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Hello, beautiful friends and family, I'll be honest with you: my heart feels a bit heavier this week. We lost a sweet patient, Biscuit, to cancer. It never gets any easier. After 18 years, you’d think I’d get used to the losses, but every single one touches me deeply....

I remember one of my very first clients after vet school coming to me with a dog with recurring bladder infections.  I happened to know this pup's mom and dad were getting a divorce, and I had a hunch the stressful environment in the home was at least in part causing...

“A what transplant?!” “You mean like poop?”  “Ew, that's gross!”  Those are all things pet parents have said to me when I first suggested a fecal transplant for their pet 😂 “Where do you get the “material”?” is another question I get asked pretty often.  I actually...

Oh my gosh. I was so late for the meeting.  I am never late. I don’t like being late, but today, due to an extra chaotic morning getting the kids to school, I was super late. (Think missing school shoes, suddenly remembering show and tell…if you’re a mom to a human...

This might be an unpopular opinion, but when our pets get cancer, I don't think we should always try to get rid of the cancer. Hear me out…  Instead of healing cancer, I prefer to focus on helping pets live and thrive with cancer still in their bodies.  Which is...

Yesterday, I watched a documentary that had me sitting on the edge of my seat…  It was called Free Solo.  It was about this extraordinary young man Alex Hannold who took on the challenge of climbing El Capitan, a sheer cliff of granite in Yosemite National Park 🧗‍♂️...

Flashback -  I lay in the back of my minivan during my lunchbreak, taking deep breaths.  It wasn’t always going to be this way.  “One day, I’d start my own practice”, I told myself. “I’d do things differently”.    The timer on my phone went off, I opened my eyes. I...

Many of you know I had a housecall practice prior to starting Integrative Pet Wellness Center. For nearly 10 years, I cared for a wonderful client Debra and her furry babies. I used to go to her house every Saturday morning. I remember this treasured ritual of driving...