 Toxic
Pet Food Warning
Despite the appealing blandishments of pet food advertisements with
their claims of providing "complete and balanced nutrition," if you're
not exceedingly circumspect, you may end up feeding your pet chicken heads,
road kills, spoiled or moldy grains, cancerous material cut from slaughterhouse
animals, tissue high in hormone or pesticide residues, and even shredded
Styrofoam packaging, metal ID tags and minced flea collars.
A growing number of veterinarians state that processed pet food (kibbles
and canned food) is the main cause of illness and premature death in the
modern dog and cat. In December 1995, the British Journal of Small Animal
Practice published a paper contending that processed pet food supresses
the immune system and leads to liver, kidney, heart and other diseases.
Dr. Kollath, of the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm, headed a study done
on animals. When young animals were fed cooked and processed foods they
initially appeared to be healthy. However, as the animals reached adulthood,
they began to age more quickly than normal and also developed chronic degenerative
disease symptoms. A control group of animals raised on raw foods aged less
quickly and were free of degenerative disease.
 The
pet nutrition industry is a multi-billion dollar industry full of hype
and false claims. Consumers are being duped into believing that they are
feeding their pets healthy foods, when in actuality they are feeding nothing
more than inferior meat meals, cheap grains (including corn and soy), fillers,
by-products, pesticides, preservatives and
toxins.
Never before has the pet-food industry been rocked by widespread contamination
and rampant recalls. In all, more than 5,600 products by dozens of pet
food makers have been recalled, from chain supermarket brands to prescription-only
foods. This is a staggering number of products, and is unprecedented in
this business. Thousands of deaths are due to the contamination, and many
thousands more have suffered illnesses. We shudder to think of the long-term
impacts of the compromised liver and kidney function and how this will
affect thousands of companion animals in America. Leading experts believe
that the severe reactions experienced by some cats and dogs were the result
of an interaction of chemicals, between the melamine and a list of other
culprits, including cyuranic acid. Read
the latest about the pet food recall. Thousands of
Cats and dogs suffered kidney failure, and many died after eating the affected
pet food.
  Contaminated
Pet Food Affected 39,000 Cats And Dogs Nationwide. According to the latest
reports released by one of the nation's largest chains of veterinary hospitals,
nearly 39,000 cats and dogs were sickened or killed nationwide following
the recent reports of pet food-contamination with an industrial chemical.
The data, which was released by Banfield, The Pet Hospital, was reportedly
compiled from records collected by its more than 615 veterinary hospitals.
more
on the recall
-- Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against
Pet Food Companies
Dr. Don E. Lundholm,
D.V.M. - "We are seeing disease
conditions in animals that we did not see years ago. Many of these may
be traced to
nutrition as the source..."
The primary ingredient in many dry commercial pet foods is not protein
but cereal. Corn and wheat are the most common grains used but, as with
the meat sources, the nutritious parts of the grain are generally present
only in trace amounts. The corn gluten meal or wheat middlings added to
pet foods are the leftovers after the grain has been processed for human
use, containing little nutritional value. Or they may be grain that is
too moldy for humans to eat, so it's incorporated into pet food.
Mycotoxins, potentially deadly fungal toxins that multiply in moldy
grains, have been found in pet foods in recent years. In 1995, Nature's
Recipe recalled tons of their dog food after dogs became ill from eating
it. The food was found to contain vomitoxin, a mycotoxin. Harmful chemicals
and preservatives are added to both wet and dry food. For example, sodium
nitrite, a coloring agent and preservative and potential carcinogen, is
a common additive. Other preservatives include ethoxyquin (an insecticide
that has been linked to liver cancer) and BHA and BHT, chemicals also suspected
of causing cancer. The average dog can consume as much as 26 pounds of
reservatives every year from eating commercial dog foods.
 Class
Action Lawsuit Filed Against Pet Food Companies and Retailers For Misleading
Consumers about the Contents of Pet Food Premium”
Pet Food Marketed and Sold as “Complete and Balanced” Has Historically
Contained Such Items as Euthanized Dogs and Cats, Restaurant Grease, Hair,
Hooves, and Diseased Animals, and Other Inedible Garbage.
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  Irradiated
pet food endangering pets health, killing pets The
Australian government in late May ordered an immediate stop to sterilizing
cat food via irradiation after reviewing scientific studies pointing
to food irradiation as the culprit behind illnesses characterized by ataxia
or paralysis of the limbs, especially the hind limbs. Symptoms in the
Australian cats first appeared three to six months after they were exposed
to the dry food, Child said. Some had eaten the food for as few as three
weeks; others for more than six months. The problem affected 90 cats in
Australia, of which 30 died, mostly by euthanasia after they became paraplegic
or tetraplegic, according to Dr. Georgina Child, a neurologist at the Small
Animal Specialist Hospital and University of Sydney Teaching Hospital.
The
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also allows animal feed, including
pet food and treats, to be irradiated up to 50 kGy. Make
your voice heard! Click here to send the FDA a message --- US
Food Industry Begins Widespread Food Irradiation --- "Nuked
Food" - The Dangers of Irradiated Food
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this ebook guideline and instructions. The dangers associated
with a commercial dog food diet is overwhelming – from immediate effects
like a dull coat and foul smelling dog’s breath, to longer term effects
like increasing the risk for canine cancers and a shorter life span. And
that’s the sad truth that the commercial pet food companies don’t want
you to know. The amount of processing and additives that go into the preparation
of the commercial dog food contain chemicals that are not optimal for your
dog and may even make them sickly and die early. Meet
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Dr. Alfred
Plechner, DVM - "The most common and most visible symptoms of nutritionally
caused deficiencies are allergies of
one kind or another. Because many commercial pet foods are woefully deficient
in key nutrients, the long term effect of feeding such foods makes
the dog hypersensitive to its environment. . . It's a dinosaur effect.
Animals are being programmed for disaster, for extinction. Many of them
are biochemical cripples with defective adrenal glands unable to manufacture
adequate cortisol, a hormone vital for health and resistance to disease."
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FOOD
NOT FIT FOR A PET
Dr Wendell O. Belfield,
D.V.M.
Rendering plants process
decomposing animal carcasses, large roadkill and euthanised dogs and cats
into a dry protein product that is sold to the pet food industry. One small
plant in Quebec, Ontario, renders 10 tons (22,000 pounds) of dogs and cats
per week. The Quebec Ministry of Agriculture states that "the fur is not
removed from dogs and cats" and that "dead animals are cooked together
with viscera, bones and fat at 115° C (235° F) for 20 minutes".
The US Food and Drug Administration's
Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) is aware of the use of rendered dogs
and cats in pet foods, but has stated: "CVM has not acted to specifically
prohibit the rendering of pets. However, that is not to say that the practise
of using this material in pet food is condoned by the CVM."
Some of these dead pets -
those euthanised by veterinarians - already contain pentobarbital before
treatment with the denaturing process. According to University of Minnesota
researchers, the sodium pentobarbital used to euthanise pets "survives
rendering without undergoing degradation". Fat stabilisers are introduced
into the finished rendered product to prevent rancidity. Common chemical
stabilisers include BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) and BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene)
- both known to cause liver and kidney dysfunction - and ethoxyquin, a
suspected carcinogen. Many semi-moist dog foods contain propylene glycol
- first cousin to the anti-freeze agent, ethylene glycol, that destroys
red blood-cells. Lead frequently shows up in pet foods, even those made
from livestock meat and bone meal. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology
study, titled "Lead in Animal Foods", found that a nine-pound cat fed on
commercial pet food ingests more lead than the amount considered potentially
toxic for children.
