Supporting Spayed Dogs | Shorts

Hi, this is Rita Hogan and welcome to the Dogs Are Individuals podcast. I'm a clinical canine herbalist and I've been practicing for over 20 years. This podcast is all about your dog through an herbal lens. So let's get to it and dive right in.

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I'm back. We are back on the pod and we are going to talk about supporting female dogs after they've been spayed. As you already know, most of you might know that I'm a proponent to not spaying your female dogs if you can keep them from getting pregnant. We all need our parts. But if you have to spay your dog or if you're in a high population area where there's a lot of dogs that are homeless and you have a rescue dog and they're spayed, or for whatever reason you're choosing to spay, that's okay too. I have a spayed dog. I totally get it. So how do you support your dog when they're spayed? First wanted to share with you something super fun. I recently took part in a project for Goodness Gracious who is our sponsor for the shorts. Just so you know, if you go to their Website Goodness Gracious Treats.com youm can get $50 off your first order with a code of kiss off, kibble, all caps, all one word. Kiss off, kibble, $50 off. So I took part in a project with Goodness Gracious. They have some new regenerative diets and I'm going to share them with you over the next few weeks and we can talk about them in depth. The first one is called Rejuve and it's gut and total body health. And it is a really great recipe. I helped develop this recipe. Pretty proud of it. The ingredients, it's pork, pork liver, broccoli sprouts, mung bean sprouts, shiitake mushroom, spinach, mackerel, wild caught mackerel, organic sprouted dried sunflower seeds, plums, organic dandelion greens. There I am. Organic bilberry, back again. Ground eggshell, organic dried oyster mushroom. That's me too. Organic dried kelp, organic dried calendula. Hello. And organic dried plantain leaf. Awesome. Really great recipe here. 78% pork liver and mackerel, 14% sprouts and dark greens and 8% mushrooms, fruits, seeds and fats. And her which are also in the in the greens too. So yeah, pretty excited about this project and really thank Amy Renz, the owner of Goodness Gracious for being a sponsor here on the podcast on the pod. So check the Website out. Goodness gracious. Treats.com Human grade food and treats for pets. So kiss off, kipple. All one word. All caps for $50 off your first order. Okay, so how to help your dog when they get spayed and neutered. Now this can be a kind of a big topic. We're going to make it into a short and we might expand it into a larger podcast later. But one of the things that I think is very important when you are supporting spay and neuter is to get those glandular back in. Glandulars are really important part of helping the body support itself. With things being gone now, I can speak to this personally. I've had a hysterectomy. I'm going to tell you it's not, it's not a lot of fun and I've had to do a lot to balance my body and help support my body. I used to have like 28 hot flashes a day, so that wasn't any fun. But your hormones get completely out of whack. Your adrenal glands are suffering, you can feel more anxious and more stressed. And our little doggies need some support. So what am I talking about? I'm talking about glandulars. Glandulars are a product of the meat industry. They are all of the organs in an animal that support female health, like ovary, fallopian tube, uterus, those types of things. So you want to add those glandulars back in. And then there is a human product and it's called ancestral female enhancement. It's from ancestral supplements. It has ovary, it has uterus, it has fallopian tube. But it also has liver and bone marrow that help support hormone production. And that's really important too, even though you know your dogs are spayed. Right? We wanna support hormone production, we wanna support hormone balance, energy, immune health. We wanna support your dog's cartilage, their joints, their collagen health. What we'll talk about in a minute, wanna support their nervous system. And so this is a good place to start. And one of the things is that when you do glandular therapy, you are including things like proteins and enzymes and stem ce. Especially when you're giving ovary and uterus, you're going to have extra amounts of CoQ10, vitamin A, folate, which is very important for the liver health and gut health, iron, and then all the factors that need, like growth factors that need to be involved in good healthy bones. So. And then, you know, you have glucosamine as well in the bone marrow in this supplement So I really like it. It's called Ancestral Supplements and it's called FEM Female Enhancement Mixture. I'm gonna start carrying it in my store in a couple of weeks, but you can shop their website ancestralsupplements.com so what else do we need? We're gonna talk about herbs in a minute, but let's just go through a few other things. So like collagen. Collagen hit when dogs get spayed. And so you want to feed things that are high in collagen if your dog can handle it. Bone broth. Bone broth is a good one. I know that a new sponsor on the podcast is Fido's Bone Broth. I helped with their formulations too. And that is a good. Bone broth is good. Another sponsor on our podcast is Green Juju and they make great bone broth as well. They also carry raw goat's milk, which is a good. It is warming, slightly warming. So if you have a warm dog, you don't want to give too much. If you have a hot dog, you need to probably avoid it. But raw grass fed goat's milk contains proteins and fats and enzymes and vitamins