Integrative Veterinary Health

Let’s Ask Dr. Michelle about your horse’s teeth!

Let’s Ask Dr. Michelle about your horse’s teeth!

Your horse’s mouth is constantly changing as teeth erupt and wear. Without proper maintenance, oral abnormalities like sharp edges, abnormal tooth eruptions, or irregular tooth wear can lead to pain, problems with chewing and digesting feed, behavior issues, and more.
Rabies Vaccination

Rabies Vaccination

As with many things in our society, medical treatments and techniques become scrutinized at some point. We are in a period when vaccines and vaccin...
Recommendations for Feeding Herbs, Medications and Supplements to Horses

Recommendations for Feeding Herbs, Medications and Supplements to Horses

1. You need an appropriate grain or complete feed to feed the supplement/herb or medication in: It has to be a food that the horse will willing...
Diet Equine Herbs
The Realities of Raw

The Realities of Raw

Raw diets are highly debated, and there are a lot of misconceptions surrounding raw food diets. As veterinarians, we are traditionally trained abou...
Diet Dog Raw
Vaccination Safety Tips

Vaccination Safety Tips

As a holistic veterinarian, many of my patients (horses, dogs, cats) come to me because their caregivers want my help with vaccination plans. Vacc...
Testing For Exposure to Round-Up In Our Pets, Our Horses And Ourselves

Testing For Exposure to Round-Up In Our Pets, Our Horses And Ourselves

I just spent three hours listening to lectures at a virtual conference. The lectures focused on the detrimental effects of glyphosate (Round-up), t...
Ingredients You May Want To Avoid In Your Horse's Feed

Ingredients You May Want To Avoid In Your Horse's Feed

Below is a list of ingredients used by the horse feed industry. We recommend eliminating as many of these ingredients as possible in your horse’s f...
Ingredients You May Want To Avoid In Your Pet's Food

Ingredients You May Want To Avoid In Your Pet's Food


Flavorings in Pet and Horse Food

Flavorings in Pet and Horse Food

Similar to other generic ingredients, meat by-products for example, the term “natural flavor” gives the consumer no information on it’s origin. The...
Alternative Fiber Sources To Hay

Alternative Fiber Sources To Hay

High fiber forages such as long stem hay and grasses should provide the majority of an equine diet. Sometimes using an alternative fiber source bec...
Natural Versus Chemical Household Cleaners

Natural Versus Chemical Household Cleaners

There was a recent claim by an individual that a cleaning product caused her dog to die. It lacked details, couldn’t be proven and was actually deb...
Transitioning Your Cat From Dry to Wet Food

Transitioning Your Cat From Dry to Wet Food

Not all cats crave wet or canned cat food. The attached article is written by Dr. Lisa Pierson DVM and it provides great tips and information to ma...