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Neil Pryke's avatar

It seems that it's not just doctors and drug companies trying to kill us...vets and drug companies are trying to destroy pets and livestock in the same way..!

Reality's avatar

The evil ones are tiny in number. They operate via information, narratives and inverted incentives. Then we do the killing!

Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

I love the word idiopathic. It is the deniability word saying we do not know what is causing the health issue. Answer is simple. Take the chemicals out of the food system, vaccines administered to the pets and flea chemicals and restore the microbiome.

INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

This is why we have changed vets for the fifth time now. The first one was so good, but she retired. Then came others, the one before last knew only 2 words - antibiotics and cortisone. Last year we went to the doc we are now seeing for several years, with a non-healing wound. He thought it was an allergy and prescribed 3 meds. The wound once desinfected showed 2 puncture wounds, probably a poison spider bite. In the meantime my dog developed a fungus! I stopped the doc's medicine and turned to my own, homeopathic cabinet! It is all healing, but very slowly. As to the diarrhea, it stopped when I learned from a friend that lots of dogs are allergic to chicken. Probably not if you have untreated chicken - but what is that blub from the store that one calls chicken meat? So we are now down to duck, lamb and turkey. Dog is fine with it. As to the cats, I feed them canned food, but they catch quite a bit of stuff in the yard. Both 9 and healthy. STerilized but not injected.

URsomoney's avatar

Chlorine dioxide solution for the wound.

The Cosmic Onion's avatar

The gut is the first domino.

Break the wall and the whole system starts barking.

We keep chasing symptoms—skin, ears, joints—while the real battlefield is the intestinal lining getting hammered from three sides: processed feed, pharmaceutical carpet-bombing, and early-life overload.

And what’s the main ingredient in that bag for most animals these days?

GMO corn.

Nuff said.

Different labels. Same breach.

Fix the terrain and the body remembers how to heal.

Ignore it and you’ll be medicating echoes for the rest of that animal’s life.

Awooooo 🐺

Lone Wolf

Silent scorn's avatar

The fact that some vaccines contain cat kidneys cells hits home-I’ve had two cats die from kidney failure. 😞 makes sense. So sad. Is there a way to even partially repair a cat’s gut? We have one cat who vomits a lot but is otherwise healthy. I’ve been working on purchasing freeze dried 100% meat cat food to work into my cats diets, it’s so incredibly expensive!

Deep Diver's avatar

Great article! Upvotes completed : )

Marilyn F's avatar

Worth every penny. But, your price should be more!

STH's avatar
Feb 24Edited

I’m sure that’s what’s up with my 9yo terrier. She had Giardia as a puppy. Then a round of antibiotics and has struggled with gut issues and skin issues ever since in spite of no vaccines (other than 2 puppy DHPs), no flea/tick meds and a $140/mo grass fed raw primarily meat diet (bison, beef, lamb, venison & turkey +liver, bone supps, kefir and other goodies) Now $900+ dollars of testing and no answers I believe she has IBD. What’s helped her itchiness the most is an herbal product called Cessorex twice a day. Recommended by Dr. Steve Marsden in his fb group.

Valda Redfern's avatar

For those in the UK, Katkin provide lightly cooked, correctly formulated, all-meat cat food. It comes in meal-sized packs to be kept in the freezer. It’s expensive, but excellent value for our cats, because they never leave any of it. They’ve been on it since they were a year old. We haven’t had them vaccinated since then, and as they haven’t been ill, they never see the vet. Their fur is noticeably soft and glossy.

Julia Woodman's avatar

Yes... Humans too.

When I stopped eating wheat... and had lots of thick coconut milk to heal my gut... it only took a few weeks for my dementia to reverse. It took several months before my long term hypothyroidism went away. It took a bit more than a year before my lifelong autoimminity went away too.

klimer's avatar

Yet another great essay! And as applicable to humans as to pets...

When our dog Lana dies, she may well be our last pet. Our experience is that vet clinics are being bought up by private equity firms. They like the chronic disease model that has developed over the past few decades, because most pet owners will do whatever it takes to keep their animal alive. They all try to push some form of scripted vaccination and other "prevention" strategies that only make things worse. Stuff that was never needed 60 years ago, when virtually all pets were healthy, even those fed on early forms of kibble. My brother actually fed his dog duck kibble, because it was the cheapest animal food available, and all that he could afford.

We are fed up with the coercion to add more and more vaccinations; the expensive special skin diets that stop working; and just the plain greed of corporate veterinary practice. We will not be manipulated by our love for our pets to pad their bottom lines.

Two years ago, our vet, whom we'd seen for nearly two decades, threatened that if Lana did not get vaccinated for rabies (not a legal requirement in our state) that his clinic would no longer treat her. We caved, and Lana very nearly died. Needless to say, we have a new vet now.

We no longer seek veterinary help, except for the one prescription that we have her on. She's 16 1/2 years old now. Her health ebbs and flows, and eventually her time will run out. If we'd kept going to the vet, we would have said goodbye to her long ago.

Caring for a chronically ill pet late in their life is one thing. But we won't be life-long caregivers for our pets, if that is the inevitability of yet another system corrupted by corporate greed. If we can't give them a healthy life, it's best for them not to suffer a lifetime of problems.

eileen's avatar

What about the elephant in the room? Why do we remove the gonads when all we want are sterile animals? Couldn't the same thing be done with tubal ligations or vasectomies or if you are concerned about pyometria, a hysterectomy? This article talked about adrenal dysfunction (low adrenals or Addison's Disease). Well one of the indications for HRT is a condition the Parsemus Institute calls pseudo-Addisonianism which is corrected by HRT. It is more of a problem with neutered animals than spayed animals.

If one were to study the effects of vaccines, or bad food or repeated rounds of antimicrobials on a pet's gut, the study needs to control the intact status of the animals. Or compare these conditions with animals in Europe where they leave their animals intact and presumably otherwise engage in the other bad practices we do here. In other words, other than the intact status of the animals, presumably they over jab their animals like we do, feed them the same stuff we do and have the same knee jerk reactions we do when they see a pustule or their dog's ears smell.

Brandon S.'s avatar

our pets should be living much longer, healthier lives than they do. we vaccinate them, neuter/spay them, and then feed them food that doesn't nourish or sustain them. Cats are carnivores, and they thrive on an all meat (preferably raw) diet. Most people aren't able or willing to spend the money on high quality food for their pets. Though, they will come out ahead in the long run by investing in high quality food, by avoiding the high costs of vets.