Share your dog's favorite home recipes and help feed a hungry pet.
For Paws Hospice and our friends: invite you to send us your favorite home cooked, dog recipes.
For every recipe submitted we’ll deliver a weeks full of nutritious meals to a hungry pet.Your recipe will be published here for pet families everywhere to help Bring their Pet to the Table.
Photos are wonderful of course so we encourage you to send one or two pictures of you creation, family and pets for inclusion in the cook book.
Click below to view the recipe book, "One Dog's Kitchen" *Recipes will be added as they are received.
Editor's note: This event has been such a success that we decided to make it a year around offer, so please send in your recipes now and we'll keep feeding hungry animals.
To date All Pets Kitchen has delivered over 14,700 pounds of pet food to needy animals.
Share your recipes here and feed a hungry pet |
Mostly it's about the animals, but sometimes it's about the sound too, yes? |
A Thank you
Published in the St. Petersburg Times June 17, 2011
Several weeks ago, Dr. Amber Parker of the Veterinary Medical Clinic of Tampa sent in a request for a "doggie wheelchair" for one of her patients, a dachshund named Ms. Wiggles. She received more than 30 phone calls offering chairs, and ultimately fitted Ms. Wiggles with a chair donated by Harlan Weikle from For Paws Hospice (www. forpawshospice.org), which has a wheelchair lending program. The program pairs wheelchairs with dogs in need. Dr. Parker would like to thank everyone for their generous offers and also let people know that if they have a chair they don't use, they can contact Weikle and he will add it to the database.
Dog days are over
Bailey is a megaesophagus dog that needs to be hand fed 3-4 times daily: his problem is that he can't swallow naturally so his owners built a chair like the one below to help him.
For Paws Hospice volunteers recently built a Bailey's Chair for a tiny ASTI at the the Humane Society named Jack who is also a megaesophagus pup, here are the directions if you want to build your own version of this essential aid.
 This is Jack trying out his new Bailey's Chair at Humane Pinellas |
At the end of the video OK Go says, "These dogs were lucky to find homes, but many others are still waiting. Help us support animal rescue efforts at the ASPCA," and refer viewers to their special page, www.okgo.net/dogs, where they elaborate: "When you buy the White Knuckles video on this page, net proceeds go to the ASPCA, specifically earmarked to support rural, volunteer-run animal shelters in America.
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Stem Cell Therapy
By Dr. Kevin Conrad, DVM
Stem cells are primitive cells that are present in every tissue. These
cells are trophic factories implying they are cell renewing and can
develop into any type of tissue.
Embryonic Stem Cells are more complicated; they prefer to form whole
bodies and not just repair tissue. They have a tendency to form
teratomas i.e. growths containing hair, teeth, bone, etc. They are
classically used as an allograft where stem cells from the same species
are used in different individuals. Thus rejection of the foreign
genotype is common.
Adult stem cells can be used as autologous grafts, meaning cells from
the individual are used for itself, i.e. same species, same individual.
Stem cells provide five mechanisms of repair:
- Trophic differentiation to become necessary cells for repair.
- Reduce inflammation to the damaged tissue.
- Stimulate growth factors which increases blood flow, reduces scarring and blocks cell death after stimulation of resident cells.
- Provide a homing sense to an injured site
- Stimulate the immune system to improve healing.
Adipose (fat) tissue is used because:
- It has a very high cell count
- Is easy to access
- Will continue to renew itself
- May be used readily as an autolgous graft with minimal preparation
- Low risk of rejection
- Provides a rapid turn around, i.e. no wait time for culturing
Current and potential uses of stem cell therapy in veterinary medicine
Osteoarthritis_____________
Hip dysplasia
Knee damage from anterior cruciate ligament rupture
Other ligament or tendon damage
Post surgical failures
Hepatic disease
Renal disease
Wound healing
Inflammatory bowel syndrome
Autoimmune skin disease
Immune mediated thrombocytopenia
Cardiovascular or ischemic disease
Spinal disease
Editor’s note:
Dr. Conrad recently preformed surgical stem cell therapy on a For Paws Hospice patient named Buddy, a seventy pound, eight year old male Golden Retriever. Buddy had a torn ACL and suffered from degenerative hip disease due to and earlier accident.
The procedure consisted of four injections of stem cell material extracted from fat cells harvested from Buddy’s belly fat.
Four stem cell injections were administered to Buddy forty-eight hour hours following the cell harvest procedure in four sites: both back knees, hip and a final injection systemically.
The laboratory which extracted the stem cell medium retains several samples of Buddy’s stem cells in liquid nitrogen which remain available for followup therapy.
Buddy is now undergoing a regimen of therapy to strengthen as well as promote the healthy growth of new tissue at those injured sites. He is expected to make a full recovery and again be able to walk with his owner.
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Dr. Conrad is a member of For Paws Hospice Board of Directors and a practicing veterinarian in Clearwater, FL
Sacramento Bee August 20, 2010
Hospice and women's shelters, common ground
Hospice for pets and women's abuse centers may find a common ground in support of families at risk.
For Paws Hospice and a coalition of local business leaders and supporters is working now to introduce the PAWS program to women's shelters in FL.
You can read more about the PAWS program at American Humane/PAWS (http://www.americanhumane.o... The association also offers a program guide for starting the PAWS program at your local shelter.
Sacramento Bee August 15, 2010
Pet wheels - the gift of mobility
Red is a "runt" pit that was rescued from a closet, locked there by youngsters who tried to hide him from their parents, Red still can't stand being locked up. The family that rescued Red has three other dogs all rescues, all hurt in some way; but Red doesn't mind he has brothers and sisters.
St. Petersburg Times April 19, 2010
A veterinarian provides a hospice service for pets
As a rule, she never arrives early. So she heads to Starbucks first and orders a dark cherry mocha — decaf, because she and her husband just found out she's pregnant for the second time.
In many ways, the 28-year-old veterinarian is just starting her life. Yet on this Monday morning, the career path she has chosen takes her to a Land O'Lakes home.
To end one.
Tampa Bay Newspapers April 13, 2010
Pet home hosp
ice, closing the circle
He came home with us just eight months ago. His paperwork at the Humane Society of Pinellas said his name was George, and it seemed to suit him.
At 14 1/2 years he was well past his prime and looked every one of his years spent on the streets of Clearwater with his homeless companion. George’s owner had surrendered him in 2009 with the note, “I can’t take care of him anymore.”
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