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CANINE HEALTH

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Articles on nutrition, products, and research pertaining to canine health and wellness.

What if all whole food supplements for dogs and horses started like this?

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 ...
Kemosabe: not a product of commercial dog food

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 ...
Maybe the healing power of dogs is in the eyes...

Buckaroo to the Rescue

BioStar blog author Buckaroo gives his own expert canine take on the healing power of dogs ... from first-hand experience: ...
Buckaroo Tackles Dog Car Sickness

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 ...
Dog grief is more like human grief than you might think.

When Dogs Grieve

There's something that needs to be said about dog grief — that is, the different feelings and behaviors of mourning ...
The Dog Fasting Advantge: Don't Try This on a Full Stomach

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 ...
Ask Buckaroo - eating grass

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 ...

Angels

Not everyone is deeply religious; at least not devout enough for daily prayer and solemn teachings, but many have some ...

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 | BioStar US

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: one half of the Turmeric and Boswellia Dynamic Duo

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 ...
Lazarus, dreaming his dog dreams...

Dog Dreams

We all know dogs have dreams. People like to watch us while we dreamily chase tennis balls across the yard ...
Not a stubborn dog, just a discriminating one...

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 ...
BioStar K9 Organic Dog Treats

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 are no day at the beach.

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 ...
Change? Sure, why not.

Change for the Ages

There are differing thoughts on change: it’s hard to do, it’s for the better, it’s inevitable. I’m not a big ...