"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Mahatma Ghandi
What Is Health?
"According to the World Health Organization, "Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is
a state of optimal well-being."
"If you could choose to enjoy better health, would you be interested? Does increased energy, greater
enthusiasm, and an enhanced sense of well-being appeal to you? How
about a greater sense of joy? The good news is, these things are possible for
you. Within yourself, you have the power you need to create wellness
in your life. That power is your power of choice.
Your health is your responsibility Many of us have been brought up to believe that our health
depends solely on the quality of the healthcare we receive. The
truth is, your health is your responsibility. You are the only
person who can make the lifestyle decisions that contribute to your well-being."
~The American Holistic Health Association.
The American Holistic Health Association (AHHA) has developed this booklet to help you achieve wellness in
your life. It will answer some of the most commonly asked questions
about the holistic approach to health and wellness and start you on your path to
optimal well-being. American
Holistic Health Association
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Pharmaceutical Drugs
Modern pharmaceuticals, such as antibiotics are very effective at symptom elimination of many diseases and
are frequently prescribed in the "one size, one antibiotic fits all" theory. Elimination of the SYMPTOM is NOT the same as elimination of
the disease. Masking or stoping the symptoms only drives the dis-ease deeper into your body making an eventual recovery or cure more difficult. The Holistic approach treats the entire individual,
whether human, dog, cat or horse and seeks to find the CAUSE of the illness. Without knowing the cause, how can anything be cured?
Reclaiming optimal health requires you to stop putting the
harmful things into your body that contributed or caused the problem to develop. You may need to consider an organ cleanse to completely rid your body of all toxins. Then supply your body with the needed
nutrients to repair and rebuild itself and use your immune system to ignite your body's internal healing force and stimulates the body's natural abilities to heal itself. Healing is a process and there aren't any instant pills
to cure chronic problems.
The Poisons In Pet Food by William Pollak DVM
"Dogs, cats and other animals live for years on foods that come out of bags, cans and boxes. But do these foods promote health? If they did, our companion animals would enjoy long, happy lives free of arthritis, hip dysplasia, eye problems, ear problems, fleas and other parasites, gum disease, lick granulomas, thyroid imbalances, skin and coat problems, personality disorders, birth defects, breeding problems, diabetes, cancer and other major and minor illnesses.
Before World War II, most North Americans fed their pets raw bones and table scraps. Today, everyone uses convenience foods, and pet food companies are industry giants. Diet isn't the only thing that has changed. So has life expectancy, with the life span of many breeds now less than half what it was two or three decades ago. Skin and coat problems are so common that we accept them as unavoidable, and today's vets routinely treat conditions that used to be unusual or even rare."
"We are seeing disease conditions in animals that we did not see years ago. Many of these may be traced to nutrition as the source..." Don E. Lundholm, DVM
Dr Wendell O. Belfield, D.V.M. "Their pets may have diarrhoea, increased flatulence, a dull hair coat, intermittent vomiting or prolonged scratching. These are common symptoms associated with commercial pet foods." In 1981, as Martin Zucker and I wrote How to Have a Healthier Dog, we discovered the full extent of negative effects that commercial pet food has on animals.
Brandon Brooks, DVM - "Many (if not most) Over The Counter (OTC) or non-prescription flea control products are very toxic to cats and kittens, especially the ones only approved for use in dogs. Many people mistakenly buy these for their pet, it's not always their fault, the companies that make them want you to buy it, they don't really care about the dangers involved, so it pays to be extra careful when buying flea control products."
None of Happy Tails Rotts have ever had a single flea. Fleas are opportunistic, they only go after animals with compromised immune systems. How can it make any sense to put toxic chemicals on an animal that is already not healthy?
Happy Tails enjoys teenage Rotts, who didn't come to us as puppies. We attribute their robust health to all natural care, fresh unchemicalized water, natural foods and no drugs. Think of the years of life that your dog might be losing because of what he's eating or the drugs and toxins that go onto or into his body.
