Are Toxins Killing Your Dog?

Is your dog always in peak health? Does your dog sometimes suffer from skin problems? Has your vet ever prescribed cortisone or prednisone for your dog? Does your dog have allergies? Does your dog maybe have hot spots or some other skin irritation?

Does your dog lick his/her paws constantly? Annoying, isn't it? (for you, I mean - and just imagine how intensely irritating it is for your dog!). My first Boston Terrier, almost 20 years ago, "April", would lick her paws and she developed a bad hot spot as well. At the time she appeared to be a very healthy dog but in fact, she was not. It was not until after years of trying to figure out WHY she still licking that it hit me! I was a "health food" fanatic and had been a vegetarian for about 10 years at the time. What IS proper nutrition for dogs? I pondered, NOT processed foods for sure, thus began my journey in Natural Rearing my dogs.

Perhaps your dog has even been diagnosed with cancer, Addison's disease, Cushings disease, or Lyme disease? Is your dog chronically sick in some way, and you're constantly administering costly drugs to your dog?

Well, whether you dog's problems are intermittent and relatively minor, or chronic and major, you CAN do something to improve your dog's health in a significant way ...

Take matters into your own hands and do something worthwhile for your dog!

The root cause of your dog's health problem is likely to be contaminated, toxic blood.

Toxins are the root cause of allergy symptoms which is why the conventional veterinary medical practices treat your dog for allergy "symptoms" (not the root cause of the symptoms) with all sorts of steroids and other toxic and lethal chemical drugs. These drugs DO NOT SOLVE the problem as you very well know by now. The worse part of all is that most of these drugs actually make the situation worse by hampering your dog's ability to absorb nutrition and suppressing the immune system.

Drugs have a long term detrimental affect to your dog's health and longevity. Drugs collect in the liver and kidneys and shorten a dog's lifespan. Drugs are merely a band aid to supress the symptoms while the patient is bleeding to death! They just don't work because they don't get to the cause of the problem.

Most Vets say that drugs and antibiotics are the only course of action that can be taken. Does this sound familiar? WRONG! Drugs are the only course of action that conventional veterinary medicine knows about and preaches, but it is NOT the only course of action that is available to you and your dog.

Fortunately for your dog, you must care very much about him/her because you have ended up here and have finally found the viable alternative to bring your dog back to full health and vitality.

You must get to the root cause of your dog's health problem.

Don't mask or supress the problem with drugs and toxic chemicals, get to the cause and get it out of your dog's body.

Vets normally DO NOT get to the actual root cause of health problems. They may run tests and find signs that your dog has allergies or liver faliure or cancer or an infection but they then go about treating the symptoms with drugs. In fact the continual use of toxic drugs actually make the situation worse and worse as the years go on.

Did you know that steroids such as prednisone have a long lasting harmful effect to your dog's liver?

Did you know that extended use of antibiotics can cause your dog's immune system to be severely suppressed just when it needs a strong immune system? All bacteria, both good and bad bacteria, in your dog's body will be killed by an antibiotic and cause your dog's nutritional uptake to be hampered further jeopardizing its health?

Let's make this easy to understand
Have you ever changed the oil in your car and forgotten to change the oil filter? It didn't take long for the oil to become filthy and unable to properly lubricate your car's engine did it? Well, the same holds true for your dog's body. How can your dog have clean nourishing blood if its filtering systems like the liver and kidneys are filthy and full of toxins? Where do you think those toxins will go when the filters are already clogged and dirty? What eventually happens to the contaminated blood?

You may hve guessed it, it travels directly into the other tissues and organs of the body causing cancer, tumors, addisons disease, cushings, diabetes, arthritis and on and on.

The skin is the largest eliminative organ of the body and it gets more than its share of these toxic substances. These toxic substances trying to escape the body, then cause the itching, scratching, hot spots, rashes, etc. as the body trys to eliminate them.

Hot spots are also caused by these toxins, most allergies are caused by toxins, epileptic seizures are very often caused by toxins as the toxins are now locating in the brain cells, even ear problems are caused by toxins. In fact in the summer of 2000, the New England Journal of Medicine acknowledged that 80-90% of all health problems are caused by toxins.

Where do these toxins come from?
Toxins are in our water such as chlorine and fluoride, processed foods with all the preservatives, etc., the air we breathe. They come from the cleaning materials in our homes, furniture, carpeting and other synthetic fabrics in our homes, the herbicides and pesticides that are sprayed on our foods, in the parks, on our yards and then tracked into the home and kennel, emissions from our cars. Literally everywhere in today's modern industrial society. Most chemicals have a metallic base as the foundation of the product, thus your dog is loaded with heavy metals as well as chemicals.

Get to the cause:
Clean your dog's filtering systems.

Here is what you need to do to get your dog serious and long lasting relief. Again, you need to get to the ROOT CAUSE of your dog's health problems by removing the toxins from it's enviroment as best as possible, i.e. If you drink filterd water, give your dog filterd water, supply nutrition with "live" foods and supplements, exercise, fresh air and sunshine daily (weather permiting of course) and a good cleanse/detox.

