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It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.http://www.gowellbeings.com/2005/10/senior-pet-tips-simple-things-you-can.htmlWell BeingsMon, 17 Oct 2005 23:56:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15283370.post-112961891649771583falsenoSimple Things You Can Do To Make Your Senior Pets More Comfortable, Happy & Healthy By Christine Mandrake, Owner Well Beings - Senior Cat and Dog Products http://www.wellbeings.com Listen to Senior Pet Tips As our beloved companions get older they begin tWell BeingsSimple Things You Can Do To Make Your Senior Pets More Comfortable, Happy & Healthy By Christine Mandrake, Owner Well Beings - Senior Cat and Dog Products http://www.wellbeings.com Listen to Senior Pet Tips As our beloved companions get older they begin to slow down and many suffer from the same age-related wear and tear as we humans do. Arthritis, gastric upsets, diminished senses, sensitivity to extreme heat and cold are just a few. Below is a list of tips you can use to make your senior pet more comfortable, happy and healthy. Even if your dog or cat is not displaying signs of arthritis you can help prevent or slow the onset by staring them on a natural supplement* designed to promote joint and cartilage health. Look for supplements that contain glucosamine, chrondroitin, MSM, vitamin C, white willow bark, boswellin, yucca powder, manganese ascorbate, bromelain, selenium (especially in conjunction with vitamin E), vitamins C, A, and E. In addition, Omega 3 fatty acids from fish oils has shown promise in treating arthritis in animals and humans. Raise their food and water bowls to provide the height that your dog (or cat) needs for healthy eating and drinking. Raised feeders minimize neck strain and reduce air ingestion making them ideal for senior and large breed pets. Be aware of sight and hearing loss. Don't drastically rearrange rooms and furniture. Your pet has probably learned to navigate his/her environment quite well and sudden changes can lead to fear and confusion. When approaching your older pet make sure they can see or hear you coming. A pet with sight or hearing loss can become very startled by an unexpected touch. Clapping your hands or making some other loud noise will alert pets of your approach. The vibrations from walking heavy-footed can also help alert them that someone is coming. Just like people, our pets become more sensitive to extreme heat and cold. Provide pets with a warm place to lie and sleep in the winter, away from drafty windows and doors. Consider buying a heated bed or insert to keep them cozy. In the summer, make sure outdoor areas have plenty of shade and cool fresh water available at all times. Indoors, make sure they have a cool spot away from direct sunlight. And, NEVER leave any pet unattended in a car whether in hot or cold weather. Ramps and special harnesses can make life for seniors much easier and less painful. They can help them climb stairs, get in and out of vehicles, rise from lying down and provide extra support while standing or walking. Cats can greatly benefit from portable stairs that aid them up and down from the bed, couch or other favorite cuddle spot. Lastly, one more thing you can do to make your pet happy and healthy is feeding the best diet you can. Be careful however to introduce dietary changes gradually to avoid tummy upset and diarrhea. The addition of natural vitamins and supplements* can also be of great benefit to our pets, especially seniors. My personal "Holy Trinity" is a good Mulit-Vitamin, EFA (essential fatty acid) and Plant Enzymes and Probiotic Supplement. *The information provided is not intended to diagnose, treat or cure disease. Always consult with your holistic vet before administering any vitamins, supplements or medications to your pet. ==================================================== "Simple Things You Can Do To Make Your Senior Pets More Comfortable" was written by Christine Mandrake. Produced and edited by Well Beings - Senior Cat &amp; Dog Products - Copyright &copy; 2005 http://www.wellbeings.com/ . All Rights Reserved. Find more great articles like this at http://www.wellbeings.com/. ==================================================== ** Attention Ezine editors and Webmasters ** Please feel free to reprint this article in its entirety in your ezine, blog, autoresponder, or on your website. Our only requirements are that you agree to: leave all links in place in the article and resource box not modify the content of the article inclpets holistic news articles cat dogSimple Things You Can Do To Make Your Senior Pets More Comfortable, Happy & Healthy By Christine Mandrake, Owner Well Beings - Senior Cat and Dog Products http://www.wellbeings.com Listen to Senior Pet Tips As our beloved companions get older they begin to slow down and many suffer from the...