Category: Healthy Dogs

When we breed our dogs we want them to be as healthy as they can possibly be.  This helps to ensure not only a good number of puppies can be conceived, but also that both they and their mother will be be healthy and free of complications.

Probably the one most important ingredient you can add to your dogs diet, is animal based protein.  A lot of the dog foods claim “high protein content,” but lets be honest, if the protein isn’t animal based, its not real protein.  Real protein is full of “complete” amino acids.  Plant based proteins are not complete, either in the human or the animal world, and will NOT build healthy bodies like animal protein will.  The nervous system, muscle tissue, brain growth, and connective tissue development can all suffer ill effects of an incomplete protein diet.

So what do you feed your dog to ensure healthy puppies, a healthy mother, a good birth experience and an ample milk supply?  Here are some ideas.

If you want to add kibble to the following good foods, you can do this, but it should never be the mainstay of your breeding dog’s diet:

• 3 ounces of organic* raw meat twice a day (chicken, beef, fish for some breeds, venison, squirrel, rabbit).  Notice pork is not on the list.  Pork is loaded with worms of all kinds, and you don’t want to endanger your dog with these worms.  

• 2 raw, organic eggs and the shells (for calcium) once daily

• 2 ounces of raw, organic half and half.  The fat content in this milk assures healthy brain and nerve development of the puppies.  Half and half is also the best source of phosphorus known to man, therefore supporting bone and hip development.

• 2 ounces of raw sweet potato 2-3 times weekly.  This supports the elimination of some types of worms that can be threatening to the developing puppies.  

• Grass, that is organic and unsprayed – on demand.  Your dog will choose what kind and when to eat grass as her body’s needs make those demands.  Grass serves a multipurpose need.  It supports the dogs need for fiber so it can have good bowel movements, and it kills a number of parasites in the dogs.  Dogs should never be allowed to eat grass that has chemicals on it however, as this will put both she and the puppies in jeopardy.

*Organic: This indicates the product was not contaminated with antibiotics, hormones, vaccines, or other harmful chemicals.  Meat that contains these products will not digest in your dog’s body any better then they do your’s.  They are also typically full of worms, yeast (fungal spores) and chemicals.  Her body has enough to deal with without the addition of harmful substances in her food supply.

Martin Goldstein is not only a veterinarian, but the author of two wonderful books on animals. I have only read the one, The Nature of Animal Healing, and am so impressed with his honesty and the commonsense he has for someone  in his field. Unfortunately this isn’t something you see everyday. His book is the kind you want to read twice. It’s that good! I’m not saying you will agree with everything he says, I don’t either, but he has allowed God to teach him along the way, and learned from what he has seen, rather than ignore, or deny it, because it didn’t agree with what he was taught to believe in medical school.

Here is a sampling of what he says in his book (he has a lot of things worth quoting). Starting on page 4 of his book The Nature of Animal Healing, he says:

“Twenty-five years ago when I started out in practice, the pets I saw with these diseases (arthritis, kidney or liver failure, hyperthyroidism, cancers) were old. Their conditions seemed to be age-related, and slow-growing enough to be accepted. Of the cases I see now, many are young and don’t live past the age of five.”

He describes how these diseases are becoming common amongst our pets, as well as faster growing and more aggressive. As you read through his book, and many others like them (Dr. Pitcairn’s. Dr. Don Hamilton’s) you will find they are linking the increase and severity of these diseases to vaccines and poor, or worse, toxic pet foods sold to the consumer.

He goes on to say, “As a holistic veterinarian, I don’t view cancer as a mysterious disease that attacks the body. It’s the ultimate manifestation of ill health…To me, it’s clear that more and more pets are getting cancer and other degenerative diseases because they’re being hit with more and more toxins that eventually mutate their genes, weakening successive generations.”

