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> Does Your Animal Companion Deserve This?, Raw Food Myths - a pretty thorough re-education in cat & dog nutri
Furkidlets' Mom
post Apr 17 2009, 04:53 PM
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"Being on a learning edge can be signaled by feelings of annoyance, anger, anxiety, surprise, confusion, or defensiveness. These reactions are signs that our way of seeing things is being challenged. If we retreat to our comfort zone, by dismissing whatever we encounter that does not agree with our way of seeing the world, we lose an opportunity to expand our understanding."*
*Adams, M; L.A. Bell; and P. Griffin. Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook. pg 68.


This quote is what ENDS one of the articles I'll provide links to, but it was so accurate an observation, I wanted to BEGIN this post with it. I've been on this board, on and off, for around 4 years now (since June/05), and have seen time and again numerous animals sick &/or dying of various dis-eases, and their people then having to suffer horrible confusion, grief and guilt as a result. My topic ti tle is meant to be taken EITHER way, once you read this woman's webpage and other articles.

What has frustrated me no end is knowing, through the course of what my own kids, my own spirit and my kids' 2 holistic-minded vets taught me about saner thinking/treating &/or management of illness, that the bulk of such dis-eases are either truly preventable &/or infinitely treatable and curable by various methods and approaches that are currently non-mainstream (but now more swiftly growing, at least within certain circles). I've tried to maintain hope that I could do my own part in helping to re-educate others in a similar fashion to how I learned, with my ultimate goal geared towards 2 things:

1.) Helping the animals themselves not have to live with so many illnesses &/or behavioral problems, and

2.) Saving animal parents from having to even end up here as soon or as often as they might otherwise, and thereby enjoy an even longer and higher-quality lifetime with their fur-children.

I've tried to approach this from several angles, and have posted many informative articles and links to this end (not as many as I have, personally, but a good number nonetheless), hoping those already here as well as any newcomers would find, read them, continue their own learning, and thereby find more hope & resources, both for their companions still on this earthly plane and for any new adoptees that may come. This was my larger vision....and one that was wholly tied into providing a meaningful legacy of what my own kids, Nissa and Sabin, went through and thereby taught me, for the ultimate good of The All. In essence, if not for them, I never would have expanded my mind in the various ways I have. If not for what Sabin taught me, his sister, Nissa, would not have been the beneficiary of my further learning. And most importantly for me since her transition, if not for Nissa having continued to open me up and show me that my efforts were not in vain while she was here, I would not have even evolved with this vision in the first place.

What has all this got to do with this post on dog and cat nutrition?, you might ask. Well, to be blunt, I'm sadly worn out, because for the most part I feel the bulk of these efforts and the information I've provided has been ignored, in favor of the same-old, same-old, status quo thinking, a state wherein I no longer feel comfortable. In fact, it's downright painful. I feel I have for the most part failed in my personal mission here to help others avoid unnecessary pain, and worse, that in effect so too has one large part of my kids' legacy failed. It seems to me that Nissa's whole story (in particular, of my 2 beloveds) has not proved the same, valid points to others here, as it had to me, and that is not only breaking my heart all the more, but it feels like an affront to all they both stood and lived for.

Like anyone, I will always need 'continuing education' on all unfolding fronts, and even though I wasn't able to avail myself (and my girl) of the ultimate BEST info. there is now, because some didn't even exist at the time, I did utilize much of what WAS known then (given our own constraints/logistics), knowing much more would be forthcoming after it was 'too late' for her. ...as it will always be as our knowledge base increases. So I didn't do it all, but I did plenty, and wasn't content to sit idly by and allow mainstream thinking to dictate what happened to my babies. I will never want any of those kinds of regrets or guilts to plague me if I can help it....the kinds that were well within my power and responsibility to avoid to the best of my ability as I continued to learn. In retrospect, I think I did pretty well on those fronts, especially with my girl. But my learning is still an ongoing affair, for as long as I have a working brain and mind. I'd hoped others would have felt & thought similarly, but on the whole, unfortunately that does not have seemed to be the case, and after all this time, I feel like I'm doing nothing more than spinning my wheels here.

