Archive for April, 2008

Hi there, Naturally Healthy Pet Owners!

I just wanted to share this video.

Inspiration can come from many avenues, many sources. I feel inspired many times in the week by the journeys I see my patients (animals and people) travel. I often have terminally ill patients, and they often find their journey difficult, inspiring, releasing, peaceful, or painful. It is different for each person.

Here we have an inspiring video from Lisa, a plucky lady who, haing had breast cancer over the last 8 years, has now been given a terminal prognosis. She has leukaemia, and only has 3 weeks or so to live. Her greatest wish is to run her beloved dog, Diva, in an agility competition one last time. Here they are, doing a spectacular job.

Amazing, aren’t they? The most important thing is that they were able to share one last run, and Diva shows the depth of their connection; she always knows exactly where to go.

Thank you to both Dr Andrew Jones & Dr Jon, the vets who brought this to my attention…

Love & light,

Alison

Hi naturally healthy people,

I received this Email from member Sue Bond early in March, and felt that it would be relevant for those of you who have not already seen it. I do not agree with all of its contents (eg that ADHD is fictitious, many of my patients have benefited from either the diagnosis or the medication), but the content is important.

Love & light

Alison x

Big Pharma has successfully completed its takeover of veterinary medicine in the
United States and other first- world nations. Knowing that massive profits could be generated through the bodies of pets, drug companies have spent two decades pursuing an aggressive campaign of rewriting vet school curricula, influencing veterinarians and brainwashing pet owners into thinking their dogs, cats and horses need drugs in order to be healthy. It was an easy sell: Most consumers already demonstrate a cult-like belief in pharmaceutical medicine thanks to a barrage of direct-to-consumer advertising funded by deep-pocketed drug companies, and it was only a minor shift to get them to believe animals need synthetic chemicals in their bodies, too.

So today, the majority of veterinarians in the United States now practice chemical-based medicine on pets.  At the first sign of any health symptom, they slap the animal with a prescription for expensive, patented pharmaceuticals.  Arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and even depression are now being treated with dangerous prescription medications. Earlier this year, the FDA gave approval for Prozac, a powerful mind-altering drug, to be prescribed to dogs, and many of the most common drugs for people are now routinely used in pets (including chemotherapy drugs for cancer treatment).

(What’s next, Ritalin for puppies? Ten years ago, it would have seemed absurd to diagnose a dog as suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, but today, it’s no more insane than the mass diagnosis of human children with this utterly fictitious disease designed to do one thing: Sell profitable amphetamine drugs to children…)

Pet health is now in rapid decline

The result of all this is that our dogs and cats are sicker than ever. Ask any vet who’s been practicing for more than ten years: They’ve never seen such an increase in the rate of liver disease, nervous system disorders, cancers and diabetes. Ever wonder why? It’s because pets are being routinely poisoned with pet food and pet medicine.

Popular anti-flea and anti-tick medications, all by themselves, are so toxic to the liver of any animal that if they were prescribed to humans, their side effects would make the Vioxx fiasco look like a harmless prank.

The idea of actually feeding your dog such high doses of poison that it ends up in the skin tissues where it kills ticks and fleas should be horrifying to any intelligent pet owner, yet most pet owners just buy what their vet tells them to buy, and they feed one chemical after another to their pets, oblivious to the fact that they’re actually poisoning them. (And then they wonder why their
animals die of cancer a few years later… gee, didn’t anybody connect the dots here?)

Thanks to Big Pharma influence, veterinary medicine today has become just as much of a joke as the conventional medical system used to treat humans. The goal is no longer to actually heal anyone, but rather to profits by treating and managing diseases without curing or preventing them. Many vets have figured this out, too: If they treat the animals with pharmaceuticals instead of actually curing them of disease (or preventing disease), they benefit from lucrative repeat business! And some of the fees charged by vets now — especially in emergency veterinary care — are just as outrageous as fees charged to sick humans in hospitals. I once spent more than $1,000 for a single day of treatment trying to rescue a sick dog, and half of those fees were for bags of saline solution dripped through an IV. $500 for saline solution? Give me a break. I got ripped off and taken advantage of by a pet care clinic that was exploiting pet emergencies for maximum profits. (There are crooks and dishonest practitioners in the pet care industry just
like in the people care industry.)