Raising holistic dogs myself, I find this to be absolutely true, and as an avid muscle-tester, I know it bears out in the testing too. When I go to a grocery store and test the packaged dog foods on the shelf I find they are pretty awful at best, and poisonous at worst. It’s rare that I find one “beneficial” for my dogs. And I don’t even bother to check regular grocery stores, it’s a waste of time. So, I am testing at health food stores, where the animal food is supposed to be high quality, more “healthy,” then the average stores have to offer. Then there was the testing experience at one of the major high-end grocery stores we shop. I say “high-end” because its not your average grocery store. This store carries a lot of organic groceries, both produce and packaged foods. Usually, we don’t buy our red meat at a grocery store because we get it from a farmer who raises his animals organically and uses homeopathics for their healthcare. Our dogs also eat this meat. This day though, we were out of meat for the dogs while we waited for our next shipment.

While at the store, I decided to purchase grass-fed organic ground beef for the dogs. Before doing that, I thought about testing some of the other, cheaper meats (all raw) for the dogs. After all, they are dogs, and they would rather eat road-kill then processed people meat anyway. We’ve had dogs of one breed or another all of my 50 plus years, and they have all either hunted for live kill, or brought home dead road-kill. We have watched them eat cats, squirrels, rabbits, mice, ground hogs, you name it. One brought home a road-kill turkey and even drug home a deer carcass someone had left in the woods after a hunting trip. None of them got “sick” or “diseased” from eating these things either. So, why buy the most expensive meat in the store?!

I got busy testing which pieces of meat were good for the dogs. I walked up and down the meat counter testing, then tested again. Surely this couldn’t be right. I was testing for dogs, not people, I reminded myself. Then I did it again. As I stood there perplexed, I watched the people, dozens of them, hang over the meat counter as they choose their pieces of meat.

Wow, if none, and I tested NONE, of the meat was even beneficial for my dogs, how could it possibly be good for people? I discussed this with my husband, who reminded me of the antibiotics, hormones, vaccines, pesticides, herbicides and GMO grains fed to the animals that were represented in this meat counter. I felt sick as I watched all of the people pick out their meat selections and put them in their grocery carts. They had no idea the meat they were buying, and paying a good price for, wasn’t good for them. As I picked up the organic meat for my dogs, I had to remind myself that, even for dogs, what is the point of feeding them a “food” (I hate to give even call it that) that may contribute to sickness or disease?

Spending a little bit more now on the organic meat, will result in a ton of savings of money and valuable time down the road as the dogs remain healthy (and out of the vet’s office) long-term. Preventative health for animals includes quality nutrition just as it does for humans. Preventative health in the form of healthy meat means decreased or zero vet bills down for life span of the animal! With these thoughts in mind, we purchased the meat and headed for home with the good feeling that our choices now will allow our dogs to live healthy for longer. 

Did you buy a dog that is already vaccinated and now suspect the vaccines may be harming him? This post is an idea of how you might support his body in detoxing the harmful residues from the vaccines.

For the health and well-being of a new family dog, in my opinion, I feel there are 10 things you might want to address. Especially if your dog has been given vaccines, or comes from parent-dogs that were vaccinated. This will address the worms, pathogens, and toxins they had passed down to them via the parent from vaccine solutions injected into their body’s.

Our first dog had 4 sacks filled with worms, or pathogens, that we believe came from vaccines. We feel we are right about this for two reasons, first because kinesiology indicated it was a possibility, and second, because it took homeopathics made with vaccine frequencies to support her body in the elimination of them.

The first one her body eliminated was the Rabies vaccine. We gave her the  Rabies Vax/ Rabies Vax Wormremedy first. The  Parainfluenza Vax/ Parainflu Vax Worm was second, and the last one we did was the Parvo – Distemper Vax/PD Vax Worms remedy. With each of these we gave her a remedy for three days, and on the third day we witnessed her pass a large sack full of worms. Each one looked different. After taking the Rabies vaccine homeopathic remedy, she passed a bright yellow bag, almost 8 inches in length, containing long worms that looked like bright yellow spaghetti noodles.

