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Cool, crisp weather brings the potential for new toxins for your pets to encounter. Let’s briefly review some of the seasonal risks you need to be aware of in order to keep your pet safe. Rodenticides As the weather cools down, vegetation dies off and crops are harvested, mice and rats will often come inside structures looking for food and warmth. This in turn leads most homeowners to look for ways to “disinvite” these unwelcome visitors! If you need to use a rodenticide, use it with extreme care and keep it as far away from your pets as possible. Many…

Even dogs eating healthy diets can suffer from diabetes. As with diabetes in humans, sometimes a dog’s body’s stops producing enough insulin or the cells of a dog’s body are unable to use the insulin that is produced. When either condition occurs, the result is diabetes mellitus, which causes excessive thirst and urination and extreme hunger accompanied by weight loss. To stabilize sugar levels, insulin therapy is the treatment at the outset and is usually required for the life of the dog. Summary Diabetes mellitus is a disease that manifests as an inability of the animal’s body to use carbohydrates…

If you often find yourself reaching for the organic or natural foods in the grocery store you may consider feeding your pets natural or organic pet foods. As Natural and organic foods become more and more popular for us humans we see a lot more pet food labels claiming to be “All Natural” or “Organic” but are they really? The FDA defines “Natural” as free of artificial ingredients. Natural foods sound great when you first think about it but perhaps not. Many medications are derived from natural sources but not all natural medications are good for your pet. For example, some of…