Summer is coming and many people will be going away on holiday. If you have pets, clearly the best option, especially for dogs but also for some cats who have learned to travel well, is to take your animals with you. This may not always be possible in which case the next best option would [...]
Zuzanna Rybarczyk set this initiative in motion inviting a number of people to contribute to a free e-booklet to give pet guardians some information which may help them, enhance the welbeing of their pets and also strengthen the bond between them. This great little booklet is now available for download free of charge here: [...] [...]
This morning I saw a scene which left me feeling sick. About a month ago a little donkey came to live nearby. He was very young and had just been taken away from his mother, possibly too soon. He was shut up in a barn in a box all by himself with minimal contact – [...]
A few days ago, I had to attend to some paperwork at the police station. It was pouring with rain and the roads were flooded. As we drove gently through a flooded area Salma got up from her usual travelling place for the first time since she has been with us and came to lie [...]
This morning when we went out it was still dark, but Salma went straight to a particular plant which she began to chew on avidly. After a couple of minutes of dedicated chewing she stepped away and began to retch. Then she vomited up a small amount of white foam. She had shown no signs [...]
From the day she arrived we thought that Salma’s eyesight was not too good. This perception has been confirmed as time has passed. She sees movement, even at a distance, but static objects present a problem and she may bump into things. How can this be? All our previous beardies have had excellent eyesight and [...]
This paper has just been published and it may be worthwhile taking a look at it. It does not say anything new about applied zoopharmacognosy but the more information available the better. What_is_Zoopharmacognosy
This morning I did a zoopharma session with Salma. This is the third session since she arrived three months ago. Rose Otto: Looks at bottle, licks, tail wags, moves closer, close sniff right up to bottle and then moved away to about 2m. I closed bottle. 10cm. Angelica Root. Mouth smacks. Sniffs focusing on bottle [...]
During the first few days after she arrived, Salma was - not unnaturally - a little unsettled and even confused. Where am I? Everything is new here! New people, new dog, cats… She needed to follow us around whenever we moved as it appeared that we were her anchor in this new environment. After a [...]
This morning we went into town to give Salma an urban experience of waking in town on lead. What an exhausting morning she had!!! She travelled very quietly in the car but when she arrived in the town she was quite overexcited by so much going on – cars, people walking around, noises (a delivery [...]