When we gave her the Parainfluenza Vax/Parainflu Vax Worm homeopathic remedy, she passed a brownish bag of pus and worms that was the size of my fist. The last remedy, a combination of the Parvo and Distemper vaccines, supported her body in the elimination of a grey bag of worms, also the size of my fist. It always amazes me that puppies can survive such toxic matter in their little bodies. I guess thats why so many of them have health problems, cancers, and die miserable deaths at half the age, and younger, than they use to before they started shooting them with these “vaccines”.

We aren’t veterinarians, and wouldn’t presume to tell you what to do for your pet, but what we can do is share with you the list of things we found in our research to both stop doing and to start doing, in order to support your pet’s health from this point forward.

In order of what vaccine damage should be addressed first, and at what age it is generally thought to be safe and effective to cleanse it out of your pet.

1. Rabies vaccine – at 7 months of age, to support the prevention of epilepsy, heart disorders, cysts tumors, cancers, liver issues, pancreas and blood sugar disorders.

2. Parainfluenza virus vaccine – at 10 months of age, to support the prevention of hip displasia, joint problems, eye problems.

3. Leukemia vaccine – at 13 months of age to support the prevention of cancer, skin diseases, leukemia, intestinal disorders, cysts, sacks of parasites.

4. Distemper vaccine – at 16 months of age to to support the prevention of seizures, rage, bladder weakness, abnormal growths, cysts, heart problems.

5. Parvovirus vaccine – at 20 months of age, to support the prevention of rage and aggression, sacks of parasites, spine issues, kidney problems, cysts, and seizures.

• Parvo and Lepto vaccines together to support the prevention of Cushings disease symptoms,and kidney issues.
• Parvo and Distemper together to support the prevention of aggressive behaviors, especiallywhen directed toward children, liver issues.

6. Rickettsia vaccine – at 25 months of age, to support the prevention of cancer, pancreas problems.

7. Adenovirus vaccine – at 28 months of age, to support the prevention of hip displasia, spine problems, warty growths, cysts.

•   Adenovirus with leptospirosis vaccine – death, kidney failure, seizures

8. Tetanus vaccine at 30 months of age, to support the prevention of thyroid and adrenal issues (Addison’s disease), tumors, sacks of parasites, kidney issues and pancreas issues.

9. CoronaVirus vaccine at 35 months of age, to support the prevention of joint problems, eye disorders, nose disorders, and kidney issues

10. Leptospirosis vaccine at 36 months of age, to support the prevention of pancreas problems, sacks of parasites, and death

Wow was I in for a surprise. Here I was thinking how easy this whole house training business was, only to find out I was actually endangering the lives of my puppies.

It all started when my standard poodle gave birth to 10 puppies. They were all in the house, in my entryway of all places, on the only tile floor we have that is big enough for them. I asked several other breeders what they did for the mess, meaning puppy poop and potty (I still use mommy lingo). I was told that the mother takes care of the mess for the first 3 weeks or more, so not to be too concerned. Yes, she eats their poop and licks up their urine. An instinctive thing of course, probably to keep them safe from predators. She also ate each and every sac and placenta as they were born. Another protective measure. But thats another topic. 

What about after the first three weeks, what then, I wanted to know. I asked several dog breeders what they do, and found that some use recycled newspaper pellets for bedding and to absorb waste, one uses a roll of plain newspaper (without the print), and another breeder uses untreated wood shavings. I won’t use the newspaper pellets because of concern about ink toxicity, and the wood shavings are more for out door. In place of the plain paper, which would be the best choice for us, I thought I would use potty pads. You know, the kind your elderly loved ones sleep on when they have incontinence issues. These would be easy to lay down, and easy to clean up.

So off to Walmart we went. We bought a big bag of potty pads and my husband created a nice place, through a little doggy door in their pen for them to relieve themselves away from their sleeping place. Even at 6 weeks I wasn’t secure with the idea of taking them outside. We didn’t have our yard fenced in yet, and the idea of 10 puppies scattering all over the yard in different directions horrified me. Then there were the scare stories everyone kept telling with me about hawks, coyotes, and fox running off with small dogs and puppies. We have all of those things, even an occassional eagle will fly over, and a cougar with two cubs has been spotted on the hill behind us. 

