Canine Wellness Blog

Cold Weather & Your Senior Dog

1/29/2025

Senior dogs are more sensitive to cold weather due to age-related changes, such as thinner coats, reduced circulation, arthritis, and weaker immune systems. Keeping them safe and comfortable during colder months requires extra care. Here are some tips to help!

How Therapy helps Senior Dogs

6/17/2024

As our furry companions grow older, they, like humans, experience a range of age-related changes that can affect their mobility, comfort, and overall quality of life. Rehabilitation, which encompasses various therapeutic exercises and treatments, plays a crucial role in ensuring that senior dogs continue to enjoy their golden years to the fullest.

Canine Sports Massage: What is it?

9/25/2023

Who doesn’t love a good massage? Not only are they enjoyable but they help reduce stress, elevate pain and muscle soreness. Sports massage is a specialized kind of massage which is often overlooked. If a human athlete is going to compete, they warm up and stretch. Afterwards they go for a walk and stretch again. But often agility (or working) dogs are rushed in preparation and then put back into their kennel once they are done (and not with ill intent). That is just how it has been done. So how does massage help?

New Year, "New Dog" Pt 2

1/19/2023

Just like an exercise regime is great for our overall health, so would an exercise regime be for your dog. In the previous post we went over the top 5 exercises we would suggest you start with. Here are 7 other easy exercises you can try with your pup to help with stability, hip strength and overall body awareness.

New Year, "New Dog"

1/4/2023

Happy 2023! The New Year is always a great time to start new things, so why not include your dog! Below are a few exercises you can start incorporating into your routine with them. These easy exercises help keep your dog limber and moving.

Ways to Help Relieve your Dogs Pain Naturally

12/5/2022

Modern Medicine is a wonderful tool that we are extremely thankful for. However, there are many natural ways to help relieve your dogs pain as well. From Massage to swimming there are many ways to help "outside the box". We would love to have you try some of the below and let us know how they help.

Summer Snacks for your Pup

8/10/2022

With this heat still continuing there isn't much thats more enjoyable than a bowl of ice cream. Im sure you have a shadow (you're dog) sitting right there watching you as you take every bite.
So what treats can we safely offer up to our dogs?

The Senior Dog Workbook

8/4/2022

I created The Senior Dog Workbook after hearing too many stories of pet parents feeling unprepared to make end of life decisions for their pet or caught off guard when their veterinarian recommended euthanasia.

5 Ways to Help your Dog Live Longer

7/21/2022

Doesn't it seem like dogs go from Puppies to Old Dogs slowing down in a blink of an eye? Time truly flies when you have such a wonderful companion.
While our Dogs have a shorter lifespan than we do, there are things we can do to help them live longer, healthier lives. Here are 5 tips to help them do just that.

Hydration and your Dog

6/10/2022

How much water does your Dog need? For those of you who live in Oklahoma you know it gets really hot without much warning. Hello, “feels like 100” in the beginning of June! So making sure your dog has enough water is extremely important. Here are a few tips to help make sure thats the case.

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