CANINE HEALTH
BIOSTAR’S CANINE RESEARCH
Articles on nutrition, products, and research pertaining to canine health and wellness.
Don’t Bogart that Joint
All my life, I've heard humans talking about the wonders of medical cannabis. And not just the raw material, but ...
Introducing Toppers: Real Whole Food Enhancements for Mealtime
How do innovative whole food supplements for dogs and horses go from idea to reality? A little backstory is in ...
How We Dogs Started Eating Kibble: The Strange History of Commercial Dog Food
When dog owners think of feeding dogs in the “old days”, they imagine that we canines filled our bellies with ...
Buckaroo to the Rescue
BioStar blog author Buckaroo gives his own expert canine take on the healing power of dogs ... from first-hand experience: ...
Advice: How to Relieve Canine Car Sickness
Dear Buckaroo, I have a four month old Labradoodle named Ollie who frequently gets ill on car rides. What can ...
When Dogs Grieve
There's something that needs to be said about dog grief — that is, the different feelings and behaviors of mourning ...
Fast Living: The Athletic Dog’s Guide to Better Recovery
Once a week I go to a special class for burgeoning canine athletes like me. I am the only boy ...
Advice: Why Do Dogs Eat Grass?
Dear Buckaroo, My dog Dooley is a rescue. He is part Labrador and German Shepherd, and he likes to eat ...
Spice of Life: The Canine Rotation Diet
by Kemosabe I have grown up on the rotation diet. That is, my human switches dog food formulas every two ...
Nutritional Support for Lyme Disease
Most of what we hear about Lyme disease focuses on the danger to humans, but it's our canine and equine ...
Turmeric and Boswellia: The Dynamic Duo
When we think of dynamic duos, we may think of Batman and Robin, Thelma and Louise, or Butch Cassidy and ...
Dog Dreams
We all know dogs have dreams. People like to watch us while we dreamily chase tennis balls across the yard ...
When Humans Nag
Thunderbear and I are in training to compete in Rally. It’s a dog sport that combines obedience training with agility; ...
Sniffing Nirvana
We dogs understand that our life span is traditionally shorter than our caretaker’s. I’ve said it before: one of our ...
Dog Treats…The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Get the rundown on organic dog treats of all kinds, along with...some others...straight from the salivating mouth of a canine ...
Questions & Quandaries
Life is full of quandaries, some more debilitating than others. To pee or not to pee, that’s my question every time ...
Dog Food Allergies and How to Beat Them
Dog food allergies are on the rise; in fact, allergic reactions to food are now the third most common cause ...