Whole Dog News

How cool is this? I never in my wildest dreams thought that there would ever be a national day to celebrate and focus on holistic pet care – we’ve come a long way baby!

National Holistic Pet Day was founded by Colleen Paige of Animal Miracle Foundation. When asked what sparked the designating of this wonderful little holiday, Colleen replied: “I want people to understand that with the already short life spans our pets have, they need a fighting chance these days to live as long as they were meant to. Pet owners really need to start looking at their pet’s diet, lifestyle and environment. I want to ensure that I have done my best to bring about public awareness of the need for a healthy lifestyle with our pets. I don’t blame myself for Tinkerbelle’s death, but now that she has died from cancer – I know I could have done better. I don’t want anyone else to have to feel how I feel…wondering if I could have prevented it.”

Holistic/Natural health is all about HEALTH, not disease – it is a preventative life style that embraces the WHOLE animal .

For those of you who are still not sure what “holistic health” means, it is a wellness approach that addresses the “whole” animal – body, mind and spirit or the physical, emotional/mental and spiritual aspects of an individual. Hopefully this is a lifestyle you will embrace with your pet before there are any signs of illness or disease – it truly is a way of life that prevents disease in the first place. Instead of focusing on the symptom or the dis-ease and trying to suppress the symptoms, the root cause of the disease found out and then eliminated by the bodies own immune system with the support of natural modalities such as a raw diet, proper exercise, the elimination of toxins in, on and around the pet and when needed – herbs, essential oils, etc.

Nutrition is the cornerstone of “holistic health” – a proper species appropriate diet and how it effects the body in turn effects the mind as well. If you do nothing more than get your dog off of processed, kibble and/or canned food; that is a great way to begin your journey into holistic health for your beloved pet!

If you would like some suggestions and support on improving your dog’s diet and overall health, you can set up a consultation with Dr. Jeannie HERE

I hope everyone reading this is already aware of the fact that dog breeding is simply not mating top dog A with top bitch B. As responsible breeders, it is our duty to research pedigrees and verify the outstanding qualities and dreaded faults of particular lines. Breeding for one distinct trait or breeding simply to make money are both reprehensible practices. Breeding must entail the complete package, from nose to tail. Health, balance and symmetry enhance the quality of any show dog. We must move forward, learning from each other, while developing the basic outline of our future stars. Let’s start with the Care and Feeding of our potential breeding bitch. Read the rest

As a veterinary naturopath and animal nutritionist, one of my passions, is through education, to help expose and eliminate the unholy alliance between pet food companies and veterinarians.

Everyone needs to be aware that it is the multi-billion dollar Pet food companies that fund and control veterinary education, research, and practice, putting out the lies to keep our carnivorous pets on a harmful, cooked/processed starchy diet that they have NOT evolved to eat! Keeping our beloved companions just a little bit sick. Yes the animals survive while eating this non- species appropriate, dead, void of true nutrition junk but the can never thrive while doing so.

Does anyone beside me find it very interesting that Read the rest

Amy Snow & Nancy Zidonis, founders of Tall Grass Animal Acupressure Institute and the authors of The Well-Connected Dog: A Guide to Canine Acupressure have written a great little article/tip of the month on their site that I wanted to share with you.

“When you see that your dog is having a digestive problem, you can give him an Acupressure Treatment that will gently help restore the balance of Chi within his body.

….It can be insidious, but any change in your dog’s appearance or behavior may have a connection to the health and balance of his digestion system. Coat hair is a good indicator of the health of blood and the circulation of blood and Chi. Check your dog’s coat for excessive dryness or stickiness, loss of hair, or color change. These can be indicators for the need to support the Spleen’s ability to function optimally. If your dog’s behavior shifts and he becomes aggressive, overly timid, erratic, or unable to focus during training this could mean he is experiencing an imbalance of Stomach and Liver Chi.

The acupressure treatment accompanying this article is designed to help restore and maintain balance within the dog’s body with special attention to improving his capacity to digest and circulate food nutrients and nutrient Chi.”

To read the entire article please go to their website and read the article by clicking here >>>> http://www.animalacupressure.com/Page.aspx?ID=197

Will the pet food recalls ever end? Is there NO safe food for our dogs?

PACOIMA, Calif., June 18 /PRNewswire/ — Natural Balance Pet Foods, Inc., of Pacoima, CA, announces a voluntary recall of Natural Balance Sweet Potato & Chicken Dry Dog Food with the “Best By” date of June 17, 2011, in 5-lb. and 28-lb. bags because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.

