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Nacho Average Dog Health Coach

Give your gentle giant more precious years through holisitc care designed for big dogs.

From cancer-fighting nutrition to preventative care using herbs, mushrooms and energy work.🐾
🐾🐾 As a holistic pet health coach, I help pet owners achieve optimal wellness for their furry companions through a comprehensive, natural approach. Rather than just treating symptoms, I look at the whole pet - their diet, exercise, environment, and lifestyle

factors. My services include customized nutrition plans using fresh, high-quality foods, guidance on natural supplements and remedies, recommendations for gentle exercises and activities, and tips for reducing stress and improving their living space. By addressing all aspects of your pet's health in a holistic way, I can help them live a happier, healthier and longer life, free from chronic issues. No more just masking problems with medications - we get to the root causes and let your pet's body heal itself naturally. If you want to unlock your pet's full vitality potential, book a consultation today. Your furry friend deserves this integrative, prevention-focused approach to lifelong health.

07/28/2026

Today, my sweet Tofu turns 10 years old. 💛🥰🎉

If you’ve shared your life with a giant breed or mastiff, you know why that number feels so significant.

Every birthday is a gift, but this one is super special for me.

I’ve spent the last couple years helping other families nourish their dogs through fresh food, holistic wellness, cancer prevention, and lifestyle changes.

Yet at the end of every day, everything I teach comes home with me.

Tofu has always been my greatest inspiration, my biggest teacher, and the reason I’m so passionate about helping other dogs live vibrant, joyful lives for as long as possible.

She isn’t just healthy. She wakes up excited for every meal, every walk, every adventure, every cuddle.

She still has that sparkle in her eyes that reminds me to slow down and appreciate the ordinary moments that become the extraordinary ones.

Today we’ll celebrate the only way that seems appropriate: uninterrupted time together indoors and outdoors, beef tartare for dinner, a homemade birthday cake made with love, and probably far too many kisses. 🥩🎂

As someone who lost my heart dog, Nacho, far too soon, I know how precious time really is.

Growing older is a privilege.

Every gray hair, every birthday, every quiet evening together is something I never take for granted.

Happy 10th Birthday, my beautiful girl. 💖💖💖

Thank you for reminding me every single day why this work matters.

Here’s to celebrating not just more years… but more healthy, happy years. ❤️🐾

07/27/2026

Broccoli and white bread are not the same food, and lumping them into one category called “carbs” is why so many dogs with cancer end up eating a beige bowl.

When a diagnosis arrives, almost every piece of advice you get is subtractive.

Cut this, eliminate that, take the carbs out.

I understand in a way, because when you can’t control the tumor you reach for what you can, which is the bowl.
What I watch happen is the bowl gets emptier until a dog who needs every advantage is eating the least interesting food of his life.

Color isn’t decoration.

Sulforaphane in broccoli, apigenin in parsley, quercetin and anthocyanins in berries all interact with gene expression, detoxification and inflammatory signaling, which is the premise of Canine Nutrigenomics by Diana Laverdure-Dunetz and Dr. Jean Dodds.

Food isn’t only fuel, it’s information.

Fiber is important too, because gut bacteria ferment it into butyrate, a natural histone deacetylase inhibitor that helps shape the immune response, most of which lives in the gut.

This is where I part ways with keto, because the study everyone cites for it never tested keto.

The Colorado State lymphoma trial from 2000 fed dogs on doxorubicin a diet supplemented with fish oil and arginine, and stage III dogs lived longer.

Both diets were already low in simple carbohydrates, so what got tested was omega-3s, not carbohydrate restriction.

Keto also isn’t a high protein diet. Dogs turn protein into glucose so efficiently that real ketosis means cutting protein too, usually into the teens while fat runs near 80 percent.

I’m not taking protein from a dog already losing muscle to
cancer, and I’m not taking his vegetables either.

Nacho got ten months past the point where we were told to say goodbye, and he ate a full, colorful bowl for every one of them.

