Fostering, with guest Margaret Crook from PetsEmpower.org

08/11/17 • 52 min

Happy Healthy Pets with Mark C. Robinson

PetsEmpower.org is a nonprofit umbrella organization increasing access to short-term fostering for domestic violence survivors in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. They give courageous domestic violence survivors a positive alternative to pet relinquishment or remaining in abusive situations with their pet due to a lack of options to place their pet. They allow owners to find safety for themselves and their pets through short-term pet fostering and and later reunite, generating positive health outcomes.

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Animal Physical Therapy

Guest: Jennifer Brooks Horse ’n Hound: 288 South Merrimack Rd, Hollis, NH 03049 Phone (603) 465 4444 e-Mail [email protected]. Horse ’n Hound provides physical therapy for dogs, cats, and horses. Equine Rehab Services, LLC expanded in 2012, to Horse N Hound Physical Therapy LLC adding a small animal clinic to the practice to enable treatment for dogs and cats as well as the horses they have served since 2006. As part of this transition they migrated to a new business name operating as "Horse 'n Hound Physical Therapy". They continue to be dedicated to providing the fastest recovery possible for horses, dogs , cats and farm animals. They are now located just a 1/3 mile off of Amherst St , in a pastoral farm setting with a small animal clinic on the 1st floor of a refurbished 1857 barn, along with a 3 stall equine rehab center attached. The new facility has an underwater treadmill for dogs, modalities to promote healing, exercise equipment, a ramped in-ground swimming pool for dogs and a 10 acre walking field they encourage clients to utilize for regular exercising of their beloved 4 legged freinds. They work in conjunction with the pet owners' veterinary providers to establish the best rehab program and healing potential to bring their animals back to full recovery.

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Supplements for your pet

Ages ago, as were developing as humans, the world was quite different. We foraged for food, hunted, possibly grew our own, but fruits and vegetables bore little resemblance, then, to what they are now. Animals had their own food chains. Fact is, neither you, I, nor our pets can get all the nutrients we need from our modern day, totally processed, additive filled food. This is an entirely different world then the one we evolved in. The pet food we buy is, for the most part, questionable. The 75 Billion dollar global pet food industry is highly competitive and, in search of higher profits, corners have been known to be cut. Unless we’re very, very selective, we can’t really count on our pets getting everything they need from food. For this, we need supplements.

Our Guest: Russell Phillips is the Director of Nutrition and Sales at Wholistic Pet Organics and The Wholistic Pet and Equine Center, which is their storefront located in Bedford, NH off Rt 101 near the new Hannafords. Russell has been with the company for over a decade and has a BS in Biology. He is currently finishing his last two classes at NYU for Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics to achieve his masters.