Thanks Dr. O’Connor for sharing your experiences and knowledge in your presentation, “Happy and Healthy Geriatrics”. I thoroughly enjoyed all the topics you presented. It was a great learning experience for me and I had several take-aways from the presentation, one of which was that hip dysplasia is more an envronmental factor than a genetic one. That was amazing! I do have one question. In the presentation, you mentioned that dogs who are currently in good health can benefit from the exercises too. Is there a certain age that you feel would be a good age to start? Thanks.
Hi JoAnne! Thank you for the feedback! I’m happy to hear my presentation gave you some benefit. You can start exercises at any age. It’s better to start early than to wait for any muscle weakness to show. Plus, they are less prone to injury if their body is in tip top shape. I’ve done fit paws and treadmill conditioning with my 3 dogs since they were young, as well as sits to stands, and downs to sits and stands.
Hope that helps! Let me know if you have any other questions!
Thank you, Dr O’Connor for another amazing presentation, I always look forward to finding your name on the summit itinerary. You consistently provide participants with a plethora of useful, information, knowledge, wisdom, humor, and insights that we can immediately use for our pets; or share with others. I adopted my dog, when she was 2 years old; and with encouragement from my chiropractor, immediately started her on a raw diet. She’ll be 9 in June / has been “eating raw” for 7 years. She’s vital, healthy, glowing, and very, active—everyday. People often stop their cars, or take a break, from fishing, in the park, to meet her. They’re always surprised to “see her older face” because from a distance, her activity, energy, joy, and canine enthusiasm, leads them to expect a younger dog 🙂 That’s what a raw diet does for a yellow-lab- girl 🙂 Many good wishes for success with your Farm 2 Bowl business. Perhaps you’ll eventually decide to ship frozen food; that will be welcome news. Accolades, cheers, confetti. Kindest thoughts, gratitude, and appreciation.
Wow! Thank you so much! That is so awesome with your yellow lab. Raw fed dogs are the healthiest dogs on the planet. Great job with her. 🙌🏼❤️
We are dabbling around with possibly shipping. It’s really all that goes into shipping frozen food- cost/foam/dry ice/etc that’s holding us back, but trying to work with a company to see if we can get reasonable packing and ship costs for our potential customers who are outside the Chicagoland area.
Thank you so much for your presentation. I really enjoyed it and do not regret staying up late to listen!
My corgi is turning 12 in June and has been raw fed since she was 8 weeks old. She is in excellent health and condition and looks and acts like a much younger dog. She is a bit of a “kamikaze” athlete, especially with balls, and a few years ago stretched both her ACLs (about a year apart). But with chiropractic, physiotherapy and acupuncture (and controlled exercises) she recovered and did not require surgery.
We’ve done lots of training including tracking and herding, and in the summer months (we live in Canada, so that’s about 3 months of the year, haha!) we swim almost every day. She’s been in 3 short films and is just a dream. Keeping her interested and engaged, making up new games, is so rewarding for both of us.
I attribute much of our good fortune to her diet and to her lovely long tail. She was never docked. Thank goodness!
Awesome! Thank you for taking such great care of her. She sounds like a very special dog. And a corgi with a full tail- wow- that’s rare! I’m glad that more and more “docked breeds” are keeping their tails. I’m happy to hear you enjoyed my presentation. 🙂
Thank you for an excellent presentation and sharing a wealth of knowledge and insight. I’ve done many of these things with my animals (human and non, including 88 year old mother, 16, 13 and 8 year old salukis, cats, and myself) for years and good reminder of things like the wide assortment of exercises and shopping bag harness very helpful and handy to have with you when out walking in forests etc should anything happen. I’d love to have a copy of the presentation to review again at later date, if you would consider sharing. Thank you again!
Hi Virginia! Thank you very much for your feedback. I’m glad my presentation gave you some benefit and reminder of things we can do to help our older pets, and people too!
There are options to purchase our summit presentations- to have access to them all forever in an app, digital downloads, or flash drive. This link will lead you to those options if interested! https://go.animalwellnesssummit.com/buy-now
Thank you Dr O’Connor. Yes, there is always something we can do to assist; even being there and caring, which can be the greatest thing we do. My mother at 88 is living proof (as is each of my animals, who inspired me to learn and understand better decades ago), after decades of medical damage and over prescription use and doctor misdiagnose and failure of systems that are meant to protect, was able to do things she had never been able to do and not for decades, including walking hilly forests in evening for hours with my dogs and self, till another bought of lazy people unmindful people, doctor visitations and inappropriate drugs miss-prescribed multable contradindicative drugs that should never be used on someone her age or condition that found out weeks after done when trying to figure out why she was in extreme distress, that now paying the consequences and trying to rebuild everyone’s lives again, after sadly losing my soulmate 16 year old healthy well-looked after saluki solo that means the world to me under avoidable tragic circumstances if there had just been someone there when needed them and the vets and doctors and system made one more mistake and failure too many… Life. Thank you again for caring and perpetuating good. Age is a number, not a diagnose or death sentence and is irrelevant to individual, All the best, always. Virginia
Thanks Dr. O’Connor for sharing your experiences and knowledge in your presentation, “Happy and Healthy Geriatrics”. I thoroughly enjoyed all the topics you presented. It was a great learning experience for me and I had several take-aways from the presentation, one of which was that hip dysplasia is more an envronmental factor than a genetic one. That was amazing! I do have one question. In the presentation, you mentioned that dogs who are currently in good health can benefit from the exercises too. Is there a certain age that you feel would be a good age to start? Thanks.
