Mary Gardner

A showcase of the tattoo work of 100 talented tattoo artists of Arizona and New Mexico. Thirty hand-picked tattoo shops and the work of over one hundred artists are included in this book, showcasing the blossoming body art communities in New Mexico and Arizona. Displayed are over 600 color photos of tattoo artistry. Trendsetting artists create a wide range of tattoo art in motifs as diverse as the men and women who receive and appreciate them. The artwork ranges from the small to the large. Classic black and white artistry and modern full color work are featured. Themes captured include natural scenes, animals and birds, flowers, nautical scenes and symbols, Oriental motifs from dragons to geishas, portraits of loved ones, religious art, Day of the Dead motifs, occult symbology, and much more. The artists and their shops are also featured. For anyone with an appreciation of tattoo artistry, this book is for you.

A warmhearted, medically authoritative healthcare guide on how to maintain and improve common geriatric cat conditions-and how to honor and cherish the final goodbye.After a stealthy advance in time, our dearest kitties seem to pounce into their elder years and totter toward their sunny perches. How did their nine lives race past so fast? Can we improve our cats' sands of time, safeguard their comfort, and create more joyful moments-even at the end of their lives?With more than 15 years of geriatric pet healthcare and veterinary hospice experience, Dr. Mary Gardner provides comprehensive answers and practical tips. You'll discover the latest on the aging process in cats and be better prepared to extend and improve your feline family member's elder years.Cat parents will learn how to: - recognize and understand common ailments in aging cats, - identify and implement supportive care and treatments, - enhance senior cat home safety and daily activities, - recognize symptoms that need veterinary attention, - choose veterinary care that matches your goals of care, - take home key points from veterinary visits, - find affordable, high-tech cat care products and resources, - consider options for veterinary hospice care, - assess your cat's quality of life, - consider options for honoring your cat's remains, - find support for caregiver burden and grief, and- preserve and cherish your cat's memory.Sharing up-to-date research propelled by a steady dose of humor, Dr. Gardner teaches pet parents how to manage their cats' elder years to ensure their comfort and grace. Given the loyal/steadfast companionship and affection cats bring into our lives, their nine lives are not enough.

The hardest part of loving an animal is having to say good-bye. This activity book helps parents have conversations with children about their love and feelings regarding the death of a beloved cat. Dr. Mary Gardner and Coleen Ellis have not only taken their personal experiences of losing a pet into consideration for the 24 activities in this book, but they have also taken a peek into the child of today and how they would express their grief, to include technology ideas.Use these activities to not only help your child, and family, in expressing the various emotions felt with the loss of a pet family member, but also as a way to normalize every one of those emotions. This book is the perfect resource to give everyone permission to share their story, and memories.Activities included are: Story about my catWrite a blogCreate a videoEmotional word findCrossword puzzleMaze of feelingsCraft projects with cat collarShadow box creationPaper bag scrap bookSeed paper creationFavorite things listBucket ListTribute tableSpecial Litter Box Cake Shoebox memory boxMemorial light... and moreAfter a child creates a blog, video story or other craft projects - they can share them on the Forever Friend platform.Dr. Mary Gardner is a small animal veterinarian whose professional goal is to increase awareness and medical care for the geriatric veterinary patient and to help make the final life stage to be as peaceful as possible, surrounded with dignity and support for all involved. A University of Florida graduate, she discovered her niche in end of life care and is the co-founder and CTO of Lap of Love which is a national organization dedicated to veterinary hospice and euthanasia in the home.Dr. Gardner and Lap of Love have been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, The New York Times, the Associated Press, The Doctors and numerous professional veterinary publications. She is co-author of the textbook "The Treatment and Care of the Veterinary Patient", and the author of a book dedicated to pet owners releasing in Fall 2022 Nine Lives Are Not Enough: A practical guide to caring for your geriatric cat.Coleen Ellis is a pioneer in the pet loss industry. Her foray into helping grieving pet lovers started in 1998 with a chance encounter with a pet parent facing the death of her beloved pet. It was the beginning of a vision of how to best meet the needs of pet parents in their desire to mourn, memorialize and pay tribute to their beloved pets when they die. In 2004, the experience of the death of Mico guided her in starting the nation's first stand-alone pet funeral home. Soon, publications such as Kates-Boylston's Pet Loss Insider deemed her the "most well known pet funeral director" and a true "pet loss pioneer."Two Hearts Pet Loss Center was founded in 2009 to guide people who wished to do the same in providing meaningful pet death care services in their communities. Two Hearts was also started to aid in being an educational resource in the pet grief discipline. In 2009, she received the first Death and Grief Studies Certification specializing in Pet Loss Companioning by Dr. Alan Wolfelt as well as releasing her first book, Pet Parents: A Journey Through Unconditional Love and Grief. She is also Certified in Thanatology and is a Certified Pet Loss Professional.