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://www.gowellbeings.com/2005/10/pet-health-tip-overvaccination-pet.htmlWell BeingsWed, 12 Oct 2005 23:29:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15283370.post-112918580227200539falseWe received this message today. As with all things relating to your pet's health, you should seek the advice of your veterinarian. Unfortunately, most western vets won't agree with holistic vets on the issue of overvaccination. But having an informed discussion will certainly help ensure that you...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://www.gowellbeings.com/2005/10/cat-health-tip-get-dry-food-out-of.htmlWell BeingsSun, 09 Oct 2005 19:26:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15283370.post-112891244452166558falsenoThis announcement is important enough that I thought it appropriate to post it in our Tips &amp; Articles section. Christine just published a statement about why we pulled all the dry cat food off our online store - WellBeings.com. Listen to an audio recoWell BeingsThis announcement is important enough that I thought it appropriate to post it in our Tips &amp; Articles section. Christine just published a statement about why we pulled all the dry cat food off our online store - WellBeings.com. Listen to an audio recording of our statement: Well Beings - Stop Feeding Your Cat Dry Food Full statement (text): "Why Well Beings Decided To Stop Selling Dry Cat Food " "In the process of doing research for our own furry family and for WellBeings.com we have come to believe that dry cat food is not healthy for cats. Cats have evolved as true obligate carnivores. Their natural prey diet provides them with their daily water requirements and they have not evolved or adapted to drinking more water to replace the lack of moisture from a commercial dry kibble diet..." We'll consult with several holistic veterinarians regarding this. And we'll publish this information here. Our experience with our own senior cats confirms this as well. Our Miss Purdy would have been proud of us (she died due to complications with feline diabetes). Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. Or feel free to post a comment. -Jeffery [Related Tags: dry cat food, feline diabetes, well beings, cat health, dry kibble, chronic renal failure, lower urinary disease, cat diet, holistic veterinarian]pets holistic news articles cat dogThis announcement is important enough that I thought it appropriate to post it in our Tips &amp; Articles section. Christine just published a statement about why we pulled all the dry cat food off our online store - WellBeings.com. Listen to an audio recording of our statement: Well Beings -...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://www.gowellbeings.com/2005/10/interview-lucy-postins-honest-kitchen.htmlWell BeingsWed, 05 Oct 2005 22:03:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15283370.post-112857522563928667falsenoPart 2 of 2: Interview With Lucy Postins - The Honest Kitchen - And Christine Mandrake - Well Beings Interview Topics: ================ The Honest Kitchen: about the company, dehydrated raw dog food line, ingredients, manufacturing, health benefits ListenWell BeingsPart 2 of 2: Interview With Lucy Postins - The Honest Kitchen - And Christine Mandrake - Well Beings Interview Topics: ================ The Honest Kitchen: about the company, dehydrated raw dog food line, ingredients, manufacturing, health benefits Listen to the audio for part 2 of this interview. Running time: 5 minutes and 51 seconds. Interview details: ================= Interviewee: The Honest Kitchen: Lucy Postins Interviewer: Well Beings: Christine Mandrake Scheduled interview date and time: 9/27/2005 11:26 A.M. (Pacific Time) ==================================================== This interview was produced and edited by Well Beings - Senior Cat &amp; Dog Products - Copyright &copy; 2005 http://www.wellbeings.com/ . All Rights Reserved. ==================================================== Christine Mandrake [Well Beings]: Okay, great. Let's talk a little bit about how your product is made with only 100 percent human-grade food ingredients. Lucy Postins [The Honest Kitchen]: Yes. Yeah, all our foods are made in a human food factory up in Los Angeles that makes bakery mixes and breakfast cereals, icing, sugar and ground coffee and that type