Hi JoAnne! Thank you for the feedback! I’m happy to hear my presentation gave you some benefit. You can start exercises at any age. It’s better to start early than to wait for any muscle weakness to show. Plus, they are less prone to injury if their body is in tip top shape. I’ve done fit paws and treadmill conditioning with my 3 dogs since they were young, as well as sits to stands, and downs to sits and stands.
Hope that helps! Let me know if you have any other questions!
Such an inspiring and information packed presentation! Thank you Erin
You’re welcome! Thank you for the feedback! 🙂
Thank you for this very informative presentation! So much that anyone can do with their own animal families!
You’re welcome! Thank you for the feedback! 🙂
Thank you, Dr O’Connor for another amazing presentation, I always look forward to finding your name on the summit itinerary. You consistently provide participants with a plethora of useful, information, knowledge, wisdom, humor, and insights that we can immediately use for our pets; or share with others. I adopted my dog, when she was 2 years old; and with encouragement from my chiropractor, immediately started her on a raw diet. She’ll be 9 in June / has been “eating raw” for 7 years. She’s vital, healthy, glowing, and very, active—everyday. People often stop their cars, or take a break, from fishing, in the park, to meet her. They’re always surprised to “see her older face” because from a distance, her activity, energy, joy, and canine enthusiasm, leads them to expect a younger dog 🙂 That’s what a raw diet does for a yellow-lab- girl 🙂 Many good wishes for success with your Farm 2 Bowl business. Perhaps you’ll eventually decide to ship frozen food; that will be welcome news. Accolades, cheers, confetti. Kindest thoughts, gratitude, and appreciation.
Wow! Thank you so much! That is so awesome with your yellow lab. Raw fed dogs are the healthiest dogs on the planet. Great job with her. 🙌🏼❤️
We are dabbling around with possibly shipping. It’s really all that goes into shipping frozen food- cost/foam/dry ice/etc that’s holding us back, but trying to work with a company to see if we can get reasonable packing and ship costs for our potential customers who are outside the Chicagoland area.
Thank you so much for your presentation. I really enjoyed it and do not regret staying up late to listen!
My corgi is turning 12 in June and has been raw fed since she was 8 weeks old. She is in excellent health and condition and looks and acts like a much younger dog. She is a bit of a “kamikaze” athlete, especially with balls, and a few years ago stretched both her ACLs (about a year apart). But with chiropractic, physiotherapy and acupuncture (and controlled exercises) she recovered and did not require surgery.
We’ve done lots of training including tracking and herding, and in the summer months (we live in Canada, so that’s about 3 months of the year, haha!) we swim almost every day. She’s been in 3 short films and is just a dream. Keeping her interested and engaged, making up new games, is so rewarding for both of us.
I attribute much of our good fortune to her diet and to her lovely long tail. She was never docked. Thank goodness!
Awesome! Thank you for taking such great care of her. She sounds like a very special dog. And a corgi with a full tail- wow- that’s rare! I’m glad that more and more “docked breeds” are keeping their tails. I’m happy to hear you enjoyed my presentation. 🙂
Thank you for an excellent presentation and sharing a wealth of knowledge and insight. I’ve done many of these things with my animals (human and non, including 88 year old mother, 16, 13 and 8 year old salukis, cats, and myself) for years and good reminder of things like the wide assortment of exercises and shopping bag harness very helpful and handy to have with you when out walking in forests etc should anything happen. I’d love to have a copy of the presentation to review again at later date, if you would consider sharing. Thank you again!
Hi Virginia! Thank you very much for your feedback. I’m glad my presentation gave you some benefit and reminder of things we can do to help our older pets, and people too!
There are options to purchase our summit presentations- to have access to them all forever in an app, digital downloads, or flash drive. This link will lead you to those options if interested! https://go.animalwellnesssummit.com/buy-now
Thanks again! 🙂
Thank you Dr O’Connor. Yes, there is always something we can do to assist; even being there and caring, which can be the greatest thing we do. My mother at 88 is living proof (as is each of my animals, who inspired me to learn and understand better decades ago), after decades of medical damage and over prescription use and doctor misdiagnose and failure of systems that are meant to protect, was able to do things she had never been able to do and not for decades, including walking hilly forests in evening for hours with my dogs and self, till another bought of lazy people unmindful people, doctor visitations and inappropriate drugs miss-prescribed multable contradindicative drugs that should never be used on someone her age or condition that found out weeks after done when trying to figure out why she was in extreme distress, that now paying the consequences and trying to rebuild everyone’s lives again, after sadly losing my soulmate 16 year old healthy well-looked after saluki solo that means the world to me under avoidable tragic circumstances if there had just been someone there when needed them and the vets and doctors and system made one more mistake and failure too many… Life. Thank you again for caring and perpetuating good. Age is a number, not a diagnose or death sentence and is irrelevant to individual, All the best, always. Virginia