and minerals and probiotics. It is such a great supplement for dogs that have been spayed. So check Green Juju out for that product. Or if you can get grass fed raw goats milk somewhere else, that's fine too. Right? We just wanna know what we need to feed and that is really great. Clean bone broths. Homemade bone broth is fine. Organic sources, grass fed sources are the best. They're gonna be the lowest in metals because bone broth can have heavy metals. And you wanna make sure that you're giving clean sources of bone broth and never ever human sources of bone broth. Okay? Don't do it. Lots of onions in the human sources of bone broth. And then what else can we do, Rita? What else can we do? Again, we want to support collagen probiotics. Probiotics are a very good thing to help with spay and neuter. And you want to give a variety of probiotics. You don't want your dogs to be strain, like strain dominant. So just keep rotating, rotating, rotating different types of probiotics. I've done a couple probiotic podcast episodes, so check those out. You can look to herbs. Okay, one, we can look to mushrooms. Fiber is very important at supporting hormone health. We wanna make sure your dog's pooping twice a day. You can make dehydrated mushroom powder to help with fiber. And then you can feed medicinal mushrooms. You can give, like organic Reishi mushrooms is good for spay and neuter. Reishi is very powerful systemic mushroom. You can get that@realmushrooms.com or on my website. Reishi's. Awesome. So I love Reishi's. And then we have Chastry, which is also called Vitex. Vitex, Angus Castus. Now, Vitex is a very good hormone, supportive hormone, balancing. It's called Chaste Tree. Chaste Tree is a good supplement for balancing hormones. So you can supplement that in your dog's diet. You can do a powder chase. Tree, I would say 150 milligrams for extra small dogs, 300 milligrams for small, 4 to 500 milligrams for medium to large, and then up to like 800 milligrams for extra large dogs. Once or twice a day, depending on your dog. You can just try once and see how things go. But Chaste Tree is a good one. Raspberry leaf is also very supportive. You can use a tea. You can also use powder in the same dosages that I just talked about. Organic sources are good. I like to use organic raspberry, but just as long as they're organically grown. Raspberry leaf. And then ashwagandha is a good one. Ashwagandha, things that support the adrenals softly are good for any type of spay and neuter. Ashwagandha, the root or the leaf. Or the root and the leaf, that's fine too. Ashwagandha is warming, so it's gonna be for more of those cooler dogs. It's. If you have a warm dog, a good, I would say mild adaptogen is rhodiola. Rhodiola, same dosages. You can use powder. You can also use tincture for tincture. One drop for extra small, two drops for small, three drops for medium, four drops for large, and five drops for extra large dogs. For the ashwagandha and the Ashwagandha. Ashwagandha and the rhodiola. There is another herb called schisandra berry. It's a TCM herb. It has all the five flavors in it. And that's another good one, too. I like to use it in a formula, though. I like to use that one in a formula. It's pretty neutral. It helps support the adrenals. It helps systemic support. So that one's good too. Let's see. I discussed chaste berry. Oh, Evening primrose oil. Evening primrose oil can be nice. 16th of a teaspoon to, I would say 3/4 of a teaspoon, you know, size appropriate. And then another nice root is shatavari, which is an Ayurvedic herb, but it's basically asparagus root. And shatavari is very nice. It's. It is an adaptogenic herb. It can help regulate the endocrine system. It helps with stress and helps the body cope physically and emotionally. And that's really important, too. And it's the same. You can use the dried herb and it's the same as the other herbs that I have discussed. So, you know, if I can just round it out with saying, you know, get those glandulars on board and then work your way up. But those are a few ways that you can support your, your female dog when they are spayed or as they are spayed. I mean, like if they are spayed, not as if they are spayed. You can support your dog. Glandulars can be given like three to four times a week. And then right after a spay, you can give it for about three months straight, but they can be given three to four times a week. And then you can cycle those herbs. You can give like two days on a day off, two days on a day off. Just keep rotating, rotating, rotating, cycling, cycling, cycling. I'll try to explain cycling a little bit better, but basically you give the herb for a little while and then you take a break. And then you give the herb for a little while, take a break. You can do like every other day. You can do every through two or three days. You can do four days on three days off. If you're going to give those herbs long term. Okay, the aptogenic herbs, the shatavari, the ashwagandha, the schisandra berry, they can be given daily. I like to give them in small amounts daily. So check those out. If you have any questions specifically, you can email me and I'll answer them here on the pod. But I hope this gives you an idea and, you know, just always support the liver, support the kidneys, support the gut, support the brain, support the adrenal glands. These are all ways, you know, gentle detoxification, gentle support digestive enzymes if you're feeding cooked food. These are all ways we can support the entire system of your dog's body. And don't forget the nervous system. Okay, thanks for listening to this episode of Dogs Are Individuals.

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