Then there was the story about our neighbor’s dog. He is a chihuahua, or hawk food, as some call them. As it turns out, there is good reason for that nickname. Our neighbor towards the front of our house shared the following story with us. One day when they were looking out their front window they saw the chihuahua (who belongs to the neighbor towards the back of us) in our front yard hiding under our bird bath. As they watched to see what he was up to, they noticed a hawk circuling above the bird bath. He must have thought this poor dog was the perfect size for a meal, as he seemed determined to get him. After several minutes of this, the dog got up the nerve to run for the back yard towards the trees and his own house. As he ran across the front yard, the neighbors told us the hawk was in close pursuit, and at one point they were sure the hawk was going to catch him because it got close enough to touch the dog’s back with his talons. Just as it did, the dog turned and leaped for the hawk. I don’t know what he must have thought he was going to accomplish, maybe he was just mad enough to bite back. Regardless, it worked! The hawk backed off just long enough to allow the dog to make it under the trees on the other side of the house. This happened in OUR yard! Nope… my puppies weren’t going outside until they were big enough to discourage a hawk.

In the meantime, I needed something to put in the potty room of their indoor pen. I thought the potty pads would absorb well so the smell wasn’t as bad, well, as it could be. And the ones I chose tested to be “safe” to use, and didn’t have as much chemical in them as the super absorbant pads did. What I forgot to test was the safety of the chemicals on the paws of the puppies once they were activated (peed on). In addition to that, I should have tested if they were safe with they were chewed on, ripped apart, and spread all over their pen. Silly me, they’re puppies! In addition, these pads were going to get super wet, not just damp. I was going to have a lot of dogs using the same pad during the night. 

They did seem to work fine when the puppies were still pretty little and only peeing small amounts. The puppies actually trained themselves to go on the pad. As they got older though, the smell in the house was so bad, that it was waking me up between 4-5:00 a.m., just because of the smell. And my bedroom isn’t anywhere close to where the puppies are! I didn’t realize until later that it was the chemical in their poop that made their stools smell so bad, and their poor tummies were a mess because of them. The last night we used the pads, I woke up at 3:30 in the morning to a loud commotion in the front room. When I went in to check the puppies and see what was going on, they were running in circles in their pen, flipping over on their backs, chewing their feet and whining. It almost looked as if they were having seizures. And yes, it was as horrifying as it sounds! 

I stood and watched them for what seemed like 5 minutes, but was really more like 60 seconds, before I recognized what the biting of the paws had to be about. They were exposed to poison of some sort, but where? How? One by one, at 3:45 in the morning, I carried them into our bathroom and washed their feet. But when I put them back in their pen it started all over again. 

There was nothing for them to have gotten into. Well, nothing except the potty pad. A very wet potty pad. And there was poop smeared all over the indoor/outdoor carpet in their pen. I didn’t see it until I turned a spot light on the carpet, because it was still pretty dark in their pen area. I realized then why they were always having soft to runny bm’s when in the house (only at night), and why their stools smelled so bad. They were being poisoned each time they were exposed to the chemicals in the potty pads. So, at 4:30 a.m. I washed their paws again, and took them outside in the wet grass, where it would be cool on their feet and tummies. I stayed there with them until the sun came up. At 6:00 a.m. I took apart their whole pen and thoroughly washed their indoor/ourdoor carpet. The potty pads are never to be used again. Each of the dogs needed rodded with a pad, a wet pad, since the moisture activated the chemicals it contained.

I felt so bad about exposing them to those chemicals, because I should have known better. The chemicals in potty pads are the same as those in menstrual pads, tampons, and disposable diapers for babies (and the elderly). There is always a degree of a health risk when they have chemicals in them, but of course, are more dangerous when they say“super absorbant”on the package. For instance, toxic shock is a possibility when super absorbant tampons are used, hormone and uterine problems can be an issue with super absorbant menstrual pads, sterility was found to be an issue at one particular diaper factory where the workers handled the same chemicals as they were putting them in disposable diapers, and incontinence can become a bigger issue when the elderly use these pads to sleep on. Praise God for protecting these puppies from my foolish mistake.

