Bacterially speaking, its a mean cruel world. More dogs are on medication then ever before. Why? The short answer is diet.
Training wild dogs to accept living with humans is not the problem, domesticating their diet is! To find out what is wrong with the domestic diet let us look to their wild relatives.
Wild Relatives Diet
The wild relatives this article refers to are not todays feral dogs, whose health has been compromised by the effects of industrial pollution, which has taken its toll on the game they hunt, the grasses they eat, and the water they drink. Many feral animals have little choice except to eat garbage, and drink from stagnant water, which are likely loaded with toxic levels of bacteria and pathogens.
Before domestication, dogs spent the majority of their time in the wild, hunting. Their meals consisted of fresh kill. They breathed uncontaminated air; they drank chemical- free water, and got plenty of exercise.
Dogs instinctively know that digestive aids are essential in order to properly break down and digest foods. They eat grasses and soil for the microflora and soil based organisms required for proper digestion. If you allow your pets to do this today, you could be making matters worse!
The warning signs that the GI tract is out of balance include; loss of appetite, foul smelling gas, bad breath, body odor, loose stools, diarrhea, IBS, Crohns Disease, and constipation! Left unattended, the intestinal wall, which is the life line to nutrient uptake and waste disposal, soon becomes inflamed. The greater the Inflammation, the more likely cat or dog will develop a variety of Immune Diseases.
The New Age of Veterinary Care- Holistic!
Conventionally trained veterinarians seem programmed to prescribe prescription medications, in stead of nutrients. This is a case where the treatment plan needs a cure!
Holistic vets focus on reestablishing the animals natural immune defense systems by first administering probiotics, and nutritients specific to the condition. They administer medication sparingly, and as a last resort!
According to The Royal Society of Medicine Great Britain, Fully 90% of all chronic disease is cause by an unhealthy digestive system!
Probiotics restore GI balance and health? Well, Not exactly!
Almost without fail, if people have any awareness about probiotics, they think yogurt. The yogurt industry has done a great job of marketing; however, commercial grade yogurt is cultured from pasteurized milk, or soy. By the time you consume them, very few probiotic strains are viable. Fewer still are capable of surviving human stomach acids, let alone that of cats and dogs.
Today, many pets are allergic to commercial milk products. So if not yogurt, what then?
SBOs: The 21st Century Probiotic Supplement
Earlier I pointed out that your pets wild relatives eat organic grasses, and soils teaming with microflora and soil based organisms (SBOs) to compliment their natural diets. Incorporating SBOs into your pets daily diet has long reaching benefits. If you administer SBOs daily, chances are your pet will not get GI disorders.
Holistic Veterinarians administer SBOs instead of antibiotics. Why? SBOs are scientifically proven to resolve routine GI disorders, quickly, naturally- without withholding food or water! Importantly, they have no side effects, and may be administered in multiple doses.
Due to soil toxicity, today, SBOs are grown under laboratory-controlled conditions. Importantly, SBOs are available without prescription.
Keys to Restoring or Maintaining Optimum Health
Commercial pet food is the complete opposite your dog or cats natural diet. Regardless of what the labels say, they are sorely lacking in the nutrition your pet needs. Think of them as fast food which is merely empty calories for your pets. Cats and dogs need quality meat proteins. Most are allergic to plant proteins- a main source of bulk in commercial pet foods.
Illness is mostly due to exposure over time. Genetic Predisposition results when proper food, nutrients and supplements are withheld over generations.
Generations of exposure to commercial pet food, chlorinated drinking water, and a lack of digestive supplements have severely compromised your pets genetics. Many today are born unhealthy, or predisposed to a lifetime of chronic disease.
It is not uncommon for pets to be on multiple meds at any given time. And, for the first time, we are transferring diseases to one another!
Heres a little known secret, no matter how much money you spend to improve your cat or dogs food, supplements, water and air, unless you are also replenishing their daily requirements for intestinal microflora (SBOs), your efforts are largely in vain!