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PHILOSOPHIES AND MUSINGS FROM OUR FORMULATOR
Tigger’s thoughts on food, animals, the earth, life, and ideas.
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One Day at a Time
In the month of May, I lost one of my best friends, dressage judge Carter Bass. She fell, hit her ...
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Ghosts of Christmas Past
One of my favorite holiday movies as a child was the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol (starring Alastair Sim) ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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Walking with Grief
Last week, quite unexpectedly, I lost one of my Aussies, Thunderbear. He was only 9.5 years old. He was diagnosed ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Ask Tigger: Help! I Have a Grumpy Mare
Dear Tigger, Lately my horse fits the grumpy mare stereotype more often than not, but she used to be much ...
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Tigger’s Stress-Busting Tips
Before jumping to some unique and effective stress-busting tips, let's reflect a moment on where we are today: The infamous ...
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Let Go of the Reins
Recently, a friend in the horse industry told me that her anxiety during this time of the Covid-19 pandemic had ...
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Creative Quarantine Shopping Ideas
Self-impose social distancing and staying at home has forced me to be more creative in finding necessities online. From my ...
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When Goodbye Comes
Lionheart had a good summer. He had a new companion, a feisty 20-year-old mare I adopted from a rescue. His ...
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Open to Our Animals: The Art of Intuition
In our world of high-tech connections and megabits per second, we tend to forget about the other mode of communication ...
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The Otter Whisperer
For the second year in a row, I have had close encounters with sea otters in Kachemak Bay, Alaska. The ...
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When It’s Time to Take a Leap…
Tigger describes the inspiration behind Seeds for Kindness, and gets into the details of what we can expect in its ...
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Seeds for Kindness
The inspiring origin story for Seeds for Kindness... Several years ago I read a book called The Diamond Cutter by ...
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The Alaskan Wilderness in Photos by Tigger
Tigger has returned from her exploration of the Alaskan wilderness. We're so glad she's back, and we're honored to share ...