It was July. We lost our puppy in May, and it still hurt.  There was something about his sweet face and disposition that had drawn me in, and I was still hurting.  In July I decided to start looking for a new puppy.  This time I was just going to look.  After my previous experience with a puppy, I decided it was okay if it took year or two to find another one, I was in no hurry this time.  I was going to pray about the right puppy and wait for God’s timing, however long that would take.  And this time, I was not going to accept a puppy that had either vaccines or was given harsh chemical dewormers.

I spent hours on the internet late in the evenings.  Then a friend called to tell me she had learned of a family in South Dakota that had Standard poodle puppies for sale.  I called the family and talked to the man who was selling the pupppies, and was willing to let me come see their dogs and their whole farm. They had two puppies left from the last litter, unfortunately though, they were both vaccinated and dewormed. They were, however, willing to set aside a puppy from the next litter and not vaccinate it or give it dangerous deworming chemicals.  This was good, I thought.  I went ahead and made an arrangement to go see their place and interview them.

Two weeks later I was on my way to South Dakota to meet these new breeders of standard poodles.  I found my way to their farm and got the tour. Then we sat outside in the shade under the trees and visited while the puppies played in the yard with their mother.  They seemed willing to talk about why I wanted a dog without vaccines, so I shared with them a little of what I knew, and my experience with having lost a puppy.  As is typical, they were concerned that a puppy without vaccines would get sick, because this is what they had been told.  They were also unaware of how dangerous the chemical dewormers were on a puppy’s gut and kidneys.  I encouraged them to research the topic and suggested they tell their vet to do the same.  Their vet, like so many other vets, hadn’t provided any proof the vaccines or the dewormer were either safe or effective.  Instead, when he was questioned about their safety, told them the same thing we so often hear from medical doctors that have no proof something is effective.  That “anyone can find studies to support whatever they want to believe if they look hard enough.”  I think it’s interesting that that doesn’t apply to them!  I encouraged this couple to challenge their vet with providing them his proof first.  He was the one pushing the vaccines, and had everything to gain from the sale, shouldn’t he provide written proof of the safety and efficacy of the vaccines?

A few weeks later, I was sharing what I knew about canine vaccines with a friend who had recently acquired 3 dogs from a shelter.  These poor dogs had been pumped full of every vaccine available to dogs.  I find this is typical of these shelters.  They call it “humane,” but I would argue that, in regard to their vaccine policies and practices.  There is nothing humane about pumping anyone, or anything, full of poisons.  My friend knew she had a long road ahead of her trying to restore the health of these dogs after their stay in the shelter.  The first thing she did was to find a holistic veterinarian who would have an intelligent discussion with her on the topic of vaccines. One who had researched them herself, instead of just reiterating what she had been taught to believe in veterinary school.

The veterinarian she found, told my friend that she too was not in favor of the vaccines done on animals. Not even the rabies vaccine. Most of us gasp at the thought that our dog doesn’t need a rabies vaccine. Afterall, look what happened on the movie Old Yeller. And, as I heard one woman exclaim, “rabies is so dangerous, if you get bit by a dog that hasn’t had a vaccine for it, you have to get a series of very painful rabies shots in your abdomen to prevent you from getting it.” Do you really? I personally know two people who didn’t, even though they were told that lab tests indicated that the dogs that bit them had rabies. They are fine. 

