Welcome to Essential Oil Solutions with Dotaura, the podcast where you'll hear experts share insights,

tips, and tricks on using essential oils in your life. Today's episode features Dr. Janet Rourke,

a licensed veterinarian, talking about using essential oils with your animals.

Hi, friends. It's me, Dr. Janet Rourke, the essential oil vet, coming to you from Austin, Texas.

I own Hill Country Mobile Veterinary Service here in Austin, and I get to talk to you today

about two of my favorite things in the whole wide world, essential oils and animals.

So it's kind of good that I'm the essential oil about, right?

So there's a few things we're going to talk about today.

I'm limited in time to 15 minutes.

So any of you who have been to my live classes, you know, I tend to be a little long-winded.

So I'm going to have to cram as much information

here as possible for y'all and let's get started so the first thing I want to address is

are essential oils beneficial to animals yes of course why would I use them if they weren't um

but yes I know so this is one of those like yes but questions right so

yes you can use essential oils with animals but it really matters which ones you're going to be using

and when it comes to essential oils brand super duper really really important it matters right so

of course we're we're talking about

doTERA essential oils and that's what I use in my practice and the reason is because other

brands of essential oil just don't cut it I actually had somebody contact me today and told me

that when she was diffusing another brand of lavender her cat actually had somebody contact me today and told me that when she was diffusing another brand of lavender, her cat actually had problems, had some health problems.

But she diffuses Dutera lavender all the time now and her cat does wonderful zero health problems.

So that's just kind of one example of, yes, the brand matters. You want to make sure

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