Are the ingredients in commercial pet food healthful? What about the many pet food recalls?

5 Things to Know About Pet Insurance

Every six seconds a U.S pet guardian is faced with a $1,000 veterinary bill!

The answer is simple. Yes! By reducing the processed commercial food in your pet's diet you will be adding vitality to your pet's body. Increased vitlity translates to an improved ability to heal.

If you are thinking about finding a new pet, perhaps you will consider giving a "forever" home to one of these needy homeless pets. It can be a very gratifying experience. Many times you are saving a life that otherwise would have been ended needlessly and prematurely.

There is mounting evidence that all vaccines can do more harm than good.

This 2011 redesign of Homevet.com has been over 15 years in the making.

 

My initial goal for it at the end of 1994 was to help spread the word about integrative and natural therapies for pets. Effective holistic veterinary care. Not an "alternative" to modern vet care. This is still my goal.

 

Many, many people have helped towards this end over the years.  

My initial online conversations with Drs. Duncan Ferguson and Paul Pion were instrumental in helping me see the potential power of this new form of communication (they went on to develop the Veterinary Information Network).

 

Don Moffitt and his hand-coded HTML then helped me start this site.  Since that time, fantastic tools for online community-building have been developed. Tony Scott of Akira studios has worked magic in seamlessly and beautifully integrating them into this new site.

 

I never would have had the pleasure of working with Tony if it weren't for Andrew Holden of Cartanova.  I hit many bumps in the road on the way to this redesign, but Andrew's fantastic business ethic smoothed them out for me.

 

My parents and many teachers have helped me learn to observe fully and scientifically. Without their help I would never have embarked on the holistic and homeopathic path. 

 

My joy in discovery and critical thinking began in the excellent Jericho, NY school system and was then fostered by my mentors in the University Scholars program at Univ. of Penn. Penn researchers were generous enough to allow me to work in their laboratories and helped me write my first scientific publications.

 

I also owe special thank yous to Penn profs Drs. Mark Adams, Kallenbach, Manjusri Das and Peter Jezyk (among many others).  Dr. Mark Peterson at the AMC in NY helped me understand the full breadth of both clinical and research-oriented endocrinology, Drs. Keith Richter, Rhea Morgan, Allen Sisson, James Carpenter and Neil Harpster and my fellow internmates at Angell Meml in Boston all helped me survive and develop.

 

Most instrumental in nurturing my homeopathic scientific medical thinking have been my teachers of homeopathy.  Drs. Richard Pitcairn, Paul Herscu, Andre´ Saine and David Little.  

 

Thanks as well to my incredible friends and clients. I draw support and learn from them every day. I owe a special thank you to my fantastic friend Steve Gogel for many invaluable brainstorming sessions.

 

Most of all, I want to thank my ever-supportive wife Amy. Our love just continues to grow stronger.  2011 marks the year when our life partnership has taken a new turn along with the new site. Amy has become both my practice as well as the homevet.com web store manager.

 

As a small token of my appreciation to everyone in my life, I'd like to share this poem by Minx Boren. Thank you Maxine for first sharing it with me in one of your wonderful yoga classes, and thank you Minx for allowing me to share it here:

 

while we as humans have collectively
scaled the highest peaks and soared

way into the heavens
reached far into the depths
of oceans and delved into the magnificent
complexities of our own bodies
and minds not one of us
could have done any such thing
on our own
 
and so it is that we must truly be
forever and always beholden
beyond measure to those
upon whose shoulders we stand
those who came before and those
who journey with us now
 
and what is ours to do in this
and every moment
with great humility
and even greater awe
is quite simply to remember
and give thanks
 
from the heart, mind, and pen of Minx

©2011 Minx Boren.  All rights reserved.

This website exists to help educate pet owners. Both conventional veterinary information as well as the holistic and homeopathic perspective of health are represented here. I believe it is very important to be fully informed when making decisions about your pet's health.

This website is not intended to replace professional consultation, diagnosis, or treatment by a licensed veterinarian. If you require any veterinary related advice, contact your veterinarian promptly. Information at www.homevet.com is exclusively of a general reference nature. Do not disregard veterinary advice or delay treatment as a result of accessing information at this site.

You will therefore see this statement on many pages at this site. Please heed it:

 

"Please note: The information provided here is meant to supplement that provided by your veterinarian. Nothing can replace a complete history and physical examination performed by your veterinarian. - Dr. Jeff"

In 2011 Catherine O'Driscoll sent out a survey to veterinarians regarding their views on vaccination.

Holistic Pet Care advice articles by Dr Jeff:

insights into the latest practice in holistic and homeopathic veterinary care for my current clients

As a Certified Veterinary Homeopath, all my current clients come to me for one thing; the highest quality homeopathic veterinary care and advice. Inevitably, I find many clients ask the same questions and share similar concerns, mainly due to a lack of understanding of the healing process. As a result, some don't have the confidence to persevere with homeopathic treatments, even when they are working well!

So, I've written a series of articles that provide all my clients (both pet owners and veterinary medical professional) with a straightforward guide to homeopathic veterinary treatments, and particularly the significance of symptoms.

Symptoms can be considered the "language" of the body, as they provide the main clues for understanding how the body is operating in both health and dis-ease. It is critical that you as the client and me as your homeopathic veterinarian join together to both foster and work through symptoms, and that involves each understanding what the other is saying! So, these articles are specifically to make that process easier and quicker, for the better health of your pet.

Just click to access these homeopathic vet treatment articles by Dr Jeff:

How to Observe and Record Symptoms and Responses
Which Symptoms to Monitor - a Checklist
How to prepare, Store and Administer a Homeopathic Pet Remedy
How to Make Up Different Types of Homeopathic Remedy Doses
How to Update Dr Jeff on Your Pet's Progress After a Remedy
How to Email Updates to Dr Jeff


One of the reasons I put my holistic veterinary practice online is that I have this wonderful avenue for sharing useful information. So, please feel free to request other useful articles, links, resources, etc, that I can create for you.

Love this information but not a client yet? See our page on How to Become and New Client of Dr Jeff Feinman (http://www.homevet.com/to-become-a-new-client-of-dr-jeff-feinman)

Why does it matter whether symptoms are considered common or normal in dogs and cats?

“Harmony in life and living, homeopathy for health and healing”sm

In order to maintain our animal companions in optimal health, it is extremely important to understand the distinction between "common" and "normal".

When the body is in a state of optimal health, all systems are in equilibrium and no external manifestations of disequilibrium (i.e., symptoms) are apparent.

Many of the subtle changes we observe in our pets are early warning signs that there is imbalance deep within the body. These are not “diseases” per se, but rather commonly observed deviations from this state of equilibrium.

Recognizing and treating these common, but abnormal, early warning signs is critical to preventing more serious problems in the future.

Some of these symptoms are as follows:

• runny or red eyes
• intermittent loose stools
• ”sensitive" stomach with vomiting, diarrhea and/or other gastrointestinal symptoms
• straining to defecate
• excess thirst
• runny nose
• red eyes
• red ears
• excess ear wax
• picky or excessive appetite
• fearfulness
• thin coat/excess shedding
• intermittent vomiting
• •eating stool/dirt/plastic
• gassiness
• gum redness
• frequent or difficult urination
• loss of pigment
• rough, dry nose or pads
• stiffness
• ear “infections”
• anxiety
• anal sac problems

If your pet has shown any of these symptoms and you would like to discuss treatment options, please submit the new patient or client questionnaire and then call me at 203.222.7979 to set up a consultation. You can also read the introduction to my practice by clicking here: