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Living with Dog Deafness (Part 2)

Description: Practical tactics for how to communicate with a dog who’s lost his or her hearing to ensure they remain active family members.  Solutions to help your deaf dog remain a member of the family.

Tessa, our 12 year old toy poodle, started going deaf when she was about 9.  We did quite a bit of trial and error to find a way to communicate with her.

Sign Language
Our family begins teaching hand signals to all our dogs as soon as they arrive.  One dog, Friday, was quite adept at signals and started training us by looking at the object he wanted, then to our eyes, then back to the object, and then to our eyes until we looked at the item and gave it to him.  With Tessa, these lessons proved invaluable for both her humans and her, as they allowed us to “speak” to each other, even though she couldn’t hear us.

To get her to follow us, we used a hand held open to the ceiling, and folded our fingers over our palms repetitively.  Telling her it was time for bed simply meant we point to her, then to her bed.  To communicate that it was time to go lay down (and quit begging), we used an arm, with hand held palm down to the ground, then showed her a “shooing” motion where the forearm and hand were moved as one from the person’s side until it was perpendicular to the floor.  For asking her to follow us, we crooked our index finger at her (a common “come here” motion used between parents and kids).  Of course, there were others, but the hard part was getting her attention.

Getting Their Attention
Getting your pets’ attention can be difficult if your dog is deaf. There are a few tricks you can use to get him or her to look your direction to see your hand signals.

The first thing most people try is using vibration, through stomping.  A good stomp from the direction you want your dog to look in will have them looking about to see what the potential danger is.  After they understand that the stomp means you want to communicate with them, he or she will be more likely to respond by looking for you sooner the next time.  Stomping around, however, isn’t always possible nor is it a preferred method of communication.

There are several other options to get your deaf or hard-of-hearing dogs’ attention include the tickle method.  Purchase a cat toy with a feather the end of about a yard long stick.  It doesn’t look that hard to make, if you are a Do-It-Yourself sort of person.  Personally, I used a wooden dowel, cut a notch into it in, put a string into the notch, then added a pheasant feather I found on the road during a walk to the dangling part of the string.  After you have this tool, use it to touch the feather to the back of your dog’s ear.  He or she will turn around to try and catch the thing tickling them, see you, giving you the opportunity to hand signal communicate again.  This is a simple option, but I found it difficult to keep the cat toy around close enough to use every time I needed my dogs attention.

Another method to get their attention, one I don’t condone, that I call the spray method.  This method involves a spray bottle of water, set to stream, but you carry around on your belt.  When you need your pet to look at you for communication, spray the water so it hits your dog.  Where this method works very well to get them looking around, it puts them directly in flight or fight mode, much as stomping does, floor vibration is part of normal life.  Getting water sprayed at them is not normal and I worry about the impact this startling option has on their heart.

The best way to get your deaf or hard-of-hearing dog to look your direction is still with a loving stroke along their ear, back, tail, foot, or anything else in reach, which we refer to as the soft touch.  Normally, this action doesn’t produce the fight or flight reaction in your dog that the other methods cause.

It’s always up to you and your dog to choose the right solution for your pack.  We chose the soft touch method to use as our primary method of getting Tessa’s attention and it worked beautifully, clear up to the point where we had to help her cross over.

For more information about how I care for my dogs, please visit furheads.com or search the site you’re on now for more articles I’ve written.

Disclosure Statement:  I am not a veterinarian; I do not diagnose medical issues, offer medical advice, prescribe drugs, or perform surgery.  I am a freelance journalist writing about my experiences with my own dogs, incorporating many different complimentary tools found for my own dogs to overcome potential health concerns I have for them.  I have been keeping a journal of my findings since July of 1996; I have been privileged to work with several hundred other canines and their families in a wide range of life situations as of the writing of this statement and will gladly provide references should you desire them. Your dog(s) may benefit from the care I’ve provided my own dogs, based on knowledge gained through this experience, courses taken/taught, and animal communication.  My role is that of facilitator, assisting you and your dog(s) to attain or maintain a naturally healthy state. The specific results you may see, should you decide to try some of what we’ve done in our family, will be different for each animal. In addition to the articles I write and publish, I also teach massage, Usui Reiki, Quantum Touch, and Animal Communication to owners, caretakers, and practitioners; sell products for animals in these and other holistic and vibrational modalities; provide references to other animal communicators and practitioners.

