Help Your Pet Fight Off Seasonal Discomfort

 

Dr. Shawn Messonnier

As the weather warms, so does the chance of a family dog, cat or other pet suffering from springtime allergies. While we can’t always prevent them, we can use several natural therapies to lessen a pet’s allergy discomf [ … ]

Up to Scratch Remedies

 

Ann Brightman

They might be tiny, but they’re tough, hardy and persistent. If you share your life with a dog or cat, fleas are often a fact of life during warm weather months, which can be year-round in some climates. Implementing a holistically designed prevention an [ … ]

Delicious Nutritious Choices for People and Pets

 

Greg Tilford

In the North, spring’s balmy weather is a perfect time to plant that dream herb garden we have been thinking of all winter. In the South, it’s a good time to move container gardens inside the lanai to protect them from the intense [ … ]

Natural Resources for Healthy, Happy Companions

 

Victoria Freeman

You’d have thought she was a model coming straight from a photographer’s studio. “Strike a pose,” Dan Mullaney would tell Tiffany, and she’d move into position for the camera, ready for the perfect photo. “There was no doubt she [ … ]

How to Treat Your Buddy’s Bumps, Bites and Burns

 

Richard H. Pitcairn

North America is blessed with 44,000 walking and hiking trails, offering everything from spectacular scenery and magnificent vistas to cascading waterfalls and beautiful wildflowers. To unleash enjoyment of the great outdoor [ … ]

Protecting The People’s Right to Choose Dian Freeman

The most basic of human rights is the right to choose what is done to or goes into our bodies; especially how we choose to treat or not to treat our own health. Today, continued legislative attempts to control these rights are underway at the [ … ]

President of Earth Day Network S. Alison Chabonais

Americans are being called to clean up their environmental act at home and abroad, but the response is slower than many activists would like it to be. Some say that it’s time to rally those most affected by the corruption of the Earth’s land, ai [ … ]

A Nifty Green Plant for Pets

 

Lee Walker

Grass-like plants have been among the most versatile and widespread food forms on the planet since the age of the dinosaurs. Though certain species have been cultivated as fodder for domesticated animals for thousands of years, grass was not considered [ … ]

Why Feeling Tickled Is Good For Us Edna Jenkins

The high that we gain when we laugh until we hold our sides, roll about on the floor and feel the tears streaming down our cheeks is addicting. So, what protects us from such loosey-goosey, nonsensical fun? Only our own serious, controlled approach [ … ]

I Laugh Therefore I Am Blain Greteman

“One of the unique characteristics of mammals is that we play,” advises Dacher Keltner, a psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life. Nearly all social mammals tickle one a [ … ]