My Favourite Summer Essential Oils for Horses & Dogs
Essential oils and herbs can help you and your animals get through summer with your cool intact.
Category: Dogs
10 Essential Oils for Winter
Winter is a time for rest and renewal and building inner strength for the re-birth of Spring, a necessary part of the cycle of life.…
Essential Oils for Animals – The Basics
Essential oils for animals, what's that about? This primer is a simple guide to why and how to use essential oils and animal self-selection.
Essential Oils & Animal Behavior
I have always had a special interest in animal behavior and helping animals adapt happily to domestication. Essential oils make my work a whole lot ea…
How Animals Use Essential Oils Naturally
I live in Portugal, which is an aromatherapist’s delight. In my back yard (30 hectares/75 acres) aromatic plants grow wild. They include two types of…
Essentials oils protect against Fleas, Ticks (and other unwelcome guests!)
Aromatic protection Aromatic essential oils and hydrosols are your best ally in the fight against fleas, ticks and mosquitoes. Not only do they actively repel…
Essential oils for a dog’s hormonal imbalance
It’s spring time. I guess it’s natural that things ‘hormonal’ should become an issue. First of all Dharma Dog’s mammary glands expanded, and she was…
Horses, dogs, essential oils, Damp Heat in Late Summer
I can tell Late Summer is here by the state of my hat (sweat-stained and a bit battered!) and the outbreak of Damp Heat. I don't jus…
Caring for an older dog
Gipsy is an old dog now. As we walk meditatively around the block it is hard to remember the days when she would chase balls endlessly and run thre…
Horses and dogs self-medicate in the English hedgerows
It's May and I'm in England. The sun is shining brightly, the oak trees are out before…