"Vegetable protein", the
mainstay of dry dog foods, includes ground yellow corn, wheat shorts and
middlings, soybean meal, rice husks, peanut meal and peanut shells (identified
as "cellulose" on pet food labels). These often are little more than the
sweepings from milling room floors. Stripped of their oil, germ and bran,
these "proteins" are deficient in essential fatty acids, fat-soluble vitamins
and antioxidants. "Animal protein" in commercial pet foods can include
diseased meat, roadkill, contaminated material from slaughterhouses, faecal
matter, rendered cats and dogs and poultry feathers. The major source of
animal protein comes from dead-stock removal operations that supply so-called
"4-D" animals - dead, diseased, dying or disabled - to "receiving plants"
for hide, fat and meat removal. The meat (after being doused with charcoal
and marked "unfit for human consumption") may then be sold for pet food.
In 1981, as Martin Zucker
and I wrote How to Have a Healthier Dog, we discovered the full extent
of negative effects that commercial pet food has on animals. In February
1990, San Francisco Chronicle staff writer John Eckhouse went even further
with an expose entitled "How Dogs and Cats Get Recycled into Pet Food."
Eckhouse wrote: "Each year,
millions of dead American dogs and cats are processed along with billions
of pounds of other animal materials by companies known as renderers. The
finished product... tallow and meat meal... serve as raw materials for
thousands of items that include cosmetics and pet food." [See sidebar,
''The Dark Side of Recycling," Spring 1990 ElJ.]
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John Anderson -"110
Million Sick Pets?—There are an estimated 55 million dogs and 63 million
cats living in American households. Given the appalling condition of most
commercial pet foods, it’s a wonder there are any healthy pets walking
around anymore. "Nature never designed canine or feline kidneys to handle
the volume of impurities that come their way," states veterinarian Al Plechner,
DVM, author of Pet Allergies: Remedies For An
Epidemic" The result is fatigued,
irritated, damaged and deteriorated kidneys after several years
of life. Left untreated, the toxic buildup leads to vomiting, loss of appetite,
uremic poisoning and death."
Recent
studies have shown processed foods to be a factor in increasing numbers
of pets suffering from cancer, arthritis, obesity,
dental disease and heart disease, comments Dr Wysong. Dull or unhealthy
coats are a common problem with cats and dogs and poor diet is usually
the cause, according to many veterinarians and breeders. The AAFCO nutrient
profiles may play a role here, in the "balanced" nutritional levels they
recommend may be inadequate for an individual animal. Life's
Abundance is a quality healthy kibbles for dogs and cats that
do
not use these practice
It
is estimated that up to two million companion animals suffer from food
allergies.
Dr Plechner believes that the commercial pet foods are a primary
cause and can contribute to a host of health problems. "Among pets, there
is a widespread intolerance of commercial foods," he states. "This rejection
can show up either as violent sickness or chronic health problems. It often
triggers a hypersensitivity and overreaction to flea and insect bites,
pollens, soaps, sprays and environmental contaminants."
Feline
urological syndrome, a chronic condition similar to cystitis in humans
(characterized by frequent urination with blood in the urine), is an increasingly
common and potentially fatal illness in cats. It has been linked to elevated
levels of ash and phosphorus, two substances commonly found in commercial
pet foods. High iodine levels are seen as a contributing factor for
thyroid tumors in cats. "New diseases are being discovered that are linked
to ‘100% complete’ diets," states Dr Wysong. These include "polymyopathy
(a muscle disorder) from low potassium levels, dilated cardiomyopathy (heart
muscle disorder) from low taurine levels, arthritic and skin diseases from
acid/base and zinc malnutrition and chronic eczema from essential fatty
acid malnutrition," he reports. Given the high possibility that your favorite
pet foods may be slowly poisoning your cat or dog, it’s crucial that you
find brands you can trust to be animal friendly."
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Pet Food
Companies
The Following Practices
are Used by Some Pet Food Manufacturer:
POOR PROTEIN SOURCES
Soybean Meal, Wheat, Corn
Glutens, Corn Meal, Whole Corn, Crushed Corn and Ground Corn are commonly
used for their protein content in many pet foods. These ingredients
are generally poor sources of protein vs. meat.
CHEMICAL PRESERVATIVES
BHA, BHT and ethoxyquin
are found in many pet foods. Scientific studies have proven that these
chemicals can be harmful. In fact, they have been shown to promote
liver disease and other medical problems.
FOOD COLORING
Food colorings are still
commonly used in pet foods today despite the fact that they are not necessary
and some have been linked to medical problems.
BY-PRODUCTS
By-products can vary ...
they can consist of the internal parts of animals such as necks, heads,
undeveloped eggs, feet, intestines, lungs, spleen and liver.
WHAT LABELS DON'T REVEAL
Condemned parts and animals
rejected for human consumption can be rerouted into commercial pet foods.
These condemned parts are referred to as the 4 D's: dead, dying, diseased
or decayed. We believe this is one of the most despicable practices
in the pet food manufacturing industry.
Some manufacturers have a
lower standard regarding the quality of ingredients they use to make pet
food. A recent example of this practice is the discovery of Pentobarbital
in major pet foods, including supermarket brands. Pentobarbital is
a chemical used to euthanize animals. Many holistic veterinarians
feel that daily ingestion of pentobarbital can be harmful.
Many manufacturers cut costs
by using the cheapest ingredients available at the time a food is made.
Since costs rise and fall, some manufacturers will vary ingredients from
batch to batch .. resulting in changed nutrient values for each batch and
possible digestive illness.
Some manufacturers have lower
standards regarding the freshness of ingredients they use to make pet food.
You can not determine the freshness of ingredients by reading a label;
you must trust the pet food manufacturer.
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Food
Pets Die for : Shocking Facts About Pet Food by Ann N. Martin
A must read for all veterinarians,
and for all pet owners! "We need to pay attention to what we are feeding
our animals. Not only as this book says, with the food, but also we need
to support their
immune systems. In Super Nutrition for Dogs n'
Cats extra information is provided on all the illness caused by malnutrition,
mineral and enzyme deficiencies that we normally don't think of. Ever wonder
why there are so many vets?...too many sick pets because of the food and
lack of proper nutrients. Everyone ought to pay attention!" An amazon.com
reviewer.
From an amazon.com book
reviewer: "Ann Martin's investigation into the commercial pet food
industry has become a classic. This is the book I often recommend when
people ask me what's wrong with (most) commercial dog and cat foods. However,
I can't recommend this book without pointing out some of the errors in
the second part of the book, the part that focuses on feeding a homemade
diet. First of all, it needs to be said that while cooking the meat
can indeed destroy bacteria and parasites (as well as destroying valuable
enzymes and changing the meat's molecular structure), cooking does *not*
destroy the antibiotics, pesticides, artificial growth hormones, etc.,
as Martin claims. The only way to avoid these harmful substances is to
stop supporting factory
farming and buy ethically raised, organic meats. Yes, such meat is
more expensive, but personally I'd rather pay more and know that I'm not
supporting the needless torture of animals and the destruction of the environment.
At this point you may wonder why we feed our dogs meat at all. Well, the
humans in our house are indeed longtime vegetarians, but dogs are carnivores
and while they can survive on a properly supplemented vegetarian diet,
such a species inappropriate diet is far from ideal. Our family's GWPs
have been thriving on a diet based on raw meats and bones for thirty years
now. While it's been my experience that raw diets are indeed preferable
for most dogs, there are certainly cases where cooked diets are more appropriate.
