What Does a Canine Cancer Doula Actually Do?
A canine cancer doula supports families from diagnosis through treatment, palliative care, hospice, end-of-life decisions, and grief. Learn how compassionate, individualized guidance can help you care for your dog while also supporting the needs of the entire household. “Why I Do This Work”, Because I have been through this more than once, hospice is a calling—not a job.
I know what it feels like to love a dog through illness, to become a caregiver, to make difficult decisions, and to experience the silence that follows when they are no longer physically beside you. Those experiences changed me. They shaped the way I support families and deepened my understanding of how much care is needed—not only for the dog, but also for the people who love them.
What does a Canine Cancer Doula actually do? Bronwyn Farley, CAHC, founder of Dolce’s Legacy, offers phone consultations, canine cancer doula support, dog hospice and palliative care, holistic canine nutrition, food therapy, and pet advocacy.
Listening Beyond the “Loss”
Grief can change the way we listen to our dogs. It can make us more alert to dog behavior changes, more tender, and sometimes more afraid of what we might be missing. In this piece, I’m exploring the quiet space between intuition and old heartbreak — and how pet loss can shape the way we notice our dogs, our worry, and our need to advocate for the ones we love. Because sometimes listening closely means trusting both our dogs and ourselves.
Listening Beyond the Loss Bronwyn Farley, CAHC, founder of Dolce’s Legacy, offers phone consultations, canine cancer doula support, dog hospice and palliative care, holistic canine nutrition, food therapy, and pet advocacy.
Vitamin D and your Dogs Cancer
Over the years—caring for my own dogs and walking alongside clients whose dogs are facing cancer—I keep asking the same quiet question: is my dog truly getting what they need? I’ve also learned it’s okay to keep learning and to stay open to new information; a different perspective doesn’t mean the facts weren’t there—it just means we hadn’t seen them yet. For example, I only recently learned that many medicinal mushroom compounds have a half-life of about 10 to 12 hours, so giving them twice daily can help maintain their effects. We also know that medicinal mushrooms offer an abundance of Vitamin D.
It can be unsettling to learn that some commercial diets may miss essential vitamins while others oversupply them, risking toxicity—a confusing double-edged sword when …
Vitamin D in dogs Cancer. Bronwyn Farley, CAHC, founder of Dolce’s Legacy, offers phone consultations, canine cancer doula support, dog hospice and palliative care, holistic canine nutrition, food therapy, and pet advocacy.