Tui Na massage: Wouldn’t it be something if your horse could have a consistent, harmonious flow of stomach chi and could avoid colic, founder, stomach ulcers, and any other digestion issues horses are prone to have? Wild horses roam and … Read full article
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Homeopathy for Animals – Q&A with Shirley Moore
We receive a LOT of questions about homeopathy for animals: which remedies to use for various conditions, how to give the remedies, and most of all, questions around preventing and treating Lyme disease. Shirley has very kindly been responding to … Read full article
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Healing And Hearing – It’s All About A Return To Our Centre Of Stillness
By Julie Lines
You may remember, if you read my last post, that this month I am going to write about the similarities between healing and hearing animal … Read full article
AWG Recommends: On Talking Terms With Dogs
By Cattie Coyle
On Talking Terms With Dogs: Calming Signals by Turid Rugaas Norwegian dog trainer Turid Rugaas has worked with dogs and studied their body … Read full article
Business Monday: What Is A Target Market and How Do You Define Your Ideal Customer?
By Cattie Coyle
You’ve been leaving brochures in stores, put an ad in the local paper, volunteered to do massage at your favorite animal shelter, set up a booth at a … Read full article
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Friday Links: Hero Rats, Talking Parrots and Endangered Chimpanzees
By Cattie Coyle
Sycamore and Box Elder Trees to Blame for Equine Atypical Myopathy A team of international researchers believe they have found the cause for this often fatal condition: a toxin (hypoglycin A) in the seeds of sycamore trees (Acer pseudoplatanus) in Europe … Continue Reading...
Holistic Or Integrative Medicine? Is Allopathic The Same As Conventional? And What Is Traditional Medicine?
By Cattie Coyle
In my previous post searching for definitions of the various terms describing health care modalities that fall outside of the conventional Western system, we looked at Alternative, Complementary, CAM/CAVM and eCAM. In today’s post, we will take a closer look … Continue Reading...
Bach Flower Essences for Fear in Animals
As a Flower Essence Animal Therapist, I am often called to work with animals that have fear issues. Listening to each case, I am able to unravel the story behind the emotions. A lot of the cases I am asked to work with are often termed “Fear Aggression”. To … Continue Reading...
Meet Julie Lines, Voice of the Animals
By Julie Lines
Julie Lines is the founder and owner of Voice of the Animals and The Purpose of Species, based in South Derbyshire, England. Cattie: Julie and I met online a while back (you may have read her guest post here last year - if not, check it out, I highly … Continue Reading...
Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine in Canada
By Admin
The information on this page is provided courtesy of Lyndsey Deutsch, Canadian Institute of Equine and Canine Body Works. Below are Q&As that were completed with some of the Canadian Veterinary Boards, position statements on The Practice of … Continue Reading...
Acupressure Case Study – Allergy Relief For A Horse
By Cattie Coyle
Today we have a guest post that talks about an ailment I think many animal owners can relate to - allergies. In this case study, the practitioner uses acupressure (which I have described in more depth in my earlier "Alternative Healing Modality: Acupressure" … Continue Reading...
Acupuncture Treatment for Dog With Arthritis – A Video Demonstration
People frequently ask me how pets respond to the actual acupuncture treatment itself, so here I've made a video of a typical treatment on a dog with arthritis. Most dogs and cats respond very well to the needles, as evidenced here. The examination is much like … Continue Reading...
Alternative Healing Modality: Acupressure & Diego’s Story
By Cattie Coyle
Today's post is about Acupressure. We had a number of acupressure classes when I was at Bancroft, but I have to confess that at the time, I was so focused on learning massage that I found it a bit overwhelming to look at health from a TCM perspective, which is … Continue Reading...
SARA Animal Reiki Training in England September 5-8
By Cattie Coyle
SARA President Kathleen Prasad will once again be doing animal Reiki training at Remus Memorial Horse Sanctuary in Essex, England. Remus is home to some of the oldest horses in the world and provides a wonderful and safe space for learning and for sharing … Continue Reading...
NAET: A Natural Way To Get Rid Of Allergies In Both People And Pets
By Cattie Coyle
Is NAET the answer for those of us suffering from allergies? If you've read my "about" blurb, you know that allergies forced me to stop working with animals. But I am allergic to a lot of things, not only animals. I react badly to things like Neosporin, … Continue Reading...