Holistic animal care practitioners

It is not all bad news, though. Fortunately, there are more holistic practitioners in veterinary medicine than in human medicine, and it’s fairly easy to find a holistic vet in any major city if you look around. The holistic veterinarians understand nutrition, herbs, homeopathy and other natural modalities. They prescribe solutions and treat animals in ways that are outlawed in human medicine (because they actually work). If you care at all about the health of your pets, I strongly urge you to seek out and work with a holistic pet care practitioner who avoids prescribing pharmaceuticals.

Any veterinarian who thinks Fido is depressed and needs antidepressant drugs should frankly have their licensed stripped away and be banished to some distant, isolated South Pacific island overpopulated with sexually aggressive baboons.

The future looks dim for mainstream pet health

When you look at the outrageous toxicity of mainstream pet food, and you combine that with the chemical burden of pharmaceutical medicine, the future of health for pets in America looks rather dim. The pet food being sold at stores — even the so-called “scientific” brands — are mostly crap. Only specialty pet food companies offer genuine food. (My favorites are Azmira and The Honest Kitchen..

The way pets are being treated today by many mainstream veterinarians amounts to nothing less than the chemical abuse of dogs and cats by an industry that has, sadly, exchanged ethics for profits and no longer sees its primary mission as helping improve the quality of life of our animal friends. Personally, I’m outraged by the practice of drugging dogs, cats and other animals with
synthetic chemicals to treat degenerative health conditions, and I think those who promote or follow such practices are engaged in extremely unethical, cruel behaviors that should be criminalized. Just like in the human health care system, nutrition has been thrown out the window and is now replaced with a system of chemical invasion that can only lead to a worsening of the long-term health of the animals exposed to such dangerous treatments.

The proper use of pharmaceuticals

Some chemical medicines do have a limited role in quality veterinary care, however. Painkillers have a useful but narrow role. Antibiotics, although they are widely abused, can be helpful in certain limited situations. But treating dogs with antidepressants, chemotherapy, diabetes drugs, statin drugs, osteoporosis drugs and other such chemical agents is patently absurd. Most pet health conditions can be easily prevented or cured with good nutrition, and more challenging health problems can be cheaply and safely solved with herbal therapies and other naturopathic modalities. There is no scientifically justifiable role in veterinary medicine for the majority of the pharmaceuticals now being pushed onto vets, vet techs, and pet owners.

Even the pet shelters are being influenced by Big Pharma. When I rescued my pet from a local animal shelter, I was given a DVD sponsored by a drug company. It offered to teach me about pet behavior while brainwashing me into thinking I needed to give my dog toxic pills for preventing ticks and fleas. As this simple example demonstrates, even the animal shelters are now in bed with Big Pharma. There’s almost no organization in pet health today that hasn’t been taken over (or strongly influenced) by Big Pharma.

It’s not enough to drug all the sick people in the world, you see. Big Pharma has to invent diseases and drug all the healthy people, too. And then, they have to drug all the children and infants to make sure those little beings are set up for future organ failure, which is even more lucrative for the drug companies later on. And just to drive yet more profits home, they’ve got to drug all the animals. Now the cats, dogs, horses, birds, lizards and other animals are no longer safe from the reach of Big Pharma. Drugs are posing a serious chemical threat to the health of pets.

There is almost no living creature left on this planet that hasn’t been considered a potential revenue source by Big Pharma, and if they could make money drugging all the fish in the ocean, you can bet they’d come up with a fictitious fish disease and find a way to drop little fish pills into the oceans of the world. Profit is the purpose. Health is irrelevant. And your precious pet is only seen as a vehicle for generating profits by an industry that has zero compassion for living beings (human, canine, feline or otherwise). There is no effort to protect life. It is only an effort to protect
(and expand) profits.

What you can do right now

If you’re a pet owner, I urge you to do two things right now:

1) Switch to a healthy, natural, holistic pet food. Read the report, Pet Food Ingredients Revealed to learn the truth about pet food ingredients. And make fresh meals from scratch whenever possible. Pets should not be raised to live on processed foods.

2) Fire your drug-pushing vet and switch to a holistic or naturopathic animal care expert, even if they don’t have the same licensing credentials as the drug-pushing vet. State authorities, you see, are trying to de-license naturopathic vets, and there’s a big effort now to push naturopathic vets out of the industry. Sometimes you have to seek them out yourself and ignore state licensing boards (which are totally owned by Big Pharma, by the way). I’ve found that licensing credentials are essentially useless, and the more credentials some vet has, the more deeply they’re brainwashed into a pharmaceutical approach to veterinary medicine.