Some dogs -- usually due to certain medical conditions -- simply do not
do well on a raw diet, and in such cases a homecooked diet is the best
option.
Unfortunately the recipes
offered by Ms. Martin are not properly balanced. For instance, while she
is clearly aware of the correct calcium to phosphorous ratio (as well as
of the damage caused by calcium deficiencies), her recipes do not contain
nearly enough calcium to balance out the high phosphorous levels of the
meat and, to a lesser extent, the grains. She seems to be under the impression
that one can use yogurt or cottage cheese as a calcium supplement; however,
while dairy products are good sources of calcium, they also happen to contain
plenty of phosphorous (some types of cottage cheese actually contain more
phosphorous than calcium), so obviously dairy products cannot be used to
balance the meat's high phosphorous levels. The best way to supplement
calcium is to feed the meat with plenty of raw
bone (nature's way of balancing calcium and phosphorous) or by adding
ground eggshell powder to boneless meats. Feeding a properly balanced homeprepared
diet really isn't as difficult as the pet food industry and their supporters
would have us believe, but getting the Ca:P ratio right is important. My
suggestion: Read Ms. Martin's book to find out why it's not a good idea
to feed processed pet foods (if you don't already know), but then get yourself
another book to learn how to prepare a balanced homemade diet for your
animals. read
an excerpt
Wendell O. Belfield DVM
- "In 1981, as Martin Zucker and I wrote How to Have a Healthier Dog, we
discovered the full extent of negative effects that commercial pet food
has on animals. In February 1990, San Francisco Chronicle staff writer
John Eckhouse went even further with an expose entitled "How Dogs and Cats
Get Recycled into Pet Food." Eckhouse wrote: "Each year, millions of dead
American dogs and cats are processed along with billions of pounds of other
animal materials by companies known as renderers. The finished product...
tallow and meat meal... serve as raw materials for thousands of items that
include cosmetics and pet food." [See sidebar, ''The
Dark Side of Recycling," Spring 1990 ElJ.]"
William Pollak D.V.M -
"In
the wild, no one cooks for the coyote or wolf; no one brushes their teeth.
Their foods are raw and unprocessed."
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Juliette
de Bairacli Levy has experienced eight decades of living a life dedicated
to the "natural rearing" of her children and animals. She speaks the wisdom
we long for, the knowledge of good health and a long happy life that is
our right. Yet, somehow these details got lost, buried or ignored by the
"scientific" community. Juliette is a champion of the health and loving
treatment of cats, dogs, children, bees, and the gypsies. Her presence
is a gently formidable figure in our modern world. Juliette says that the
two most important aspects of natural animal rearing are:
fasting
and raw diet. learn more
 In
her wonderful book, Wild Health: How
Animals Keep Themselves Well and What We Can Learn From Them, Cindy
Engles, Ph.D., documents that for millennia humans have observed
animals in the wild eating plants and minerals and applying naturally occurring
topical antitoxins from the same sources to combat infectious wounds, parasites
and internal disorders. Herds of elephants risk injury and death in a perilous
journey to hidden salt caves where they supplement their sodium
deficient diet. Monkeys rub poisonous millipedes on their fur to repel
biting, disease-carrying insects. Birds line their nests with parasite-resistant
herbs. Engel details a world where nature is the pharmacy and every animal
is its own practitioner.
Dr. William Pollak D.V.M.
- "Recent studies have shown processed foods
to be a factor in increasing numbers of pets suffering from cancer,
arthritis, obesity, dental disease and heart disease.
Dull or unhealthy coats are a common problem with cats and dogs and poor
diet is usually the cause, according to many veterinarians and breeders.
"Dogs,
cats and other animals live for years on foods that come out of bags, cans
and boxes. But do these foods promote health? If they did, our companion
animals would enjoy long, happy lives free of arthritis, hip dysplasia,
eye problems, ear problems, fleas and other parasites, gum disease, lick
granulomas, thyroid imbalances, skin and coat problems, personality disorders,
birth defects, breeding problems, diabetes, cancer and other major and
minor illnesses. Before World War II, most North Americans fed their pets
raw bones and table scraps. Today, everyone uses convenience foods, and
pet food companies are industry giants. Diet isn't the only thing that
has changed. So has life expectancy, with the life span of many breeds
now less than half what it was two or three decades ago. Skin and coat
problems are so common that we accept them as unavoidable, and today's
vets routinely treat conditions that used to be unusual or even rare."
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Royal College of Veterinary
Surgeons: Letters have been written to the RCVS, outlining our concerns
over the continued promotion and sale of processed pet food by the majority
of veterinary surgeons. We have expressed our concern about the influence
of pet food manufacturers within the veterinary colleges. We have pointed
out the huge inadequacies of manufactured pet food, and the harm it does
to our pet carnivores. We have told them of the huge health improvements
that we have seen in our own pets, since changing them to a raw meaty bone
diet, and explained that this is seen around the world by other dog, cat
and ferret owners when they change their pets to a natural diet. more
Soy in Pet
food
A quick scan of supermarket
dog and cat food labels indicates that about half of the commercial dry
pet foods have soy as the main protein source, with soy appearing as the
first ingredient after corn or (in some very high protein products such
as kitten food) as the first ingredient.
Cheetahs and Soybeans
by Sue
Ann Bowling Ph.D
This article is provided
as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska
Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Dr. Sue Ann
Bowling is an Associate Professor of Physics at the Institute.
Pity the poor cheetahs! These
speedy spotted cats managed to survive one population crisis, which left
them the most inbred wild animal known. Then human inroads on their habitat
and hunting for their fur shoved them toward a second population crisis,
which seemed headed off by captive breeding. Now it appears that the zoo
diet in North America is simultaneously killing them off with liver disease
and preventing them from breeding effectively.
In 1985, 29 American zoo
cheetahs died and only 18 were born, and 7 of the 18 died before adulthood.
Only about 10% of North American adult female cheetahs have been producing
live cubs in the last 5 years, compared with 60 to 80 % in other countries.
Since North American cheetahs
mostly eat a commercial feline diet based on horsemeat and soy, while the
cheetahs living and breeding more successfully elsewhere are being fed
whole carcasses, a group of researchers in Ohio decided to look at the
zoo cheetah's food. They found that the soybean part of the diet (the same
textured soy protein and soy flakes used increasingly as a meat extender
in human diets) contained natural plant estrogens, chemicals akin to mammalian
female hormones and having some of the same effects. When these chemicals
were injected into immature female mice, they caused damage to the mice's
uteruses.
Experiments were carried
out at the zoo as well as in the lab. When four cheetahs in the Cincinnati
Zoo were switched to a diet based on chicken meat without soy, their liver
function improved. Right now we don't know whether they will breed again
or whether permanent damage has occurred.
What does this mean in terms
of other soy consumers? Cheetahs are likely to be exceptionally sensitive
to problems of any kind because they are so inbred. On the other hand,
soy made up a relatively small percentage of the cheetahs' diet, and apparently
all cats are rather poor at getting rid of extra estrogens. Our pets might
face some problems.
A quick scan of supermarket
dog and cat food labels indicates that about half of the commercial dry
pet foods have soy as the main protein source, with soy appearing as the
first ingredient after corn or (in some very high protein products such
as kitten food) as the first ingredient. As a dog breeder I would hesitate
to maintain my breeding stock on a commercial diet that used soy as the
primary protein source, or listed soy as one of the top three ingredients.
But other questions need to be answered, as well.
