Some dangerous myths about Pet Care…
- MYTH…Vaccine side-effects and bad reactions are rare! I don’t have the stats for this because they wouldn’t be very accurate anyways but I can tell you from being in the pet medical industry for over 20 years that bad reactions to vaccines are extremely under-reported. In fact they say that bad reactions get reported only 1% of the time. Sadly, out of this ONLY acute immediate reactions are noted…NO chronic effects are – as the Vets do not see a connection. However a connection does exist and has been coined as ‘Vaccinosis’ since the late 1800’s. A chronic disease state caused by vaccines. I’d say in my practice 90% of the animals I treat have Vaccinosis. Auto-immune diseases and increased cancers are one of the worst ones to come of this…
- MYTH…Processed kibbled/canned food for cats and dogs and pelleted feed for horses is better than whole foods! This is such an injustice we have done to our companion animals. We’ve essentially given them our equivalent of meal-replacement power bars and junk foods and called it complete nutrition. Animals NEED REAL WHOLE FOODS. The stuff we are trying to pass off as nutritious food is what is a major contributor to making our animals sick.
- MYTH…Pesticides wash away and degrade after use and pose no real danger. The chemical pesticides that are lacing ALL our pets foods right now are destroying and changing their hormones, blocking absorption of nutrients, creating deficiencies, stopping our pets from being able to detoxify, taxing their bodies and burdening and sickening their livers and kidneys…the amounts cats, dogs and horses are exposed to are astounding. There is NOTHING safe about pesticides…
- MYTH…GMO crops are equal to regular organic ones…this is one of the biggest lies we’ve been told. There is such a huge difference in the GMO crops that we can’t even call them the same. GMO’s not only cause low grade inflammation in the body but create allergies, nutritional deficiencies and are toxic (linked to cancers). Corn for example has been genetically mutated so much it actually is missing some nutrients – so much so that it weighs less than its organic counterpart. These foods are present in 99% of your cat, dog and horse food. This alone should be reason to switch to organic whole food sources…
- MYTH…Flea and Heartworm preventives as well as chemical dewormers are very safe. Sorry not according to my experiences. I see at least a few patients daily that have had bad experiences with these products…sadly most don’t make the connection because they are told they are safe and that it can not be possible. Well it is very possible and it does pose a risk. I often hear from people telling me that they’ve used this product on their pet for years with no problems and therefore it must be safe. Firstly, this is only their ONE experience…I get to see hundreds and they are mostly not good experiences. Secondly, that pet that has kidney failure IS REACTING TO THE PESTICIDES FOUND IN THESE PRODUCTS they just don’t know that’s what it is. So sadly…when someone tells me that the chemical wormer is safe, or the heartworm or flea preventive has never caused a bad reaction – I always ask them about the state of health of their pet in general. Haven’t found ONE yet that didn’t have chronic health issues.
The problem is most of the above is cumulative…combined poisons make for complex health problems that are rarely connected to each other. We have to remember something VERY important.When a company researches side-effects to their ONE product…they NEVER take into account how their product will react in the real world when combined with several hundred toxins and chemicals. This is a massive issues we all have to be aware of and we need to limit exposure to as many of these things as possible because we will never know our pets limit. One day they will just get sick and which will you know is the culprit? The answer is all of them…