Category: Tracie Hotchner

TRACIE HOTCHNER: LOOKING FOR A LOW-CAL TREAT YOUR DOG WILL LOVE? TRY FROZEN BROCCOLI!

If someone told me that dogs of all ages in my house would go nuts for chunks of frozen broccoli as a treat, I would never have believed them! But I’ve made the wonderful discovery that I have three dogs crowding around me eagerly when I slide open the freezer compartment and reach in for
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TRACIE HOTCHNER: A BREEDER OF LITTLE DOGS WITH BIG APPETITES

Wikiwags is one of my more unusual sponsors on the Radio Pet Lady Network – unusual because a male belly band with disposable diapers inside is not your everyday pet product (it turns out there are a lot of dogs of every size who lift their leg in the house for a variety of reasons)!
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TRACIE HOTCHNER: CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY – WHAT DOES THAT REALLY MEAN?

So many companies, large and small, make reference to donating a portion of their profits to charity. Most of us don’t stop to ask what that actually means. How much are they really giving away – and what is their motivation? Is it cynical of us as consumers to wonder if a company’s claims of
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TRACIE HOTCHNER: WHAT’S THAT BLACK GUNK LURKING INSIDE YOUR DOG’S EARS?

If you have a dog with ears that flap over, you’ll recognize that OMG! moment when you casually lift up the ear flap and are shocked to see an entire universe happening inside that ear canal that you were oblivious to! Your first reaction is probably like mine, which is to drop the ear and
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TRACIE HOTCHNER: LEVI THE PUG WINS AGAIN

Dr. Donna recently wrote on the Halo blog about Levi, the gorgeous, once-chubby pug in South Dakota who entered our Halo Healthy Weight Challenge on The Expert Vet radio show and came out a big winner. Pounds melted off him and inches disappeared, as his devoted Mom Kimberly stuck to Dr. Donnas’ diet plan using
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