How about the human consumption
of soy? At the present time, our western diets don't contain all that much
soy, though what they do contain is often in the form of textured soy protein,
which has over twice the estrogen content of soy flakes. This in itself
indicates that the method of preparing soy may affect the estrogen content
of the final food. Oriental diets have used soy for far longer than have
Western ones. Do traditional Oriental methods of preparing soybeans for
consumption remove some of the plant estrogens? I asked one of the researchers,
and he replied that tofu has far less plant estrogens per unit weight than
does textured soy protein. No measurements had yet been made, however,
based on the ratio of estrogens to protein.
Agriculturists and plant
breeders need to look at soybean estrogens, too. Do drought, temperature,
soil fertility or day length affect their concentration? Do different varieties
of soybeans differ in how much of these substances the beans contain? Can
low-estrogen varieties be developed? The cheetah study has raised more
questions than it has answered -- not an uncommon result of scientific
research! Cheetahs
and Soybeans from the Alaska Science Forum
How about
the human consumption of soy?
"Dr Fitzpatrick's literature
review uncovered evidence that soy consumption has been linked to numerous
disorders, including infertility, increased cancer and infantile leukemia;
and, in studies dating back to the 1950s, that genistein in soy causes
endocrine disruption in animals."
Sally Fallon and Mary
G. Enig, PhD - "The soybean contains large quantities of natural
toxins or "antinutrients". First among them are potent enzyme inhibitors
that block the action of trypsin and other
enzymes
needed for protein digestion. These inhibitors are large, tightly folded
proteins that are not completely deactivated during ordinary cooking. They
can produce serious gastric distress, reduced protein digestion and chronic
deficiencies in amino acid uptake. In test animals, diets high in trypsin
inhibitors cause enlargement and pathological conditions of the pancreas,
including cancer. Soybeans also contain haemagglutinin, a clot-promoting
substance that causes red blood cells to clump together. Trypsin inhibitors
and haemagglutinin are growth inhibitors."
Canine
Health Concern - Let Food be Thy Medicine
Following is an excerpt
from chapter 8 "Let Food be Thy Medicine" from 'Shock
to the System' by Catherine O’Driscoll
Tom Lonsdale,
a wonderful vet who has sacrificed his career in order to campaign to return
carnivores to their natural fare, believes that dogs, cats and ferrets
should be given a diet mostly based on raw meaty bones – whole carcasses,
a small amount of vegetable matter, and some table scraps.
Unlike Tom, Ian Billinghurst
– another raw meaty bone vet - believes that carnivores should also be
given supplements. Juliette de Baircli Levi, the pioneer in holistic healthcare
for dogs, advocated the feeding of grains and raw meat to dogs. Pat McKay,
another expert, believes that grains for dogs are not a good idea. Ann
Martin, who wrote Food Pets Die For believes that raw meat is dangerous
for dogs, that we should cook their food. And the big multinationals believe
that their complete and balanced commercial food in a can or a bag is,
um, all your dog will ever need.
After many years of lapping
up all of the advice on what to feed my dogs, I believe that all of the
above are right! Even though they disagree with one-another to a greater
or lesser extent. I suppose I’m in trouble again. My reason for agreeing
with them all is based upon the following exceptional experiences.
After Oliver and Prudence
died, and my other dogs were suffering from thyroid disease, arthritis,
allergies and autoimmune disease, I read an article in an Australian dog
magazine about raw meaty bones for dogs. It was as though a lightbulb went
on in my head: I had been starving my dogs to death with a complete dry
dog food that wasn’t sustaining life. I immediately switched my dogs to
the raw meaty bone diet, and my dogs thrived. Our vet bills dropped by
65% and, when we surveyed CHC members who had switched their dogs to the
RMB diet on our advice, they reported an 85% drop in veterinary visits.
People wrote to us to tell us how healthy their dogs were on raw food –
glossier coats, more vitality, skin problems clearing up, lovely clean
teeth, clean breath, and in some cases, medication was no longer required.
We were so enamoured by the positive changes in our dogs’ health, that
we invested a great deal of time and money in promoting raw feeding for
dogs. That diet is now used by thousands of delighted animal guardians
around the world. I believe this to be true: the vast majority of carnivores
thrive on the food that Nature has designed over millions of years to sustain
life. That is, prey animals like rabbits, rats, deer, mice, lambs, hens,
and so on, uncooked. Dogs, being scavengers, also thrive on eggs, berries,
fruit and the food that they might find in the prey’s stomach, such as
grains and vegetable matter. You should see Edward on walks around the
country estate we live on. He picks raspberries from the bushes and jumps
to pick apples from the trees. He also enjoys catching and eating rabbits.
One day, something happened
to modify my view. My friend Sally Cronk came to visit for a week, bringing
her German Shepherd Etta with her. Etta hadn’t eaten raw meaty bones before,
but Sally was keen for her to try the natural diet. So Etta had raw chicken
wings alongside my own dogs. When Etta got home, Sally had to take her
to the vets, where she stayed for several days on a drip. The reason, it
transpired after some deduction, was that Etta could not tolerate the energy
– the life force – in raw food. Countless generations of breeding and artificial
food had modified the dog so that she could not tolerate real food.
Then, when my own Sophie
reached the age of 15, she started to develop diarrhoea. I tried everything
to help her: homoeopathic remedies, antibiotics, herbs – all to no avail.
I happen to be extremely fortunate in that I have a friend who is a medical
intuitive who is also very knowledgeable about canine health. In desperation,
I telephoned her on Sophie’s behalf, only to be told that Sophie could
no longer, at her great age, tolerate the energy in raw meaty bones. I
was advised to switch Sophie to a tinned senior dog food and, after a while,
I could revert to real food, but this time cooking it for Sophie. Gosh
darnit, but my friend was right.
Principles were thrown to
the wind, and the tinned food halted Sophie’s diarrhoea. After a while
I was able to cook her chicken, white fish and vegetables, and she lived
to a good age of 17. Then I read about a dog in the media who made it to
21. Unbelievably to me, this dog had been a vegetarian since she had been
rescued as a puppy! Her owner phoned me one day so I was able to ask questions:
the dog wasn’t vaccinated every year, but her owner was a serious vegetarian
who studied the protein requirements of her canines and gave them the nutrients
they needed by adding vegetable protein sources to the diet.
Another lady came to me with
her aggressive dog. The dog was eating a dry food and I wondered whether
this might be the source of the problem (since some of the commercial processed
foods can provoke aggression in dogs). After much deduction, it transpired
that this dog actually did very well on the dry food. Her owner had tried
raw, but the result had been huge digestive upset. The difficulty, it transpired,
was that the dog wasn’t sure of her place in the family, and she was behaving
aggressively to balance-out her owner’s overly meek behaviour. So once
again I will repeat: most dogs thrive on a natural raw diet, with some
rare exceptions.
Quite a few years ago I was
invited to attend and speak at a holistic dog camp run by a wonderful woman
called Wendy Volhard. Wendy’s knowledge and understanding of canine dietary
requirements is awesome. Her knowledge is backed by around forty years
of science: she has consistently advised her followers to take blood samples
for analysis from their dogs, enabling them to ascertain whether the diet
is producing health or ill-health before unwanted consequences arise.
Most importantly, Wendy advocates
muscle testing so that owners can work out the specific dietary requirements
of their animals. And so do I. Some dogs, it transpires, fare better with
lamb than beef, others better with chicken than lamb, and so on. Just like
humans, dogs are not all uniform in their requirements. No individual,
of whatever species, is anything other than unique.