You need to clean your dog's main filtering systems - the liver, the kidneys and lungs - of the toxins - the heavy metals and chemicals - that have built up and are causing your dog endless health problems and terrible discomfort by circulating toxins throughout the body much like oil circulates throughout a car motor.

How do you do this?

You need to gently:
Remove chemicals, and heavy metals

Rebuild all the intestinal flora that has been killed in your dog's gut and the rest of its body due to antibiotics, stress and other toxic drugs.

Clean up your dog's contaminated blood

Restore nutrients with fresh wholesome food and supplements

The foundation of excellent health is excellent wholesome nutrition

Bring your dog's immune system that has been so severely suppressed back up and into good working condition.

First, de-toxing (cleaning your dog's entire body) is a very simple, inexpensive and relatively quick procedure. You merely add an natural detox formula to your pet's food for three weeks.

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The recommendation is to do from three to six two- three week cycles to really clean your dog's body and get it on the road to health quickly. Like clean oil for your car, your dog's blood needs to be clean in order to feed its body. The older the dog,or the longer it has been in poor health, the more toxins its body has absorbed over the years and the longer it will take to clean its body. A general rule of thumb is one month's cleaning for each year of your dog's age.

Second, to accelerate your dog's road to recovery, you need to add a probiotic such as Fastrack® Canine Microbial Supplement into its food two or three times daily for at least 90 days. Thereafter, you need to add it to your dog's meal only once daily.

Be sure you use a probiotic product that includes essential digestive enzymes which allows your little companion's body to absorb more of the remedies quickly to speed up its body's ability to rejuvenate. The Whole Dog recommends Enzymes Pro + or Fastrack Canine Microbial Powder as they both contain probiotics AND enzymes; which in combination, aids in rebuilding the immune system which of course helps your devoted friend return to robust health and vitality much more quickly.

Third, your dog's heart has been pumping contaminated blood to every cell in its body perhaps for years. Consequently to restore health and vitality, it is imperative you re-nourish your dog's body by adding natural vitamins and trace minerals to its daily food and/or water intake. For this purpose, Mineral Essence from Young Living or *Postive Health Power Boost are highly recommended.

*Positive Health Powerboost is a complete supplement containing probiotics, prebiotics, enzymes, Omega 3 fatty acids (in the form of wild salmon oil), vitamins, minerals, trace minerals, herbs, etc.

Did you know, without trace minerals in the body, adding vitamins is a waste of money as the body cannot fully absorb the vitamins even if they are natural vitamins? Did you know the animal body cannot absorb synthetic vitamins anyway? Without trace minerals you are just plain wasting your money.

Fourth, if you really wish to have a dog with absolute health and vitality, you are going to have to take this necessary step. You must give your dog the most natural and wholesome diet possible. You all know I personally feed my dogs a raw meat and bone diet and I highly recommend it for ultimate health for you dogs. If you don't have a butcher that will work with you, there are several prepared frozen raw diets available as well as some dehydrated ones. I personally feel there are too many vegetables in most of these foods but over all, they are so much more nutritious then kibble!

As a very last resort, if you can not do raw or a simple dehydrated diet where you just add warm water, then please look into a very high quality, organic, grain and potato free kibble with human grade or better ingredients such as Great Life Rubicon Diets

Fifth, building a strong immune system is crucial! Most of my readers know by now that I believe a strong, healthy immune system is the "Key"! I have many articles on the immune system and while all the above will work to help your dog build back a healthy, strong immune system, there are some supplements you can add, especially to help with the detox and cleanse to give a jump start.

Transfer Factor, Moducare, Colostrum or Natural Pet Immune Balance. These all work on the immune system in a powerful and highly effective way.

If you would like more information on any of these methods, please email me at info@thewholedog.org

REMEMBER, Your dog looks to you for its comfort and reassurance that he/she will get well. Your dog trusts you to take good care of him/her.

Now you can go forward and help your beloved little companion become well.

Your dog needs you to take a "pro-active" approach to its health and well being just like you or any thinking person would for yourself or your child. This health maintenance approach will give your dog the opportunity to enjoy its life to the fullest. Your taking these simple, inexpensive, non-stressful, and proven steps towards your dog's health will increase the health, happiness, longevity and quality of life of your dog. Bring your dog back to the playful pal s/he should or used to be.

A consultation is highly recommended before any preventative program or treatment is started. A consultation includes a personalized diet and holistic program suggestions that are custom-tailored to your own dog's individual and personal needs. While I will continue to provide and even add educational articles on the website and Blog, most of these are general in nature. I therefore encourage you to tailor a program specifically for your dog's needs. This is particularly imperative in pets with complicated health issues, or if you've done a lot of outside reading and have conflicting information.



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The products and information given on these pages is not intended to substitute veterinary diagnosis and treatment, but to compliment it. If symptoms persist, please seek the advice of a qualified practitioner.