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Inspiring Stories

Allergies

Daizee with Skin Problems

My name is Julie Swales and I’m writing because I’ve been so amazed with the changes I have seen to my dogs skin issues since we moved in a more holistic direction.  My sweet terrier Daizee, who is 5 years

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Autoimmune Disease

Shayna with Pancreatitis and Auto-Immune Disease

Integrative veterinary medicine has provided wonderful care for our Flatcoated Retriever first during a bout of pancreatitis, and lately through an even more troubling auto-immune problem which has her body attacking its own red blood cells. After we lost our

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Pain

Handling Pain And Bringing Peace

Peppercorn is a seven year old rescued Doberman Pinscher.  She first started seeing our integrative veterinarian right after she was adopted. Pepper had been put in a rescue because her previous owner lost his job and stopped feeding her to

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Pellinore with joint and back pain

Pellinore’s Story Pelli is a rescue BC that we adopted at approximately 6 months of age.At roughly 17 months of age in January of 2008, he came up lame in his left rear leg after apparently slipping in the carpeted

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Pain

Loki, the beagle with a painful back

My Story of Loki Loki is a nine year old, full breed, 15” beagle who is mildly overweight and is being treated for a low thyroid.He has also been battling degenerative disc disease since he was three.Loki’s first instance caused

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Cancer

Blu Who Had Lymphoma

When I brought my dog, Blu, into the number one canine oncology hospital in the country, they quickly diagnosed her with lymphoma. I was told that chemo was the only option…and that it worked. I said, ‘sign us up’. Well,

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