Recent content by jmackie

Great, thanks for those suggestions, I like the idea of the Zymox Otic just being in the house being a preventative :-) sure would save me alot of wrestling time with the dog. Jen.

Hi there, I was wondering whether anyone had experience dealing with ear infections in a natural/holistic manner? I took an ear gunk sample from my 5 y/o female boxer to the vet yesterday and the slide came back positive for both yeast & bacteria. I had been working on keeping it clean with...

Hi there, I have recently (approx 5 weeks ago) started raw with my 5 y/o female boxer. She has always tended to be a somewhat allergic dog so I have played with her kibble quite a bit trying to solve the problems - thus she has been exposed to many types of grain free/"novelty" protein type of...

It's been 2 years today since you've been gone and I still miss you just as much. Always in my heart.

Family Photo 2006

Many of your posts under the homecooking thread really inspired me to make the change to homecooking. My 9.5 yr old boy does not seem to be dealing well with the changes (extremely loose/liquid stool and horrible gas) and with other undetermined health problems that we are trying to get...

This is horrifying. We used to feed our two dogs nutro ages ago!

I hope I've done this right - not sure whether this just adds onto my original post. I have been doing some reading about the calcium - The Complete Holistic Dog Book suggests that bone meal can be hard on the kidneys, so I wanted to avoid that one because my 9 1/2 yr old male has some...

Hi again, My 9 1/2 yr old boy got runny poop-itis (sorry for my baby/dog talk) yesterday. They were both given a ground beef/sweet potato/potato/green bean mixture starting on Monday and both were fine - so they were both fine for 2 days on this formula until Wednesday - could it take that...

Hi there, I have just started to homecook in the last week. I have gleaned a ton of useful information from this forum - thanks so much. I've also got a couple of books checked out of the library. It seems that a pressure cooker is going to be a wise investment. I am thinking about starting out...

Hi all. Glad to become member of BoxerWorld. As my b.f. always tells people there are dogs and then there are boxers - LOL. I am proud momma to Basil - Jan 8/99 - flashy fawn - natural ears & Olivia (Livy) Aug 15/05 - brindle - natural ears (she's a rescue girl who has been with us since...