De-Mystifying LIFE STAGE dog foods: Should you feed it to your Lab?

According to Cathleen Enright, PH.D., president and CEO of Pet Food Institute in Washington, DC, significant advancements in companion animal nutritional science have been made in the last 50 years. The first “Life Stage” food appeared in the 1960’s...

How to prevent your Labrador from Digging

We know that digging can be harmful to people’s environments—and annoying, but, at the same time, digging for some dogs is an activity that keeps them balanced—its also their nature—either to hide food, make a den, or provide a...

Is Cancer Preventable in Dogs?

This week’s  is a guest blog by Robert Mueller, pet nutrition expert.  I have read and enjoyed his books so much. I wanted to share this information because I’ve always known that cancer cells can be “starved” by diet...

Hip & Elbow Dysplasia–genetic or environmental? THINGS TO PONDER…

Facts & Thoughts on Canine Hip Dysplasia – Things to Ponder After reading this article, I wanted to jump up and down and scream, “I’ve been saying this for years!” Now we have the research to back it up....

How to transition your dog onto a new food

Many of you are transferring your dog or cat to Life’s Abundance food and Dr. Jane Bicks (veterinarian formulator of this food) has sent out this message to help make a seamless transition: Because your pet eats basically the...

Booster Shot Warning

So many people ask me my opinion about vaccines, but I’d rather share the scientific facts so that you can make an intelligent decision about how/when to vaccinate your dog. “The Jab” is high profit for veterinarians. But it...

What kind of Over-exercise can harm my Labrador?

     This blog is SO overdue. I’m sad to say, I hate to witness situations where clients over-exercised their dogs to the point of injury to see how important this is. I cannot stress enough how important it...

HNPK in Labradors-A genetic issue that is unsightly and very unpleasant for your LAB

Hereditary Nasal Parakeratosis (HNPK) For: Labrador Retrievers; Lab/Golden Crosses; Labradoodles & Labradoodle, Australians If you’ve never seen this condition before, it is quite startling. I never saw it until a dog I bought from a breeder friend (outside my...

How Large is a Labrador?

As we’ve talked about in our blog before, there are two types or styles of Labrador: American (or Field) and English.  We only breed the English style Labrador, which is also what you would see at an AKC show,...

Life’s Abundance Dog Food

For the past 2 months we have been furiously researching a replacement food for the Flint River Ranch brand that closed this month. We got a “heads up” in early December that there may been a possibility this would...