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Marin Grin's avatar

Marcella, this is amazing and my heart is with you and Neo. I have written often about the benefit of holistic (truly, not just by name) vets, a species-appropriate diet, raising healthy pets, and even (dare I say it) purchasing a pure blooded animal, bred from a line who have not been injected for a couple of generations if possible. I was also a human society person -- or one who found litters outside our door because we lived on the outskirts of town and people thought it would be appropriate to drop their litters off in the country. So after my last 2 rescues suffered so much from who knows what trauma before they were taken to the shelter, then desexed, chipped, and vaccinated and fed kibble for who knows how long. After we brought them home, they had so many health issues for 10-12 years, I think mostly from vaccines and more vaccines and the most up to date vaccines, and food.

We are lucky in Marin to have some amazing holistic vets, and I studied online with Dr. Will Falconer - a holistic homeopathic vet. We have reversed some serious conditions in our older dog through working with two local vets, both aligned with our values about the whole agenda out there, and have brought home two unjabbed puppies who were naturally bred and reared. The pups are about a year and eat raw meaty bones and other raw food. The older beautiful pup who had so many health issues, does have cataracts, and a year ago the vet recommending removing all his teeth and one eye immediately. We collaborated with our two local holistic vets and he still has those teeth and his eye, and loves his daily walks and snuggles.

We did wind up with fluids for our elder kitty, about 16, who had lots of vaccinations and horrible food when we didn't know better. Neo is luck to have you as his people, and you to have him. Thank you and this time, I am doing better, because I know better. I was as mind-controlled about animal health as I was about my own health. Kudos to you, and beautiful article. With love, Marcia (I worked on SB277 when you were a major player) x

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Cia Parker's avatar

Catinfo.org, by the vet Lisa Pierson, is a great resource. She gives a lot of information about making a nutritionally complete raw food diet. She used to give her cats canned Wellness chicken or turkey food, so I did that as well, adding a few strips of raw chicken every night, then returning the Pyrex dish to the freezer.

The Natural Cat talks about the benefits of sub-cutaneous fluid infusion with Ringer’s Lactate. I gave our previous cat that several days a week for the last three years of his life, starting with the first symptoms of kidney failure when he was 18. He lived until nearly 21, when he got an inoperable oral cancer. He didn’t die of kidney disease.

Pierson gives a lot of information on minimizing vaccines, but thinks the feline distemper vaccine is necessary to prevent the horrible death of many cats. But only one dose for life, two if started before four months old. Jean Dodds also has a lot of good information. Merial Purevax vaccines are unadjuvanted and safer, but still cause some deaths, because all vaccines for any species cause often dangerous inflammation.

Homeo Animal, in Canada, makes amazingly effective homeopathic remedies for dozens of conditions. I can attest that its Heart remedy cured our parakeet Sprite’s heart failure and gave him three more years of healthy life. The testimonials from customers at its website are amazing. The company is under attack from the envious allopathic industry: I think it recently changed its name.

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