Tag Archives: Dr. Lorie Huston

Coping With Pet Loss: First, Permission to Grieve

By Edie Jarolim | Published: November 1, 2011
It’s devastating to lose a loved one. It’s even more devastating to feel ashamed about your grief, to feel that you need to apologize for mourning. Unfortunately, when a pet dies, it’s all too common for owners to hide their pain, making it more difficult to get past it. That’s the subject of this week’s [...]
Posted in pet mourning | Also tagged , | 25 Comments

Good Breeding

By Edie Jarolim | Published: March 14, 2011
Most of us have seen  — or avoided looking at — the pictures of dogs at mass commercial breeding operations, better known as puppy mills. Crowded into wire cages stacked on top of each other, the dogs are commodities, pure and simple. And the people who profit from these operations give the term “breeder” a [...]
Posted in Animal Welfare | Also tagged , | 3 Comments

Friday Focus: When Pet Food Switching is a Problem

By Edie Jarolim | Published: July 30, 2010
I asked the question on Sunday: Why can’t you vary your dog’s diet — so long as you keep it healthy — or switch it quickly? As it turns out, my question conflated two issues. You often can and should vary your dog’s diet (but not always; more on which in a minute). It’s only [...]
Posted in Dog Health | Also tagged , , , , , | 9 Comments