of thing, and we're the only company in the United States that actually has their pet food made in a human food plant, and we had to jump through a lot of hoops with FDA to finally get approval to use the term "human grade" on our product labels, and we had to demonstrate where every single one of our ingredients came from, as well as where the foods are actually finally blended together. Christine Mandrake [Well Beings]: Wow! And so, how will dogs actually benefit from having this human food grade rather than, I guess pet grade is what the other alternative would be? Lucy Postins [The Honest Kitchen]: Right. Pet grade ingredients tend to contain a lot of by-products. This is not always the case, but they can contain a lot of by-products and chemical contaminants; things like ethoxyquin, BHA and BHT, and the way that pet foods are manufactured in pet food facilities; they undergo a lot less inspection than human food would in a human facility, so it just really speaks of the integrity of the raw ingredients in the manufacturing practices; everything is done under a USDA and FDA inspection and under the same stringent controls as a human food would. So, it's not necessarily directly relating to the nutritional content of the food, although, obviously, human foods are generally a lot more nutritious than something that's a by-product used for animal feed, but it's just really the overall quality of the ingredients and the integrity of manufacturing. Christine Mandrake [Well Beings]: Okay, great. Well, you can tell by reading the label; your foods read wonderfully. It's human-grade chicken, flaxseed, potatoes, celery, cabbage; there's nothing in there that you don't understand what that is, but with a lot of other food companies, the ingredient label can be awfully difficult to decipher, and so your foods don't contain any meat meal or chicken meal, and so can you explain a little about that and what kind of meals should people stay away from if they see on a label? Lucy Postins [The Honest Kitchen]: You'd really want to stay away from any type of meal that doesn't have a name species; something like lamb meal or chicken meal is not too bad. If you found something that contained poultry meal or meat meal, or even worse, meat and bone meal, that's definitely something to avoid, and you should put down the bag and look for something else. Whether it's an unnamed species; if it just says a generic like meat meal, that can literally be any type of meat that you could think of, and it ranges from 4D meats, which are dying, diseased, disabled or deceased meats; for example, a cow that's passed away in a field and wasn't fit for human consumption all the way to road kill and other horrible - Christine Mandrake [Well Beings]: Which is pretty shocking that that can actually be put into pet food. Lucypets holistic news articles cat dogPart 2 of 2: Interview With Lucy Postins - The Honest Kitchen - And Christine Mandrake - Well Beings Interview Topics: ================ The Honest Kitchen: about the company, dehydrated raw dog food line, ingredients, manufacturing, health benefits Listen to the audio for part 2 of this...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://www.gowellbeings.com/2005/10/interview-lucy-postins-honest-kitchen_05.htmlWell BeingsWed, 05 Oct 2005 21:48:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15283370.post-112857494604475299falseno Part 1 of 2: Interview With Lucy Postins - The Honest Kitchen - And Christine Mandrake - Well Beings Interview Topics: ================ The Honest Kitchen: about the company, dehydrated raw dog food line, ingredients, manufacturing, health benefits ListeWell Beings Part 1 of 2: Interview With Lucy Postins - The Honest Kitchen - And Christine Mandrake - Well Beings Interview Topics: ================ The Honest Kitchen: about the company, dehydrated raw dog food line, ingredients, manufacturing, health benefits Listen to the audio for part 1 of this interview. Running time: 7 minutes and 45 seconds. Interview details: ================= Interviewee: The Honest Kitchen: Lucy Postins Interviewer: Well Beings: Christine Mandrake Scheduled interview date and time: 9/27/2005 11:26 A.M. (Pacific Time) ==================================================== This interview was produced and edited by Well Beings - Senior Cat &amp; Dog Products - Copyright &copy; 2005 http://www.wellbeings.com/ . All Rights Reserved. ==================================================== Interview Outline: =================== 1. Please tell us about how The Honest Kitchen came to be. How long have you been around, and how did you get started? 