Cupid Canines

The way to a Woman’s Heart is not Diamonds, hearts, flowers, candy or balloons…

As Valentine’s Day approaches ,

according to a survey conducted by PetPlan Pet Insurance of more than 4,300 American Pet Parents, 66% of women said they would rather receive Valentine’s kisses from their four-legged friends than their two-legged sweethearts.

And that’s not all. Petplan’s survey reveals that 67% of FEMALE Pet Parents would end a relationship with a significant other if their partner clashed with their pet, and nearly 60% of women plan to spend more on their four-legged loves than their human lovers this Valentine’s Day. Move over diamonds – it looks like Pets are a WOMAN’s Best Friend !

MEN picked their partners over their pets in every category; nearly 60% said kisses would be sweeter from their significant other, and nearly 70% plan to spend the most money on their two-legged honeys this February 14. Less than half of the men surveyed said they would leave a partner who didn’t connect with their pet.

Despite these differences, men and women agreed that their pets make a cute Cupid; 68% polled say their dogs and cats bring them and their significant others closer. And the overwhelming majority (81%) of pet parents plans to give their fur-kids a special gift for Valentine’s Day. (Our annual Valentine’s Day Gift Guide will be posted soon)… lots of goodies for pet parents and their pooches.

“When it comes to our pets, we wear our hearts on our sleeves,”

This Valentine’s Day…

Give your Fur Friend a Healthy GOO Glow !

Thank you Healthy Goo for all your Hard Work and for this blog post.

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and here are some savvy tips on how to find love in all the right doggie places…

http://www.petside.com/article/top-10-ways-dog-lovers-can-find-love

Cupid Costume for Your Dog

Cici would destroy this homemade costume in 2 minutes or less…  (video)

http://www.squidoo.com/cupid-costumes

what do you think, is your pet your best friend and are you buying them a gift and/or dressing them up for V-DAY???

 

Blog Hop time…thanks to Life with Dogs, Two Little Cavaliers and Confessions of the Plume…  grab the blog hop  link

 

Got Dog Allergies?

Does your dog have allergies?  There is nothing worse for a pet parent, owner, guardian, to see their pet suffer, itch, scratch and be downright miserable. When they are miserable, so are we. And too often, it takes a lot of time, energy and money to figure out what is going on, what is wrong and what we can do about it.  I spent time at two different vets, changed Cici’s food and diet numerous times, and still, she itched and licked her paws. It was driving me just plain nutty until I found out about the GOOey Peanut Butter solution (see below)…

Signs your dog has allergies:

• Biting hind quarters
• Scratching or pawing at her ears
• Shaking her head from side to side
• Yeasty smell from ears
• Uncontrollable itching and licking
• Brown, rough spots on her knees
• Hot Spots
• Watery eyes
• Runny nose or dry, crusty nose
• Hair loss (shearing of hair on any part of the body)
• Scabby or scaly patches on skin
• Behavioral changes
• Vomiting
• Diarrhea
• Excessive shedding

Causes of dog allergies:

• Inhalant / seasonal… pollen during any season of the year (similar to hay fever in humans)
• Food sensitivites… beef, chicken, dairy, corn/grain etc
• Environmental… dust mites, mold, grass, wool, feathers, ticks, mosquitoes, the list is endless and Zoe has most of them
• Autoimmune diseases
• Yeast or bacterial infections

For canine allergy sufferers, about 85 percent of the time the culprit is mold, dust mites, pollen and other environmental factors – not food as so many people suspect.

http://www.examiner.com/article/tackling-dog-allergies-with-doggy-goo

Solution:  Doggy Goo

Dr. Kristin Holm DVM Veterinary Dermatologist has created Doggy GOO, an amazing product that dogs and their owners LOVE. Dogs LOVE to lick it off the spoon (it’s peanut butter, YUM). Cici thinks it’s a tasty treat. We heartily recommend this product because of the ease of delivery to the dog and fun watching said dog LICK IT lickity split… LOL…

Meanwhile, Doggy GOO builds Immune System Tolerance to Environmental Allergens, as well as supports balances the functionality and immune response health in Cici.

Whether you wish to Pre-emptively build Immune Tolerance to Enviro Allergens in your Puppy or young Dog, Or if you have a Dog that is Allergy Stressed, Doggy GOO offers You and your Pet a Sublingual GOO-Licious, 100% Natural, Allergy CARE Option that has been Clinically shown to bring immune system balance and health back to your Dog.

A recent Veterinary Dermatologist Clinical Study / Abstract indicates that Sublingual Delivery i.e. Doggy GOO is Equal to Allergy “Ouch” Shots for immunotherapy neutralization of Dust Mite Allergy.

