Educational Blog Posts
Unlocking Hope: Canine Cognitive Dysfunction and How Rehabilitation Can Restore Your Senior Dog’s Vitality
As your dog ages, you might start to think they are acting a bit senile or forgetful. In fact, dogs DO experience cognitive changes as they age much like humans do. Canine Cognitive Dysfunction [...]
Protect your puppy’s joints and protect your wallet! Preventing Orthopedic Issues in Young Bernese Dogs
Oh a beautiful Bernese Mountain Dog! Sturdy, self-confident, friendly and loyal. But then there is a potential dark side...hip dysplasia, elbow dysplasia, OCD (osteochondritis dissecans) and potentially savings-draining surgeries to try to fix it [...]
Reasons to head to the vet.
Part of what makes Pawsitively Fit different is that we insist on having a phone conversation with owners before they can book an appointment. This is for two reasons: 1. To make sure they are [...]
What are the most common conditions Pawsitively Fit sees?
We specialize in helping senior dogs at Pawsitively Fit, but have you ever wondered what conditions we see most often? We thought it would be fun to reflect on this and share! [...]
Why your senior dog might have a wobbly backend!
Wobblers syndrome, more correctly called cervical spondylomyelopathy (or CSM for short), is a condition that affects the cervical (neck) spinal column in dogs. It’s more commonly recognized in younger large and giant breeds, such [...]
Why your dog isn’t recovering from a muscle strain
Many of us have been there. Our dog gets a bit too excited, plays too hard or maybe they are getting older and they slip or are overusing a muscle. Whatever the cause, our [...]