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Strut Your Mutt for Pet Cancer
What do you do to raise money for families fighting pet cancer? Why, strut your mutt of course! I am on the board of The Brodie Fund, a non-profit organization that funds grants to help families pay for pet cancer treatments. Based in Monmouth County, New Jersey we hold numerous fundraising events throughout the year. I wanted to have a dog show in the worst way. When local restauranteur, Kelly Ryan of The Boondocks Fishery offered her restaurant it was kismet. She lives in Key West part of the year, which proudly sponsors an annual “Key Westminster” dog show. Her restaurant was perfect. On the water in…
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Top 5 Ways to Prevent Dog Park Injury
How do we keep our canine friends safe from injury at the dog park?
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Origins of an Equestrian Writer
I remember it clearly. The two-sided push from both my client and my business partner while chatting during a massage session on day last fall that created the origins of an equestrian writer. “You should write a blog!” The idea had niggled at the back of my mind for awhile. I’ve been writing, privately, since I was a young girl. Of all things that I loved as a child, it was horses and writing. But I held myself back. Very few people have ever read my writing. I was unwilling to take criticism, which I expected in truckloads. Eventually, I let self doubt stop me from even trying anymore.…
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Raising Awareness with Remember Me Thursday
What is Remember Me Thursday? At the BlogPaws Conference this past May, I had the fortune to meet and spend time with a representative of the Helen Woodward Animal Center, who spearheads the pet adoption awareness campaign, Remember Me Thursday. “Remember Me Thursday® is a global awareness campaign uniting individuals and pet adoption organizations around the world as an unstoppable, integrated voice for orphan pets to live in forever homes, not die waiting for them. On September 28, 2017, the entire world will share the importance of pet adoption and shine a light on all orphan pets waiting in shelters and rescues. In 2016, people using #RememberTheRescue and #RememberMeThursday reached nearly…
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Reduce Pet Stress When You Travel
Just like us, every animal has different triggers for stress and anxiety. They are compassionate, loving, loyal and deeply attached to their human families. It makes perfect sense that a sudden change of environment with new people and animals to surround them is stressful for most of our four-legged comrades. From your perspective, all that’s happening is a few days of well-deserved vacation, or an unplanned trip abroad. Many pooches will get into full-blown separation anxiety mode when you walk out to the store just to get some milk and get back in ten minutes. How can you prevent an entire vacation from becoming a stressful agony for your furry…
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Getting Back in the Saddle
Confession of a Timid Rider: It’s not easy coming back from a bad fall. Who could blame me for being rigid in the saddle after three weeks bed rest due to severely bruised ribs? I don’t. Delight is a large horse after all, and I landed ribs first on the packed earth coming around a corner. WHAM! That will teach me to be too far forward coming uphill at the canter. I’m still cleaning the dirt out of my field boots. After endless weeks of anti-inflammatory medication, ice packs, and sleeping upright I finally made it back to the barn! I experienced zero anxiety, which for me was…
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Concussion Awareness for Equestrians
I recently had a bad fall from a very large horse. I bruised many ribs but thankfully fell in such a way that I avoided breaking anything. My helmet was largely untouched except for the dirty area where I had laid my head trying to catching my breathe. It took me a long time to get my bearings and get up again. I kept thinking, “I’m so glad I didn’t hit my head.”. Equestrians know that accidents happen in an instant. September 16th – September 17th is International Helmet Awareness Day. Please read on for the important information from riders4helmets. Would you know if someone was…
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An Interview with Carly Kade, Equestrian Author
Put your spurs on and get excited because equestrian author, Carly Kade, was lovely enough to do an interview with me for Bridle & Bone. You may have heard of Carly, who is the award-winning author of In the Reins. If you haven’t read it, go out and do so today. You won’t want to put it down! Chatting with Carly Kade about Horses and Writing Q: How long have you been writing? A: I have always enjoyed creative writing, but I never set out to be an author of equestrian fiction. It just kind of happened when cowboy/horse trainer McKennon Kelly showed up as a poem.…
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Do You Have Pony Envy?
Confessions of a Timid Rider: I Am Jealous of My Friends with Horses Friends, I’ll be honest with you. I believe I’m a nice person. I try my best to help others and be a good friend. So the fact that I have become green-eye with jealousy is something of which I’m not proud. Every single time one of my barn family gets a new pony or horse, I am so happy for them. Truly. At the same time a part of me dies a little inside of envy. Because I want what they have. I am embarrassed to admit it. Today a friend, a fellow horse…
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The Best Holistic Therapies for your Dog’s Arthritis
There are a number of natural therapies to provide pain relief and improve mobility for your dog. As our pets age, arthritis and stiffness can become a serious health concern. Most dogs will begin to show signs of arthritis by the time they are 6 or 7 years old. This is something I am working to prevent as long as possible with my large breed dogs. Medication can have serious side effects. So how do we provide relief naturally but still see results? In recent years we have seen a resurgence of eastern traditions integrated with western medicine. Truly holistic approaches to animal wellness. Sports Massage Acupuncture Cold Laser…
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