Unleashed
Dr. Paula Terifaj gives her best holistic veterinary advice: How to avoid dangerous pet food recalls; stop over vaccinating your pet; use CBD and Cannabis as medicine and more!
Hemp and Marijuana – both plants are Cannabis sativa. Don’t be fooled by a name!
Hemp and marijuana are popular names for what is technically the same plant as described in the scientific nomenclature. Belonging to the same family of flowering plants known as Cannabises. Further classification reveals that both plants are the same genus and...
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Grain-Free Diets Linked to Cardiac Deaths in Dogs
On June 27, 2019, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released an update to two previous advisories regarding grain free diets and dogs who had developed dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) linked to cardiac deaths. The release made a splash in the...
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Finding the Cannabis Sweet Spot for your Dog is Experimental
Cannabis as a treatment for dogs has alot of pet owners wondering if their dog might benefit? Fortunately, some curious openminded veterinarians are dipping their toes into the cannabis medicine chest. Embracing pot for pets for its medical benefits makes these docs...
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Book announcement
A little more than one year ago, I found myself on the keyboard of my laptop day after day. Stories about my life and veterinary career pouring out onto white pages. It was not my decision to write about such things – it was more like an edict. Or more like a voice in...
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Death of the Beloved Non-profit – Save A Pet
Here’s another chapter out of my life. It’s a tell all story that has haunted me for years. Be prepared to be outraged! Then sign this petition: Demand Full Investigation to Shutdown the Humane Society of the Desert Chapter Twenty-Two Save A Pet An activist is...
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Vets Fooled by the Pet Food Industry – why pets get sick eating commerical diets
It was sometime in the year 2000 when I discovered a newly published book by Donald R. Strombeck, DVM, PhD – my favorite professor at UC Davis. I never had an innate interest in the rather gross subject of gastroenterology. Not really. It was how this particular...
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How Pet Food Companies and AAFCO Mislead Consumers Making Pets Sick
In vet school, the conventional wisdom bestowed upon students was the mantra that formulated pet food diets – anything certified by AAFCO (Association of American Feed Control Officials)– was the only way to go. This was reinforced by another seemingly popular belief...
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Unleashed – Diary of A Woman Vet – Chapter 8 – Lucy
Years ago, when I played an active role in running my veterinary practice, something odd tried to get my attention on multiple occasions. I don’t hear voices or see ghosts, so I don’t really know how to explain it. Perhaps it was an awareness or something my...
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Starving Cancer with High Fat Diets
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” – Hippocrates The best cancer diet for dogs: ketogenic. This amazing diet will work for humans and our pets. Let’s get started! Most of us believe that what we eat, the choices we make every day, can look like...
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Connecting the Cancer Dots …
“The problem lies not so much in developing new ideas, but in escaping from old ones.” – John Maynard Keynes In 2012, Cancer as a Metabolic Disease was published by Dr. Thomas Seyfried, PhD.[1] Hired by a drug company ten years earlier, Seyfried stopped dead in his...
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Know Thy Enemy
For science to advance in making important discoveries, it must first humble itself to a troubled past – admit how our best minds got it wrong and praise the mavericks that persisted. Let me briefly borrow a day from 1971. On this day, December 23rd, President Nixon...
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I’m Back!
Several years ago, while still in private practice, I authored a popular blog called DogBreath. I discussed important issues surrounding pet health care: Does my pet really need a prescription diet? Controversy over vaccinations – does my pet really need all these...
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