As our dog's muzzle turns grey and their footsteps begin to wobble, we often wonder what more we can do to ensure our aging companion's well-being. Based on more than 15 years of veterinary visits with her geriatric dog patients and their families, new studies in animal and human health related to aging, and a lifetime of heartfelt tales about her own beloved senior dogs, Dr. Mary Gardner answers vital questions pet parents ask about how to extend and enhance older dogs' lives and better manage the pressures of caregiving for ailing dogs. Breakthroughs in veterinary healthcare and deepening people-dog relationships have helped dogs live longer. Yet it seems our canine family members reach their senior years after only a few fleeting moments. Keeping our silvered-muzzle friends physically comfortable and emotionally engaged sometimes brings struggles that pet parents may not be fully prepared or equipped to handle. We may juggle tasks that involve alleviating pain, meeting special nutritional needs, creating a senior-dog-friendly home, and cleaning up frequent messes-along with learning to recognize and successfully manage our own caregiver-related stresses. With warmth and a steady dose of humor, Dr. Mary Gardner's go-to guide is perfect for dog parents who want to ensure their furry family members continue living their best lives throughout every stage of their golden years. From cloudy eyes to crusty noses, knobby knees to achy hips, picky eating to tucked tails-and everything in between-parents of senior dogs will learn which ailments their dogs will commonly confront and how these impairments may affect their lives. Dr. Gardner guides pet parents in supporting geriatric dogs' well-being and navigating the complexities of providing elder-dog care at home, including: watching for age-related issues, identifying health warning signs that may require veterinary assistance, implementing simple home hacks to ease dogs' daily activities and pet parents' caregiving, selecting tools, products, and resources that soothe aging dog ailments, choosing the veterinary medical care that best aligns with pet parents' goals, asking key questions during veterinary visits, anticipating the trajectories or patterns that certain illnesses follow, assessing life quality, managing caregiver fatigue, evaluating options for aftercare, experiencing and coping with loss, andhonoring your dog and their impact on your life.Drawing on her veterinary medical expertise and focus on geriatric pet healthcare, Dr. Gardner helps us walk our wagging-tail family members through their twilight years with dignity and celebrate the deep relationships we share with our dogs.

Created especially for pet parents of geriatric dogs, the tools in this journal will help you watch over and attend to your dog's well-being and feel more empowered to make the best health and care decisions for your dog. Dr. Mary Gardner, guides you in tracking your dog's attitude, activities, behavior, medical care, and joys of life as you share your furry companion's journey through their marvelous elder years. Throughout your dog's life and especially during their twilight years, it's important to note any out-of-character changes they show and the concerns you have. Some changes-increased thirst, a pea-size lump or bump, diarrhea, restlessness at night, picky eating-may signal serious health issues. Keeping a pet health and care journal also helps you identify factors that may have contributed to the symptoms or the improvements you noted. The journal pages, questionnaires, logs, lists, assessments, and other templates will help you document and keep important information handy and organized as you care for your aging dog. Included: My dog's care team: a handy list of all those who help care for your dog.Health journal: questions to help recognize changes in your dog.Meals and treats: log to track nutrition, a key factor in helping prevent or manage many different ailments.Cognitive health assessment: checklist that helps identify signs of age-related mental decline.Symptom record: form for monitoring whether conditions or ailments have improved, stayed stable, or declined.Veterinary visits and procedures: log to track the highlights and important findings from your dog's checkups.Diagnostic tests: spot to record a summary of blood and urine tests and x-ray or other results.Tracking treatments: a handy reference sheet for treatments you've tried, changes you've made, medications and supplements you're giving, and their effects.Counting breaths: a respiratory rate tracking sheet important for dogs with laryngeal paralysis, trachea or lung conditions, or heart disease.Goals of care: a table to write answers to care-oriented questions that help you identify priorities as your pet experiences the limitations and illnesses that aging brings.The adventures of a lifetime: a simple bucket list and why it's important to create one for your dog.Favorite Things/Joyful living: an inventory of the things that routinely bring your dog joy to help you observe your dog's life quality.Assessing your dog's life quality: an evaluation tool to help you consider your dog's overall physical, mental, and emotional well-being.Caring for caregivers: a chart to help you reflect on some of the challenges and stressful feelings you may experience while caring for your ailing dog and identify areas of support.Dog days calendar: guidance on defining what makes a good day and a bad day for your dog and you, and why you may want to track each day on a simple but meaningful visual daily monitor. These tools can also make partnering with your veterinarian easier as you continue to provide your pooch's best care Use this journal as a practical stand-alone resource, or as a perfect companion to Dr. Gardner's book for parents of older dogs, It's Never Long Enough - A Practical Guide to Caring for Your Geriatric Dog

