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Keeping Your Dog A Healthy Weight During Winter

Posted by Russell Gibbons on 18th Jun 2015

With the short winter days now upon us, and the comfort food a plenty for warming our souls, it’s all too easy to forget about how our habits during winter can affect our pets health?Winter can be one of those challenging times where our own routines can be disrupted…….as a consequence of this, the routines of our pets also get disrupted.These include:Daily exerciseExercise typesEating habit …
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HONEY - AND HEALING WOUNDS ON HORSES

Posted by Russell Gibbons on 1st Jun 2015

This is one for the horse lovers in the Huds and Toke family……but I suppose this could be applicable to any other pet as well???A colleague, and friend, of mine recently had an incident with her horse where it sustained a gash on it’s leg.As a passing comment, she asked if I knew anything about using Honey to heal wounds?Now, I understand that this seems irrelevant to pet treats, howeve …
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Benefits of Omega 3's in Pet Treats

Benefits of Omega 3's in Pet Treats

Posted by Russell Gibbons on 11th May 2015

We all understand the benefits of Omega 3’s in the human diet.They are essential for the control of:Heart DiseaseGreat for joints as it reduces inflammation.Great for the skin and hairHelps stimulate the immune system.Guess what? They do the same for our pets as they do for us as illustrated by Dr. Signe Svinland, director of pet care for Aker Biomarine in a lecture she gave recently.So what …
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Australian Made Pet Treat Products should take centre stage.

Posted by Emma Gibbons on 19th Jan 2015

I have read recently that the big pet supplies chain PetCo in the US has just deleted all lines of Dog Treats and Cat Treats that are made in China.That is a massive move by a price driven corporation and great to see that as a big corporate that it is listening to its customer base (all of the pet parents) out there, that they would prefer to buy treats of a reputable origin.. Great for us " …
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