Is vegan food right for your dog or cat?

12/22/20 • 39 min

#017 Dr. Marybeth Minter shares a case with us, a dog I’ve heard about over the years, long suffering with horrible allergic skin disease. Kali, the middle aged Border Collie had lost all her coat, had open sores, was regularly plagued with fleas, and Chrystal, her owner had tried everything without success.

Kali was on various raw food diets, healthy supplements, and had been prescribed for by two other well qualified homeopathic vets in the past without much improvement. When Dr. Minter was called upon, in addition to using the constitutional prescribing approach, she suggested that toxins might be playing a role and recommended a radical diet change: a plant based diet, based on recipes from Dr. Richard Pitcairn.

Chrystal rolled up her sleeves and began feeding Kali this way, thinking she had nothing to lose: she’s tried everything else and her poor dog had suffered long enough!

Tune in to hear what this radical idea has resulted in. Regardless of your views on “right vs wrong” feeding, this is worth your time.

For more info and links, be sure to see the show notes for this episode at https://VitalAnimal.com/17

Chrystal rolled up her sleeves and began feeding Kali this way, thinking she had nothing to lose: she’s tried everything else and her poor dog had suffered long enough!

Tune in to hear what this radical idea has resulted in. Regardless of your views on “right vs wrong” feeding, this is worth your time.

For more info and links, be sure to see the show notes for this episode at https://VitalAnimal.com/17

Previous Episode

Titers: Are you using them wisely?

#016 In this interview, I’m the guest and I’m being interviewed on homeopath Julie Anne Lee’s Adored Beast show. Tune in to learn how you can use titers wisely and save both money and your pet’s health when you know this stuff.

Titers seem simple enough on the surface: they are measures of antibodies your animal has made to a germ of some sort, usually a virus.

But what are the limits of titer testing?

Does your vet read titers properly?

Do breeders understand the difference between vaccination and immunization?

13:00 What value does a titer have? Less vaccines? And why would you want to limit vaccines?

If a vaccine label says “Repeat annually” what does that really mean? Is annual titer testing a better path or a waste?

What’s DOI? How is that important?

16:15 What are the limits of titer testing? When the titer falls, is your animal really no longer immune?

22:53 How likely are puppyhood illnesses going to hurt a senior? Is revaccinating your senior more risk than benefit?
All this and more is answered in this episode to help you be a wise guardian for those innocent animals in your care, what ever species they are.
For more help and links, be sure to see the show notes for this episode at https://VitalAnimal.com/16

Next Episode

Colostrum vs Transfer Factor: What's Wiser?

#018: Have you sought to strengthen your animal’s immune system and been told colostrum is an amazing natural way to do that? How it’s specially made to help calves survive in the germ filled world they are born into, and so, it’s good for you and your animals?
I’ve long been impressed with a component of colostrum called transfer factor. It’s well studied for over 60 years with thousands of research papers published on it world wide. I chose to use it in myself and my patients based largely on all that research and the results have often been quite remarkable in both me and the animals who’ve gotten it.
In this episode, I’ve clarified the differences between colostrum and a key immune component, transfer factor. The two are significantly different in who they can help. Knowing the difference will help you do better for your animals (and yourself) and save you money when you make an informed choice between these two seemingly similar products.
Inside, you’ll discover:
— what’s in colostrum that makes it so amazing
— who exactly benefits most from it (and how those who do can die without it)
— how a critical time factor makes all the difference between the two
— how the size of colostrum’s main ingredient limits its usefulness
If you’ve ever wondered if colostrum and transfer factor are interchangeable, you won’t want to miss this episode.
For links and more on this episode, see the show notes at https://VitalAnimal.com/18