As our dog's muzzle turns grey and their footsteps begin to wobble, we often wonder what more we can do to ensure our aging companion's well-being. Based on more than 15 years of veterinary visits with her geriatric dog patients and their families, new studies in animal and human health related to aging, and a lifetime of heartfelt tales about her own beloved senior dogs, Dr. Mary Gardner answers vital questions pet parents ask about how to extend and enhance older dogs' lives and better manage the pressures of caregiving for ailing dogs. Breakthroughs in veterinary healthcare and deepening people-dog relationships have helped dogs live longer. Yet it seems our canine family members reach their senior years after only a few fleeting moments. Keeping our silvered-muzzle friends physically comfortable and emotionally engaged sometimes brings struggles that pet parents may not be fully prepared or equipped to handle. We may juggle tasks that involve alleviating pain, meeting special nutritional needs, creating a senior-dog-friendly home, and cleaning up frequent messes-along with learning to recognize and successfully manage our own caregiver-related stresses. With warmth and a steady dose of humor, Dr. Mary Gardner's go-to guide is perfect for dog parents who want to ensure their furry family members continue living their best lives throughout every stage of their golden years. From cloudy eyes to crusty noses, knobby knees to achy hips, picky eating to tucked tails-and everything in between-parents of senior dogs will learn which ailments their dogs will commonly confront and how these impairments may affect their lives. Dr. Gardner guides pet parents in supporting geriatric dogs' well-being and navigating the complexities of providing elder-dog care at home, including: watching for age-related issues, identifying health warning signs that may require veterinary assistance, implementing simple home hacks to ease dogs' daily activities and pet parents' caregiving, selecting tools, products, and resources that soothe aging dog ailments, choosing the veterinary medical care that best aligns with pet parents' goals, asking key questions during veterinary visits, anticipating the trajectories or patterns that certain illnesses follow, assessing life quality, managing caregiver fatigue, evaluating options for aftercare, experiencing and coping with loss, andhonoring your dog and their impact on your life.Drawing on her veterinary medical expertise and focus on geriatric pet healthcare, Dr. Gardner helps us walk our wagging-tail family members through their twilight years with dignity and celebrate the deep relationships we share with our dogs.

The hardest part of loving an animal is having to saying good-bye. This activity book helps parents have conversations with children about their love and feelings regarding the death of a beloved dog. Dr. Mary Gardner and Coleen Ellis have not only taken their personal experiences of losing a pet into consideration for the 23 activities in this book, but they have also taken a peek into the child of today and how they would express their grief, to include technology ideas.Use these activities to not only help your child, and family, in expressing the various emotions felt with the loss of a pet family member, but also as a way to normalize every one of those emotions. This book is the perfect resource to give everyone permission to share their story, and memories.Activities included are: Story about my dogWrite a blogCreate a videoEmotional word findCrossword puzzleMaze of feelingsCraft projects with dog collarShadow box creationPaper bag scrap bookSeed paper creationFavorite things listBucket ListTribute tableShoebox memory boxMemorial light... and moreAfter a child creates a blog, video story or other craft projects - they can share them on the Forever Friend platform.Dr. Mary Gardner is a small animal veterinarian whose professional goal is to increase awareness and medical care for the geriatric veterinary patient and to help make the final life stage to be as peaceful as possible, surrounded with dignity and support for all involved. A University of Florida graduate, she discovered her niche in end of life care and is the co-founder and CTO of Lap of Love which is a national organization dedicated to veterinary hospice and euthanasia in the home.Dr. Gardner and Lap of Love have been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, The New York Times, the Associated Press, The Doctors and numerous professional veterinary publications. She is co-author of the textbook "The Treatment and Care of the Veterinary Patient", and the author of a book dedicated to pet owners It's Never Long Enough: A practical guide to caring for your geriatric dog.Coleen Ellis is a pioneer in the pet loss industry. Her foray into helping grieving pet lovers started in 1998 with a chance encounter with a pet parent facing the death of her beloved pet. It was the beginning of a vision of how to best meet the needs of pet parents in their desire to mourn, memorialize and pay tribute to their beloved pets when they die. In 2004, the experience of the death of Mico guided her in starting the nation's first stand-alone pet funeral home. Soon, publications such as Kates-Boylston's Pet Loss Insider deemed her the "most well known pet funeral director" and a true "pet loss pioneer."Two Hearts Pet Loss Center was founded in 2009 to guide people who wished to do the same in providing meaningful pet death care services in their communities. Two Hearts was also started to aid in being an educational resource in the pet grief discipline. In 2009, she received the first Death and Grief Studies Certification specializing in Pet Loss Companioning by Dr. Alan Wolfelt as well as releasing her first book, Pet Parents: A Journey Through Unconditional Love and Grief. She is also Certified in Thanatology and is a Certified Pet Loss Professional.

