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Groomer Schooling - Professional Grooming Education: Why It Matters for Pet Health

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  Why Formal Grooming Education Matters Apply to Northern College Apply to Guelph Grooming is more than aesthetics and cute time working with animals. It is an essential component of pet health, wellness, and early disease detection, so yes the job is highly demanding . Modern pets, particularly senior or medically compromised animals , require grooming professionals who are formally trained in anatomy, skin and coat physiology, and medical condition awareness . Formal grooming education ensures that professionals understand: Skin and coat health: Recognizing early signs of seborrhea, yeast overgrowth, pigmentation changes, dryness, or infection . Digestive and metabolic indicators: Awareness of subtle systemic signs that appear through skin and coat changes. Safe handling of sensitive pets: Knowledge of safe restraint, handling, and stress reduction techniques, especially for senior or medically fragile pets. Appropriate product and tool selection: Avoiding harsh...
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Preventable by Design: The Pet Food Industry’s Shift Away from Health

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  Industry Accountability & What Responsible Nutrition Should Look Like Since approximately 2022, the pet food industry across large corporations, boutique brands, and retail exclusive labels, influencer Media, online markets  has increasingly prioritized marketing trends, ingredient novelty, and cost efficiency over long-term metabolic compatibility for pets. Where it's purchased says nothing about the quality.  Industry-wide formulation concerns While major manufacturers such as Mars Petcare , Nestlé Purina , and Hill’s Pet Nutrition  have shifted their formulas to meet consumer demand and trends to remain in veterinary and retail spaces, simultaneously, many popular retail brands commonly found at Pet Valu , Global Pet Foods , and PetSmart  reflect similar formulation issues despite being marketed as premium, natural, or health-forward. These include brands such as: Blue Buffalo Instinct Merrick Simply Nourish Authority Acana Orijen...
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Your Pet does not Talk but What About When the Gut Talks: Understanding Stool, Skin, and Apoquel in Dogs

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  This Sample looses firmness easily, the yellow and grey intermittent colouration and mucus (circled areas) indicates stress on the liver, pancreas or excess bile. The structure and normal brown areas indicates that his gut works fine. One positive note to take from this sample is that the gut is not damaged, in addition to any skin issues your pet has been struggling with which "improved" with Apoquel,  is a feedback loop between digestion, liver–pancreas workload, skin barrier health, and immune modulation from Apoquel. Stool findings — what they really point to Gut is functioning , but it’s under metabolic stress . Key clues: Looses firmness when picked up → fat or bile handling issue (not classic colitis) Intermittent yellow/grey + mild mucus → bile variability, pancreatic enzyme mismatch, or hepatic load Normal brown sections present → motility and microbiome still mostly intact Translation: This is not primary intestinal failure . It’s digestive ...
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