If you want a healthy pet, you’ve got to get back to basics: Nutrition, exercise, disease prevention and natural remedies. There is absolutely no rationale that justifies the routine chemical treatment of pets with patented, high-profit pharmaceuticals. Mainstream veterinary medicine, as practiced today, is a cruel, exploitive industry that ultimate causes significant harm to the very animals we should be trying to save.

Don’t be suckered by the “miracle pill” sales pitch. Dogs, cats and horses don’t need meds. What they need is great nutrition and medicine from nature.

Just like people.

3. Take matters into your own hands. Whether or not you use a holistic Vet- question their advice. Then be aware of all of the treatment options.

4. Get yourself educated on Natural Pet Health Care.

5. Vary your pet’s diet- some Raw, some Home-Made and Kibble. Add in a quality supplement.

6. Spend time being with your Dog and Cat. We all too often forget the more important mental aspect of health.

7. The Vaccine thing again.. as little as infrequently as possible!!

Mike Adams of www.naturalnews.com

Hi Everyone!

It is with great regret that I write to announce the
death of the spectacular UK Healer, Bill Harrison, on
21st April 2008.  The following is an Email that I
received from his family.

Love & light
Alison x

A funeral service for Bill Harrison will be held on Thursday May 1st 2008 at 11:30am at the Weston-Super-Mare crematorium. Followed by refreshments at the Hand Stadium
in Clevedon. The family have asked for family flowers  only and donations to Bill’s favourite charities.

Remembrance Ceremony: The family are planning a memorial service to be held in Bill’s Gardens on the 13th July 2008 (times to be arranged). This will be a celebration of Bill’s life and many achievements.

Sean, Steve, Donna, Gemma, William, Connor and Charlie would like to say that they really appreciate all the messages that have been sent via Bill’s website.

When more information is available on the remembrance ceremony, details will be posted at
http://www.billharrisonshealingweekend.co.uk

You are what you eat and in the case of many North Americans it’s not a pretty picture… In days gone by, dogs and cats survived on prey that they hunted. Cats seldom drank water as most moisture came from the dead bird or mouse. Dogs chewed on bones and in the process kept their teeth clean. Pets have moved from the wilderness to the living room. They now wait (or demand) that we humans feed them. They feast on ready to eat packaged foods, and in some cases this may be harming your pet.

Some symptoms of less than natural diets include: bad breath, itchy skin, dull dry coats, and intestinal gas. A common disease that can be attributed to diet is diabetes in cats. Commercial pet food does not always provide all of the nutrients that some dogs and cats need to be healthy at different times in their lives. This food also contains things that your pet doesn’t need, such as chemical additives and preservatives. An example of a preservative that is commonly found is propylene glycol. It is used to keep moist pet foods fresh. It has been linked to anemia and bloat.

One of the single most important things you can do for your pet’s health is to feed a more natural diet. I have seen natural diets improve allergies, arthritis, diabetes, chronic vomiting and diarrhea.

If you are to use a commercial food, here are some tips to check for quality:

1. Ingredients are listed in descending order. The first ingredient should be an animal based protein.

2. The entire protein should be listed first. Avoid foods that list by-products. Avoid those that list the food fractions – i.e. wheat middlings or corn gluten instead of the whole grain. These ingredients are leftovers from the human food processing and don’t provide the best nutrition.

3. Look for natural preservatives. These include Vitamin C( ascorbic acid) Vitamin E and mixed tocopherols. Avoid ethoxyquin, BHA, BHT and propylene glycol.

4. Avoid foods with artificial flavor enhancers, such as phosphoric acid.

5. Avoid artificial colors. These include azo, azo dyes, and sodium nitrite.

6. Essential fatty acids must be added – of utmost importance for allergies, arthritis and cancer prevention.

7. Additional antioxidants, such as Vit E, Vit C and flavanoids.

/////////////////////////////

Dr. Andrew Jones has over one thousand at-home remedies in his book and Home Study Course. There are no other comparable Veterinary books or Veterinary Courses out there. Veterinary Secrets Revealed will provide all the information you need to keep your pet healthy or to improve the health of a sick pet.

And, Veterinary Secrets Revealed does it without medical jargon, without complicated procedures, and without an eye on the pharmaceutical companies’ bottom line (yes, we Vets face the same pressures as human doctors.)

Veterinary Secrets Revealed will help your pet.

