One Day at a Time
Tigger reflects upon her recent personal losses and experiences with the grieving process… In the month of May, I lost one of my best friends, dressage judge Carter Bass. She fell, hit her...
Category: Tigger’s Blog
BioStar’s Tigger Montague shares her insights on life, animals, and the environment.
Ghosts of Christmas Past
One of my favorite holiday movies as a child was the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol (starring Alastair Sim). If I am to be visited this year by the Ghost of Christmas Past,...
The Puppy Chronicles: House Training, Toys, and Surviving the Velociraptor
God grant me the serenity to accept that I buy my puppy too many toys, courage to buy fewer toys, and the wisdom to ignore Chewy.com ads. My Australian Shepherd puppy Kenobi is now...
Bringing Home a New Puppy
In the last six months I have lost two beloved dogs: Thunderbear and Kemosabe. I will forever miss them. No dog can replace them. Yet, I found myself looking for healing in the eyes...
Walking with Grief
Last week, quite unexpectedly, I lost one of my Aussies, Thunderbear. He was only 9.5 years old. He was diagnosed with a large mass in his spleen, likely hemangiosarcoma (a highly malignant cancer), and...
A Few of My Favorite Things (2022)
I spend an inordinate amount of time researching raw materials, and I often come across new supplements, formulations, and products I haven’t seen before. The curious scientist in me who moonlights as a proverbial...
Formulation: Behind the Scenes at BioStar
From BioStar’s humble beginnings to the present, we have always done our own formulation research and made our own products. There aren’t many companies left in the supplement industry that still make their own...
Tigger Montague and the History of BioStar
“In making medicine, in making something helpful and wholesome and nutritious, you have to be very focused. You’ve got to be putting your intent, love, care and empathy into the product.” In her Q...
Connection: Bridging Eastern Medicine and Western Science
In 2001, a friend gave me a book on Ayurveda called The Complete Book of Ayurvedic Home Remedies by Vasant Lad. The author is a Master of Ayurvedic Science and served as a medical...
Five Things You Can Learn from Puppies
NOTES FROM PUPPY-PALOOZA LAND! Currently I have a litter of 6 Australian Shepherd puppies that are 7 weeks old. This is the first litter I have raised for almost 40 years. They’ve been a...