No illnesses have been reported to date. The recall notification is being issued out of an abundance of caution based on an isolated instance in which a product sample with a “Best By” date of June 17, 2011, had a positive result for Salmonella in a random sample test conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This product was originally manufactured on December 17, 2009, and is the only Natural Balance product being recalled. Read the rest

Vaccinations and How They Disrupt the Immune System
Patricia Jordan DVM, VND

www.dr-jordan.com

There is historical evidence that the Chinese were the first to attempt the theory of vaccination during the Song Dynasty (960-1279).1 This procedure was called virolation and was first used with small pox crusts as snuff to blow up the nostrils of people they hoped to affect. Virolation by the Chinese predates the small pox work of Edward Jenner, Farmer Jesty and Lady Montague by five centuries.2 The Chinese discontinued the attempts at vaccination as they discovered the process did not help and actually made conditions worse for the patient. How intelligent this deduction was back in that period of time. The Chinese from the medical perspective saw the vaccine as a pathogen and invoked the Divergent Meridians to take the pathogen and translocate it to the interior of the body. In order to do this, to make the pathogen latent, the body had to expend its resources, Yuan Qi and Yin-Jing which is dense and heavy and kept the pathogen dormant (which the body does in the joints/bones/marrow).
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The problems in babies and in animals of all ages that are receiving a continuous yearly load of pathogen impact via vaccines, is that the Yuan Qi and Jing should not be disturbed at these young stages of development and thereafter so frequently in life. The additional problems of a poor diet , the use of excessive drugs like antibiotics and resultant Qi depletion is an overall lack of capability to maintain dormancy of the pathogens. Read the rest

The Horrific Results of Allowing The Unnecessary Vaccination of Companion Animals to Continue

The veterinarian that put this together asked to not have their name linked to this because: “The dogs tell their own story and the history of malpractice belongs to a vet, whom isn’t pointed out but there are plenty others doing the same thing!”

Something very difficult needs to be done to bring the facts directly to the front seat of the companion owning public about what is happening as a result of allowing the unregulated malpractice of over vaccination. This is even worse than just ethical violations. Hundreds of thousands of humans are loosing their companion animals from the callous disregard of advocating for the unscientific and unsafe and unnecessary vaccine administration.

The first dog was vaccinated every single year even when experiencing blood in the urine and a 21 pound weight loss, received vaccines at the same time on chemotherapy to attempt to down regulate and over reactive humoral immune system from all the damn vaccines. Read the rest

Today, Susan Thixton of Truth About Pet Foods has written a great and informative article regarding: Purina Pet Food Executive Brenda Bax who has applied for a patent “that seems to control corporations (any corporation) working with Animal Welfare Organizations. By the way, Brenda Bax also sits on the Board of Directors for Delta Society; the same charity that just banned raw fed pets from participating in charity visitations.”

You can read the piece HERE

Also read the full Brenda Bax of Purina Pet Food patent application visit http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090254418

How many of you could almost see this coming? Interesting! Thank you for this newsworthy and important information Susan!

The big news that has a lot of dog owners talking and even up in arms right now (especially dog owners who feed a raw diet to their therapy dogs) is that the Delta Society put out a shocking statement regarding a new policy prohibiting animals fed raw meat or raw animal products from participating in their Pet Partners program. http://www.deltasociety.org/Page.aspx?pid=638

This policy was established because of “research indicating dogs fed raw meat are much more likely to be shedding harmful bacteria like Salmonella and drug resistant E. coli in their feces compared to dogs fed commercial or home cooked diets, and the fact that these dogs come into close and frequent contact with people that are more susceptible to infections and at increased risk having severe infections.” The Delta Society is large national charity that trains and registers therapy animals and organizes pet visitations to the sick and elderly.

Now, please let it be understood that their decision is based on (extremely limited) research showing pets consuming a raw meat diet could shed risky bacteria (in their feces). However, they have no evidence what so ever to prove that any pet fed a raw diet has ever sickened anyone, ever!

A fellow pet blogger pointed out that the answer as to how and why the Delta society could make such a policy, banning raw fed dogs and cats from being part of their program could very well lie on this page of the Delta Society website – the listing of Board of Directors… http://www.deltasociety.org/Page.aspx?pid=252

Listed there, as Secretary for the charity is Brenda Bax; Marketing Director, Purina.

So, you have to wonder, is it possible that Purina Pet Food influenced The Delta Society’s move to ban pets fed raw meat, Please read and consider the following letter sent to Delta Society from one educated person… Read the rest