On January 4th, I had the pleasure of being interviewed on the Robin Falls Kids radio show. It was great fun talking about Dog Dish Diet: Sensible Nutrition for Your Dog’s Health and having the chance to reach people with my most important message: Our dogs (and cats) are individuals and need to be fed accordingly. Once pet owners understand this critical fact (and believe me that is a big step [click to continue…]
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April Robins of the Red River Writers has invited me to appear on her radio show Robin Falls Kids–Chirp with April & Katy the Dog. April is starting the year off with a tribute to animals. It’s going to be great to talk about Dog Dish Diet: Sensible Nutrition for Your Dog’s Health and answer callers’ questions. [click to continue…]
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Many veterinarians warn against feeding Thanksgiving leftovers because many dogs show up at clinics across America with diarrhea, vomiting, and constipation during the next few days from eating too much of a good thing or the wrong things. However, healthful ingredients, [click to continue…]
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With a title like that, I have to be selling something…right? Do I want to draw people to my website to buy my book? You betcha! Can the info in the book prevent tumors? I believe so. Let’s talk about it.
Dogs have several classes or different types of “masses” or growths that grow on the skin or under it. The most
sucking cells out of tumor or mass
common type is a papilloma or warty growth that slowly grows on the skin in middle-aged to older dogs. Next is the lipoma, or fatty growth underneath the skin or between the muscle layers. The nastiest and most dangerous skin tumor spreads locally and internally (metastasis= Meta (change) + stasis (stays in one place)). Its name is the mast cell tumor. This is the skin tumor vets want to rule out by aspirating a suspicious lump or mass. Looking at the cells we suck out of the mass often lets us know what we need to do. I say often because [click to continue…]
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Does your dog hold his or her head to one side? Scratch at his ears? Shake her head from side to side? Have a moist yeasty smell and grayish yellow gunk coming out of the ear? 
These symptoms are some of the most common ones that veterinarians see daily, and they can be the hardest to [click to continue…]
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Einstein spent a great deal of time looking for the universal theory that would unite the theories of the very large things around us (universe, galaxies, black holes) and the very small things (neutrinos, quarks, leptons) inside and around us. His well known [click to continue…]
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A couple weeks ago, I was able to marvel at the views as I looked out from the top of California’s Mt. Whitney. At 14,500 feet, Whitney is the highest peak in the lower 48 states; it’s also the destination of 16,000 people a year who hike the steep, [click to continue…]
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My clients are always asking questions about their pets’ teeth and how to keep them healthy. It’s an important issue that I want to address today. Dogs’ and cats’ teeth usually start life bright and white, then slowly turn yellowish brown with age. The reason is because daily use and tartar can turn them pastel [click to continue…]
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I was in the supermarket buying provisions for my hike to the top of Mount Whitney, located east of Bakersfield, California. This year we are taking a more leisurely trip to the top, so that my two buddies that had altitude–and attitude–problems won’t be affected. I love strolling through nature’s beauty and am glad we do not have to push through the remnants of a late August snowstorm or traverse icy, slippery rocks near the top at 14,000 feet.
"Fresh," smoked kippered herring
So I’m in the store, and when I walked past the tunafish aisle, I spotted kipper snacks and remembered eating those as a kid. This produced an instant craving, and I bought a few for the trip up. Then I realized that these little oily sardines may make a pretty good and economical treat for my dogs…and cats. So I bought a few more [click to continue…]
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My name is Greg Martinez, DVM, and I am a recovering kibble-aholic. I assumed like so many of my colleagues that a dog’s health was assured if you fed a “complete 
and balanced” dog food. I thought that most kibbles were good as long as they contained the right percentages of recommended nutrients. I was proud, too, that I was able to recommend different kibble diets that were developed by a veterinarian (Mark Morris, PhD, DVM) in [click to continue…]
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