So then I took him for an MRI and he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. But I think that's what he was doing and that's why he attacked my dog. It's not a very common symptom, this head-pressing.

So when people say, 'My animal's hiding,' sometimes we think, OK, they're not feeling well.

They're going to go to a quiet, dark place. What they're going to do is they're going to isolate themselves. Headaches are so universal among people that we would think, why wouldn't animals have headaches? And they're not going to kind of put their paw on their head or something like that. And she may have just moved away or something like that. And when my husband and I talked about it afterward, we realized we had seen him, what we call, 'head-pressing.' So he had sort of put his head down and pressed his head into her body before he attacked her. The first thing he did was he attacked my dog, which was incredibly out of character. On how she figured out her cat had headaches So sometimes I'll use Chinese medicine and Western medicine together with the same goal, and sometimes I'll be able to use less Western medication or no Western medication because of the Chinese medicine, because of the acupuncture. It's sort of a holistic approach, looking at everything in the animal's life - let's look at lifestyle and let's look at diet and those types of things. We're not saying, take this supplement, it's going to fix everything. And the theory is pretty much there's not a magic bullet that we're looking for. I use some Chinese herbal formulas and supplements. I feel like it's another way to look at the patient. That's one of the main things that I use it for, and I really enjoy using it. And in some cases, acupuncture just works better - like, often, for arthritis. I use acupuncture quite a bit and I find that it works well for a lot of chronic conditions Western veterinary medicine maybe either can't really address well, or can address with medications that have other side effects. On practicing acupuncture and Chinese medicine on animals

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