The Philadelphia Inquirer writes:

But Liz Conner and other pet owners are quietly looking- and choosing- the holistic way.

One recent morning Conner, owner of three dogs, four cats, and 15 guinea hens, popped into Dr. Khalsa's clinic with her 5 year old Irish setter-Boykin spaniel mix named for the popular red ale. For years, he had suffered back-to-back ear infections for with antibiotics just did not work. Poor thing scratched his ears all night and moped around all day.

Dr. Khalsa gave him a special ear wash and a combination of homeopathic remedies in pill form that seemed to work well, along with a laser treatment designed to boost his immune system.

The Courier Times writes:

Does this particular Shadow know?
What's important is that the needles are causing Shadow little discomfort, and Anthony Tollin, Shadow's owner, isn't too worried about it, either. Anthony Tollin, in fact, swears by both Khalsa and the acupuncture treatments.

More than once he's made the long trip from Fairfield, N.J., to Khalsa's clinic so Shadow, an athletic dog of abandon, who constantly wrenches his back during rigorous field trials, can get treated.

"If it's just a matter or a rabies shot, we'll go to a local vet", says Tollin, a 30th, bespectacled cartoonist. " But for more serious things it's better to travel 150 miles and have it done right. We have a friend who knows Doctor Khalsa and we'd heard glowing stories about her. Now we're part of the Doctor Khalsa Fan Club."

Less than six months ago, Shana, an 8- year old Rottweiler, had to be hauled into Deva Khalsa's veterinary clinic on a gurney, her once powerful legs left paralyzed by a degenerative spine condition.

After receiving her weekly acupuncture treatment earlier this week, Shana bounded out the clinic's door on all fours.

"It's an amazing turn- around", said owner Ron Nirenburg, 65, who last September watched his dog collapse in his Northeast Philadelphia home. " One vet told me by best choice was probably to put her to sleep. Now I can barely get her to sit down."

As they have with other pet owners, Khalsa's natural healing techniques have made a believer out of Nirneburg.

The Philadelphia Inquirer writes:

Duke, a mixed-breed dog form Malvern, arrived in her clinic last year seriously ill with meningitis. He recovered, Khalsa said, after receiving a regimen that included Chinese herbs, homeopathy, nutritional supplements and a new allergy elimination technique involving acupressure points.

"It was inconceivable to me at the point I went to Dr. Khalsa that Duke could be saved," said Paul Reitana, Duke's owner. Duke is fine now. It took four months to rid him of the disease.