In February 1990, the San Francisco Chronicle carried a macabre two-part story detailing how stray dogs and cats and pound animals are routinely rounded up
by meat renderers and ground up into -- of all things -- pet food. According to Keith Wood, thc researcher who brought the information to the Chronicle, the paper buried the story and deleted many of
the charges Wood had documented. A report Wood worked on for ABC elevision's 20/20 was similarly watered down.
In exasperation, Wood brought his story to Earth Island Journal
The rendering plant floor is piled high with "raw product". housands of dead dogs and cats; heads and hooves from cattle, sheep, pigs and horses; whole skunks; rats and raccoons -- all waiting to be
processed. In the 90 degree heat, the piles of dead animals seem to have a life of their own as millions of maggots swarm over the carcasses.
Two bandanna-masked men begin operating Bobcat mini-dozers, loading the "raw" into a ten-foot deep stainless steel pit. They are undocumonted workers from Mexico doing a dirty job. A giant
auger-grinder at the bottom of the pit begins to turn. Popping bones and squeezing flesh are sounds from a nightmare you will never forget.
Rendering is the process of cooking raw animal material to remove the moisture and fat. The rendering plant works like a giant kitchen. The cooker, or "chef", blends the raw product in order to
maintain a certain ratio between the carcasses of pets, livestock, poultry waste and supermarket rejects. Once the mass is cut into small pieces, it is transported to another auger for fine shredding. It
is then cooked at 280 degrees for one hour. The continuous batch cooking process goes on non-stop, 24 hours a day, seven days a week as meat is melted away from bones in the hot "soup".
During this cooking process,
the "soup" produces a fat of yellow grease or tallow that rises to the top and is skimmed off. The cooked meat and bone are sent to a hammermill press, which squeezes out the remaining moisture and pulverizes the product
into a gritty powder. Shaker screens sift out excess hair and large bone chips. Once the batch is finished, all that is left is yellow
grease, meat and BONE MEAL. Read Entire Article, clicking on above link. Then read your dog food label of ingredients.
The practice of boiling down euthanized dogs and cats for industrial fat and protein causes an uproar
in St. Louis. -- It started with footage of Blacky and Scoop, melt-your-heart dogs with no one to claim them, alone at the city pound--and
due to be put to death within hours. "No one wants them. Alive, that is," the reporter said.
The film then cuts to a rendering plant that boils down the city's euthanized dogs, along with dead pigs and cows from local farms and leftover bones, hooves and
innards from slaughterhouses. The end products are used to make cosmetics and fertilizer, gelatin and poultry feed, pharmaceuticals and pet ood.
It was the pet food that got people. The report last month by KMOV-TV's Jamie Allman--headlined "What's Getting Into Your Pets" --suggested that dead dogs and cats from local shelters were ending
up in kibble. As proof, Allman aired footage of a tanker truck entering the rendering plant, a truck emblazoned with the motto "Serving the
Pet Food Industry." Pet Owners went nuts. Click on above link for entire article.
Here are a couple videos if you can stomach it. The point is not to horrify, the message is to only feed your aninmals that which you would consider eating.
When you consider how long this practice of euthanized "shelter" animals have been KNOWN to be included in commerical pet food, it casts a different shadow on understanding on WHY many
shelters are so Pro kill. There is a lot of revenue at stake, the sale of all the dead animals (injected with toxic drugs to end their lives) The profitable
rendering business of turning discarded garbage into tasty commercial pet food.
When these dots are connected, it paints a picture as to why shelters prefer killing. Does this help clarify why our animals have such dismal
health issues and die early? What do YOU think?
Ground Yellow Corn is the entire ground up ear of corn excluding the husk. 90% +/- of Corn is GMO and a major source of allergies. including the cob but without the husk.
Chicken By-Product Meal Rendered, ground parts of chicken, including heads, eyes, necks, bones, blood, feathers, feet, intestines, undeveloped eggs, beaks, internal organs, may contain disease or contaminated tissue.
Corn Gluten Meal More difficult to digest, allergy causing dried residue from corn, a cheap filler causing organ damage to kidneys and liver.
