Feeding your Labrador

Are You Enabling Your Overweight Dog?

Labradors get a bad rap for being overweight and loving food too much. And while that may be true, 9 times out of 10 it’s the owner that is the problem. Now, before you send me nastygrams, let me...

Fish Oil Supplement–Why does my dog need this supplement in all stages of life?

Fish Oils/ Omega 3’s/Essential Fatty Acids: For Key Stages in Your Dog’s Life Puppyhood: According to Dr. Stacey Oke (DVM) essential fatty acids play an important role in your puppy’s training because DHA plays an important role in brain...

Why is my Lab Hyperactive?

I have met too many hyper labradors in my lifetime—enough that it impressed on me, at a young age, how much genetics and socialization can make a HUGE difference. And in 1988 I discovered the difference between American Field...

Top Causes of Death in Labradors

TOP CAUSES OF DEATH IN LABRADORS CAUSES, TREATMENTS, AND PREVENTION MEASURES After surveying cause of death in a survey (hundreds responded) on my Facebook page a few weeks ago, I have reviewed the answers– if cause of death was CLEAR...

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...

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...

Antler Chews…are they safe? Where do I get ones that are good quality?

All About Antler Dog Chews  Many of you have been asking me lately about the safety of Antlers as chew toys for their dog. Specifically, they’ve also asked the best source to get them. I will cover both in...

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...

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,...