Living with Dog Deafness (Part 1)

Description: Practical tactics for how to communicate with a dog who’s lost his or her hearing to ensure they remain active family members.  Solutions to help your deaf dog remain a member of the family.

Tessa was very close to completely deaf by the time she was twelve.  It made it quite difficult for everyone within our family unit because our family had young children during her transition to deafness.  Tessa was afraid of them to begin with, but when she no longer had the warning of hearing them coming, she became even more fearful.  Before we actively started putting solutions we dreamed up into place for Tess, she started nipping and biting from a place of fear and self-protection.

Dealing with Family Conflict
At first, to correct the problem, we simply separated her from the kids.  They were at school most of the day, so it was only a problem at night and in the evenings.  However, during the holiday breaks, we watched her grow from mostly tolerant of the kids’ antics and activities to what seemed like spiteful.  She started waiting for them around corners and attacking them, much as she thought they were doing to her.  She took every opportunity she could to either urinate or defecate in their bedroom.  She’d make her way over to their lap blankets if she needed to vomit.  Even for dogs, it’s apparent that all’s fair in love and war!  The kids started becoming as afraid of her as she was of them because she would come running out of her basket at them, barking and growling, at them.  We, the human adults in the family, needed to correct the situation immediately so our household could return to healthy, happy, safe, and secure for all members.

Essentially, we took a three fold set of solutions and implemented them all at once, attacking the problem from both sides at once.

1. Tessa’s solutions
   • Begin hand signal training. It turned into a special Sign Language just for her and our family members to communicate.
   • Create a special safety zone where the kids aren’t allowed.
2. Bring the two opposing sides together
   • We encouraged the kids to carry treats to feed Tess whenever they were afraid of her.
   • Any time Tessa got fed, the kids were the only ones to do it.  This way, Tessa knew without a doubt that the kids really wanted her to be well.
3. Kids’ solutions
   • Create a special safety zone where Tessa wasn’t allowed.  This was more difficult than we thought, as Tess had already developed the habit of trying to do her “business” in their room.  We opted for putting a small gate in their doorway that would open from the top with a handle.  Tess couldn’t get in, but the kids weren’t cut off from the rest of the family, either.
   • Make up reminder phrases for the kids like “walking feet” and “look before you leap.” This turned into something of a game for everyone as we tried to come up with memorable phrases.  In fact, it expanded to such a degree that just about everything in a dog’s life in our house now has a unique phrase associated with it – even their food!

There were, of course, still the occasional disagreements between the two sides, but they no longer were truly opposing one another and things started to settle back down to normal.

For more information about how I care for my dogs, please visit furheads.com or search the site you’re on now for more articles I’ve written.

Disclosure Statement:  I am not a veterinarian; I do not diagnose medical issues, offer medical advice, prescribe drugs, or perform surgery.  I am a freelance journalist writing about my experiences with my own dogs, incorporating many different complimentary tools found for my own dogs to overcome potential health concerns I have for them.  I have been keeping a journal of my findings since July of 1996; I have been privileged to work with several hundred other canines and their families in a wide range of life situations as of the writing of this statement and will gladly provide references should you desire them. Your dog(s) may benefit from the care I’ve provided my own dogs, based on knowledge gained through this experience, courses taken/taught, and animal communication.  My role is that of facilitator, assisting you and your dog(s) to attain or maintain a naturally healthy state. The specific results you may see, should you decide to try some of what we’ve done in our family, will be different for each animal. In addition to the articles I write and publish, I also teach massage, Usui Reiki, Quantum Touch, and Animal Communication to owners, caretakers, and practitioners; sell products for animals in these and other holistic and vibrational modalities; provide references to other animal communicators and practitioners.

From my Poodles:
“Rinds, Rinds, Cucumber Rinds.
They’re really just not sublime.
We leave them around
The house till they’re found!”

Whenever my family leaves the house,  our Shetland sheepdog’s animal instincts start to kick in.

He runs circles around us and nips at our heels to keep us all together.

Watching this display, my friend couldn’t resist: “You always herd the ones you love.”

~ Jolene Hueholt, Charlottesville, Virginia

Treating Injuries for Elderly Dogs Holistically

Description: How we decided to treat an injury in one of our family’s elderly dogs. Injuries like torn ligaments, for an older dog, often mean longer-term recovery times.

