Tigrada Holistic Family & Animal Care

31/10/2025

Been rough out here

28/10/2025

28/10/2025

🐾 Pet First Aid Workshop - Free for City of Ballarat Residents!

How prepared are you to support your pet during an emergency?

Build your emergency preparation skills and learn how to care for your furry friends when help might not be nearby.

📍 What is it? A 5-hour Pet First Aid Workshop
💸 Cost: FREE for City of Ballarat residents

📚 What will we learn? Topics include:
• Fractures and limb injuries
• Bleeding and bandaging
• Vitals for emergency situations
• Transporting your pet safely
• CPR and rescue breathing 🐶💨

👉 Register and secure your spot: https://collections.humanitix.com/cob-em?group=Pet+First+Aid

These sessions are proudly funded by the State Government of Victoria.

27/10/2025

*Preventing unwanted litters is a goal we all share—but it's time to rethink the surgical approach. Hysterectomies and vasectomies, which preserve hormonal balance, can safely be performed as early as 8 weeks of age, making dogs sterile without disrupting their natural hormones.

New peer-reviewed study published in Nature:

How a dog’s lifetime exposure to his own hormones (before being neutered) affects how well he handles aging and frailty later in life.

Study Background

• Frailty = when older dogs (and people) become weaker, less resilient, and more prone to illness and death.
• Most research looks at how to prevent frailty — this study looked at what makes some dogs bounce back better after frailty sets in.
• The focus was on the HPG axis — the hormonal system that produces testosterone and controls reproduction.

Key Findings

• Dogs neutered very young (before 2 years old) had:

o A much higher risk of death once they became frail.
o About 16% higher mortality for every small increase in frailty.

• Dogs kept intact longer (more than ~10 years) showed:
o No increase in mortality linked to frailty.
o Their hormones seemed to “buffer” the negative effects of aging.

• Each extra year of natural hormone exposure reduced frailty-related death risk by ~1%.

What It Means

• Hormones from the te**es may protect against the worst effects of aging later in life.
• Removing them too early could make dogs less resilient to age-related decline.
• Frailty isn’t just about getting old — it’s also shaped by early-life events like the timing of neutering.
• This supports a “life course” view: what happens early in life affects health decades later.

Why It Matters

• The study suggests timing of neutering might influence how well dogs age.

25/10/2025

ha ha!

22/10/2025

Well worth the read

22/10/2025

Do you know how to speak rat? Our rats are telling us how they are feeling all the time, whether or not we know it! Not all communication involves vocalizations. We can help improve our rats' lives by familiarizing ourselves with their body language. Check out this infographic that the incredible Doggie Drawings by Lili Chin made for Second Chance Heroes that shines some light on what our rats are communicating to us through their body.

21/10/2025

Ross Emmett explains how what we wear can impact the body, leading to imbalances that may reduce strength, flexibility, and functional movement. See how Ross...

21/10/2025

Meet Lindsay Hilder: Carrying Forward a Father's Legacy of Healing 🌟

With a deep passion for bodywork that began in her teenage years, Lindsay’s journey has been rooted in empowering others through the simplicity of the EMMETT Technique. The youngest daughter of founder Ross Emmett, Lindsay shares her father's passion for healing.

Her mission is clear: help people take control of their own healing and improve mobility with a technique that’s as effective as it is accessible.

Lindsay's leadership, alongside her dedicated team of instructors and practitioners worldwide, ensures the technique remains authentic, evolves thoughtfully, and impacts lives around the world.

Together, they work collaboratively to share positive stories, support practitioners globally, and maintain the technique's core principles while embracing opportunities for thoughtful innovation🌍

Visit our website to learn more: https://www.emmett-technique-hq.com/about/emmett-technique

20/10/2025

JUDGE’S ORDERS JUST RECEIVED.

Orders handed down today include an order indicating if DEECA’s appeal is lost, DEECA has to pay our costs !

Now we wait for the date of DEECA's appeal.

THE COURT ORDERS THAT:
The defendant's summons filed on 4 September 2025 is dismissed.
1. The defendant has leave to file forthwith the affidavit of Kathryn Anne Howard sworn on 12 August 2025 in its unredacted form in support of its summary judgment summons.
2. The defendant pay the plaintiff's costs in respect of the defendant's summons filed on 4 September 2025, fixed in the amount of $45,000, within 28 days.
3. Order 3 be stayed, until the hearing and determination of the defendant's notice of appeal filed on 9 October 2025.
4. The hearing on 4 December 2025 is vacated.
5. Pursuant ot I 77.04(1) of the Rules, the defendant's summons filed on 21 July 2025 si referred to a Judge of the Court.
DATE AUTHENTICATED: 15 October 2025

Dear wonderful people, we need to keep fund raising, this is going to be a big legal case.. If you can donate even a couple of dollars, it all helps ! www.givenow.com.au/koala-crisis