Mighty Hearts Project

10/23/2025

Hello Mighty Hearts, Michelle Lawson-Fairfield and I are participating in the ACVS 2025 conference, with presentations by Dr. Masami, Dr. Brockman, and Dr. Matsuura. Stay tuned for additional updates from the conference. 🐶 💪 ❤️

07/05/2025

Happy 4th of July Everyone, be safe out there.

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05/14/2025

The amazing Dr. Katie Kangas. We are looking forward to our talk on dental and heart dogs. Integrative Veterinary Care

05/14/2025

What a beautiful Expo we attended with our beautiful holistic family

05/06/2025

Myself and Michelle Lawson-Fairfield will be attending Dr. Judy Morgan's Naturally Healthy Pets International Health Experience conference in Orlando Florida May 13-14th. We would love to meet our members in the Orlando/Florida area.

Here are the details to the conference. We will post about the many beautiful holistic products being offered by the amazing vendors. Lots of great education and resources to come.

https://live.drjudymorgan.com/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR6u4vOcP7veEXvx_0IF959_mecdJ0Pm3PnU5h1MVEluuuRmL_Ler0wjqey9dw_aem_xEsBMBrqZCezrfE7q4gnHg

America’s best known natural pet advocate, holistic veterinarian of over 40 years, and owner of Naturally Healthy Pets invites you to a 2-dayimmersive experience to learn thelatest in the very best holisticcare for your pets.

12/25/2024

Merry Christmas 🎁🎄 Let’s see those beautiful Christmas pictures with your pups and your families.

We want to thank you all for the amazing support you provide to each other during such difficult times in our lives. It truly means the world knowing you're not alone in this disease and repair process. We wish you all a very blessed holiday season.

Special thank you to all of our admin and moderators and especially the surgical teams at each clinic involved with the mitral valve repair surgery. We are forever thankful for your dedication in saving our precious babies' lives ❤️🐶

The Mighty Hearts Team

05/06/2024

Hello Mighty Hearts Family,

Introducing to you to Dr. Sayaka Takeuchi, cardiologist at the Jasmine clinic as well as international advisor for patient placement and our very own, Isa Randle and Lucky, bringing you the most current vital information for Mitral Valve Disease and Repair surgery.

You asked, and we listened! Dr. Sayaka Takeuchi answered vital questions often asked on this page. We hope you enjoy this very informative interview.

We are honored to have interviewed Dr. Sayaka Takeuchi of the Jasmine Clinic where under Dr. Masami Uechi they perform canine mitral valve bypass repair surgeries. Dr. Takeuchi answers the most common

04/24/2024

Hello Mighty Hearts Family,

Introducing our Jasmine Heart surgeon, Dr. Masami Uechi and our very own, Isa Randle and Lucky, bringing you the most current vital information for Mitral Valve Disease Repair surgery.

You asked, and we listened! Dr. Masami Uechi answered vital questions often asked on this page. We hope you enjoy this very informative interview.

Stay tuned for part 2 next week as we interview Dr. Sayaka Takeuchi where she also answers your commonly asked questions.

In March of 2024 we had an in depth conversation with the amazing Dr. Masami Uechi where he discusses important topics regarding mitral valve repair and the differences between the TEER procedure and

02/16/2024

Hello Everyone,

Michelle Lawson-Fairfield and I were honored once again to be featured in Dr. Judy Morgan’s February Heart Month discussions. We discuss this life-saving mitral valve repair surgery and current statistics as well as the importance of fresh foods.

We hope this information is helpful as we continue to expand our educational information. In closing, we just want to say how proud we are of all of you here for wanting to learn about this information and in the areas of nutrition so your babies can thrive, there’s hope in this diagnosis. 🐶❤️ 💪

Nate, Michelle, and Isa

Mighty Hearts Team

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The best resources from Dr. Judy on heart health, heart disease causes, risk-factors, diagnosis, and treatment. Read her blogs to learn more, Download recipes, and shop her product picks.

12/06/2023

📢 Urgent Notice About DWR Clinic 📢

It with great sadness we have been told today by the team at Dick White Referrals Specialist Veterinary Centre (DWR) in Cambridgeshire UK the following,

“It is with regret that we need to advise our clients and referring vets that DWR will be halting the Open Heart Surgery Programme for the foreseeable future, as Dr Poppy Bristow has made the difficult decision to move on to explore new professional challenges.”

We know some of our families are currently planning surgery and have already been contacted by DWR to seek the repair at the other two clinics we support, RVC and Jasmine. We are very sorry to hear about this news and appreciate the two years Dr. Poppy Bristow and her team dedicated to saving your babies.

If you haven’t already please have your cardiologist contact either center with your pup's detailed records, reports, X-rays, echo’s images, moving echo videos and have them CC you so you can confirm it was properly sent to the clinic.

For those seeking to go to Japan (Jasmine Clinic), if you haven’t started the 180-day quarantine process please do so immediately. You can find this guidance on the USDA’s website or visit our Jasmine webpage.

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/pet-travel/by-country/pettravel-japan

https://mightyheartsproject.org/jasmine

For those looking for guidance to the RVC, please see tbe USDA website or visit our RVC webpage

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/pet-travel/by-country/eu/eu-echinococcus/pet-travel-echinococcus-treatments-uk

https://mightyheartsproject.org/rvc

09/01/2023

Hello Everyone,

Last year, Dr. Sayaka Takeuchi, Dr. Masami Uechi and other vital staff at the Jasmine Clinic in Yokohama Japan were gracious enough to host a seminar to educate our Mighty Hearts families on what is Canine Mitral Valve Repair (MVR).

Topics discussed include:
-Candidacy
-Surgical Risk factors
-Steps of the procedure and a visual of the components of the heart and chambers and what the repair surgery entails
-Most importantly the latest statistics achieved by the Jasmine clinic which are pretty amazing

We hope this seminar helps you all understand the intricacies of this procedure and just how amazing the Jasmine team is. Pleased feel free to share this important video with you Veterinary Cardiologist as I’m sure they will benefit from the very impressive surgical statistics.

We appreciate your support, as we continue to support you and your beautiful family members.

Sincerely,

The Mighty Hearts Project Team

Nate Estes, Michelle Lawson-Fairfield, Isa Randle

Last year, Dr. Sayaka Takeuchi, Dr. Masami Uechi and other vital staff at the Jasmine Clinic in Yokohama Japan were gracious enough to host a seminar to educate our Mighty Hearts families on what is C

11/12/2022

Hey Everyone,

We’ve added a few more items to our online merch store. An embroidered Mighty Hearts sherpa blanket in black and gray and embroidered premium hoodies in multiple colors. We hope you and your pups like them as much as we do.

https://mightyheartsproject.org/shop/mighty-hearts-premium-unisex-embroidered-hoodie

https://mightyheartsproject.org/shop/mighty-hearts-embroidered-premium-sherpa-blanket

The embroidered premium sherpa blanket has fleece fabric on one side and super-soft sherpa fabric on the other that’ll keep you warm and snug. The blanket’s plush look makes it a great home accessory and supports a great cause. • 100% polyester fleece on one side • 100% polyester sherpa on t...