We are not veterinarians, and we are not medical doctors, so we only speak from experience. We also love to do our research before making a decision.
If you have read my blog on raising healthy dogs, you already know the answer to this question: What do we do for heart worm? In case you haven’t read the blog though, be patient with me and I will repeat the story here. As the story goes – we used to have two collies. Instead of giving a remedy (homeopathic) to immunize our dogs ahead of time, we often waited until they would get a particular bacteria or pathogen before we gave a remedy for it. I usually give remedies ahead of time now, but 20-25 years ago, I would wait until symptoms occurred before giving a remedy.
In case you are wondering, we weren’t afraid of illness with the dogs, because we had the remedies on hand. We felt we had God’s resources available and His blessings on our side. After all, we weren’t doing something harmful or dangerous, but rather what was safe, effective, and healthy too. We were confident we were adequately prepared.
Here is the story: Both of our collies eventually got heart worm. It seemed like years before they finally got it. Yes, I said “finally”. It reminded me of watching water boil. When you are watching and waiting, it seems to take much longer than you anticipated. When our dogs finally developed the symptoms, we gave them the homeopathic remedy for their symptoms, and they recovered within hours. I want to say 24 hours, because that is what people expect – it should take at least 24 hours, right? But that’s not true with homeopathy, and honestly, it was more like 3 hours before all symptoms were cleared up. Of course their stools were stinky and strange looking for sometimes as long as 24-32 hours as they passed the remains of the worms from their system.
There’s more to the story – Approximately two years after our dogs had had heart worm, a friend called to tell me her rottweiler had been diagnosed by their vet as having heart worm. They were devastated, knowing that the treatment would possibly kill their beloved pet. At best, they were told, it would shorten his lifespan by 60%. My friend decided to do the homeopathy we had done instead. After giving the remedy, they waited three days for his body to have time to get any remains of the worms out of his system and his stools, then took him back to the vet for a re-check. The vet assured them that their dog still had the heart worm and if anything besides his drug would work on them, he would have known about it. He did the test, and it came back negative. There were no heart worms present. He pronounced the first test a “false-positive.” It was wrong he said, the dog never had the worms to begin with, and this is why they aren’t there in the second test. Had he ever had a “false-positive” heart worm test my friend asked? No, he responded, “but there is always a first time” he told her.
Months went by and my friend was talking with a neighbor of hers who told her she had just learned her dog had heart worms. You can imagine what happened. This time however, the veterinarian she used told her that if this “remedy” worked he would be the first to come knocking at her door wanting to learn more about homeopathy. She did the same thing my friend had done, gave the dog 3 doses of the homeopathic remedy that fit her dog’s symptoms, waited 3 days for his system to clear out the worm remains, and took him back for a second test. The vet didn’t know what to make of it. At least he didn’t deny it had worked, or excuse the test results as a false-positive test. He also didn’t “come knocking at her door” as he had said he would.
The nice thing about homeopathy is that it not only works, but as I stated above, it also has no side-effects. It works by encouraging the animal’s (and human’s) immune system to do the work of repairing on its own. In doing so, the animal builds real, life-long antibodies. Not the short-term, often ineffective “antibodies” that the vaccines claim.