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Unconventional Wisdom For Naturally Healthy Animals

Getting What You Want From Your Vet

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How can I get my needs met?
How can I get my needs met?

Getting a Neuter or Spay Before Vaccinations

You’ve got a youngster you want to spay or neuter. (How young is it advisable to do this? Do your research.)

For one reason or another, you feel it’s important to delay vaccination for rabies, a common requirement in most neuter scenarios. “First, a rabies vaccine, then we can do this surgery. Of course, we can do them both at once.” (That later offer should not be entertained; more next week right here on the blog.) [Read more…] about Getting What You Want From Your Vet

Instant Gratification in Health? Run the Other Way!

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You've got what for me? I'm outta here!
You’ve got what for me? Suppression? I’m outta here!

The Empty Promise of Our Age

We live in an age preoccupied by getting what we want NOW. Instant gratification. The internet most certainly fosters this. We race from site to site, consuming anything that tickles our fancy at the moment. You want fun, beauty, personal health, good food, and vital animals at the click of a mouse.

Your attention span is measured by every serious marketer on the planet, largely by a monster called Google Analytics. How long does the average visitor spend on a site? Most are gone after 15”! A quarter of a minute! Click, what else? Not that, nope, click, click, click.

Cars are faster than ever. The latest upgrade to the Tesla Model S, the most significant electric car on the market, brings it from 0 to 60 mph in 3.5”! [Confession: I want one. But not for the acceleration – I want to thumb my nose at Big Oil!]

You can plunk down your credit card and get a “makeover” that gives you a shape shifting appearance transformation in a few hours. Throw a surgeon in, and you’re still on your way the same day, minus your belly fat and part of your stomach.

But, when this “need for now” transfers to health challenges, beware! If you’re promised instant or rapid results in a long standing condition, you’re being sold suppression, and that’s downright health damaging. [Read more…] about Instant Gratification in Health? Run the Other Way!

Starting a Newbie Down the Natural Path

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Can you help me get vital?
Can you help me get vital?

Damaged Goods

A reader writes,

If you didn’t start with a naturally reared animal, what are the most important, first steps to take? Dogs from the shelter systems are riddled with problems stemming from too many vaccines, skin problems, poor diet, fear/aggression etc…”

This is a common problem, right? Your new youngster may have come to you after who knows how many ills have befallen her, whether by circumstance or by man’s hand. Shelters are notorious for vaccinating every animal who comes through their doors, history of previous vaccinations be damned. Before landing under that needle, the poor waif may have been starving, worm-ridden, terrified by tormenters, and perhaps in a “teen bride” scenario.

What to do to turn that rescue around?

Start down the natural path. [Read more…] about Starting a Newbie Down the Natural Path

This Story Could Save Your Life

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This story and a simple, cheap homeopathic remedy could save your life. Or, at the very least, keep a surgeon from opening your abdomen to remove a horribly painful, inflamed organ.

I saved a young girl from appendicitis many years ago. This is the story of the wondrous effect the appropriate remedy can have on the stricken. Reading her story, you’ll learn how you can follow in her footsteps if this disease ever strikes you or a loved one. [Read more…] about This Story Could Save Your Life

Microbiome: The Organisms In and On Us All

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You and Whose Army?

It’s been said you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

We’ll come back to that, but perhaps more accurately, you are the sum total of the hundreds of trillions of microbes who live on and inside your body. Your own body cells count, but are far outnumbered by the microscopic species you cohabit with.

And that’s true for your dog or cat or significant other, animal or human.

As research progress in the field now called the microbiome, or the populations of microbes intimately associated with you or your animal, we are learning all kinds of interesting things. [Read more…] about Microbiome: The Organisms In and On Us All