Common everyday activities for a young dog cause problems all of a sudden. For small elderly dogs this is present more this presents more of a problem because they are more likely to jump down from beds, couches, chairs, and window sills. But big dogs have trouble too, with things like jumping in and out of vehicles, going up and down a whole flight of stairs, and, depending on where they primarily live (in or out of doors), the might have trouble getting in and out of bed. All dogs, whatever their size, can get hurt in just simple game of chase. For example, chasing balls or chasing critters out of their yard. As with people, dogs bones become more brittle and joints tend to stiffen up as they age.

We recently experienced this painful reality (painful for your dog, but also for your heart) with a close family member’s dog, Mattie. Mattie is a Yorkshire terrier and has all the “big” attitude of the large terriers. NO ONE is going to tell HER what to do!

She was lying on the easy chair, next to her person, when she heard a noise and bailed off the foot rest. In the process, she tore a ligament in one of her hips. Upon landing, she immediately favored the back leg and refused to put weight on.

After I spoke with her, using animal communication, and determined that the leg wasn’t broken or fractured, we began a holistic treatment on her, beginning with Quantum Touch and immediate mandatory bed rest and stillness. We also gave her cranberry powder pills, up to four throughout the day, for the anti-inflammatory effects it lends, and a homeopathic remedy of Arnica Montana (I recommend using Boiron brand, 30c, one to two of their little ball tablets four times daily, as it’s quite effective when treating injuries like the one Mattie had), which treats muscle trauma and bruising. To round it all off, and ensure we had a complete holistic treatment, we loaded a few frequency sets from the FreX Sound Therapy program and played those on a regular basis for her while she slept.

After a week she was doing better, but still was not as well as desired, so my Aunt began to think that maybe I had misheard her in my animal communication, so they made an appointment with their vet. However, upon doing a quite thorough exam, her vet, too, determined that she needed more of what we were already doing. They offered to prescribe some medications for her, to ease the pain, but my Aunt respectfully declined. On the way home, I suggested Mattie wear a harness and be tied to her basket, be kept off the couch and chairs, and sleep in her basket as well, so she didn’t have the opportunity to re-injure herself. It was a method we could make Mattie’s strong terrier personality allow the healing to take place. I explained that it was what I had to do for my own Molly, a toy poodle, to ensure that she’d heal from a very similar injury, and my Aunt decided that this was a good plan.

Where I can’t say I tell anyone but my Aunt such a strongly worded opinion that the leg isn’t broken or fractured it’s just muscle and soft tissue based animal communication, I can say that I’d recommend x-rays, if you find yourself in a similar situation. I don’t recommend the drugs that vets, allopaths, (which simply means, according to the dictionary, “the method of treating disease by the use of agents that produce effects different from those of the disease treated, is opposed to homeopathy”) typically recommend, as they often only suppress the pain, rather than treat the underlying root cause. If we had a vet who practiced canine acupuncture closer to my Aunt’s home, I would have definitely taken Mattie there, as they can relieve pain swiftly, without any medications necessary, in cases like this one.

For more information about how I care for my dogs, please visit
furheads.com or search the site you’re on now for more articles I’ve
written.

Disclosure Statement:  I am not a veterinarian; I
do not diagnose medical issues, offer medical advice, prescribe drugs,
or perform surgery.  I am a freelance journalist writing about my
experiences with my own dogs, incorporating many different complimentary tools found for my own dogs to overcome potential health concerns I have for them.  I have been keeping a journal of my findings since July of 1996;
I have been privileged to work with several hundred other canines and
their families in a wide range of life situations as of the writing of
this statement and will gladly provide references should you desire them. Your dog(s) may benefit from the care I’ve provided my own dogs, based on knowledge gained through this experience, courses taken/taught, and animal communication.

My
role is that of facilitator, assisting you and your dog(s) to attain or
maintain a naturally healthy state. The specific results you may see,
should you decide to try some of what we’ve done in our family, will be
different for each animal.

In
addition to the articles I write and publish, I also teach massage,
Usui Reiki, Quantum Touch, and Animal Communication to owners,
caretakers, and practitioners; sell products for animals in these and
other holistic and vibrational modalities; provide references to other
animal communicators and practitioners.

Using FreX Frequency Therapy for Your Dog

Description:  How we use FreX to deliver Dr. Royal Rife’s frequency therapy to our dogs to cure liver cancer. By using the same concept as the opera singer uses to burst the champagne flute, frequency therapy bursts the cell walls of harmful disease causing microbes.

