Dr. Becker - Bark & Whiskers (Page 46)

Dog Tips

How to Reduce Your Pet's Toxic Load, and Why It's So Important

Your pet's body is under near-constant assault from pollutants that can overwhelm their organs of detoxification, including their immune system. Learn how your pet is being exposed to toxins, how to limit that exposure and steps you can take to help their body detoxify safely.

Food Facts

Watermelon: This Sweet and Refreshing Snack Your Pets Can Enjoy Safely

Well-loved during warm seasons because of its thirst-quenching juiciness, this lycopene-rich fruit makes for a refreshing pet treat that can also provide many beneficial nutrients. Read this to find out how you can feed it to your pet in the healthiest way possible.

Special Species

This Popular Pastime Kills up to 20 Million Healthy Animals Each Year

People who do this likely don't realize how they're causing very painful and unnecessary deaths to more than 130 species. Anyone who loves animals must know how their perfectly legal actions cause organ failure, brain damage, blindness, paralysis, seizures and death in so many innocent creatures.

Cat Tips

The Curly-Haired Cat Breed People Are Going Nuts Over

He'll cuddle on your lap, make you laugh at his crazy antics and is intelligent enough to open drawers (puzzle toys are a good stand-in). Plus, he'll get along well with people, kids and other pets. Which is fortunate, because everyone wants to touch his unusual coat.

Dog Tips

Causes Tumors, Major Organ Damage and Premature Death — Is Your Pet at Risk?

According to a survey of 1,500 US dog owners, 65% of those surveyed prefer excluding these ingredients from their pet's food.

Dog Tips

Three Skin Conditions That Can Cause Your Pet Extreme Pain

These aren't your run-of-the-mill skin disorders like atopic dermatitis or hot spots. One may start out as red, itchy skin on your pet's face or ears, and spread to the rest of your pet's body, leading to painful, open blisters.

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Cat Tips

This Unsavory Pet Food Additive Could Destroy a Myth Cherished by Most Pet Parents

While their PR machines praise it to the high heavens, you're better off sidestepping this potential health bomb for your precious animal companions. Besides being so unsavory as to make your stomach roll, it's far from the best option even for seriously non-picky animals.

Dog Tips

The Horrid Signs of an Internal Fungal Infection

Most people assume fungal infections with pets are limited to the skin, but certain types of fungi can enter the bloodstream and lungs and spread throughout the body, affecting bones and joints, eyes, liver, kidneys, heart and the central nervous system.

Dog Tips

Empowering Pets to Heal Themselves Through Self-Medication

Zoopharmacognosy is the study of how animals self-medicate in the wild, and now you can learn to bring this natural healing power to your own pet.

Reviewed by Dr. Becker

How to Reduce Your Pet's Toxic Load, and Why It's So Important

Watermelon: This Sweet and Refreshing Snack Your Pets Can Enjoy Safely

This Popular Pastime Kills up to 20 Million Healthy Animals Each Year

The Curly-Haired Cat Breed People Are Going Nuts Over

Causes Tumors, Major Organ Damage and Premature Death — Is Your Pet at Risk?

Three Skin Conditions That Can Cause Your Pet Extreme Pain

This Unsavory Pet Food Additive Could Destroy a Myth Cherished by Most Pet Parents

The Horrid Signs of an Internal Fungal Infection

Empowering Pets to Heal Themselves Through Self-Medication

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