JOOF Holistic Pet

JOOF Holistic Pet, a Singapore online pet store that focuses on the holistic wellbeing of your beloved fur kid. Look out for Essential, trendy and premium quality products that are specially curated, with the pet parents concerns' as a priority.

How our journey begins..

We started finding out more about pet health back in 2018, when our frenchie came home at 4 months old with mites, yeast infection, constantly having stomach issues, hot spots, food sensitivity reactions, environmental sensitivity and skin rashes.

After many vet visits and switching different premium quality dry food, including the go-to hypoallergenic diet from the vet's office, he didnt become better. We did the typical environment allergy blood test, and all other remedies the vet has recommended, and we even took 1 shot of cytopoint, ended up his condition worsen. He got himself in pool of blood daily from scratching, full body hives and things are pretty out of control. The mom, didn't really sleep for days, she research as much as she could to find out what could be happening to our pup. Ever since, she stop him from his antihistamines, antibiotics, everything that the vet gave, she threw it away, every single medication, medicated shampoo, steroid creams, deworm pills, flea tick medication, all down the rubbish bin!

We came to realise..

The mom realised that these are the things that are actually affecting his immune system. Her heart was filled with guilt and pain. Crying for days on why didn't she make enough researching before even having him home with us, and now our poor baby is suffering with a big bald hole on his head, red armpits and groin, body full of hives, red paws on all his 4 legs, fur loss, scabs, dandruff, spots everywhere, rashes on his belly, our poor baby cant really sleep well and has to be on cone for 24/7 and not able to do any socializing to get his quality of life due to his nursing from all these immune mediated symptoms.

The healing process..

From the researching process, we chanced upon Glacier Peak Holistics Pet Wellness Life Stress Scan (a.k.a food & environment sensitivity test) from the US and we took a leap of faith and did the test. To our shocking, he has alot of red flags in his results! And following the results, with the help from the holistic pet community out there, we decided to explore fresh food diet instead after learning about all the greatness of it.

But unfortunately the sensitive stomach issues arise. Tried to do cold turkey (taking advice from the raw food companies themselves) to raw diet but ended up with pooping blood. Luckily with some other help in the pet community here in Singapore, we managed to get him on cooked diet to stable his poo 1st instead before trying the raw again. The 2nd time of transition was alot better but towards the end, he still ended up with bloody stools. Hence we got him back to cooked again. And the 3rd time, with the help from another vet that is pro-raw, finally managed to transit into a raw diet that suits him successfully. Finally, after 12 months of intensive food transitioning!

Not only just changing of diet, we also incorporated many other natural supplements and natural skin remedies as well. With the right diet, suitable supplements, skin maintenance, our boy's skin issues started to go away and heal.. that is when we knew this is his journey and this is what led us further and deeper onto this journey. It is definitely not a easy job for both the mom and dad, and it is definitely not going to be easy to all that are reading this and facing the same itching crazy skin symptoms. In total we went through 1year+ of craziness. And that period gave ourselves a good learning curve into giving our puppy time patience and lots of care and support and the achievement is totally worth it.

The result..

Our boy is 3yrs+ now, his skin problems has been resolved 80%, unless he comes in contact with something he is sensitive to again especially not during our supervision, he would flare again. But our tool box is always well prepared and we're experienced now to manage such symptoms and usually his symptoms would be resolved within less than a week without any medications. We only resorted to medication when he got into a super bad bacteria/parasites or something that bad that our tool box is not able to resolve.

JOOF Holistic Pet

We started going deeper, researching and learn as much as we could about pet health, lifestyles, supplementation, nutrition and many other factors that would impact our pet's quality of life. In fact, we are still learning as of now and we believe we will never stop learning especially when every furkid is very individual on their own, and the lessons that our dear boy gave us is intense and something that money can't achieve.

Well with all the above, this is why we started this holistic pet store, our love for animals made us want to provide alternative solutions to help other pet parents too on their concerns by recommending ethical, safe, natural and premium quality pet products we can trust.