Doggy GOO sublingually builds Immune System Tolerance to 3 Grass, 3 Tree, 4 Weed Pollens, 2 Mites and 3 Molds.

The “GOO” in Doggy GOO™ is the best Organic Peanut Butter on today’s “Human” market.

A word about Peanut Butter…

When you Think American, you think Mom, Apple Pie, Hot Dogs, Baseball, Football, NASCAR and of course PB & J ! Found in 75% of American homes, Peanut Butter is as American as it gets. What child or adult, in the gut wrenching ravages of hunger has not grabbed a jar of their favorite peanut butter, their sweet tooth craving jelly, jam or preserve, maybe a little butter and a loaf of bread and hunkered down to make the most favorite tasty snack on the planet… PB & J ! To call Peanut Butter a Food is a vast injustice to this humble appetite quenching, protein filled powerhouse. For many, Peanut Butter transcends the definition of a Food. It moves beyond a Snack, almost approaching a cult or state of nirvana. Satisfying a craving that can only be filled by the combination of peanut butter with preserves, onions, mustard, mayonnaise, hard boiled eggs, banana, chocolate, oatmeal, ricotta, on an hamburger, in a smoothie.. you name it ! From its humble roots since first being developed in 1890, when a St. Louis physician suggested processing and packaging ground peanut paste into a nutritious protein substitute.  To now, when Top Chefs all over the world have embraced this GOOey substance for it’s taste, versatility and creative possibilities in some of today’s most innovative dishes!

And

DOGs LOVE Peanut Butter!

Dr. Kristin says, “We chose 100% Natural Peanut Butter for a number of critical reasons. To begin, DOGs just Luv Peanut Butter, which ensures high “Patient / Dog Compliance” for Doggy GOO’s allergy focus. And because Doggy GOO is regarded as a Tasty Treat by your Dog, Pet Parent compliance is also virtually guaranteed to keep both the Pet and Pet Parent’s GOO Allergy Fight going!”

Dr. Kristin further explains, “But there is more to GOO than meets the Dog’s Taste Buds. You see, Peanut Butter was not only chosen for its Tasty Treat appeal, but for its Lick / Lick / Lick GOOey-ness. You see, Doggy GOO employs what is called a Sublingual Delivery methodology in its fight against Canine Allergies. Whereby the Pet Parent is told to spread a small amount of Doggy GOO onto a clean bowl or plate and the Dog has to repeatedly Lick / Lick / Lick up their GOO. While this is a GOO-Licious Tasty Treat for the Dog, with every GOO Lick, small amounts of Enviro Allergy ingredients are brought into the Dogs mouth, where the mouth is slathered with GOO Juice. It is via this GOO Juice presence to the thin mucosal skin of the Dog’s mouth that the Allergy ingredients are Sublingually absorbed into the bloodstream. Which following absorption, the Allergy Ingredient Bio-Availability to the BloodStream begins to leverage the adaptive power of the immune system to build tolerance to these offending allergy sources and begins to work its Allergy Magic.

in other words, Doggy GOO is Dog GOO-ilicious…

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www.DoggyGOO.com

Soon, the good folks at Doggy Goo will be introducing another product to address GI immune issues, GUT issues, pre and pro-biotic…

Got questions?

http://www.doggygoo.com/FAQ.aspx

spread the goo

It is Happy Peanut Butter month and what better way to celebrate than to add a little Healthy Goo to your dog’s life???  Cici is now itch-free and drools at the sight of her Goo. So get a jar, a spoon and get your dog on the Goo today.

Spread a little Goo and Fight Canine Allergies Too

Doggy GOO™ makes the Serious Business of Fighting Canine Allergy Itch Fun ! FUN for You Tasty Treat FUN for your Dog   with 100% Natural, GOO-licious Peanut Butter !   And to celebrate National Peanut Butter Lovers Month, Healthy GOO has a Spread the GOO Promotion with $ 5 Savings on Doggy GOO.