I can’t prove the vegetables bought that time, but what I know is that feeding him broccoli and blueberries cost him nothing, while pulling them out would have cost him fiber, phytonutrients and a real share of his protein when his body needed all three.

Link in bio if you want to build your dog’s bowl.

07/23/2026

Somewhere between the drive-through and the desk lunch, we stopped sitting down together, and most of us did not even notice it happening.

I grew up in Norway where dinner at 4:30 was non-negotiable, not because the food was extraordinary every night, but because that half hour belonged to everyone at the table.

No agenda or performance. Just attention.

I don't think we consciously gave that up, I think it just quietly disappeared.

What followed was not just a loss of connection with each other, but a disconnection from the entire act of feeding, including how and what we put in our dogs' bowls every single day.

When we stop being present at mealtimes, we stop being intentional about them.

This is more important than what most of us realize for both the humans and the animals sitting at our feet waiting to be fed.

Episode 19 of The Whole Pack Podcast talks about how we've lost the ritual of slowing down and connecting with our animals.

Link in comments.

07/17/2026

Every so often someone messages me braced for me to tell them to throw out their dog’s medication, but I never do.

I don’t think steroids, NSAIDs are evil drugs. They can pull dogs out of real misery, and I’ve had clients whose dogs needed them.

That decision is yours (and your vet!), always, and I happen to work alongside a vet every week because I believe in that partnership.

Those drugs, however, manage a symptom without asking why it’s there.

Your vet runs bloodwork before an NSAID and rechecks liver values on a schedule for a reason, because enzymes climbed in about 5% of dogs on carprofen in the field studies.

Serious injury is rare, but the monitoring exists because the drug is doing heavy duty work in the body, and long-term steroids ask more of it.

So the medication buys relief. But what buys a solution?

A peer-reviewed review found that up to 62% of dogs with allergic skin disease were reacting to something in their food, and the authors concluded food is worth testing with an elimination diet before you commit to managing symptoms for life.

The gut looks similar. Between 50 and 66% of dogs with chronic digestive trouble improve on a diet change alone, and in one study of 136 dogs with chronic diarrhea, 66% went into full remission on an elimination diet.

It was FOOD, not a drug.

So give your dog the medication she needs, then start the slower work underneath it. If diet is driving this, the drug becomes a life sentence, but if you fix the diet, it might turn into a bridge instead.

There’s no quick fix.

A real diet trial runs 8 to 12 weeks, and I’ll never promise you a new dog in a month.

What I can promise is that we’re finally asking the right question.

This is the work I do. Have a dog that fits this scenario?

Feel free to DM me or check out link in bio.

07/16/2026

The first photo is one I took of the sun at 7 am this morning. 😮

The Canadian wildfires are once again affecting air quality here in the Hudson Valley, and across much of New York.

While we often think about how smoke impacts us, our dogs are breathing the same air we are.

Wildfire smoke contains tiny particles that can irritate the lungs and airways of both people and pets.

Large and giant breeds, senior dogs, puppies, and dogs with heart or respiratory conditions may be especially vulnerable.
If the Air Quality Index (AQI) is elevated:

🐾 Keep walks short and stick to potty breaks when possible.

🏠 Spend more time indoors with windows closed and a HEPA air purifier if you have one.

💧 Make sure your dog stays well hydrated.

🧼 Wipe paws and coats after coming inside to remove smoke particles.

👀 Watch for coughing, wheezing, excessive panting, lethargy, or difficulty breathing, and contact your veterinarian if you notice any concerning symptoms.

Swipe through to the infographic for a simple guide to understanding AQI levels and how to help protect your dog’s lungs during smoky days.

We can’t control the smoke, but we can reduce our dogs’ exposure and help keep them healthy until clearer skies return. ❤️🐕🌿

07/14/2026

Let me ask you something about your dog's bowl. Or your cat's.

Are you confident that what's in it is actually working for your animal?

