover more herbs, supplements, and superfoods you can give your dog to enhance and protect their health, you can find more tips and the science behind it in our book The Forever Dog. www.Foreverdog.com

04/02/2022

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03/11/2022

What are you doing to purify your drinking water?💧

A new veterinary study looking at carcinogens in dogs’ drinking water 🐾concluded pollutants in tap water increase the risk of certain cancers in dogs, and that filtering tap water could decrease the overall incidence of these cancers. Researchers found dogs with bladder cancer were more likely to live in areas with higher tap water concentrations of total trihalomethane, a reactive byproduct of disinfection chemicals, especially chlorination, used in municipal tap water.

So the big question is: what are you doing to remove chlorine and other contaminants from your household water?

Chemical-laden 🚱 tap water is just one of the quiet, common household pollutants millions of families are exposed on a daily basis, unless we do something to fix the situation. In our upcoming book, The Forever Dog, we cover all of the top household environmental risks you should be aware of, including the section titled “How Bad is Your Water?💧”. Chlorine is just one of the many contaminants that may be found in your water supply.

If you receive your water from a public water supply, we recommend you research the quality of your water by accessing your community’s Annual Quality Report. Check the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) report “What’s On Tap?”, and ask your water utility (the company that bills you monthly) for a copy of its annual water quality report. This report will list the detected contaminants, the potential source(s) of those contaminants, and the levels at which those contaminants were present in the water supply. Using this information, you’ll be able to choose the correct filter for your family’s drinking water.

Choose the filter technology that best suits your circumstances and budget: whole-house carbon; individual carbon filters on water spigots and portable pitchers, refrigerator filters; reverse osmosis filters in the kitchen, there are many to choose from. Choose a filter system that addresses the contaminants in your area, as each type of filter has its strengths and limitations, and one type does not accomplish all goals.

P.S. - Already pre-ordered the The Forever Dog book? We know you have questions about what to do right now, so we’ve created some early learning opportunities to answer some of your most burning questions before the book comes out. Claim your VIP ticket to our private, LIVE Forever Dog Learning Labs! These free Masterclasses are the perfect opportunities to learn more about what you can be doing to increase your dog’s health span and lifespan right now. Don't have a copy? Get one here: www.ForeverDog.com

02/15/2022

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