One of Dr. Jones’ BONUSES is called: Healing Your Pet with Food, he gives you a number of at-home recipes. To order, go to: http://www.thenaturallyhealthypet.com/categories/20080112_1

Hi there, naturally healthy people!

To those of you who have been involved with animal healing, meditating with your
pet will be nothing new. When preparing to heal animals, spiritual healers will be doing a short meditation, and I have certainly noticed that the healing is more effective and settles the animal more quickly if the owner and animal are able to take part in a meditation and
visualization together with the healer, aloud.

I was unsurprised, therefore, when one of Dr Andrew Jones’ monthly CDs (for his inner circle, those who have paid for his Ecourse and pay a further monthly fee) was from meditation Guru, James Jacobson. In the CD he discussed his work promoting meditation with dogs and cats, for the benefit of both owner and pet. He has written a book on “How to meditate with your dog” and is just completing the cat version.

James discovered how much his dog liked meditation when his young puppy came over & shared in his morning meditation. He suggests just 10 minutes daily with your pet, a habit that could be easy to get into, if we are prepared to make the time….

So – Monday is my favourite day of the week. It is the one day when I get a lie in – well, relatively. I still have to get up at 0630 and get the breakfast, wake everyone for school, & make the tea, but after that I can resort to my bed for an extra snuggle, then have a long and luxurious bath.

Willow, my famous black labrador, loves the snuggle too….

So, this morning, I took the opportunity to do a joint meditation. As I began my breathing, I settled so that it was at the slightly faster rate of my dog’s resting respiration rate. Before long it was easy to relax and breath in time with one another. Willow was already in what James describes a th “Hound Lounge” – she is a very laid – back dog and takes every opportunity to relax. I think she is here for me to learn that one!

So, 10 minutes meditation with Willow, a lower pulse rate and blood pressure, and relaxed for the day’s work!

Above is a pic of Nathalie & Willow meditating together on our return (jetlagged) from Australia
last year…

Give it a try, folks!

Love and light,

Alisonx

Hi there, Naturally Healthy Pet People!

How are you enjoying this amazing Spring weather? I took the dog for a lovely walk in the sunshine this afternoon. I spotted the grey clouds, so went armed with my big Australian style waterproof mac & Aussie hat (from New Zealand) – and was grateful!

A single clap of thunder, and then the heavens opened. No rainbow this time (great one yesterday) but hail. It is ages since I have been out in a great rainshower like that. Only tiny hailstones, honest! So clearing…

Willow the black lab looked at me in disbelief when she thought we were going to beat it straight back to the house – I couldn’t resist standing under the great Willow tree for a few moments.

Take a look at this uplifting Rainbow video – I hope it streams ok, it doesn’t always for me with YouTube.

Last weekend I listened to another amazing CD sent by Dr Andrew Jones to his Inner Circle. It taught us how to meditate with our dogs and cats! It was great, and it reminded me how fundamental to healing the initial meditation is. In my experience the healing works much better if the owner and animal are present and open enough to take part in the initial meditation. Great to include your pet in a 10 minute routine every morning.  Enormous benefits for both you and the pet!

Enjoy the spring….

LOL
Alison

Hi there naturally healthy pet owners!

What amazing weather we are having!

Here in Sussex, the last two days have included balmy warm spring weather, the daffodils are nearly over, and the bluebells have joined the wood anemones in the woodlands (and our garden).

I woke at 6:30 this morning as usual on a Sunday – my day for some me-time! I have my cup of tea & porridge, sitting on a chair by the woodburner (which I have resurrected from its overnight snooze), then get my stuff & drive over to Liz Whiter’s. I was surprised to find ice on the windscreen – it was already melting, & I STILL didn’t believe the weather forecast about snow!

In Streat I said hello to Wow, Betty and Dancer, Liz’s three magnificent horses. After taking off Wow’s rug, I groomed him & tacked up, Liz came out, & we were off!

A beautiful ride. Quite amazing really, not particularly cold, sunny, blue sky. Watching the spring shoots on the hedgerow shrubs, watching two dunnocks on the hedge top singing their hearts out to reserve their territories (we forget how amazingly tuenful these little songbirds are), I still felt it would be another warm spring day! We rode throught the bluebell woods, full of white wood anemones, with the bluebells just coming out, then back across the fields with at least 4 skylarks singing at a time (again, spring is the time for territorial displays).

It was on my way home tht the sleet started, a few flakes landing on my coat as I walked from the car to the front door, then it began to settle!