Not for pets in general. Not for the one on the bag, but yours.

Because if any of this sounds familiar, the answer is probably no:

🔸 Loose stool that never quite firms up
🔸 Straining, or three days between poops
🔸 Itchy paws, goopy ears, rusty tear stains
🔸 Hot spots that come back every summer
🔸 A waistline that disappeared two years ago
🔸 Gas that clears a room
🔸 A dog who picks at breakfast and eats grass instead
🔸 A cat vomiting so regularly you've stopped calling it unusual

Here's what the research says about that first one:

In dogs with chronic GI issues, 50-66% respond to a dietary change alone.

In one study of 136 dogs with chronic diarrhea, 66% went into full remission on a properly designed elimination diet. No drugs. Food.

That's not a supplement or antibiotic fixing. That's the diet finally matching the animal.

Most pet parents aren't doing anything wrong. They're doing exactly what the bag told them to do.

But a bag can't see your pet's gut, coat, weight, breed, age, or history, and it definitely can't adjust when things change.

That's where I (Sunny, in-house nutritionist) come in.

Here's how to start:

I'm at Full Circle Veterinary Hospital every Tuesday and Wednesday, offering free 15-minute nutrition consults.

Bring the symptom that's been nagging at you for months.

In fifteen minutes, I'll tell you honestly whether this looks like a food problem, and whether I'm the right person to help.

If it is, and I am, we'll book a full 1-hour discovery session to map the whole picture: history, symptoms, current diet, what's been tried, what's actually going on underneath.

And if you decide to move forward into a custom 1-month nutrition program, part of what you paid for that session goes straight toward it.

Fifteen minutes to find out, that's all I ask.

Booking link in the comments 👇

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07/13/2026

Twenty years ago, I was cooking in fine dining kitchens in New York City. I learned to break down a fish, build a stock from bones, taste a sauce, and know exactly what it was missing.

Years later, I lost my dog Nacho to hemangiosarcoma, and I went looking for answers in a completely different world.

Since then, I found that an industry had taken the simplest thing in the world, feeding someone you love, and made it so complicated that people had given up trying.

Powders. Pills. Prescription bags with a vitamin premix and a marketing budget. Twelve supplements on the counter and a dog who still itches.

So let me say out loud what I have built an entire practice around:

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭-𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐭.

Not for your dog, not for your cat, and not for yourself.

The fish oil will not fix a coat the diet isn't building.

The probiotic will not colonize a gut that's being fed the same reactive protein twice a day, every day.

The joint supplement will not outrun ten extra pounds.

Supplements are the finishing work, but 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

You don't hang cabinets in a house with a cracked slab, right?

The foundation is not complicated.

It is three words, and I will say them until people are sick of hearing them:

𝐖𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐄. 𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐍. 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐇.

Real, recognizable and balanced ingredients..

Rotate foods, and cook them with attention. That's it. That's the secret the supplement industry would prefer you didn't figure out.

𝐈'𝐦 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐟 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭, which means I don't think food is a delivery mechanism for nutrients.

I think food is the medicine, and the kitchen is where it gets made.

Nacho, this one's for you ❤️

Comment BOWL and I'll send you where to start.

07/10/2026

This testimonial means the world to me 💜🙏🐾

Tali’s family came to me exhausted.

Years of stomach trouble that had gotten so much worse, down to only chicken, potato, and rice, and a senior girl who was dangerously losing weight.

I hear «we’ve tried everything» all the time, and I always think the same thing: there is almost always another option.

Holistic care works right alongside conventional medicine, it just isn’t as widely known yet, and that’s where I come in.

Tali’s parents showed up for every step of this, and watching her heal because of that partnership is the reason why I do this work.

They were willing to do whatever it took to help their girl, and it was heartwarming to see the transformation that ensued as a result.

If your dog has something that just hasn’t been figured out yet, I’d love to help.

Remember, there’s always something we can do.

Book a consult, link in bio.