Take a simple example: some
humans (and individuals of any species) need more food than others. We
know this because some lucky blighters can eat anything they like and stay
slim. Others who try to get away with eating the same amount pile the weight
on. Rob and I are a prime example (sob). We walk the dogs together, so
our exercise levels are pretty similar. Rob is like his mother and I, sadly,
am like my mother. Genetically, Rob is skinny, and I am not.
Our dogs, Edward, Dannie
and Gwinnie, also have differing dietary requirements. Gwinnie is prone
to putting on weight – she gets less to eat than the boys, much to her
disappointment. She also fares better on white meats and good amounts of
vegetable matter. Dannie tests positive for high purine foods, like beef
and liver. Edward, bless him, at the age of nine, needs to avoid high purine
foods. Edward’s limbs ache in the evenings, showing symptoms somewhat like
gout. Gout is caused by an excess of uric acid in the body. Uric acid results
from the breakdown of purines. The excess can be caused by either an over-production
of uric acid by the body or the under-elimination of uric acid by the kidneys.
Also, the ingestion of foods high in purines can raise uric acid levels
in the blood and precipitate gout attacks in some ‘people’.
According to the American
Medical Association, purine-containing foods include anchovies, sardines
in oil, fish roe, herring, yeast, organ meat, beans, peas, mushrooms, spinach,
asparagus, and cauliflower. Foods that may be beneficial to people with
gout, however, include dark berries, white meats, fatty acids, salmon,
and white fish. A herbal blend containing garlic, artichoke, turmeric,
milk thistle and yucca can help lower uric acid levels in the body. Aloe
vera and vitamin C can also reduce inflammatory reactions in the body.
Basically, Edward needs more vegetables and fruits than Dannie does, and
supplements that Dannie doesn’t need. This is reflected by the fact that
Edward helps himself to fruit in the environment, and Dannie doesn’t. When
I eat an apple, Edward wants some; Dannie isn’t interested.
This isn’t to say, of course,
that we should always follow our, or our animals’, likes and dislikes when
it comes to food. I just love chocolate and puddings, but these aren’t
necessarily foods. They are designed to excite the palate – different function.
We can also be addicted to the foods we are allergic to. This is why I
believe we all need to find a diagnostic tool to help us work out the best
diet for ourselves, and for our animals. Then, once we have established
the best diet, we need a rudimentary understanding of using foods as medicine
(since they can’t legislate food away from us, even though they might try
to rob us of our right to use vitamins, minerals and herbs therapeutically).
I am not going to tell you
in this book how to dowse or muscle test. The reason for this is that I
don’t believe you can learn it on a page. You need to find someone to teach
you, in person. Actually, I’m offering you a precious gift: the chance
to go and meet interesting and knowledgeable people who are a little further
along the road than you. You’ll get direct proof that dowsing and muscle
testing is more than airy fairy unscientific nonsense. You’ll find it works.
In a year or a few months, you will be where they are now: you’ll be your
own expert. Go to your local health shop and ask them to recommend someone
who is a Kinesiologist or a dowser. Ask around. You will find them near
you. Enrol on a course or have a few one-to-one sessions. We do, incidentally,
teach both muscle testing and dowsing during our Foundation in Canine Healthcare
course.
 There
are also many books on animal nutrition which you can read. These are given
in the recommended reading list. I would, however, like to illustrate some
broad concepts for you to consider. It is, if you like, the skeleton over
which you can add the meat.
'Shock
to the System' by Catherine O’Driscoll is a sequel to 'What Vets Don't
Tell You About Vaccines'. It covers the latest information on the vaccine
issue, and puts the other pieces of the puzzle into the picture. Diet,
environmental toxins, pharmaceuticals and stress all play a part in the
health of companion animals. This book will make you cry and
aware of the scam that is the mainstay of the veterinary field. It is well
researched and written. The truth about the terrible suffering of pets
and their owners and what can be done to protect your animals from the
drug companies and ignorant vets. This information can save your animals
and give you the facts to present to your vet if he/she does not keep up
with current science. A must for anyone who loves animals and wants to
keep them safe and healthy.
More
on the danger of vaccines
Do
you have a question about holistic animal health or need assistance? contact
Shirley or call 206-984-3009 or 323-389-0560
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The Vigilante
Guardian
by Jesse
Dallas
Many pet owners are beginning
to question the validity of conventional methods used by veterinarians
and are concerned about the health of their dog or cat. Processed foods
and drugs have seriously depleted the natural vitality and immune systems
of many pets. Though natural health care for animals has been virtually
non existent in the past, it is rapidly growing in popularity as a cheaper,
more effective alternative.
Sadly, it os often those
who care most for their pets who, through ignorance, can do the most harm.
By closely identifying with their dog or cat, pet owners tend to imagine
that what is good for them will also be good for their pet. However, nothing
could be further from the truth. Dogs and cats are anatomically very different
to humans. Their intestinal tract, for example is only about half as long
as a human's, and food is therefore processed and assimilated very differently.
Whereas large amounts of red meat can cause cancer in humans, a lack of
raw red meat in an animal's diet can lead to serious health problems.
Animals require the enzymes,
amino acids and other nutrients in the raw meat in order to stay healthy.
Many skin and coat problems are a direct result of a lack of raw animal
fat in the diet - fat which humans often believe is bad for their pet.
Animals need at least 30% raw fat, and their systems are not designed to
handle cooked meat or cooked fat. Restaurant grease has become a major
component of feed-grade animal fat over the last 15 years. Often held in
50-gallon drums for weeks or months in extreme temperatures, this grease
is usually kelp outside with no regard for its safety or further use. The
rancid grease is then picked up by fat blenders who mix the animal and
vegetable fats together, stabilize them with powerful antioxidants to prevent
further spoilage, and then sell the blended products to pet food companies.
Rancid, heavily preserved fats are extremely difficult to digest and can
lead to a host of animal health problems, including digestive upsets, diarrhea,
gas, and bad breath. In the wild, a panther or jackal does not barbecue,
grill or smoke its prey. It definitely does not walk to the local supermarket
to buy dry food either. Yet most pet owners recoil at the thought of feeding
raw meat to their dog or cat, concerned about bacteria or parasites. However,
dogs and cats don't get salmonella poisoning because their digestive system
is so acidic (or at least it should be) that it kills everything. This
is why a dog can bury a bone and dig it up two weeks later and eat the
rotting meat. Humans on the other hand, can pick up parasites more easily
because their digestive tract is nowhere near as acidic as that of a carnivore.
For more information: Will
Eating Raw Meat Give My Pet Parasites? --
enzymes
and animal health
The meat contained in canned
pet food is cooked, devoid of 'real' nutrients and usually contains many
potentially harmful preservatives, colourings and additives. Dry and processed
canned food also lack the natural teeth cleaning properties of fresh raw
meat. Without the natural cleansing action of the meat on the teeth, unhealthy
bacteria builds up in the mouth, causing infection and foul smelling breath.
The high salt content in some pet foods can cause animals to become unnaturally
high strung and nervous.
For a return to health, pets
require a diet which strengthens the immune system and most closely resembles
that which they would get in the wild. It's really easy to do. Essentially,
you feed your pet a combination of certain raw meats and select from a
host of raw vegetables. Then by being aware of a few animal nutrition guidelines,
you've made your pet the best diet it can eat!
The best type of food you
can feed your dog or cat is food you make yourself. It is the most natural,
most nutritionally balanced, most easily digested and of much higher quality
than canned or dry food. Many commercially produced pet foods contain preservatives
such as BHA, BHT, or even MSG which can cause birth defects, liver and
kidneys problems, baldness and brain defects. They may also be carcinogenic
and what is really scary is that humans eat these preservatives also in
such foods as breakfast cereals.
