Ruth Hatten
Animal Wellness Intuitive | Naturopath + Healer
Ancient healing wisdom woven into contemporary care for vibrant animal health and wellbeing.

Build Your Puppy’s Health From the Beginning
A practical guide to feeding and supporting puppies in alignment with their evolutionary biology — laying strong foundations for long-term health.
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Available as the Puppy Wellness Manual or the complete Puppy Wellness Program (including 1:1 support and bonus resources).
The early months of a puppy’s life shape their metabolic resilience, immune capacity, musculoskeletal development, and long-term health trajectory.
What you feed.
How you support detoxification.
How you reduce inflammatory load.
How you guide growth.​​
These are not small decisions. They are foundational ones.
Inside the Puppy Wellness Program
Nutrition & Growth
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Species-appropriate feeding principles
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Real food foundations
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Growth-stage meal planning
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Meeting AAFCO minimums naturally
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DIY calcium support
Practical Implementation
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Feeding calculations
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Transition guidelines
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Hygiene protocols
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Batch prep systems
Beyond Diet
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Toxic load reduction
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Water quality
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Environmental exposures
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Stress management
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Dental foundations

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Built from clinical practice
I’m Ruth Hatten — animal naturopath, pet nutritionist,
and former lawyer with over a decade of experience supporting companion animals.
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In clinical practice, I repeatedly see adult dogs struggling with digestive instability, allergic disease, orthopaedic stress, chronic inflammation, behavioural dysregulation, and immune sensitivity. Many of these patterns are influenced by early-life nutrition, toxic burden, and growth-stage imbalances.
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The Puppy Wellness Program was created to help guardians establish strong metabolic foundations, appropriate mineral balance, informed decision-making, and long-term physiological resilience.
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This is not trend-based feeding advice. It is structured, evidence-informed guidance grounded in lived clinical experience.
Choose your level of support
The Puppy Wellness Manual
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For guardians who want a structured, evidence-informed guide to raising their puppy with confidence.
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Includes:
✔ Clear feeding principles aligned with evolutionary biology
✔ Growth-stage nutritional calculations
✔ Mineral balance guidance
✔ Practical hygiene and meal preparation frameworks
✔ Strategies for reducing toxic burden from the start
This is your comprehensive, self-paced foundation.
The Complete Puppy Wellness Program
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For guardians who want deeper clarity, personalised direction, and early-stage precision.
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Includes everything in the Manual, plus:
✔ A 30-minute 1:1 video consultation
✔ The Real Food Diet for Dogs eBook
✔ The Guide to Natural Parasite Prevention
✔ Tailored guidance based on your puppy’s breed, size, and growth stage
This is the full foundation — structured, personalised, and preventative.

The kind of dog your puppy becomes is not accidental.
Resilience is built quietly — in daily rhythms, mineral balance, nervous system stability, and intelligent restraint around what the body does not need.
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Health is not created through intensity.
It is created through appropriate inputs, physiological respect, and long-term thinking.
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When foundations are set well, the body does not need to fight so hard later.
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This is not about perfection.
It is about direction.
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A steady, informed start.
Fewer corrections required down the track.
A dog whose system learns to regulate rather than compensate.
That is the work.
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And that is what this program is designed to help you build.