Good Neighbor Ranch - Dachshunds

Happy 1️⃣2️⃣th birthday to our little man Obi! 🎂🥳🎈🎁

Obi is a very special to us, he holds many firsts. Your unconstitutional love has taught us so much. You might be getting older, but you still enjoy having old man zoomies, chasing the golf cart, and sitting on ur butt like your top dawg. 🤭Here’s to more naps on the top of the couch, eating left over horse feed and barking at the wind!

Garlic for dogs 🧄…let’s clear this up 👇

Garlic often gets labeled “toxic” because it’s related to onions, but here’s the nuance: garlic contains about 1/15th the amount of the compound linked to toxicity and is actually recognized as a safe ingredient in commercial pet foods (AAFCO).

In small, appropriate amounts, garlic provides allicin, which may support:
❤️ Heart health
🛡️ Immune function
🦠 Antimicrobial support

The studies often cited to claim harm? They used extreme doses…the equivalent of feeding a 70 lb dog ~245 cloves of garlic in one week (yes, really). Even then, no dogs showed outward symptoms, just minor microscopic changes in some red blood cells.

The amounts in this graphic fall well within safe daily feeding guidelines 👍

🐈 For added context: the National Research Council has even set a historical safe intake for cats at 17 mg/kg of body weight, further highlighting that dose matters.

Bottom line:
Garlic isn’t the villain - it’s the amount that matters.

📌 Save this for reference & always stick to proper serving sizes 🐶🐱

Better late than never to post .
Nova and her big sister are getting along perfectly in Massachusetts! However still can’t find a small enough jacket to fit her 🤭.
We aggie21251 decided to keep Fox (now named Aries).

How is he the last one left!? He’s so sweet and would love to curl up in the couch with you.