Pawz for Health

Pawz for Health provides animal health and nutritional consulting for pet owners.

This service started in May 1995 by Janet Oquendo.

Janet has had a passion for animals all of her life, she grew up in a modest home in the UK, surrounded with cats, dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, and birds. Her love and passion for animals is reflected here in her website.

The turning point occurred in 1994 when her first Rottweiler “Prince” became ill. At only 4 years old, she observed Prince simply lounging around all day, he had very little energy and would spend whatever energy he had lifting himself onto the sofa where he would spend his time sleeping. Janet felt this didn’t seem normal for a dog so young, at only 4 years old, she believed Prince should have been full of life, and exuding the energy typical of a young rottie, unfortunately that was not the case.

Her anxiety grew as she turned to various veterinary hospitals only to be told, “we are not sure what is going on with him." Frustrated she researched trying to find a possible clue to help her understand what his illness could be. She found much of the information available to be too overwhelming, it caused her nothing but confusion; in the meantime her dog was slowly getting worse and worse. After a lot of searching around she found a holistic vet whose specialty was taking a holistic approach to animal health, which included; homeopathy and Chinese medicine. During an extensive consultation the holistic vet brought her attention to some possible causes for Prince’s failing condition – she was astounded. Not unlike the majority of pet owners today, she was unaware of the health issues which are often related to diet, environmental toxins, over vaccinating, drinking water. She was shocked to learn that pretty much most of everything she had thought was good for Prince was in fact providing him with a slow death. The holistic approach to animal health made so much sense increasing her awareness of the ‘poor quality’ diet, environmental toxins around the home, his drinking water as well as other toxins which were being pumped into her dog on a regular basis, all contributing actors to Prince’s condition.

Janet began to research some of these factors, she first looked at his diet, horrified to learn that she was essentially “killing” her dog with every meal. The daily use of toxic chemicals in the home and garden. The chemicals which he was ingesting through his drinking water, and the most frightening thing of all was the amount of vaccines her vets had been insisting her dog needed on a yearly basis. By this point Janet had learned that her poor dog was simply toxic: a toxic body equally a severely depleted immune system!

Janet started Pawz for Health because of her personal commitment to share her knowledge with other pet owners. She is not a veterinarian, but is passionate about working with other pet owners who love their pets, who so desperately want to learn too how they can take some of the simple changes to improve the health of their pets by introducing a holistic approach to their pet well-being.