Another person got bit by a bat on his middle toe while playing soccer barefoot in the woods with some friends. Yes, bats are known to eat bugs off the ground at night in the woods. He actually had to pry the bat off of his foot. After approximately 24 hours, and several more games of soccer, his foot had swollen up to the point that it hurt to step down on it, so he went home. He was a teenager, which explains the lunacy of this story! His mother, who used naturopathic medicine rather than allopathic, had him wash his feet good, then gave him 3 doses of a rabies homeopathic to address the possibility of rabies from the bat. She witnessed a marked reduction in the swelling in his foot within just 30 minutes, at which time her son went back out with his friends. That was eight years ago. She said she knew rabies doesn’t go to the brain in people, or animals, like the vaccine does, so she wasn’t concerned. But did warn her son that if any other symptoms should occur, he was to return home immediately. 

My question is: Is the real rabies a natural, opportunistic virus for dogs, just like parvo and distemper are? In other words, do dogs get it naturally when they eat wild animals, rodents, road-kill, but don’t show symptoms because its not really the problem its blamed on being? 

Lets side-step rabies for a moment and look at a couple of other viruses. The parvo and distemper viruses. Research indicates there is a vaccine component (i.e., a modified/resistant strain) to those animals who exhibit symptoms from these viruses. In fact, dogs who get the parvo and distemper vaccines together, sometimes soon after, exhibit the very symptoms blamed on rabies: Moodiness, personality changes, sudden episodes of violence and rage. Maybe this is just a coincidence, you say, because the dog is sick from being vaccinated. This is true, just as children are sick after vaccines, and understandably so, since they were injected with several disease cells all at once (this never happens in nature), along with a number of chemicals, additives, parasites from the diseased animal and/or aborted fetal cells, all in the same vaccine. We, and/or our pets certainly should be sick. No wonder so many die or suffer chronic illness, auto – immune disease, and permanent damage afterwards. 

However, that aside, I have spoken to a number of people who did the Parvo-Distemper vaccine homeopathic when their animals exhibited symptoms of rage, anger, moodiness, and snapping (in the attempt to bite) to address vaccine brain damage. Then soon after the homeopathic was given, the personality of their animals changed back to the sweet animal they were familiar with. 

One person said she gave this remedy to both their golden retriever and their son. She said both of whom were sweet, loving beings until their dog had this vaccine. After trying the homeopathic on both of them they not only had a very welcome personality shift back to the normal, but her son excelled in school once again. What was amazing was that in this particular situation the Parvo-Distemper vx homeopathic wasn’t given until 2 years after the vaccine had been given. This same combination homeopathic, I’ve been told, works wonders on dogs who seem to “hate children.” What do I mean by that? These are dogs who will snap at children, lunge at children, growl at children, or otherwise have no tolerance for children. If you decide to try this remedy on your pet(s) remember, its the remedy made from the vaccines, not the normal viruses. The normal viruses do not appear to cause these symptoms.

Lets get back to rabies. If what you know about rabies is limited to what you saw in the movie, or have heard in the media…you know the picture, the insane animal frothing at the mouth, attacking every moving thing in sight. You may have been misled. After the release of the Old Yeller movie, the public’s impression of rabies was that it could cause insanity, biting, foaming at the mouth, infection and eventual death in those who came in contact with it. I have not been able to personally find any studies to substantiate these beliefs. My friend with the shelter dogs that I mentioned above, asked her veterinarian about rabies, and was surprised when she told her that she has never seen any proof that rabies causes any of the symptoms we have been led to believe it does. She went even further to tell her that she didn’t know anyone in veterinary medicine who had seen a case of rabies that did anything obvious to the animal. Not even while in veterinary school. Another veterinarian of 28 years, when asked about this same vaccine, commented “I don’t care whether you vaccinate with rabies or not, it doesn’t do anything that benefits the animal anyway.” 

Doctor Martin Goldstein, D.V.M., in his book, The nature of Animal Healing had an interesting take on rabies. Although he does believe that rabies can cause a dog to have violent mood shifts and violent tendencies, has this to say about the vaccine:

“Administered annually by law in many states, and by vererinarians’ recommendaion in most others, 

the rabies vaccine bombards a pet’s immune system with alarming amounts of foreign substances. 