07/07/2026

I took this photo of wild porcini on a trip through Italy, and I still think about the smell of them, earthy and nutty and almost meaty, the kind of scent that tells you dinner is about to be worth the wait. 🍄

The very quality that makes porcini so extraordinary on the plate, that deep savory richness chefs chase, comes from the same compounds that make culinary mushrooms genuinely medicinal.

Flavor and function grow from the same root. You simply have to know how to coax both out of them, which is exactly what I will be teaching inside my 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐥 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 courses and cooking classes - coming soon :)

I want to give you a peek into the interesting toolkit that a chef reaches for.

🍄 𝐋𝐢𝐨𝐧'𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐞 is the one I get excited about, because it supports nerve and cognitive health, which is hugely important for the senior dog growing a little foggy or the older cat who seems less sure of the furniture.

Torn into pieces and slowly seared until golden in butter or olive oil, it turns tender and subtly sweet, closer to seafood than to anything you'd expect from a mushroom.

🍄 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐢 carry those immune-supporting beta-glucans while bringing a savory depth that makes a bowl of food far more enticing, which is perfect for the fussy cat or the dog who has started turning up their nose at dinner.

🍄 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐲𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐬 is my pick for stamina and steady energy, lovely for the middle-aged pet who could use a little more spark in their step.

🍄 Turkey tail works gently on the gut and immune system over time, and, as any good cook knows, gut health is where real vitality begins for dogs and cats alike.

Beyond mushrooms, a few less expected remedies live in my kitchen that you rarely hear about.

Green-lipped mussel is my favorite for aging joints and moves well beyond the usual fish oil conversation.

A slow-simmered bone broth with a whisper of fresh ginger soothes digestion and rehydrates the pet who isn't drinking enough in the heat.

A little nettle, cooked down, becomes a beautiful ally for the itchy, allergy-prone dog through summer.

What is the common thread here?

What nourishes can also delight you, your dog, and your cat, as long as it's prepared with a bit of skill.

Mushrooms, in particular, need proper cooking to become both safe and digestible; they should never be served raw, and wild ones are only for those who truly know how to identify them.

If you'd like me to walk you through the how, the amounts, the preparation, and the pairings that make functional food taste incredible for the whole household, that's the heart of my 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐥 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 courses and cooking classes, and you'll find plenty of recipes waiting inside my ebook Canine Culinary Bliss.

Link in comments. 📚

07/05/2026

𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐠'𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬' 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰. 🍉

July is peak season for some of the most healing, hydrating, dog-safe foods of the whole year, and half of them are cheaper and fresher than anything in the pharmacy aisle.

Here's what I'm filling my basket with this week (and WHY it matters for your pup):

🍉 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧
92% water. It's basically a hydration IV for dogs who won't drink enough in the heat. Rinds and seeds OUT, flesh only. Freeze cubes for a heatwave treat.

🫐 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬
Tiny antioxidant bombs. They fight the cell damage that quietly ages your dog's joints, brain, and skin. Toss a small handful on their dinner.

🥒 𝐂𝐮𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 & 𝐳𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐢
Crunchy, low-cal, cooling. Perfect for dogs who need to drop a few pounds but who still want to feel like they're getting a treat.

🥕 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐬 & 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬
Fiber that keeps digestion regular AND satisfies the grazers.

🌿 And because I can't help myself as a chef: grab a bunch of fresh parsley. A pinch chopped over dinner freshens doggy breath from the inside out and supports the kidneys. Nature's Tic Tac!

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐥 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞: while you're there, grab double.

That watermelon becomes a chilled watermelon-mint salad for YOU and frozen watermelon cubes for THEM.

Same basket, two happy species.

That's the whole point - you shouldn't have to cook twice!

Make it a ritual: leash, tote bag, dog, market. Some of my clients say it's become their favorite Saturday morning of the week. 🐾

👉 Want the exact seasonal shopping lists + recipes mapped to every month? That's the heart of Seasonal Eating for Dogs (link in comments)

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