Whole Wheat Flour Another process allergen, dogs are carnivoires and do not naturally eat grains.
Beef Tallow Rendered cattle are those unfit for human consumption, dead or dying, tallow is created from their fat to add flavor, could include restaurant grease too.
Rice Flour Highly processed, vitamin free, a filler of starch & gluten, difficult to digest, no nutritional value.
Soy Flour 91% + of all Soy is GMO, causes allergies, hormonal damage, organ damage and we consider is unfit even if organic, it is not a health food. This poor quality, dangerous filler is from soy bean flakes.
Sugar More refined junk to be avoided, considered an anti-nutrient.
Animal Digest Rendered animals of all types, road kills, lab animals, fetal tissues, organis, diseased or slaughtered shelter animals with all of the drugs in them, includes intestines with stool, parasites & bacteria. Everything is boiled, melted, blended and dumped into cheap dog & cat foods.
Salt Not nice sea salt, normally a chemical mixture which inludes real salt, and not needed.
Potassium ChlorideUsed to replenish electrolytes, also used in fertilizers and for lethal injections.
And then the ingredients just go downhill from there, more garbage & harmful preservatives. Where is the nutrition? Truthly if you buy supermarket dog food, you're contributing to disease, sickness and the early death of your dog.
Did you know that an 85 lb dog, who eats commercial junk kibble, ingests about 50 lbs of artificial preservatives each year? Is it any surprise that so many dogs suffer from dry skin, allergic reactions, dental disease, poor health, lack of energy, and degenerative organ dysfunction?
How much does your dog weigh? Does he eat commercial kibble with artificial preservatives?
Rendered animals including all of the owner surrenders who really, really love their dog, and are just "heartbroken" BUT turn their family dog into a shelter anyway end up in cheap dog foods. The secret has been out since the early 90's.
Clearly there are millions of dead human and animal bodies that must be safely disposed of, but is eating them the best solution?
As a rescue with many senior animals, we've used burial, but that isn't always immediately possible, like when the ground is frozen or covered in several feet of snow. We've also used cremation, but that's a 80 mile round trip drive and they aren't always available.
After much frustration, thought and research, we turned to a Washington state approved method of animal body disposal. We compost and return the body's nutrients to the soil, very natural, very clean, no odors, no rats, just very efficient, easy and not stressful. We have a 10 x 10 dog run that we use (apart from everyone) to keep chickens from rooting through the straw and use it for an interm resting area before being
returned to the soil, providing nutrients to enrich the soil and complete the circle of life.
On Farm Composting of Livestock Mortalities Washington State Department of Ecology. "These guidelines provide the basics of composting large livestock as one possible animal mortality management tool. Proper composting of other types of livestock is allowed in Washington but is not covered in this guidance document. The focus is on managing what is considered routine, day-to-day livestock mortalities, and is not suitable for managing mortality due to reportable diseases." Gosh, they don't advise us to eat them!
As the American Journal of Veterinary Research explains, the recycled meat and bone meal is used as "a source of protein and other nutrients" in the diets of poultry and
swine and in pet foods, with lesser amounts used in the feed of cattle and sheep. Animal fat is also used in animal feeds as an energy source." Every day, hundreds of rendering plants across the United
States truck millions of tons of this "food enhancer" to poultry ranches, cattle feed lots, dairy and hog farms, fish feed plants and pet food manufacturers where it is mixed with other ingredients, to feed the billions
of animals that meat-eating humans, in turn, will buy from their supermarket and eat.
So with him (the vet) saying this, I agreed to the ProHeart 6 injection along with his Rabies, Bordetella, DHLP-PARVO-CORONA.
When I picked Chaos up, the doctor told me that he was in good health and what a good natured dog, for being the breed he was.
I really never noticed that Chaos was not feeling well, due to him being an outside pet. On November 2, 2003, I noticed that he had not eaten his food. I talked to him and pampered him and let him come in the house and he just laid around and acted sluggish. I thought he was just enjoying being inside.
