As your veterinarian, my job is to help keep your pet as healthy as possible through regular examinations* and chiropractic adjustments, and to offer advice. Your job is to give proper diet and daily home care. If you follow the recommendations below, I feel that you will be doing a great deal to help your pet live longer and avoid expensive and heartbreaking chronic ailments.

• Coat Care

  Brush skin daily with a wire slicker brush - stimulates circulation and skin gland secretions; strengthens hair follicles; detoxifies body; keeps the coat clean.

• Dental Care

  Brush teeth and gums daily with CET Pet Toothpaste® - enzymes dissolve plaque, so tarter never forms. If there already is tarter, brush with Petzlife Oral Care Gel®.

• "Thump the Thymus"

  Tap the sternum over the thymus gland (between the front legs) every day 5-10 times once during the day to help stimulate the immune system.

• Vaccinate Conservatively

  Consider a single puppy/kitten shot at 14 - 16 weeks, then triennial vaccinal blood titers. Rabies vaccinations required by law at 12 - 26 weeks old. Booster in 1 year and then every 3 years, but consider vaccinal blood titers instead of boosters. At the time of any vaccination and 2 weeks later, give protective homeopathic remedies.

• Parasite Control

  To repel fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes and avoid harsh chemical repellents and drugs, Flying Basset No-Flea Spray® or Herbal Gold Parasite Dust® powder.

• Minimize Stress

  Provide exercise, love, and comfort. Use Lavender and/or Calming Essence® (Rescue Remedy) if necessary.

• Veterinary Care

  Full examination at least annually by your veterinarian (twice a year if 5 or older), urine, stool, and blood tests. Chiropractic (VOM) adjustments every 6 months after an initial series.

• Diet

  I strongly recommend feeding your pet a diet of raw meat and vegetables plus supplements. You can purchase my own brand of frozen raw food at our office or you can make it at home according to the recipe that I used to produce the diet that I sell:

  For dogs:

  • 70% raw beef, chicken, turkey, lamb, or fish, 25% of which is made up of organ meats (liver, kidneys, heart, spleen, skins/intestines/stomach, brain, and glands such as thymus (sweet breads), thyroid, and pancreas).
  • 30% raw vegetables, 50% of which is made up of "carbohydrate vegetables" such as sweet potatoes and squash. The other 50% should be spinach, cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, kale, collard greens, Swiss chard, and any other non-salad vegetable.
  Add Flying Basset Maintenance Nutritional Complex®, Flying Basset Animal Aloe®, Flying Basset ProAnimal Probiotics®, and Flying Basset Digestive Enzyme Complex®.

  For cats & ferrets:

  • 90% meat and 10% vegetables (leave out the sweet potatoes and squash).
  Add Flying Basset Maintenance Nutritional Complex®, Flying Basset Animal Aloe®, Flying Basset ProAnimal Probiotics®, and Flying Basset Digestive Enzyme Complex®.
• At the very least, if you need to feed processed Pet food, supplement it with Missing Link® and Prozyme®, both of which you can get from our office during our office hours or we can arrange a weekend pickup with our neighbors at Club Barks.
• Also, only give filtered or distilled water to drink. Never feed cats food without adding water. It should be the consistency of chili. Other than the occasional weekend getaway, never feed food dry.
• Don't give dogs biscuits, rawhide, pigs' ears, or cows' hooves. Instead give crunchy vegetables (carrots, celery, jicama) or fruits (apples, pears). Also I encourage offering "rope bones" and Nylabones®.

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