The salt content of many
pet foods can be as high as 1000 times more salt than what your pet needs
in one day. The excess salt can cause high blood pressure and heart disease
in animals. Epilepsy is now more common in dogs than in humans. Semi-moist
pet food usually contain as much as 25% sugar which can come in many forms
such as sucrose, corn syrup, beet pulp, and caramel to name a few. Other
foods can contain up to 10% propylene glycol. Both sugar and propylene
glycol are linked to obesity, allergies, tooth decay and other problems
like forms cancer. Propylene glycol sister ethylene glycol is used in the
making of anti-freeze and to think it's in the food we feed our pets. Once
again, our foods like common salad dressings contain propylene glycol also
(just read the label). A relatively new ingredient in pet food is ethoxyquin
which has been implicated with thyroid problems, hair loss and reproductive
disorders. A component of ethoxyquin - quinoline - is regarded by some
in the scientific community as the ultimate carcinogen. Ethoxyquin is made
by Monsanto, the same company that makes the lawn pesticide known as Roundup,
the Bovine Growth Hormone and Monsanto also makes the chemicals sprayed
onto new carpets. Ethoxyquin which was originally created as a rubber hardener
has also been used as a pesticide and at one point was deemed 'harmful
and deleterious', but in 1958, Monsanto had its lobbyists influence politicians.
The result was Monsanto had the laws changed. Monsanto must have had good
lobbyists because in order to get the laws changed, it took an Act of Congress
known as 'The Food Additive Amendment of 1958'. This ammendment was passed
making the words in the law say that exthoxyquin was safe even though studies
showed its toxicity! The real scary part about ethoxyquin is that it is
undectable and so even though a label may not read it has ethoxyquin, it
could be there.
Homemade pet food is not
only free of such harmful additives, but has the added benefit of containing
natural remedies for common ailments. Garlic for example, contains sulfur
which acts as a natural flea repellent. The acidity of raw meat creates
an environment in which mucous in which worms thrive disappear. Since the
worms cannot survive in a healthy body, homemade pet food has the added
advantage of increasing the animal's vitality and subsequently reducing
veterinarian bills for the owner.
How you care for your pet's
coat can be just as important as the diet. Any shampoo that is intended
for external use only or is meant to kill fleas, should be avoided. If
the label reads 'domestic' and has a guarantee on the label, it means it
is a pesticide for home use and is therefore still a poison. These shampoos
are absorbed through the skin and can damage the liver and kidneys; weaken
the immune system, and will ultimately not even kill fleas. Only a strong
immune system will keep your pet free of fleas. Fleas, like many parasites
build up resistance to insecticide shampoos. So, the application of such
products can only be harmful to your pet.
Providing natural and simple
health care to your pets brings numerous benefits to both humans and pets.
Those who do not feel they have time to prepare homemade food will be happy
to know that it really only takes a few minutes a day and a week's worth
of food can be made and frozen. Sadly, most people wait until their pet
is sick before they take action. It's so easy to see your pet as being
healthy on the outside, but if only we could see the inside. So get informed
today because after all, your pet is a living being and your pet depends
on you to take care of him or her!!!
Editor's Paw Note: The Vigilante
Guardian by Jesse Dallas was first published in the June, 1995 edition
of the Vancouver magazine called 'Shared Vision' and had an absolutely
phenomenal reception. The information, although written 2 years ago, is
still pertinent in 1997 and we hope you have enjoyed it as much as all
those who read it in 1995.
 hilarious
2 minute video of a dog protecting his bone. It will make your day!
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Feeding Calculator As a general rule, a normal active dog require
about 2% of its body weight per day. A highly
active dog may require about 3% of its body
weight per day. No two dogs are alike in their metabolic rates, age, or
activity levels Puppies can use up to 10%
of their growing body weight. Use the online calculator
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Meaty Bones - Tom Lonsdale, a graduate of the Royal Veterinary College
in London, admits he was slow to recognize problems associated with feeding
canned and dry pet foods. 'The truth is rarely pure, and never simple'
said Oscar Wilde, but this book lets the truth speak for itself as it lifts
the lid on the pet food industry/veterinary profession alliance. You owe
it to your pet to read this book to find out what happens to dogs and cats
if their diet is inadequate.
 Some
breeders and trainers prefer to feed their dog twice a day to avoid stressing
their digestive system. I have been feeding Shasta strickly raw food
once a day to give her digestive track a chance to rest which keeps her
healthier and never overweight. No two dogs are alike or have the same
feeding requirement. It is entirely to the dog's owner to decide what is
best for their dog. If I were to feed my dog twice a day and wanted to
give kibble AND raw food, I would not mix the two together. It takes 18
hours for a dog to digest kibbles and only 6 hours to digest raw food.
To prevent fermentation in the stomach which in turn causes my dog (and
other dogs) to have gas, muchi and malodorous stools, I avoid mixing kibbles
with raw food. I would give the raw food in the morning and
6 hours later I would give the kibble. My friend, Pat
Hartman, who is a German Shepherd expert also recommends to never feed
dry kibbles to GSD. Instead, soak the kibbles first..Click
here to view the commercial dog food comparison chart
Learn more: optimum
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 Concerned
about Zoonosis? Zoonosis is an
infectious or parasitic disease, which is naturally passed from vertebrate
animals to humans, and vice versa, e.g. tuberculosis, rabies or brucellosis.
"Dogs and especially cats can shed Salmonella organisms in both their feces
and saliva, meaning that transmission can occur via licking." more.
- A pet dog or cat licking your hand is a very common occurrence.
Sometimes a pet may lick the face of a child, helping germs spread more
easily. Animal saliva contains many pathogenic agents. more
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Domesticated animals
(including ferrets and rodents) suffer from minerals and vitamin deficiencyOur
soil, plants, and especially commercial foods are woefully deficient in
key nutrients. Scientists theorize that mineral deficiency subjects
us, and our animals, to more diseases, aging, sickness and destruction
of our physical well-being than any other factor in personal health. Domesticated
ferrets, like our domesticated dogs and cats, are prone to suffer from
minerals and trace mineral deficiency which makes them prone to diseases.
A good source of naturally occuring trace minerals and vitamins for ferrets
and other pets are:
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Marine
Phytoplankton Dr. Jerry Tennant, M.D. says that marine phytoplankton
contains almost everything one needs to sustain life and to restore health
by providing the raw materials to make new cells that function normally.
Marine phytoplankton has been called "the most nutritionally dense foods
on the planet". Containing a wide range of trace elements, amino acids,
vitamins, minerals, chlorophyll, enzymes and cellular materials, marine
phytoplankton promotes and maintains optimum health by boosting and supporting
all systems within the body.
-
Seaweed
(kelp). Sea Vegetables (Spirulina - Kelp - Chlorella) have been
acknowledged as a detoxifyer, a balanced nourishment and a miraculous healing
plant. Ocean / Sea algae are the richest natural source of minerals, trace
minerals and rear earth elements.
-
Fulvic
minerals consist of an immense arsenal and array of naturally occuring
powerful phytochemicals, biochemicals, supercharged antioxidants, free-radical
scavengers, super oxide dismutases, nutrients, enzymes, hormones, amino
acids, antibiotics, antivirals, and antifungals
-
Bee Pollen
contains all the essential components of life. The percentage of rejuvenating
elements in bee pollen remarkably exceeds those present in brewer's yeast
and wheat germ. Bee pollen corrects the deficient or unbalanced nutrition,
common in the customs of our present-day civilization of consuming incomplete
foods.