A showcase of the tattoo work of 100 talented tattoo artists of Arizona and New Mexico. Thirty hand-picked tattoo shops and the work of over one hundred artists are included in this book, showcasing the blossoming body art communities in New Mexico and Arizona. Displayed are over 600 color photos of tattoo artistry. Trendsetting artists create a wide range of tattoo art in motifs as diverse as the men and women who receive and appreciate them. The artwork ranges from the small to the large. Classic black and white artistry and modern full color work are featured. Themes captured include natural scenes, animals and birds, flowers, nautical scenes and symbols, Oriental motifs from dragons to geishas, portraits of loved ones, religious art, Day of the Dead motifs, occult symbology, and much more. The artists and their shops are also featured. For anyone with an appreciation of tattoo artistry, this book is for you.

A Message of Hope and Encouragment for Parents - Today we have an abundance of options and suggestions for handling, diagnosing and treating ADD, ADHD, SPD, and children on the Autistic Spectrum. In "Blessed Chaos" Mary Gardner provides a road map to help you navigate these set of often misunderstood issues. Read about her journey on the road to creating a healthy and natural set of solutions to these many challenges. This book will provide you many answers and tips to get the help you have been searching for on your journey.

A showcase of the tattoo work of 100 talented tattoo artists of Arizona and New Mexico. Thirty hand-picked tattoo shops and the work of over one hundred artists are included in this book, showcasing the blossoming body art communities in New Mexico and Arizona. Displayed are over 600 color photos of tattoo artistry. Trendsetting artists create a wide range of tattoo art in motifs as diverse as the men and women who receive and appreciate them. The artwork ranges from the small to the large. Classic black and white artistry and modern full color work are featured. Themes captured include natural scenes, animals and birds, flowers, nautical scenes and symbols, Oriental motifs from dragons to geishas, portraits of loved ones, religious art, Day of the Dead motifs, occult symbology, and much more. The artists and their shops are also featured. For anyone with an appreciation of tattoo artistry, this book is for you.

A showcase of the tattoo work of 100 talented tattoo artists of Arizona and New Mexico. Thirty hand-picked tattoo shops and the work of over one hundred artists are included in this book, showcasing the blossoming body art communities in New Mexico and Arizona. Displayed are over 600 color photos of tattoo artistry. Trendsetting artists create a wide range of tattoo art in motifs as diverse as the men and women who receive and appreciate them. The artwork ranges from the small to the large. Classic black and white artistry and modern full color work are featured. Themes captured include natural scenes, animals and birds, flowers, nautical scenes and symbols, Oriental motifs from dragons to geishas, portraits of loved ones, religious art, Day of the Dead motifs, occult symbology, and much more. The artists and their shops are also featured. For anyone with an appreciation of tattoo artistry, this book is for you.

This powerful narrative, winner of the 1993 Associated Writing Programs award for the novel, focuses on Galveston, Texas, and a community of newly arrived Vietnamese. Struggling to maintain a balance between Vietnam and America, they live with one foot in each world. Close-knit families, now fragmented, dream of the "kingdom of elders left behind"; young girls shoulder responsibility far beyond their years; and homesick professionals, puzzled by American customs, strive to belong while clinging to the rituals that sustain them.