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.