When you Think American, you think Mom, Apple Pie, Hot Dogs, Baseball, Football, NASCAR and of course PB & J ! Found in 75% of American homes, Peanut Butter is as American as it gets. What child or adult, in the gut wrenching ravages of hunger has not grabbed a jar of their favorite peanut butter, their sweet tooth craving jelly, jam or preserve, maybe a little butter and a loaf of bread and hunkered down to make their favorite tasty snack on the planet… PB & J ! To call Peanut Butter a Food is a vast injustice to this humble appetite quenching, protein filled powerhouse. For many, Peanut Butter transcends the definition of a Food. It moves beyond a Snack, to a state of nirvana. Satisfying a craving, what does it better than peanut butter? In 1890, a St. Louis physician suggested processing and packaging ground peanut paste into a nutritious protein substitute.  Now, Top Chefs all over the world have embraced this GOOey substance for its taste, versatility and creative possibilities in some of today’s most innovative dishes! In symbiosis with this Peanut Butter Renaissance, Healthy GOO, an innovative Pet HealthCare Company has embraced 100% Natural Peanut Butter as “The” critical patient compliance ingredient in its Canine Allergy Product, which is Cute & Playfully called Doggy GOO.  DOGs just go Craaaazzy for Peanut Butter. Healthy GOO’s Medical Director and Veterinary Dermatologist Dr Kristin Holm explains why there is a Canine Allergy Fighting Method to its Peanut Butter / Doggy GOO Madness. “We chose 100% Natural Peanut Butter for a number of critical reasons. To begin, DOGs just Luv Peanut Butter, which ensures high “Patient / Dog Compliance” for Doggy GOO’s allergy focus. And because Doggy GOO is regarded as a Tasty Treat by your Dog, Pet Parent compliance is also virtually guaranteed to keep both the Pet and Pet Parent’s GOO Allergy Fight going!” Dr. Kristin further explains, “But there is more to GOO than meets the Dog’s Taste Buds. You see, Peanut Butter was not only chosen for its Tasty Treat appeal, but for its Lick / Lick / Lick GOOey-ness. You see, Doggy GOO employs what is called a Sublingual Delivery methodology in its fight against Canine Allergies. Pet Parents spread a small amount of Doggy GOO onto a clean bowl or plate, so that the Dog has to repeatedly Lick / Lick / Lick up their GOO. But while this is a GOO-Licious Tasty Treat for the Dog, with every GOO Lick, small amounts of Enviro Allergy ingredients are brought into the Dogs mouth, and the mouth is slathered with GOO Juice. It is via this GOO Juice presence to the thin mucosal skin of the Dog’s mouth that the Allergy ingredients are Sublingually absorbed into the bloodstream. It is via this GOO Juice presence, followed by absorption, that the Bio-Availability to the BloodStream begins to leverage the adaptive power of the immune system to build tolerance to these offending allergy sources and begins to work its Allergy Magic. Given Peanut Butter’s critical patient / dog compliance role in Doggy GOO’s Allergy Fight and in Celebration of November Peanut Butter Lovers Month, Healthy GOO offers its Spread the GOO Promotion with a $ 5 Savings ( Promotion Code PB&GOO5 ) toward each Doggy GOO Purchase thru December 5 2011. Please visit www.DoggyGOO.com and enter your GOO Promo Code. Dr Kristin shares ” A Dog’s Healthy Immune System can Fight Off much of what Life Throws at it Everyday. But when it comes to a Mis-Wired Allergy Immune System, Mother Nature can’t do it on her own, she needs a little extra Doggy GOO Re-Calibration Help. Doggy GOO celebrates Peanut Butter for making Fighting Canine Allergies FUN for Pet and Pet Parent.”.         A Dal named Rico drooling (for Goo) or food…   http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/drool6.htm

allergies are nothing to sneeze at

you all know how Cici has been itchy forever… and how I tried to feed her out of it, change her diet… took her to the vet, who gave her toxic pills and a shot and cost an arm, a leg and a foot, how I gave her coconut oil internally and externally and other natural topic remedies including Dr. Harvey’s wonderful herbal protection shampoo…

and although the diet, shampoo and oil are all good, she was still itchy. Much better, but still a bit itchy.

So into the fray of dog itchy madness comes Super Goo… to save my dog…created by a vet, this organic peanut butter with super immune building extracts to get at the root causes of doggie distress… means no more itchy paws, ears, scratching, bumps and misery… could it be true and Goo-berlicious, too?

here is what is going on so far… have to keep the doggie goo refrigerated… try to make it as thin as possible in the bowl and do not feed water or food for a few minutes afterward… this week she is getting two teaspoons of goo a day.

well, the goo is definitely gooey… and it is funny to watch cici lick it off her tongue for several minutes… sticky… at first, she did not want to eat/lick it but I made yummy noises and held the bowl for her and she licked it all up… I guess she trusts me to know what is goo for her LOL… plus I now have a goo song for her… sung to the tune of good vibrations (beach boys) but instead of good vibrations, I sing gooberations…  am picking up gooberations, she’s giving me gooberations… goo goo goo gooberations…

am supposed to be giving her an accelerated protocol, to see how she does, as a gooey pig (similar to a guinea pig)… and this week, we start off slow just to get her used to the goo…

she is much better itchy wise, but still has a little itching going on … what I noticed was that her front paws are no longer all blackish and she does not seem to scratch and lick anywhere near as much as she was doing… so hopefully the goo will take care of the rest of the itches… sounds good to me… what do you think??? here is what the company says….

allergy prone dogs?

