AHA members and groups also share informative education, training, and consulting regarding animal health care and nutrition. Thus wellness of your pets begin and must be considered from the ground up.

For example, pet stewards, go to the grocery store and purchase commercial grade foods off the shelves, yet they have no idea as to what is going into this food. For those who do wish to know exactly what goes into many of the commercial pet foods, a good resource is the book, "Food Pets Die For, by Ann Martin.

Nancy Hicks as a health consultant for plants, animals, and people (health from the ground up) educates and consults with Humane Society groups, pet organizations, and individual families. She shares nutritional information as well as information about 'natural rearing for pets.' She says, 'pet stewards forget how dogs, for instance, evolved from wolf who lived healthfully in the woods. Digestive tracts of dogs have remained pretty much the same even through the domestication process. Therefore preventive health therapy for a dog may just be a case of diet change.'

It is important for pet stewards to understand how food is grown and processed for their animal as well as the foods for themselves.