Golden Mountain Dog Solutions

Anybody who follows the news out of Lunenburg County has no doubt heard about the travails of Marni Gent and her efforts to publicize the exceptionally high concentration of Lyme disease infected deer ticks in and around her community on Silver Point Road. For those of you who either don’t live in these parts, or are too poor to pay attention, we’ll try to bring you up to speed.

Diana and I first learned of the Lyme risk in and around the Town of Lunenburg over two years ago during a routine visit to our vet, Dr. Barry Falkenham at Seaside Animal Hospital. At that time he told us that pretty much any deer tick found inside of Lunenburg, and east through Garden Lots, Heckman’s Island, Blue Rocks, and the Stonehursts could be expected to be Lyme positive. This really didn’t surprise us considering the size of the deer herd that even back then was living within the inhabited zone that made them immune to any sort of hunting activity. Read the rest of this entry »

As our profile information states, Golden Mountain Dog Solutions is named in memory of Cinders, valiant and trusty comrade, lost to us on 1 December 2006. In the truest sense, she was the catalyst for what would come to be a passion for Diana and me. Read the rest of this entry »