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Probing Probiotics
These health-boosters are not expensive and easy to find and feed.

Mom and Pop Training
How to get on the same dog-training page as your partner.

Observable Differences
Trainers note that men and women often bring different skills – and different strengths – to the task of dog training.

Accelerated Wound Healing
Help your dog heal quickly and cleanly with these gentle, natural methods.

Post-Op Acupressure
Use your hands to help your dog recover more quickly from surgery.

Too Much Love?
Show your affection by helping your fat dog lose weight and gain health.

Parasites Within Parasites
By Mary Straus For some time, biologists have been aware of and studied an organism called Wolbachia that lives symbiotically inside heartworms. But recently, study of this microscopic creature has given researchers new ideas about how to combat its host (the heartworm) to benefit its host, the dog. Wolbachia is a genus of rickettsial organisms, a microorganism positioned somewhere between viruses and true bacteria. Like viruses, they grow only in living cells, but like bacteria, they…