This is a self-serve, do-it-yourself dog wash facility. No licensing or certification is required in the State of Colorado.
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Pet Kare Clinic
All veterinarians on the company's website are licensed with the State of Colorado. For consumers, there are two items of concern that are listed for pet health care; acupuncture and supplements.
From the
National Center for Biotechnology Information
National
Library of Medicine
National
Institutes of Health
J Vet Intern
Med. 2006 May-Jun;20(3):480-8.
Effectiveness of acupuncture in veterinary medicine:
systematic review.
Abstract
Acupuncture is a popular complementary treatment
option in human medicine. Increasingly, owners also seek acupuncture for their
animals. The aim of the systematic review reported here was to summarize and
assess the clinical evidence for or against the effectiveness of acupuncture in
veterinary medicine. Systematic searches were conducted on Medline, Embase,
Amed, Cinahl, Japana Centra Revuo Medicina and Chikusan Bunken Kensaku.
Hand-searches included conference proceedings, bibliographies, and contact with
experts and veterinary acupuncture associations. There were no restrictions
regarding the language of publication. All controlled clinical trials testing
acupuncture in any condition of domestic animals were included. Studies using
laboratory animals were excluded. Titles and abstracts of identified articles
were read, and hard copies were obtained. Inclusion and exclusion of studies,
data extraction, and validation were performed independently by two reviewers.
Methodologic quality was evaluated by means of the Jadad score. Fourteen
randomized controlled trials and 17 nonrandomized controlled trials met our
criteria and were, therefore, included. The methodologic quality of these
trials was variable but, on average, was low. For cutaneous pain and diarrhea,
encouraging evidence exists that warrants further investigation in rigorous
trials. Single studies reported some positive intergroup differences for spinal
cord injury, Cushing's syndrome, lung function, hepatitis, and rumen acidosis.
These trials require independent replication. On the basis of the findings of
this systematic review, there is no compelling evidence to recommend or reject
acupuncture for any condition in domestic animals. Some encouraging data do
exist that warrant further investigation in independent rigorous trials.
PMID: 16734078 [PubMed -
indexed for MEDLINE
From www.sciencebasedmedicine.org
The Top Ten Pet Supplements: Do they Work?
Glucosamine, Fish Oil, Probiotics, Multivitamins,
Lysine, Milk Thistle, S-adenosyl methionine (SAM-e), Digestive Enzymes,
Coenzyme Q10, Azodyl
Of course, the marketing used to promote
these supplements goes well beyond anything justified by real scientific
evidence and is almost universally untrustworthy. Likewise, the testimonials
and anecdotes about their effects, whether from patients, pet owners,
veterinarians, or Nobel Laureates, are all just stories with almost no
probative value. And since most good ideas in medicine ultimately fail to
become real, effective clinical therapies, it is likely that many even of the
more plausible of these products will turn out not to be useful or to have
unknown risks. Without adequate supporting evidence and without effective
quality control, regulation, and post-market surveillance, we can never be sure
we are helping and not harming our patients by using them.
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Red Rover Resort
This company provides basic pet-sitting services. No licensing or certification is required in the State of Colorado.
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Rocky Mountain Pet Resort
This company provides basic pet-sitting services. No licensing or certification is required in the State of Colorado.
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Total Teamwork Training LLC
Laura Tyler is certified as CPDT-KA, Certified Professional Dog Trainer-Knowledge Assessed through the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers, and ACBDC, Associate Certified Dog Behavior Consultant by the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants.
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