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Fireworks and your anxious pet: Here's some tips to help
If you've noticed an uptick in firework usage lately, you aren't alone. According to statistics some retailers have seen a 400% increase in sales compared to last year. Firework noise complaints in New York City, for one example, are up by 4,000 percent. Any pet owner with an anxious pet knows this is a recipe for disaster. There isn't much you can do about the fireworks themselves in our experience, but there are some things you can do at home to mitigate the potential impact they have on your pet's psyche.
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What is Cannabigerol and why should I care?
CBG is non intoxicating and is thought to affect mood, thanks to its ability to act as a GABA reuptake inhibitor. In addition, CBG boosts anandamide, which is the body's bliss molecule.
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Do Grain Free Diets cause DCM?
Hot Topic: Let's talk about DCM or Dialated Cardiomyopathy. This topic has been literally breaking the internet these past couple of weeks based on a study recently released blaming grain free diets for causing DCM. The short explanation being that the excess legumes within pet food is prohibiting the absorption of an amino acid, Taurine, which is causing a thinning and inefficiency of the heart muscle. Taurine was once thought only to be an essential amino acid for cats, however it is necessary for canines as well. Obviously, it is WAY more complicated than that, which of course leaves many...
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Why Use Cannabidiol CBD Oil Supplements?
CBD has become a highly sought after compound in recent years, taking the natural products industry by storm after receiving highly publicized exposure in the media, especially in Sanjay Gupta’s special, “Weed”
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Seizures and diet…a correlation…
The Probable Connection between Grains and Seizures in Canines: 1. The vitamins and minerals in grains have low bioavailability to the digestive tract. (Simply, grains offer little to no nutritional value to a canine diet). 2. Grains contain components considered "anti-nutrients" that can cause negative biological consequences (including autoimmune problems, allergies, digestive, gallbladder and liver problems all of which can cause seizures). Certain auto-immune diseases (e.g. insulin dependent diabetes mellitus IDDM) increases in animal models when they are fed high cereal grain diets. 3.Grains have high phytate content which impairs mineral absorption (particularly relevant since magnesium, zinc, calcium and...