In cats, the vaccine has been linked to fibrosarcomas. In both cats and dogs, it contributes to chronic 

vaccinosis (illness caused by vaccines), as well as the rabies miasm (illnesses passed down through the generations ). If you live in a state that does require annual rabies vaccination by law, all you can 

do is protest – or move. If you don’t, let moderation, not the fearful images of rabid dogs from the movies, 

be your guide… In my twenty-five years of veterinary practive, I haven’t observed or treated a single 

case of it. Does the vaccine get all the credit? I think not. .. As for the rare case of a rabid bat, say, 

biting a person and infecting her with rabies, it’s true, those cases occur. Do we all submit to annual 

rabies vaccine as a result? Of course not! So why should our pets?”

Why do medical authorities still act as though there is undeniable proof rabies is so dangerous to dogs, and therefore humans? One possible explanation might be what Doctor Robert Bradley, M.D., called blind acceptance. Once the idea is put out there, in this case by a movie, and the general public believes it, they apply pressure on medical authorities to provide a solution. And the medical authorities are happy to oblige, because there isn’t any reason not to. Whether or not the solution is viable, or backed by studies, is neither here nor there, as long as it appeases the masses and makes the medical society a great deal of money. 

“Dogs sometimes become aggressive, destructive, and even hysterical after receiving a vaccine.” In his 20 years of practice, Dr. Pitcairn said he “witnessed a dramatic difference between pets that were vaccinated and those not vaccinated. The pets not vaccinated have less illness, better coats, they tend not to attract parasites and are generally healthier overall.”  Dr. Pitcairn, DVM

I am often asked what we do for our dogs to support their immune systems in place of the chemical vaccines? Besides an exemplery diet, we choose to do something that we feel is more effective and so safe there are no side-effects.  Its called homeopathy.  What can it do that vaccines don’t do?  It works, its safe, it contains no parasites, pathogens, worms, viruses, bacteria, chemicals, heavy metals, preservatives, etc.  You get the picture.  Because they are safe and nontoxic, the body can respond to them without having to deal with these other things, and it can therefore support the body in making its antibodies naturally.  Antibodies made to pathogens this way are not only effective, but they last for a lifetime.

The vaccines on the other hand, have a list of side-effects that include skin problems, seizures, cysts, tumors, hip displacement, hair loss, changes in hair texture, warty growths, numerous types of cancers, mood and personality changes, DNA damage, and death.  Therefore, we are committed to avoid them as much as possible. The rabies vaccine is the only exception, which we are convinced is both unsafe and unnecessary, but out of ignorance, the state requires it.  You will understand more as to why we feel the way we do as you read the information below.

When our dog first came home, although she was not vaccinated, her parent dogs had been.  We knew the pathogens from her parents vaccines were likely to be in her, as well as any DNA damage she would have suffered from the vaccines. So the first thing we did was address all inherited vaccine issues.  Our puppy was given homeopathics for each of the vaccine worms, chemicals, and other pathogens she carried in her system.  See my blog on the www.holisticstandardpoodles.com website for more information regarding how we did this.  Once we were done with those, and the worms had been expelled, we were able to use homeopathy to address possible DNA issues that are common among Standard Poodles.

A word of awareness: I have interviewed a number of veterinarians, and found that its highly unusual to find one that knows anything about homeopathy or building antibodies ahead of time. Even when they say they know what it is, they essentially have no knowledge of how and why it works. As one veterinarian told me, she had taken a one day class and said, rather than an educational class, it was designed to discourage the new veterinarians from trying it. It isn’t the fault of the veterinarian, so we need to be patient, they weren’t trained to use natural solutions.  If your vet is willing, this is probably something you will have to teach them.  Or, move on, and keep looking until you find one.  I personally feel it is worth the time and effort to search for the right veterinarian who has some knowledge, is willing to learn, and still has some commonsense.  One woman I spoke with said she doesn’t use a vet at all, but rather the same naturopath she takes her children to.  He was the only one she could find that was able to get her dog truly well, and didn’t want to use harmful substances on him.  I would keep an open mind.