And so I offer, for what may well be the last time, a very informative link to this OTHER woman's well-researched and pretty exhaustive information site on one of the ultimate and most basic and important 'tools' we have within our means, to help undo all the unnecessary damage that's been created in our furchildren's bodies -- that being THEIR DIET. While she focuses mainly on dogs, cats are also included in her dissemination, and the same, basic ideas apply to them as well, although you should ALSO read more about cats' needs in particular through her other links and various other sources. It also goes w/o saying you should also be working with a holistic vet who already has knowledge of optimum dietary needs for animals. There are a large number of related links this woman provides (some are no longer working, unfortunately...but you can probably dig around to find them elsewhere), absolutely ALL of which I'd suggest as ongoing reading, so as to get as complete a picture as possible. If you DO read them all, you'll have a very expanded, working knowledge (& resource/support groups) yourself, of this and many related topics, from which to step off in your own re-education. If you don't.....I refer back to the quote I borrowed (above) from the end of one of her articles, as well as reminding you that there are common-sense REASONS why animals are so ill today. As with anything, you are either part of the problem, or part of the solution. You can spend your money on excessive, allopathic vet bills and drugs to attempt to mitigate the bad effects of unnatural foods and treatments and thereby cause even MORE problems, or you can use it to attend to the underlying causes of dis-ease in the first place. As the author of these articles says...."it's up to you", and "since when does convenience replace the welfare of our pets!?" If this last question brings up any of the discomforts referred to in the beginning quote, then congratulations!!.....that means you're ready to move beyond them by questioning your own practices and beliefs about what you do/don't do, regarding your animals' lives. In other words, what DO you really believe your animal companions deserve?

In a similarly backward fashion, I'm listing her "conclusion" article first, simply because it provides a good, general overview of what are usually the most common aversions to feeding a raw, whole food diet in the first place, with appropriate info. to answer to such myths. "An Honest, Candid Conclusion to the Myths Pages", by Carissa Kuehn. The second article of hers on myths you should read is "Vets are Thoroughly Qualified to Dispense Nutritional Advice. As an adjunct for a start on info. about cats and natural diets, please also see this page from Blakkatz, The Truth about Dry Cat Food. (Michelle Bernard also offers natural health consultations from her home in North Carolina....as a caveat, though, I don't agree with her breeding more cats...not until "they all have homes"...)

For the complete index of Carissa Kuehn's articles, please see The Current Myth List on her Home Page (you can get to this from any of her articles, too, by clicking on "Home"), where you will also find her 'library' of related articles and other websites.


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nicole'smom
post Apr 20 2009, 01:20 AM
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Great post, Furkidlets, well written and well researched. I found the link to the myths about dry cat food very informative. Glad I read it. Thanks for posting it.
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Nemo's Mommy
post Apr 24 2009, 03:07 PM
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Yes, wonderful information here. I REALLY liked the http://www.blakkatz.com/dryfood.html (truth about dry cat food link). This has some very helpful information in it that everyone could benefit from reading. I like the fact it talks about the different diseases, ect. Very good info!

Thanks!
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Furkidlets' Mom
post Apr 24 2009, 03:46 PM
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You're both VERY welcome! sleep.gif Always glad to be helping out, firstly, our animal brethren, as well as their people. It's win-win for all concerned.


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"I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you."

[center]~Anonymous~


<div align="center">"Not flesh of my flesh, Nor bone of my bone,
But still miraculously my own.
Never forget for a single minute,
You didn't grow under my heart - but in it"[/center]

~Fleur Conkling Heylinger~


>^..^< >^..^< >^..^< >^..^< >^..^<


"For one species to mourn the death of another is a noble thing"

~Aldo Leopold~

<span style='font-size:9pt;line-height:100%'>Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. ~Sri Aurobindo

Spay now or pay later, the interest is killing us.


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post May 7 2012, 08:30 PM
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Commercial pet "food" poison and vaccines cause all the cancer these animals have to suffer and die from. I've fed my animals raw meat diet forover 20 years. They are bright agile and strong loving life...oh, and they get lots of love and freedom to run and play
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