Helga Schmitt continually strives to educate and help dog owners that there are healthier and more natural approaches to achieving and maintaining optimum health for your pet.
She feels we need to understand that there are so many more options available today for dealing with the illnesses our pets are getting. Many of these conditions are identical to what humans experience and are in fact the same diseases. So if the illnesses are the same and the options are available to help people, it stands to reason that dogs could potentially reap the same benefits. She thinks we need to be willing and open minded to approaches that have been used for centuries on people, and how they are now being integrated and applied worldwide to our pets in Holistic Clinics.
Dog cancers, dog cranial cruciate ligament injuries, dogs with arthritis to hydrotherapy for dogs, all have penetrated her life. She has witnessed first-hand what over-vaccination, repeated antibiotics and countless prescribed drugs can do to our beloved pets. She now follows more natural and effective ways of dealing with her dogs’ health and well-being.
Dogs and health has always been her passion. She is a Chartered Herbalist and holds a degree in Holistic Nutrition as well as a Certificate in Homeopathy. She is also a Registered Canine Hydrotherapist. What she learned from experience, research, her past studies and having the benefit of Holistic Veterinarians has profoundly changed her pets’ lives as well as her own! She continues to work with dogs in Hydrotherapy and is constantly upgrading her skills and knowledge.
Helga’s amazing journey with her dogs has led her through multiple cruciate surgeries, two devastating cancers, cysts, lymphomas, life-threatening staph infections, Cushing’s disease, immune mediated poly-arthritis, seizures, strokes, digestive disturbances, pica, cognitive impairment, depression, vision loss, and grief. Her dogs’ have taught her amazing insights in the way of healing, unconditional love, compassion, the bond between human and animal and how being in the moment is irreplaceable.