Stress is an emotional and physical pressure that animals and humans both experience. Horses and dogs, just like people, can be either internalizers or externalizers of stress. The internalizer may mask stress by behaving...
Holidays seem to be the collective stress time: humans are stressed, and because our animals are so intuitive, they in turn become stressed. Often times stress in dogs and horses is not obvious; the...
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Camelina (Camelina Sativa) is a plant native to Europe; it has been used for thousands of years as food for both humans and livestock. In fact the Tollund Man, discovered in a bog in...
We know that the health of the horse begins in the GI tract. The gastrointestinal system plays a central role in immune system homeostasis, ie: balance. What we feed has an impact on not...
Keeping our dogs healthy begins with what we feed them. After all, the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is the foundation of health and well-being, and plays a central role in immune system balance. But...
With regard to metal toxicity and other ecological contaminations, Researcher Dr. Gregor Reid recently wrote in the Journal of the American Society for Microbiology that “the exposure to environmental toxins is a 21st century...
How do innovative whole food supplements for dogs and horses go from idea to reality? A little backstory is in order… One morning in the kitchen as I prepared various vegetables, fruits, and nuts...
A veterinary surgeon named John Stewart, professor of veterinary medicine in Glasgow, Scotland, wrote a book that was published in 1856 called The Stable Book: Being a Treatise on the Management of Horses. With...
Dirt. Horses and dogs love to roll in it, plants need to grow in it, and children like to make mud pies out of it. We get dirt under our fingernails, on our clothes,...
by Kemosabe I have grown up on the rotation diet. That is, my human switches dog food formulas every two months or so. When I was younger I thought she was just persnickety and...
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