The kids were over the moon – it is ages since we had this much snow here. Last time they saw this much was one February while we were on holiday in Dartmoor – must have been 2006 – enjoying the comforts of the self-catering cottage there.

Snowmen, snowball fights, and playing with Willow, the labrador (looking like a reverse dalmation with the white spots of snow on her) followed, and I even managed to film some of the events.

The next challenge is to get the videos onto youtube! I’ll keep you posted!

Love & Light
Alison

Hello Naturally Healthy People!

I received this Email from Dr Andrew Jones, the holistic vet whose products are so fantastic. I thought that it would be of value to you all!

Andrew writes:

I spent a pretty busy weekend On Call- I somehow had 3 different calls about dogs eating Chocolate.

WEIRD

It’s like things come in threes.

But not to harp on that.

Here is a SPECIFIC QUESTION that I answered about chocolate toxicity on my Membership Site.

Chocolate Toxicity

My Chihuahua weighs about 6-7 lbs. and she ate 3 chocolate chip cookies and a brownie yesterday. she couldn’t keep water down at first but now she can. she is still vomiting though. should i take her to a
vet or do a at home remedy?

Answer:

The toxic component of chocolate is theobromine.
The half life in the dog is 17.5 hours.
The Toxic dose in the dog is 100-150 mg/kg (kilogram (kg) = 2.2 lbs,
milligram(mg) = 1/1000 of a gram).

So for a 50 pound dog, a toxic dose would be roughly 2.2 grams (2200 mg) of pure chocolate. For your 10 lb dog, the toxic dose is 500mg.

However the concentration of theobromine varies with the formulation of the chocolate so:

Milk chocolate has 44mg/oz (154mg/100gm): toxic dose for 50 lb dog – 50 oz of milk chocolate.

Semisweet chocolate has 150 mg/oz (528mg/100gm): toxic dose for 50 lb dog – 15 oz of semisweet chocolate

Baking chocolate 390mg/oz (1365 mg/100gm): toxic dose for 50 lb dog – 5 oz of baking chocolate

Thus a dog eating one oz of baking chocolate would have to eat almost 3 oz of semisweet or 10 oz of milk chocolate to get the same dose of theobromine.

The theobromine in candies consisting of chocolate that is coated over some other substance – as in filled candies and chocolate coated dried fruits, etc. will be more dilute than that in pure chocolate bars and solid chocolate candies.

Obviously the chocolate in milk chocolate is quite dilute and this is why many dogs can eat a piece here and there and seem not to show toxic effects, how many dogs would get ahold of 50 oz at a time? This is not true of the more concentrated forms however.

In one case, I had seen two dogs, a 95 pound one and a 60 pound one. They got hold of 2 one pound bags of Nestle’s semi-sweet chocolate pieces (a bag each). The 95 pound dog survived but the 60 pound dog ingested a toxic dose.

The 3 chocolate chips won’t do ANYTHING.

Most chocolate bars won’t do much of ANYTHING

This means that your dog likely has the ill effects of a sore belly.

In my experience, MOST dogs are eating chocolate bars..which contain very little chocolate. There is however a trend to people eating more ‘real’ chocolate, and I did have to treat a small dog for
easter bunny dark chocolate toxicity.

This doesn’t apply to cats as in their wisdom they appear to AVOID chocolate..

Perhaps we can learn something from our cats?

Best Wishes,

Dr Andrew Jones, DVM

For the links to Andrew’s books and course, click HERE!

We had an empowering time in Essex over the weekend – thank you all you lovely Essex folk for such a great welcome!

I brought my tent up to the Brentwood Centre – the tent that I and the kids spend every summer in in the garden – and it came up trumps! We had arranged to be giving animal healing in aid of the Healing Animals Organisation – not sure how much we made yet, but we met some lovely people and stunning dogs and cats.

Liz Whiter was there with us, giving healing, also doing her fab workshops on animal healing, and her Chakra dancing demos on stage. As I was still recovering from flu I wasn’t up to taking part – I am usually up there with her!

Anyway, it was great to see such a huge turnout over the two days – so many people across the country are coming round to a spiritual approach to life and personal development, and recognising the benefits of healing for their pets, too! Dogs and cats living as naturally healthily as possible – what can be better?

Anyway, must cry off now to prepare myself for a tough day in general practice tomorrow – with 2,500 extra patients – mayhem!

Love & light,
Alison x