ALLERGIES [ Are Nothing to Sneeze AT ]  For Man or DOG !

While Allergies in Man & Dog have been long regarded more as a nuisance, rather than a legitimate “Medical Disease”. More and more everyday, Medical Professionals and Pro-Active Medical Consumers are realizing that ALLERGY is actually an “Engine of Disease”, which drives a progressive sequence of multiple diseases throughout a sufferers life.

Unfortunately, everyday you see the Skin, Health & compromised Quality of Life for You and Your Pet, as the result of ALLERGIES. In fact, it is estimated that up to 25% of all Canine’s suffer from Allergies. Research further supports that some of our most popular Breeds are Genetically Predisposed to an even higher incidence of Allergy.

While many PET Parents move to special FOOD Diets in an effort to mitigate their DOGs constant Itching, Biting, Ear & Skin Issues .. hoping / Thinking them to be FOOD Allergy Driven…

Research indicates that 85% of All ALLERGY Canine’s suffer not from Food Allergy But from Allergy to Tree / Weed / Grass / Pollens, Mites & Mold Spores.

So while special Foods are nutritious and Food rotation is suggested  They do nothing to address / treat the canine’s true Source of Allergy Source i.e. Environmentals.

Friendly Reminder: Whether Man or Animal, Med’s only fool the body into believing that there is No Problem by masking symptoms. Unfortunately, Allergy is Not a Static Disease, rather a lifetime, progressive, cumulative, source of chronic inflammation whose progression continues / exacerbates unabated, only to re-emerge with a vengeance when the med’s wear off.

To address this suffering canine population, under the Veterinary Dermatologist / Medical Director leadership of Dr. Kristin Holm, Healthy GOO is pleased to introduce Doggy GOO !

In addition to Supporting and Balancing the Innate, Acquired & GUT Tier’s of your Dog’s Immune System, Doggy GOO also sublingually builds natural immune system tolerance to everyday Grass / Tree / Weed Pollens, Mites and Mold Spores .

And BEST of ALL, It’s achieved 100% GOO Naturally !

While sounding Cute & Playful, Doggy GOO is All Veterinary Dermatologist BUSINESS !

100% Natural, Scientifically Formulated by Healthy GOO’s Medical Director, Dr. Kristin Holm, a Board-Certified Veterinary Dermatologist.

Clinically-supported beneficial yeast ingredient engages the body’s first line / innate immune defenses with the correct / respective response to a wide range of challenges depending on the need, but it also works together, with the other facets of the dog’s immune system toward optimal immune support, prebiotic sourcing, anti-oxidation and overall health harmonization. As a dried, complex fermentation product comprised of beneficial metabolites, proteins, peptides, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, polyphenols, organic acids, beta-glucans and mannans, it contains the same active ingredient that is found in the human supplement EpiCor™.

Clinically supported, environmental extracts leverage the adaptive capability of the acquired immune tier by Sublingually building Immune System Tolerance to common Environmental Allergens including 3 – Grasses, 3 – Trees, 4 – Weeds, 2 – Dust Mites, 3 – Molds and 2 – Foods ( Beef & Wheat).

Clinically supported, Bacillus coagulans / BC30™ Probiotic displaces undesirable bacteria in the GI tract and regulates the digestive system by successfully colonizing the intestines and producing lactic acid.  This results in an increased response to various pathogen challenges and improved digestibility of nutrients for better absorption.

Suggested Uses include:
1) Pre-Emptively building immune system tolerance to environmental allergy sources in dams, puppies or breeds that are genetically predisposed to atopy;
2) Establishing and building long-term immune tolerance to environmental allergens, allowing eventual discontinuation of short-term immune-suppressive medications; and
3) Establishing and maintaining gastrointestinal tract health, with the added benefits of strengthening the immune system.

Before Cyclosporine, Steroids or Allergy Immunotherapy SHOTs, may we suggest trying 100% natural Doggy GOO™.

The “GOO” in Doggy GOO™ is the best Organic Peanut Butter on today’s “Human” market. And because Doggy GOO is Dog GOO-ilicious, not only is 100% pet compliance ensured, but the PET will make sure that their Owner is also 100% compliant.

Aspects of Doggy GOO are presently patent-pending.

* These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

 

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