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This woman-run holistic pet food company is changing how people think about pet foodCategory: Nutrition
Can you eat it yourself? That’s what Debbie Pelczynski asked herself when she started My Healthy Pet, the Canadian, family-owned natural pet food company she founded in 1993. Her not-so-small goal? To change the pet food industry.
“Growing up, dogs were my best friends,” she laughs. “I scrapbooked everything about dogs—if I could cut it out and paste it, I had it.” more |
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Look What We Found!Category: Dog Life
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Water BabiesCategory: Dog Life
Photos submitted by Modern Dog readers! Also seen in our Modern Dog Summer 2017 Issue.
Snoopy submitted by Christine Cyr
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The Dr. Dolittle of Pet ProstheticsCategory: Inspire
When a veterinarian, desperate for help, brought a chocolate Lab to the human prosthetics and orthotics clinic where Derrick Campana worked 12 years ago, Derrick’s life was changed forever.
The dog, named Charles, needed a prosthetic leg due to a rare congenital deformity called ectrodactyly, which causes limbs to form abnormally. Serving animals was something Derrick had never considered, but he forged ahead nonetheless. After successfully creating a prosthetic leg on the first try, Derrick had a lightbulb moment. more |
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Fear Free principles - State of the Art and State of the HeartCategory: Health
“We take the pet out of petrified,” says Dr. Marty Becker, a slogan that has become a rallying cry among enlightened vets.
Dr. Becker has been a veterinarian for almost four decades, a fulfilment of his childhood dream—he wanted to be a vet from the age of six. He’s owned part or all of eight veterinary hospitals in three states and has been known almost his entire career for celebrating, protecting, and nurturing the human-animal bond. more |
