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Denise Flaim

Denise Flaim

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Denise Flaim writes about companion animals every week in Newsday. She is owned by two Rhodesian Ridgebacks and is the author of "The Holistic Dog Book: Canine Care for the 21st Century" (Howell, $16.99).

February 12, 2007

Why they go to the dogs

Maybe to you, they look like a bunch of liver-throwing, crate-hauling, blowdryer-brandishing weirdos.

February 5, 2007

A year later, is finding Vivi a lost cause?

Vivi has come full circle.

January 29, 2007

Fat-pet pill? Try common sense

If your dog is among the estimated 5 percent of American canines that are obese - or the 20 to 30 percent that are merely overweight - the Food and Drug Administration has just announced your magic bullet: the cleverly named Slentrol, a prescription drug that reduces appetite and fat absorption.

January 22, 2007

Keep pets from paper shredders

It's never what you worry about.

January 8, 2007

A pit bull ban is not the answer

Writing a column in defense of pit bulls is sort of like writing in favor of suicide bombers, or a plan to build a nuclear reactor down your block. People see the P-word, and assume doggie Armageddon.

January 1, 2007

Resolving to take better care

Forget the gym, and the diet. forget about learning a new foreign language, or how to mambo.

December 18, 2006

CSI: Animal victims unit

David Caruso has nothing on Randall Lockwood.

December 11, 2006

What to expect if lymphoma strikes

No matter how you look at it, finding out your companion animal has cancer is a terrible and frightening thing.

December 4, 2006

Gifts for your 4-legged friends

It's safe to say that our companion animals enjoy the holidays, if only for the potential of gravy-flooded leftovers.

November 27, 2006

Want a puppy? Now's not the time

As the holiday season gets into gear - and visions of wriggly puppies under Christmas trees dance, sugarplum-like, in some conspicuous consumers' heads - here is a little reality check.

Email: denise.flaim@newsday.com

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