On November 3, 2003, I noticed he did not eat again and when he tried to get up, his little back legs were shaking and I knew then he was sick. My husband picked Chaos up and brought him back in the house. But Chaos just laid there, and attempted to crawl to the door to get out. This was happening at night and I called the emergency night clinic.
They told me I needed to bring him in. By the time we got ready to take him in.... he was laying on his side.
Chaos looked up at me and laid his little head down and died. This was the first time he had ever had the PH6 injection.
If only this veterinarian had read this letter, my precious Chaos would still be alive today. This is not acceptable to me and I plan on filing a complaint against this veterinarian with the State Board. I encourage anyone that feels their veterinarian has not followed the instructions
supplied to them by the manufacturer of this drug, to also do this. It may help save other dogs lives.
Myra lost a perfectly healthy 6 yr old Shih tzu after Proheart 6 shot (heartworm prevention). He started having diarrhea and vomiting
within 5 days of the Proheart 6, and over weeks continued digestive problems. Her dog died.
Trouble received the ProHeart 6 shot on 8/20/02 in conjunction with other vaccinations. He died on 10/17/02 (58 days) after
the shot. He was VERY healthy prior to the shot being given. Danny was a perfectly healthy five-year-old part Golden
Retriever mix who was energetic and happy. He died after receiving
Proheart 6. Manufacturer's
Letter to Veterinarians Warns of Side Effects A letter
was sent to veterinarians by Fort Dodge, the manufacturer of
ProHeart 6. Amongst other issues, you will see just some of the
known side effects of the medication. This is an excerpt of the
letter. (I highlighted some sentences to emphasize the adverse
reactions) Symptoms
of Reactions
The following is listed for clinical field trials for NADA 141-189:
"Adverse Reactions: The following potential adverse drug reactions (number of
cases) were observed in the moxidectin injectable treatment group: vomiting (3),
diarrhea (2), weight loss (2), listlessness (1), seizures (1), injection site pruritus (3),
elevated body temperature (1). Injection site evaluations of the ProHeart 6 treated
dogs revealed no abnormalities.
Two geriatric dogs with a history of weight loss after the initial ProHeart 6 injection
died within a month of the second 6-month injection. A third dog who was
underweight for its age and breed and who had a history of congenital problems
experienced lethargy following the initial injection of ProHeart 6. The dog never
recovered and died 3 months later. Treatment with ProHeart 6 could not be ruled out
as contributing to these observations."
ort Dodge Animal Health, ivision of Wyeth
9401 Indian Creek Parkway, Suite 1000, Overland Park, KS 66210
Steve Connell, DVM , Director Professional Services, (800) 533-8536
July 22, 2002
Dear Doctor:
Thank you for purchasing ProHeart 6 (moxidectin), Fort Dodge Animal Health's innovative product for six-month protection against heartworm infection in dogs. The
purpose of this letter is to provide you with some new information egarding a recently approved label indication for ProHeart 6, as well
as a review of the adverse events that have been reported for he product during its introduction into the marketplace. This update
on the performance of ProHeart 6 reflects our desire to share information that has been learned about the product after its first
year on the market.
Along with the new indication, a second label change will appear in the "Adverse Reactions" section of the product labeling, and is based on the
reporting patterns received from the field. With over six million doses of ProHeart 6 (moxidectin) sold during the first year, we have
seen a number of reported reactions that were not seen in pre-approval clinical studies. This is typical in cases of a new product after
introduction to a wide population base. Through our work with CVM, a new label statement has been approved for ProHeart 6 describing our
post-approval experience. The new statement being added is as
follows:
Post-Approval Experience: although not all adverse reactions are reported, the following reactions are based on voluntary post-approval drug experience
reporting: anaphylaxis/toid reactions, depression/lethargy, urticaria, and head/facial edema. As with anaphylaxis/toid
reactions resulting from the use of other injectable products, standard therapeutic intervention should be initiated immediately.
Since introduction, we have received and tracked reports from practicing veterinarians regarding adverse events subsequent to the clinical use of Proheart
6. A review of these reports is presented below and includes events observed when ProHeart 6 was administered alone, as well as
those observed when given with concurrent medications. The numbers presented are unfiltered, as reported to CVM, which include
observations subsequently determined to be unrelated to product administration.