Today, there are many options to choose from if your dog becomes unwell.  Most people are aware of many complimentary therapies available for dogs like chiropractic, acupuncture, homeopathics, and nutrition.  Veterinarian care, using medications are available, of course, as well.  People have also become educated about T-Touch, Quantum-Touch, Qi-Gong, and Reiki, as well as applied and learned some of these technologies themselves to use on their dogs and their whole family.  For my pack, I utilize all these things, as well as a tool I’ve learned of just in the past year, FreX.

FreX is a program that delivers sounds to your computer speakers in a particular order, to rid the body of cells making your dog (or you!) ill.  The frequencies used were developed by Dr. Royal Rife in the 1930’s.  Essentially, the frequencies follow the same idea as the opera singer who burst the champagne flute  from across the room with only her voice singing a particular note (high C).  Dr. Rife discovered that all cells resonate at particular frequencies and, if placed at that frequency longer than about 160 seconds, the cell wall will burst, just as the champagne flute did.

Dr. Rife published his findings in several magazines including The Smithsonian, Popular Science and The Journal Of Dr. Cooperson and Dr. Clayton, all which include the fact that Dr. Rife found he could cure cancer using non-invasive means!  When I discovered that one of my dogs, Moe, a10 year old female toy poodle, had liver cancer and was in danger of renal failure, I went through all the resources I could find on the subject and finally found FreX.  I followed instructions and joined the online support group and just kept going with everything for two weeks.  I “FreXed” her twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week for those two weeks.  She seemed to feel better after just six hours of the Frex working and I was impressed with that alone.

Over the course of the next three days, she became much as she was when just a pup!  I questioned the support group about his, who all rejoiced, saying that she was now well – take her back to the vets to check.  I made the appointment with the vet, but couldn’t get in without an emergency for ten more days.  He told me to “keep her comfortable” and that he’d see me then.  Over the following ten days leading to the appointment, she continued to behave like a very healthy puppy with LOTS of energy.

When we got in for the appointment, the vet did x-rays, ultrasounds, and felt over and over for the tumor.  There was nothing.  He called in a second vet to double-check his findings.  She also found absolutely nothing.  There was not a single sign of the cancer they’d found just two weeks earlier.  When they asked about what I was doing for Moe to get these remarkable results, I told them about FreX.  Probably, my vet is the only one in the world right now who sells this fantastic program!

Where cancer is an extreme example, we’ve also used FreX for things like muscle spasms, dental problems (foci or parasites), ear infections, deworming and detox, itchy paws, getting rid of fleas and ticks, digestive problems like gas, and a host of other things.  In our pack the first line of defense is nutrition, through a raw food diet, and second-in-command is FreX.  We use it in conjunction with the other healing sounds from furheads.com, of course, and where applicable any of the other holistic modalities available to us.

Using FreX is easy.  You open it up, search for the dis-ease causing problems, then add it to the buffer.  After you’ve selected all the frequency sets you’d like to run, simply load it into the buffer, then click start.  That opens another window where you can adjust the sound level (I recommend you turn this down to almost nothing before you click run, then adjust the sound level from there, as some of the frequencies just plain hurt your ears if they’re too loud).  Then click “run.”  That’s it!  It’s running and weakening those cell walls of the harmful microbes causing the dis-ease in your dog’s (or your own!) body.  I created a step-by-step video of how to do this at http://www.furheads.com/free/frex.htm.

In our pack, we found that staying in the same room as the sounds gives better results than if you turn them on and leave the room.  Typically, we see our dogs feel better within a four to six hour time period.  Where this tools is a fantastic addition to our toolset in wellness, we do work with a holistic veterinarian who encourages exploration of complimentary therapies.  We’ve had some great results with this combination of tools and want to share!

For more information about how I care for my dogs, please visit furheads.com or search the site you’re on now for more articles I’ve written.

Disclosure Statement:  I am not a veterinarian; I do not diagnose medical issues, offer medical advice, prescribe drugs, or perform surgery.  I am a freelance journalist writing about my experiences with my own dogs, incorporating many different complimentary tools found for my own dogs to overcome potential health concerns I have for them.  I have been keeping a journal of my findings since July of 1996; I have been privileged to work with several hundred other canines and their families in a wide range of life situations as of the writing of this statement and will gladly provide references should you desire them. Your dog(s) may benefit from the care I’ve provided my own dogs, based on knowledge gained through this experience, courses taken/taught, and animal communication.

My role is that of facilitator, assisting you and your dog(s) to attain or maintain a naturally healthy state. The specific results you may see, should you decide to try some of what we’ve done in our family, will be different for each animal.