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Flaxoil:
holistic veterinarians are beginning to recommend to their clients that
they supplement their animals diet with a daily dose of flaxseed oil and
other nutrients for optimum health and vitality. The vets are finding remarkable
results in clearing up skin conditions, relieving arthritic and inflammatory
pain, as well as improved over all pet health. (Suzie
Zeeman gives flaxoil to her ferrets. She says that their fur
looks shinny and thick, and feels soft and smooth since on flaxoil."
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Bentonite
and Pascalite clay: It has helped cows with scours and pneumonia.
Veterinarians use it on dogs, cats, horses, etc... for various afflictions
including injuries and infections. Pets are helped, too. More
on the health benefits of clay
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Transfer
Factor Plus - Canine and Feline Formulas are advanced immune support
supplements formulated or dogs and cats (also good for ferrets).
According to veterinarians, the powerful and proprietary blend of ingredients
work together to activate and enhance the immune system's ability
to respond to the many pathogens may pets come into contact with. more
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Barley
Dog is the original "green" supplement made from the juice of organic
Barley grass with a hickory smoked flavor. It provides active enzymes,
vitamins C and E, beta-carotene, amino acids, chlorophyll, proteins and
essential trace minerals. Regular use can promote healthy skin and coat,
reduce bad breath, improve digestion and restore energy levels.
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Optimum
Pet Nutrition
"The results of a clinical
trial suggest that 74.7% of common diseases in dogs and 63% of common diseases
in cats can be eliminated without medical intervention over a period of
one year with proper diet modifications and an understanding of the healing
process as exhibited through healing episodes. Approaching disease from
the perspective of health is the most powerful means of eliminating disease.
Poor fuel makes for little momentum in life. The commercial food we are
feeding' is the disease we are treating---so treat on and on, curing one
disease after another, again and again." William
Pollak D.V.M.
Sample
Recipes of Home Made Rawfood Diet for Animals
Your dog’s behavior, happiness,
health, longevity and overall well-being are inextricably intertwined with
what you feed him. Dogs, just like everyone else, have specific nutritional
needs. And, not to complicate matters, the needs of individual dogs
I add Fulvic acids to Shasta's raw food diet.
Fulvic neutralizes toxins and can eliminate food poisoning within
minutes. When it encounters free radicals with unpaired positive or
negative electrons, it supplies an equal and opposite charge to neutralize
the free radical. fulvic acid acts as a refiner and transporter of organic
materials and cell nutrients. According to A. Szalay, fulvic acid has the
ability to dramatically detoxify herbicides, pesticides, and other poisonsthat
it interacts with – this includes many radioactive elements. This detoxification
process may extend to animals and humans. Shirley
 Animals
are not the only creatures on earth who can benefit from raw foods
Learn about the Incredible healing power of raw foods
for humans (Including personal accounts of cancer cures) Most
human illnesses and diseases are due to a deficiency of vital nutrients.
When you supply your body with the proper nutrients, in a form that your
body can use, it knows how to repair itself!"
The American Living
Foods Institute more
For years dog health supplies
have included toxic materials to artificially maintain dog health as a
temporary measure. The time has come to change to a more natural approach
toward animal health. Natural remedies have been shown to achieve more
immediate, more complete and longer lasting health, vitality, quality and
longevity of animal lives. Learn about herbal remedies and other safe alternatives
to drugs, chemo, radiation and surgery
Michael Dym, VMD - "Over
the past 40 years and 17 generations of dogs and, cats we are seeing tremendous
increases in chronic ill health in our pets that was rare back in the early
1960's. Most of these illnesses revolve around breakdown in our pets' immune
systems, and include chronic skin/ear allergies, digestive upset, thyroid/adrenal/pancreatic
disorders, seizures, gum/ teeth problems, degenerative arthritis, kidney/liver
failure, and cancer across all ages and breeds. We are also seeing a record
number of behavioral and emotional disorders including alarming and unexplained
fears/aggression., as well as difficulty focusing/training and paying attention.
The analogy of these compared with escalating immune/behavioral diseases
in children is quite disturbing. The two biggest factors in our pets' population
health decline over these generations has been the severe overuse
of multiple vaccines and nutrient poor and toxin
filled commercial pet foods. We have also failed to address the underlying
cause of disease by only sup pressing symptoms with antibiotics,
cortisone
and related drugs, so the disease progresses and goes deeper. Homeopathy
offers a viable alternative in truly curing pets and making their bodies
healthier."
Our pets are prone to suffer
from minerals and trace mineral deficiency. For optimum health, I supplement
Shasta's
diet (and my diet too) with the following: fulvic
minerals or marine phytoplankton (consist
of an immense arsenal and array of naturally occuring powerful phytochemicals,
biochemicals, supercharged antioxidants, free-radical scavengers, super
oxide dismutases, nutrients, enzymes, hormones, amino acids, antibiotics,
antivirals, and antifungals), bee pollen (rich in
naturally occuring vitamins), kelp (marine plants),
the
right kind of salt (not common table salt); magnesium
oil,(a miracle mineral in its healing effect on a wide range of diseases
as well as in its ability to rejuvenate the aging body). and clay
(to
promote healing and to detoxify) and with flaxoil
(also knows as linseed oil - rich source of omega3 fatty acids). Shasta
does not drink
tap water. I give her only filtered
water which is free from toxic chlorine and fluoride. I support my
immune system and that of my animals with Transfer Factor
and by raising our Glutathione
level. . I never cook or warm up food in a microwave
oven. Please read about the Hidden Hazards of
Microwave Cooking
I have witnessed the amazing
healing power of homeopathy,
herbal
extracts, Transfer
Factor, Glutathione/Immunocal,
and marine
phytoplankton in traumatic emergency situations and in acute and chronic
disease with my own health, that of my family and my dogs: Nadja,
Shasta
and Kuuma. Some of the healings were nothing short
of miraculous, including my
own healing. When Nadja ate rat poison and was vomiting large amount
of green fluid, the vet said she didn't have a chance to survive. I saved
her life with the homeopathic remedy Arsenicum 10 M. If I need guidance,
I will get a phone consultation with a
holistic veterinarian. I had been chronically sick for years, addicted
to prescription and over the counter drugs. Unfortunately, instead of generating
a cure, the medications (steroids, antibiotics, antihistamine, etc.) merely
temporarily suppressed my symptoms, weakened my immune system, and in the
long run made me sicker. I completely turned my health around with the
incredible healing power of homeopathy, raw food
diet, herbs, and nutritional products such
as flaxoil,
chia
seeds or oil, clay,
seaweed
or plankton,
saccharides/glyconutrients,
and
Transfer
Factor. I'm not a doctor or a nurse, but when a member
of my family get sick or injured (including my animals) I immediately use
homeopathic medicine, herbs and nutritional supplements with excellent
results. Shirley
Will Falconer, DVM
- "Most of the chronic diseases we commonly see in animals (and humans)
have an immune basis, e.g. diabetes, allergies, asthma, thyroid disease,
inflammatory bowel diseases, repeated ear infections, cancer, etc. While
they can be cured through the careful use of homeopathy, the road to cure
can be a long one -- often years if the animal has had years of disease.
Transfer factors can significantly shorten the course, by giving a much
needed balancing effect to the immune system. If the immune system is overactive
as in allergies, ear infections, asthma, diabetes, or hypothyroidism, Transfer
Factor can balance this overactivity so the system is not attacking its
own organs, overreacting to things that shouldn’t be perceived as a threat.