During the first twelve months of product use, 105 reports of site reactions post administration (.0016% of doses sold into veterinary clinics) have
been received. These events are predominantly swelling, pain, and/or pruritos that are observed post administration. The vast
majority are self-limiting in nature, though selected cases have been treated with anti-inflammatories, and in some cases, antibiotics.
A total of 946 reports of allergic responses post administration (.015%) have been received. As with vaccines, this category represents the most
frequently reported event. Most of these reactions are mild and have responded to standard medical intervention. Some, however, have been
more severe, including a small percentage of anaphylaxis cases. The most frequently reported effects have been vomiting and
diarrhea, followed by angioedema and/or facial swelling, urticaria and
gastrointestinal symptoms. Other less common events include
ataxia, weakness, dyspnea, pale mucous membranes, lethargy and
fever.
A total of 685 reports of illness post administration (.011%) have also been received. This
category encompasses a wide variety of reports that are received in a
broad timeframe (from one day to several months) post administration.
There is overlap with the allergic events where both allergy and
additional symptoms were recorded. The most frequently reported signs
have been vomiting and diarrhea at variable time frames post
administration, seizures or other neurological signs and
lethargy. Other rare, but more serious reports, include erythema
multiforme in 3 cases and autoimmune hemolytic
anemia in a low number of patients, most of whom had received
vaccines concurrently.
Full updated letter available here As is the case when prescribing any
medication, careful examination of the dog prior to administration, consideration of appropriate laboratory tests in dogs that may have
chronic conditions, and advice to the owner to watch for signs of drug intolerance is good medical practice. If a drug reaction or
intolerance is suspected, examine the patient, provide the necessary supportive therapy, and contact Fort Dodge. Animal Health
Professional Services veterinarians at 1-800-533-8536. Additional
information including a copy of the product labeling
AIHA Canine autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) is a disease characterized by increased destruction of red blood cells (erythrocytes) by the dog's own immune
system. This was the disease one of our adopted Rotts got after a single rabies vaccine. She survived and is thrived 5 beautiful years in spite of modern medicine.
Dr. Rob Robertson, M.D writes "Nearly everything that goes wrong with us and our pets, with the exception of trauma - i.e. broken bones, etc., can be traced directly to an immune system
failure". Pollution, drug overload and nutrient-poor diets compromise our immune health. The key to self-healing is a strong defense system, which protects dogs and cats from everything from the
flu germs to cancer cells. More than their mainstream counterparts, holistic veterinarians believe that a weak immune
system plays a key role in causing disease. Drugs aren't the answer for immune enhancement. The immune system is not responsive to
drugs for healing. Antibiotics fight infection, but they don't affect whatever weakened the immune system in the first place. This is
why holistic veterinarians focus less on things that cause diseases and more on those that affect the body's defenses"
>Silent Spring
Amazon.com Review:
Silent Spring, released in 1962, offered the first shattering look at widespread ecological degradation
and touched off an environmental awareness that still exists. Rachel Carson's book focused on the poisonsfrom insecticides, weed killers, and other common products
as well as the use of sprays in agriculture, a practice that led to dangerous chemicals to the food source. Carson argued that those chemicals were more dangerous than radiation
and that for the first time in history, humans were exposed to chemicals that stayed in their systems from birth to death. Presented with thorough documentation, the book opened more than a
few eyes about the dangers of the modern world and stands today as a landmark work.
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We neither breed, board nor sell Rottweilers and are NOT classified as a kennel, but
rather as a private charitable rescue sanctuary. Your donations
to us are considered gifts and are not for value received. All of the
Rotties are homed with us, rehabilitated, fed, loved and
nourished back to good physical, mental & spriritual health so that they're ready for their
exceptional new homes.
Adoptions are by appointment only and after you've been approved for adoption.
For protection of the Rottweilers, our sanity and in
order to minimize stressful or territorial reactions, all
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