Vet education recap: Resources for canine geriatric medicine
Dr. Brennen McKenzie often teaches continuing education courses around canine aging, and he shares resources that include foundational material on aging, clinical assessment tools, and guidelines to assist vets in creating treatment plans for senior dogs.
Your dog may be sharing bacteria with you. But that’s a good thing!
How are dogs like probiotics? Well, they’re cuter and furrier, but they also change our microbiome and can even reduce our risk of allergies! Let’s investigate how dogs influence our microbiome and our immune systems.
How to help your dog lose weight and improve their quality of life
Discussing weight and how it impacts our dog’s health is important to how we think about our dog’s aging and quality of life. Here are practical tips and evidence-based advice to help your dog get to their healthiest weight.
How movement and exercise in dogs promotes longevity and healthier aging
How does movement impact longevity? Can physical activity help my dog live longer? Here’s how exercise maintains good health and slows aging.
Signs of senior years: looking old, feeling old, and acting old
Do you ever wonder how your dog might look, feel, or act as they advance in age? Understanding aging gives us the potential to prevent or mitigate a wide range of age-related health problems in dogs.
Should you zoom call your dog?
There are now lots of devices that let us call our dogs and say “Hi!” when we aren’t at home. But are these really for our dogs, or just for us?
Yes, dogs really can read facial expressions
Sometimes our dogs seem to read us like an open book! How do they know just how we are feeling? It turns out, our faces are a clear window into our emotions for our canine friends.
Talking to your dog?
Dogs are exceptionally good at understanding humans; better than any animal outside our own species. But when we talk to them, we give a lot of information besides just words.
Can your dog catch your yawn?
Humans are not the only animals to yawn. Fish, birds and mammals all yawn too. And, of course, so do our favorite animals here at Loyal!