Pets Health and Nutrition - Starting Point

[Daenerys]

In case you need to give pills or tablets  to your pets this is good to knowhttp://www.catinfo.org/?link=pillingcats

I would like to share the Daenerys trick to pilling cats.     I have four, and one of them has to take antibiotics at least once a year for a skin condition. She is NOT cooperative at all.  This is what I figured out and it works like a charm.


I use a tube of the hairball remedy for cats. If a capsule, I undo the pill and dump on plate. If it is a tablet, I crush it up baby fine with a razor blade. I make sure the dose is correct, then i take the hairball remedy and squeeze a glob on my index finger. I put the dose on top of that, the put another glob of hairball remedy on top, and smush it into a ball. I then open her mouth and stick it to the roof of her mouth like peanut butter. Works great, and no gagging, no spitting out. She prefers the salmon flavor hairball remedy. 


I tried everything under the sun before that to no avail, but this works wonders.


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[Jones]

Very nice Rhodesian Ridgeback you have there, its one of my favorite breeds.

Yes  mine too.

[Emmanuel]

Same like with human health many disease processes can be prevented and reversed with proper nutrition.
General rule of a thumb should be "longer the shelf life of the food, shorter the lifespan of your pet".

Here are some links with detailed information for proper start, feel free to continue if you have some good links.

When it comes to our feline companions am  delighted I stumbled across this website which contains most comprehensive selection of essential information about feline health care and nutrition I have encountered on the net.
It contains excellent guide to making your own cat food, great deal of information on different medical conditions and vaccines.

http://www.catinfo.org/ 

And as for our canine friends here are some links which contain excessive information on how to organize your dogs diet. Yes dogs need magnesium supplementation too.
This is my favorite veterinarian and his website is a true treasure cove of various information on dog and human health

http://dogtorj.com/

In case you need to give pills or tablets  to your pets this is good to know

http://www.catinfo.org/?link=pillingcats

Thank You for this link Herr Eisenheim. 

I have two dogs and I give them cca. 90 % of raw food, meaning raw  meat and bones and viscera and meat offal for some years now and they are very healthy animals. They are intelligent, playful, with no injuries. 

[Emmanuel]

My understanding about bones is that yes dogs can/should have them but only if they're raw. 

I've fed my dogs based on information from the following for around 20 years now:

http://www.rawmeatybones.com/

Totally agree. I feed my two dogs with raw meety bones and they look very healthy and playful dogs.

[jacke mite]

I want to share that the Nutrition Basics This is an exceptional beginning stage for a review of nourishment and pet health awareness.
Nutrition, the Foundation of Good Health The establishment of exceptional health has been undermined by false, deceiving, and benefit-determined advertising. The time is now's to clear the sloppy water suffocating the fundamental standards of nourishing pooches and felines. Cling being as how what you will pick up may shock you ..

[anart]

I want to share that the Nutrition Basics This is an exceptional beginning stage for a review of nourishment and pet health awareness.
Nutrition, the Foundation of Good Health The establishment of exceptional health has been undermined by false, deceiving, and benefit-determined advertising. The time is now's to clear the sloppy water suffocating the fundamental standards of nourishing pooches and felines. Cling being as how what you will pick up may shock you ..

Hi jacke, your post doesn't make much sense. Could you please try to clarify?

[NinaMosi]

I just wanted to give credit to those who have helped me to get my cat on the road to vibrant health who was diagnosed last November with Pancreatitis.

They are Dr. Becker who can be found by going to Dr. Mercola's site articles by him can be found on Sott.net under health and wellness and Laura who did the Sunday live sott talk radio show # 7 on eating healthy in a gmo world.

Butch is eating a gently cooked grass fed turkey with organic non-gmo pumpkin & parsley of which I am slowly weaning him to full raw turkey with pumpkin and a pinch of parsley (for its vitamin and detoxing abilities) as he can not process still at this point even moderate fats from chicken, beef or pork;  his body is healing with few little back slides that are to be expected when transiting even a healthy cat or dog to a raw species appropriate diet.

He is getting before his meals a dose Iris Versicolor 30c and Pulsatilla 30c, these are cell salts that he gets 2 each of both. to help with the vomiting, irritability at times, diarrhea and his thirstlessness, as well as his craving for attention and intolerance of warm air; emotional and physical symptoms that stemmed from his pancreatitis. 

None of the regular vet. protocol of drugs that were recommended by my local so called 'holistic Vet.'  that have proven negative side effects that can actually and would have made his condition worse, which I found out by doing some research and reading many homeopathic and holistic care books on small animal and cat health specifically as well as listening to Dr. Becker's online video's library.