In addition to the articles I write and publish, I also teach massage, Usui Reiki, Quantum Touch, and Animal Communication to owners, caretakers, and practitioners; sell products for animals in these and other holistic and vibrational modalities; provide references to other animal communicators and practitioners.

Example Raw Food Diet Menu for Dogs

Description:  An example Raw Food Diet menu for how I feed my older dogs each day.

Many people, after they’ve decided to move from a kibble diet to a raw food diet, haven’t any idea where to start in order to select a healthful meal for their dog.  Considering this, I thought I’d share an example meal I give my own older (age 10 and 12) dogs and why I decided on those items and times.  My dogs are older and don’t need as much as a pup would.  So for an older dog, the menu looks like:

Unlimited throughout the day

• Fresh water in a glass bowl

• Cauliflower

• Carrots

• Tomatoes

• Asparagus

• Green Bell Pepper

Breakfast

• 3-5% of their weight in pork riblets

Training treats

• Apricots

• 10 raw almonds

Afternoon

• 2 tablespoons pumpkin

• 2-4 ounces organic cranberry juice

Evening

• 1 Turkey tail ( if they’ve been active or if it’s very cold outside)

• Supplements

  • 1 Digestive enzyme tablet

  • 1 Chlorella tablet

  • 1 Flax oil tablet

  • 1 Fish oil tablet

  • 1 Brewer’s Yeast tablet

For my older dogs, I make sure they’ve got a 40-30-30 ratio of meat-bone-fat.  The meat gives the building blocks for new muscle to develop as well as a stringy consistency for cleaning back teeth.  Bone provides the right kind of digestible calcium for a dog’s body.  Fat, thought to be a bad thing in human diets, provides the opportunity for a dog to floss” their front teeth and helps their digestive tract get the right pH level.

The veggies are selected from all colors available and should include at least one from each color family.

• Tomatoes are high in the antioxidant vitamins beta-carotene, vitamin C and vitamin E, as well as the carotenoid lycopene. This means that tomatoes are helpful in preventing heart disease and cancers. Tomatoes are also high in potassium but very low in sodium which means they help combat high blood pressure and fluid retention.

• Asparagus is one of the most nutritionally well-balanced vegetables, providing potassium, fiber, folacin, thiamin, vitamin B6, rutin (an antioxidant).  It also contains glutathione (GSH). GSH is one of the most potent anti carcinogens and antioxidants found.

• Cauliflower provides indole-3-carbinol (13C), the photonutrient sulforaphane, vitamin C, folate, vitamin E and betacarotene.

• Carrots provide beta-carotene, which turns into Vitamin A in the intestines.  They also provide fiber, antioxidants, and crucial minerals.

Our selection of fruits are used mostly as treats more than an unlimited sort of food.  I select fruits that are easy to carry around for training needs, as well as for digestive and taste preferences.

• Apricots are a preferred fruit and make training easy.

• Pumpkin is a unique food in that it regulates the stool consistency to a happy medium.  I use this fresh if I can, but will also get it in a can (Libby’s) if necessary.

• Cranberry juice has some surprising benefits including anti-inflammatory for arthritic joints.  It does, of course, also deliver the same urinary tract benefits as it does for humans.

Raw almonds provide protein, calcium, B vitamins, and healthy fats.  My dogs love them, so I use them as a training sort of treat, as well, since they’re do just about anything to get me to part with them!

If cold, or if my dog was exceptionally busy, I’ll add a second meat meal, in the form of a turkey tail, too.

Supplements included provide various benefits, too, such as

• Flax oil provides Omega 3-6-9.

• Fish oil provides Omega 3-6-9.

• Brewer’s Yeast keeps fleas and ticks at bay.

• Chlorella is a natural superfood and provides a gentle detox.

• Digestive enzymes ensure the flora of the digestive system remains in tip top shape.

Lastly, I need to reiterate a warning about what foods your dog(s) should never, never, never eat.

• Chocolate
• Onions
• Macadamia nuts
• Raisins
• Grapes

For more information about how I care for my dogs, please visit furheads.com or search the site you’re on now for more articles I’ve written.

