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How to Review My Podcast

Last updated on September 18, 2020 By Will Falconer, DVM Leave a Comment

You want to help? Awesome!

My goal is to have the Vital Animal Podcast easily “found” when people are looking for podcasts to listen to. You can greatly help me get more visible when you do two things, all in a matter of about two minutes:

Subscribe to the show. That means you’ll automatically get it on to your phone each time a new episode goes live.
Rate & Review the show.

iPhone users:

I shot a short video on my iPhone that walks you through the process. If you have another kind of phone, scroll down, as it’ll be a bit different for you.

First, how to get where you need to be (click that button below):

Listen on Apple Podcasts
Then, watch a quick video on how to review on your iPhone. Two minutes to do this, and it has a huge impact.

Other phones or your Windows computer:

First, from either your Android or other smart phone or your computer, Spotify is your best bet.

Clicking the button below will open Vital Animal Podcast on Spotify:

Listen on Spotify

When you get there, you should be able to listen and Follow, though not leave a review. That’s okay! Listen away, and if you Follow the show, you’ll also get notice of when each new episode goes live. Good?

Thanks again for helping this podcast get found and listened to!

Lots more coming after these initial episodes, which, if you haven’t heard them yet, well, what are you waiting for?

Load the podcast up on your phone, get those critters out in the sunshine and gain some wisdom as you do other things.

Have some friends who might want to help, too? Those little share buttons down there are just itching for your mouse click…

#3 Dr. Todd Cooney: Parvo – Better, safer prevention + treatments

Last updated on September 15, 2020 By Will Falconer, DVM Leave a Comment

Dr. Todd Cooney is a fellow homeopathic vet with a busy practice that offers Puppy Wellness packs. He’s seen more parvo cases in the past decade that I have in forty years of practice.

What’s most interesting to hear in my interview today is how Dr. Cooney’s parvo experience (with 20 years of vaccinating for parvo) shifted 180º when he stopped vaccinating and used homeopathic prevention instead. [Read more…] about #3 Dr. Todd Cooney: Parvo – Better, safer prevention + treatments

#2: Richard Pitcairn: Viruses and Immunity

Last updated on September 15, 2020 By Will Falconer, DVM 4 Comments

Meet Richard Pitcairn, DVM, PhD, one of my chief mentors who taught me the modality that I fell in love with: veterinary homeopathy. I was lucky enough to land in his first Professional Course in Veterinary Homeopathy back when I was retooling as a holistic vet, in 1992.

I asked Richard to join me in his role as a virologist and immunologist, as that’s the work he did after some years in vet practice, when he left to join the faculty at Washington State University, teaching epidemiology and public health.

Homeopathic practice followed years later and changed everything, as it often does, but I want you to hear some of Richard’s wisdom on just who these tiny viruses are and how we and your animals have managed to live with them for millennia.

Some of the highlights you’ll hear:

99.9% of microorganisms (viruses and bacteria, mostly) do NOT cause disease
Our own bodies (and those of your pets, to be sure) have far more cells in and on them that are microbial cells than our own cells!
“It’s not in the virus’s best interest to invade the body and kill it, because then it can’t grow.”
The immune system is so efficient that we may not even show measurable immunity to many things we’ve successfully fought off at the surface (skin, lungs, gut, etc.)
How we tend to blame the “bad virus” when the toxic environment is often ignored
How a vaccine thwarts the time-honed natural defenses and gets right into the blood unchecked

Join us for an eye opening discussion and a perspective that’s often missed in this “time of pandemic.” You’ll gain confidence and get some ideas on how to better protect your pets.

Links

Dr. Pitcairn’s website

The Professional Course in Veterinary Homeopathy

Dr. Pitcairn’s Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs and Cats

Vital Animal Detox

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Coming up in our next episode, I interview Dr. Todd Cooney, a busy homeopathic vet who’s wiped parvo from his patient population!

You’ll learn the vast difference in outcomes when dogs get parvo after being vaccinated for it (<– Yep, that’s quite common) vs those pups who (rarely) get it after only homeopathic protection.

Welcome to the Vital Animal Podcast!

Last updated on September 15, 2020 By Will Falconer, DVM 1 Comment

#1: What’s a Vital Animal?/Founder’s Story

In this first episode, I outline what my definition of a Vital Animal is and why they are such a hoot to live with. These animals are very often conversation starters, so be careful: if you’re a shy person who doesn’t like to talk with other animal caregivers, you just might want to avoid public places with your pet in tow.

If, on the other hand, you like to engage and share how you got Sadie to look so gorgeous and be so spry (when others her age are being called “seniors!”), go to every dog park, hiking area, cat stomping grounds, and pet friendly shop and just let the magic happen.

Odds are, those conversations will change others pets’ lives for the better.

You Went Through What?

I share my “founder’s story” on this first episode as well, as it’s a bit atypical. [Read more…] about Welcome to the Vital Animal Podcast!

Lockdown, Kids, and Pets

Last updated on August 8, 2020 By Will Falconer, DVM 12 Comments

Striking data helps you help your pets

Amid all the drama and hype about the COVID-19 pandemic, some sterling unexpected data has come forth. If your goal is safer prevention for your animals, these data shout “CAUTION!”

This is eye opening hard data that the main stream media won’t be sharing with you. It’s totally counter to the current agenda of having you think the only way we can “get back to normal” lies with a new SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. That vaccine is being rushed in development as this is written and its safety concerns are many.

Much like your animals, children innocently respond to things that are given to them.

Or, in this case, withheld.

Fact: While the all cause mortality rate for seniors rose, the normal incidence of child mortality dropped significantly from March 2020 when the lockdown started.