2. How is your dehydrated food different from the regular raw foods out there like BARF? Are there advantages to using the dehydrated form? 3. How did you come up with the three different recipes for your dehydrated raw dog foods: Verve, Embark, and Force? Tell us about the ingredients found in each one. 4. Dogs are classified as omnivores, but didn?t their digestive system evolve differently than ours? Can you compare what they?d get in the wild with what your dehydrated foods contain? 5. The label on your dehydrated dog foods says: "This product is made with 100% human food-grade ingredients." Will my dog actually benefit from eating "human-grade" food? 6. What does this mean for the quality of ingredients in foods that cannot make this claim? 7. What is meat meal, chicken meal, etc? Is there a kind of "meal" that we should stay away from? 8. You?ve mentioned the shady practice of "ingredient splitting" in a previous seminar. What is it, and what does it mean for those of us that try to read food labels? 9. Dog allergies are really common these days. Especially skin allergies. Which food would you recommend for this condition ? with the understanding that we can't give any medical advice, so listeners should always consult with their holistic vet. 10. New products from The Honest Kitchen. Dehydrated cat food: Prowl. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Start transcript - Part 1 of 2: Interview with Lucy Postins from The Honest Kitchen and Well Beings --------------------------------------------------------------------- Christine Mandrake [Well Beings]: Good morning, everyone. My name is Christine Mandrake, the owner of WellBeings.com, Senior Cat &amp; Dog Products. Today we are speaking with Lucy Postins, the nutritionist at The Honest Kitchen. Lucy, why don't we start with a little bit about your background and how you started The Honest Kitchen? Lucy Postins [The Honest Kitchen]: Yes, I am originally from England, and I have a Bachelor of Art in equine business studies, which is horses and business management, and the course involved a lot of nutrition, along with anatomy and physiology. I came out to the States about eight years ago and worked as a nutritionist, an equine and canine nutritionist for another pet food manufacturer, and I first became interested in the raw food diet for my own dog when he was a puppy. The company I worked for doesn't advocate raw food, so I began doing homemade diets myself and kind of ended up in rather a messy kitchen, so I wanted to look into something that would make it a little simpler to prepare, something that's easy for traveling and camping and that, so I came up for the idea of dehydrated foods. Christine Mandrake [Well Beings]: Okay, great, and so, basically, that's how your dehydrated food is different from the regular raw foods; it's not a frozen product, correct? Lucy Postins [The Honest Kitchen]: Right, yeah, it's not frozen. All of our ingredients are just gently dehydrated at fairly moderate temperpets holistic news articles cat dogPart 1 of 2: Interview With Lucy Postins - The Honest Kitchen - And Christine Mandrake - Well Beings Interview Topics: ================ The Honest Kitchen: about the company, dehydrated raw dog food line, ingredients, manufacturing, health benefits Listen to the audio for part 1 of this...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://www.gowellbeings.com/2005/10/announcement-interview-with-lucy.htmlWell BeingsSun, 02 Oct 2005 19:40:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15283370.post-112830763486405437falsenoThe transcript is almost ready. You can download the recording of our interview here: Click on the audio link below. Your default audio player should launch the file automatically and start playing the interview. Well Beings Interview With Lucy Postins FrWell BeingsThe transcript is almost ready. You can download the recording of our interview here: Click on the audio link below. Your default audio player should launch the file automatically and start playing the interview. Well Beings Interview With Lucy Postins From The Honest Kitchen - Audio [Tags: the honest kitchen, lucy postins, dehydrated raw dog food, well beings]pets holistic news articles cat dogThe transcript is almost ready. You can download the recording of our interview here: Click on the audio link below. Your default audio player should launch the file automatically and start playing the interview. Well Beings Interview With Lucy Postins From The Honest Kitchen - Audio [Tags: the...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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