If, conversely, the immune system is under-active as in mange, parasites,
viral infections, or cancer, Transfer
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it needs to be alert to." Prevaccination
Protection Dr. Falconer D.V.M. explains how to protect your animal
from vaccines damage
Sam Jones, DVM - "Two
cats, both about 8 years old, had severe diabetes. It was impossible to
get the insulin requirements adjusted. They had lost weight to a point
that they were skin and bones. Both cats had no quality of life left. The
cats were given Transfer Factor along with a healthy
diet to help support their immune system. A week later, we were able to
get their insulin requirements adjusted. It is now 6 months and they have
regained their weight and have a great quality of life and health."
Dr. Jimmy Gutman, M.D
- "Clinical evidence links low glutathione
levels to the most common illnesses of our time as well as newly emerging
diseases. Glutathione levels diminish as we age and many diseases normally
associated with aging have been linked to glutathione deficiency." "To
raise glutathione levels is to reduce premature oxidation, to quench destructive
free radicals and help detoxify the poisons inside each cell when it needs
to. Only Immunocal is clinically proven to
do that in a safe, effective and convenient way."
Dr. Allan Somersall
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Antibiotics
and Suppressive Therapies
Although the suppressive
therapies are hard on the body, they do not compare with he rampant idiocy
of using antibiotics for viral infections. Thankfully some measure of sanity
appears to be returning to the medical profession. More and more doctors
are avoiding prescribing antibiotics for colds and flus. Several critical
observations must be made here.
First, antibiotics are totally
ineffective against viruses. The excuse most often heard for prescribing
antibiotics in a viral illness is to prophylactically protect the body
against a secondary bacterial infection. This is an idea proven to be false
decades ago. In the United States, of the 5 most common antibiotics prescribed,
three are broad spectrum. That's a problem!
Second, the basis of antibiotics
is mold. Through millions of years of evolution, bacteria and mold have
coexisted in nature - in the soil, plants and animals. When one of them
developed an evolutionary edge over the other and began to shift the balance
in favor of itself, the other must have rapidly learned to defend itself
against this new attack. If this were not true, we would only have either
bacteria or molds but not both. By using mold, we thought we could slay
one step ahead of bacteria in the evolutionary scale because we're so smart.
Well, the yolk is on us, the bacteria are winning, and at a record pace.
So in our attempt to wipe out bacteria, we forced them into a revolutionary
evolutionary change and we damaged our immunity so badly that we become
easy prey for viruses. Additional side effects of antibiotics are immune
suppression and the increased susceptibility to parasites.
The long term effects of
the breakdown of the immune system can be seen in increased infections,
auto-immune disorders and tumor formation. The body's last ditch effort
to compensate for the loss of internal defenses is to hyper activate the
depressed immune function. What it may do is over stimulate the immune
function, sacrificing the "self" - "not self" regulatory mechanisms. The
defenses then perceive its own organs and systems as "not self" and begin
to mount defenses against them. This starts the precipitous march toward
auto immune disorders such as SLE, MS, RA, and possibly CFS. ---
Why
elimination of the symptom is NOT the same as elimination of the
disease
Frustrated with the Failures
of Conventional Veterinary Medicine:
"After
10 years of traditional veterinary practice I became tired of having no
treatment for chronic disease, incurable conditions, and a plethora of
allergic maladies which seem to plague all veterinary practices. I was
frustrated with giving animals cortisone because I had no other solutions,
or using antibiotics for infections which I knew were of viral origin."
Dr
Charles E Loops DVM
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Improving
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A groundswell of nutrition
conscious veterinarians are beginning to recommend to their clients that
they supplement their animals diet with a daily dose of flaxseed oil and
other important nutrients.When the diets of animals were fortified with
flax, within three weeks their coats developed a beautiful sheen, and dandruff
was greatly diminished. There are amazing testimonials about animals recovering
from cancer, diabetes and other severe degenerative illnesses with a nutritional
product called Transfer Factor.
Dr. Charles W. Brown,
DVM - "My colleagues and I have found this product
(transfer
factor) to be very effective in modulating the immune system. Transfer
factor is a "soup" of immune-modulating factors, which contains a leukocyte-type
molecule that can passively transfer immunity from one mammal to another
by stimulating cell-mediated immunity and is antigen specific. Richard
Bennett, Ph.D., an Infectious Disease Microbiologist and Immunologist from
the University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, believes
this could be the most significant development in animal health care in
decades. We have a great number of veterinarians and clients who are experiencing
very positive results in a broad area of disorders, including periodontal.
" more
Holistic
Animal Health and Optimum Pet Nutrition - an overview
A growing number of veterinarians
state that processed pet food is the main cause of illness and premature
death in the modern dog and cat. In December 1995, the British Journal
of Small Animal Practice published a paper contending that processed pet
food supresses the immune system and leads to liver, kidney, heart and
other diseases. Dr. Kollath, of the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm, headed
a study done on animals. When young animals were fed cooked and processed
foods they initially appeared to be healthy. However, as the animals reached
adulthood, they began to age more quickly than normal and also developed
chronic degenerative disease symptoms. A control group of animals raised
on raw foods aged less quickly and were free of degenerative disease. For
a return to health, pets require a diet which strengthens the immune system
and most closely resembles that which they would get in the wild. It's
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Deadly,
Contagious Dog Flu Virus - Dr. Cynda Crawford, an immunologist
at the University of Florida's College of Veterinary Medicine who is studying
the virus, said that it spread most easily where dogs were housed together
but that it could also be passed on the street, in dog runs or even by
a human transferring it from one dog to another. Kennel workers have carried
the virus home with them. Read
what Dr. Falconer D.V.M. recommends to protect your pet from
the Canine Flu disease
Pet
deaths prompt recall of pet food The
number of cases of kidney failure among dogs and cats that
ate poisoned pet food could total in the tens
of thousands says Dr. Paul Pion, president
of the Veterinary Information Network. More accounts of stricken pets had
been coming in since the numbers were tallied over the weekend. He said
the final number for pets suffering from kidney failure could be in the
tens of thousands. more on the recall
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Irradiated
pet food endangering pets health, killing pets The
Australian government in late May ordered an immediate stop to sterilizing
cat food via irradiation after reviewing scientific studies pointing
to food irradiation as the culprit behind illnesses characterized by ataxia
or paralysis of the limbs The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) also allows animal feed, including pet food and treats, to be irradiated.
 Dr.
Blanco D.V.M "You take healthy animals and often very quickly
after
you vaccinate, you can see simple things like itching of the skin or
excessive licking of the paws, sometimes even with no eruptions and licking
of the air. We see a lot of epilepsy, often after a rabies vaccination.
Or dogs or cats can become aggressive for several days. Frequently you'll
see urinary tract infections in cats, often within three months after their
[annual] vaccination. If you step back, open your mind and heart, you'll
start to see patterns of illness post-vaccination."
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"Clinical evidence links low glutathione
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diseases. Glutathione levels diminish as we age and many diseases normally
associated with aging have been linked to glutathione deficiency." Dr.
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"To raise glutathione levels
is to reduce premature oxidation, to quench destructive free radicals and
help detoxify the poisons inside each cell when it needs to. Only Immunocal
is clinically proven to do that in a safe, effective and convenient way."
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factors have turned out to be the most effective and versatile
products I have ever used in my 32-year veterinary practice. A cat with
leukemia, an oral tumor, and posterior paralysis due to a spinal tumor,
was very ill and emaciated. One month after transfer factors there was
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