Answered by Dr. Christina Chambreau The best way is for you to build the health of your dog because healthy dogs are much less likely to attract fleas, so have that be your main focus. Now occasionally even healthy dogs will get fleas, like if you’re visiting a place...
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My Dog Has an Ear Infection. Does He/She Need Treatment?
Answered by Dr. Christina Chambreau The first question to ask is if the problem your dog is showing with her ears if it's really an infection or not. Infection means there's a lot of bacteria present. However, we can have many other problems in the ear. We can have...
What Is The Best Way to Prevent Ticks?
Answered by Dr. Christina Chambreau Yes, there's lots of natural ways to repel ticks. One of them is to have a vest that has been impregnated with essential oils or Pyrethrin so that you put it on your dog, especially if you're doing a lot of hiking, tracking...
How Can I Tell If My Dog Has Heartworms, And What Is The Treatment?
Answered by Dr. Christina Chambreau The most important symptom to worry about if you’re concerned that your pet has heartworms is coughing, and next to that would be exercise intolerance, meaning they just can’t go as far as they had been going on their walks. They...
What Flea Treatments are the Safest for Cats?
Answered by Dr. Christina Chambreau Well, the very best flea treatment for cats is to build their health so they won't even attract fleas, they're much less likely to ever be infested by fleas. Okay, well while you're working to build health by doing all sorts of...
Are There Any Natural Preventatives for Heartworms?
Answered by Dr. Christina Chambreau Yes, there are natural preventatives for heartworms if you're trying to avoid the chemical ones. Most importantly, if you're choosing the natural approach, I recommend that you get a blood check every 6 months to make sure that your...
What Homeopathic Remedy Can Treat a Cat’s Mouth Tumor?
Answered by Dr. Christina Chambreau: First, you have to understand that homeopathy is an individualized medicine. That’s the only way it can work in its most brilliant, effective way. Individual cases show that it is possible with good homeopathic prescribing to...
Quest for Healing: A Truly Holistic Approach to Pet Health
Quest for Healing, Episode #43: A Truly Holistic Approach to Pet Health with Dr. Jeff Feinman (Part 1 of 2). Aired August 11, 2021. Welcome to this awesome and information packed podcast! Dr. Feinman, who is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, also holds a degree...
5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me When I First Became A Doctor
An Interview With Luke Kervin. Published in Authority Magazine, Medium. August 19, 2021 The third biggest thing I wish I’d learned in vet school is the natural resilience and regenerative ability of the body. (Again, this goes equally for people and pets.) For...
How to Optimize Your Pet’s Quality of Life Using BEAM
Highlights: Understand what BEAM is How BEAM reflects both quality of life and cellular energy Using symptoms to improve and enhance your pet’s quality of life BEAM can help you decide when expert veterinary help is needed BEAM can be used to evaluate the effects of...
Kitten Care
WELCOME TO THE NEW KITTEN RESOURCES SECTIONAre you bringing a new kitten/cat home, and want to learn how to prepare, help them get settled, and use holistic actions for any issues that may arise? You’ve come to the right place! In this resource, we’ll first touch on...
Adopting A Dog
WELCOME TO ADOPTING A DOG RESOURCESAre you thinking about becoming a pet parent to a dog, or have you recently adopted or rescued one? Are you wondering how to choose the dog that’s right for you, or how to train them once you have? If so, you’ve come to the right...
The Happiness Protocol: Why Individuality and Happiness Play a Huge Part in Your Pet’s Health
At Holistic Actions!, we are committed to so much more than helping pets become symptom and dis-ease free. The absence of dis-ease is not the same as the presence of health, and that’s why the end goal of everything we do is based on promoting, restoring, and...
Fun-damentals 5
holistic pet health 101Fun-damentals in action! What YOU can do You have learned in the first 4 sections of this course the basic steps that can help many animals heal from disease, have less of a chance to become ill, and live a long life with...
Holistic Pet Health 101 Course 4
holistic pet health 101 Exercise To be alive is to be in motion Early on we realize that alive beings move and very ill or dead do not. In fact, when we describe someone as “lively,” we are referencing the sense of movement (dynamism), and...
02/15/2021 Empower Hour! Joint Health
SUMMARY: Tonight Dr. Deb Torraca discussed specific strategies how the holistic lifestyle both keeps joints healthy and improves arthritic problems. Keep a log of what your animal is doing, taking pictures. Here is what to record: activity level food intake coat and...
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Welcome, Here are your benefits!FORUMwebinars101 courselibrarypet journalupgradeHow to Get the Most Out of Your MembershipStart with the essentials. Learn how to feed fresh, build resilience, make medical decisions.Track your...
How to Use Clues From Your Animal Companions to Promote Optimal Health
Learning to use your pet’s symptoms* as valuable clues for understanding underlying imbalances and addressing them holistically is one of the most important things you can do. Though your pet’s symptoms can quite naturally cause you concern, they can help you crack...
Our Story
about us Have you ever heard the story of the Little Engine That Could? It’s the classic children’s tale of a little train that musters up her faith in herself and, against all odds, takes on an ambitious and seemingly impossible mission to help another train that’s...
07/27/2020 Empower Hour! Homeopathy Q&A
SUMMARY: Tonight was July's homeopathy-specific webinar about "case analysis". This is the part of choosing a homeopathic medicine that comes after finding all of your pet's symptoms and translating them into the repertory. Dr. Christina used the example of Susie the...