Disclosure Statement:  I am not a veterinarian; I do not diagnose medical issues, offer medical advice, prescribe drugs, or perform surgery.  I am a freelance journalist writing about my experiences with my own dogs, incorporating many different complimentary tools found for my own dogs to overcome potential health concerns I have for them.  I have been keeping a journal of my findings since July of 1996; I have been privileged to work with several hundred other canines and their families in a wide range of life situations as of the writing of this statement and will gladly provide references should you desire them. Your dog(s) may benefit from the care I’ve provided my own dogs, based on knowledge gained through this experience, courses taken/taught, and animal communication.  My role is that of facilitator, assisting you and your dog(s) to attain or maintain a naturally healthy state. The specific results you may see, should you decide to try some of what we’ve done in our family, will be different for each animal. In addition to the articles I write and publish, I also teach massage, Usui Reiki, Quantum Touch, and Animal Communication to owners, caretakers, and practitioners; sell products for animals in these and other holistic and vibrational modalities; provide references to other animal communicators and practitioners.

Common Sense in Feeding your Dog a Raw Food Diet

Description: Common sense determined that my dogs should be fed a raw food diet.  How I came to the determination that my dogs needed real food rather than kibble to be as healthy as they can be.

Initially, I stood in the same shoes you now stand in, while you’re reading this.  I was curious, nervous, and upset by the thought that following a modern-day faux pas such as feeding kibble could be killing my dog.  I, like you are now, had to find out what the quiet rebellion of feeding real food to my dog was all about.

Before I could even bring myself to research it, I had to use some cold, hard logic to convince myself that feeding kibble just is not natural.  It’s simply a modern acceptable practice.  I observed my own dogs become unwell, but their symptoms were ones that, if human, would be treated with food and nutrition.  Illnesses such as constipation, diarrhea, bad breath and upset tummy plagued my dogs on a continual basis.  I asked tough questions of myself, bringing in some common sense, as I examined what my dogs were living through.  Could nutrition and real food, rather than processed “stuff” from kibble makers fix my dog’s ailments as easily as proper nutrition fixed my own ailments? What’s really in that kibble?  Who wins if I do feed my dogs that stuff, if it’s not my dogs or myself?

Over time, I started applying the nutritional remedies my family nutritionalist recommended, for the humans, on my dogs.  First with upset tummy, I administered peppermint tea and ginger tea.  The tummy problems and vomiting swiftly diminished from a nightly event to an unusual occurrence.  I fed my dogs pumpkin for both constipation and diarrhea.  In both cases, the ailment (or, as we call in in our family, dis-ease) disappeared.  Food did, indeed, take care of quite a few of their bodies’ problems.

It made sense, when I stopped to think about it, that what was good for humans was also good for dogs.  There was a lot of research in the human world about nutrition and healthy eating that, historically, was gleaned from testing on animals.  I decided that, if humans could test on animals to get benefits, animals should be able to use the results of the tests, too!

After thinking the possibilities through, I determined that my own dogs should be eating what I myself should be eating.  After all, it was those tests on animals which led humans to figure out that they needed to take a close look at their nutrition and, further, led humans to search for specific atoms and chemical interactions which give us medication.

My findings were:

1. What’s good for humans is good for dogs.

2. Foods heal.

3. Nutrition keeps illness at bay.

4. Tests on animals should also benefit animals.

5. Kibble makes my dog feel unwell.

6. Home remedies recommended by nutritionalists work wonderful for dogs.

Based on those common sense observations, it no longer made sense to feed kibble.  I moved my own dogs to a raw food, real food, diet and they’ve never been more healthy.  I recommend the move to everyone who has dogs as family members for the many benefits seen in our pack’s health levels, energy levels, and happiness levels!

For more information about how I care for my dogs, please visit furheads.com or search the site you’re on now for more articles I’ve written.

Disclosure Statement:  I am not a veterinarian; I do not diagnose medical issues, offer medical advice, prescribe drugs, or perform surgery.  I am a freelance journalist writing about my experiences with my own dogs, incorporating many different complimentary tools found for my own dogs to overcome potential health concerns I have for them.  I have been keeping a journal of my findings since July of 1996; I have been privileged to work with several hundred other canines and their families in a wide range of life situations as of the writing of this statement and will gladly provide references should you desire them. Your dog(s) may benefit from the care I’ve provided my own dogs, based on knowledge gained through this experience, courses taken/taught, and animal communication.  My role is that of facilitator, assisting you and your dog(s) to attain or maintain a naturally healthy state. The specific results you may see, should you decide to try some of what we’ve done in our family, will be different for each animal. In addition to the articles I write and publish, I also teach massage, Usui Reiki, Quantum Touch, and Animal Communication to owners, caretakers, and practitioners; sell products for animals in these and other holistic and vibrational modalities; provide references to other animal communicators and practitioners.