Conditional Approval of Drug for Pancreatitis in Dogs

Breaking News !! Just in time for the 2022 holiday season, when dogs often accidentally get into rich foods and trigger an acute pancreatitis attack, the FDA gave

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Champion of My Heart Store Now Open

Barely in time for the holiday season, our Champion of My Heart store is now open. Suffice it to say the process turned into WAY more work than

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Dog Attack Restitution

Another chapter in the long, painful, lonely, and frustrating story of being attacked from behind by 2 aggressive dogs without warning comes to a close with the payment

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Dog DNA Test Results for Dream

It's bittersweet to receive Dream's dog DNA test results after her unexpected death on Sept 27, 2022, but the results are still kind of fun. Especially, the random

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Adverse Vaccine Reactions in Dogs Quiz

For those new to Champion of My Heart's award-winning dog and veterinary content, let's recap that we gained some notoriety when Lilly, our original canine heroine, died from

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Rest in Peace, Foster Puppy Dream

Devastated to report the unexpected / sudden death of our most recent foster puppy Dream. Feel like I jinxed things by writing about our preparations for her arrival

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Dog Anesthesia Risks of Death

Researchers looked at more than 157,000 cases of dogs needing a general anesthesia / sedation events between 2010 and 2013 and reported on the dog anesthesia risks of

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Update Foster Puppy Example

With our latest foster puppy (DREAM) in the house for a full week now, here's an update and real-world foster puppy example of how parts of our foster

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Foster Puppy Set Up

With another foster puppy arrival imminent, I decided to document the foster puppy set up I use to prepare the house. I figured since I needed to do

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Dogs Detecting COVID

A study published in June 2022 reported on results for dogs detecting COVID compared to other testing methods. It's pretty neat. Let's take a look at what the

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