Thanks again for your site and I look forward to joining arms against our common foe (ignorance).
Nora Lenz
Bellevue, Washington

I can tell you what I do for my dogs. Re garlic, I use a drop or two of the liquid off of jarred roasted garlic to flavor some of their food. I wouldn’t use any more.

Re broccoli, my dogs have eaten it their whole lives with no gas. Ditto brussels sprouts and cauliflower.

Re portion size, you really have to guess. My four-pounder eats almost as much as my 9 pounder. Just weigh them frequently and adjust accordingly. My dogs eat a portion that looks appropriate on a salad plate, but all dogs are different.

I haven’t written a book, but I did a series of nutrition recordings with a top veterinary expert. Check them out at http://www.askthepetfoodexperts.com

Re your new website name, I can tell you by experience that all my articles and videos that have attacked vets who over-vaccinate and feed commercial food have met with nasty replies. They never refute my findings; they just attack me personally. Vaccination and mass marketed pet food are multi-billion-dollar businesses.
Even my article on lowering vet bills has been attacked. I hope you read comments #9, 10 and 11 at http://www.dogs4dogs.com/blog/category/veterinarians/vetbills/ #9 is by an insulting vet. #11 is a priceless response by a PhD.

Let me know when your website is up. I wish you the best of luck.

Although most vets are sincere in their love and compassion for animals, the system that trains them has no heart and cares only about sustaining itself. We, the dog-owning public, have to stop pretending that people aren’t getting rich from epidemic dog sickness. What needs to be done to keep a dog healthy is not complicated or mysterious. That vets don’t know this information and have no interest in learning it is SCANDALOUS. The vet industry needs to be called out for its abject failure to properly address dog sickness. Vet bills for treatment of disease have gotten so out of hand that people are now being advised to get pet insurance. The only pet insurance that people need is to learn how to properly FEED their animals so they will never get sick. This is not only possible (despite what we always hear from vets), it is INEVITABLE if you understand the true biological needs of dogs. And I’m not just talking about raw feeding. Raw feeding is crucial for a disease-free life but it has to be done correctly. To do it correctly is simple, cheap and not time consuming.

Personally, I am outraged at the audacity of the vet industry’s implied monopolized claim on dog health, when they know practically nothing about the subject. What they know a great deal about is how to suppress symptoms. The only problem is, suppressing symptoms makes disease WORSE. Nobody, and I mean nobody, is treating disease properly – by REMOVING THE CAUSES. Even so-called holistic vets only suppress symptoms, they just do it with herbs instead of drugs. There is nothing “holistic” about this, it’s the same reductionist approach that conventional vets use, to the great detriment of sick dogs everywhere.

A few years ago these realizations led me to begin teaching people how to have a sickness-free dog for life. My own dog is nearly 18 and has not been plagued by the ‘old age problems’ that vets always tell us are unavoidable. I have clients whose bank accounts had been drained by unending costly diagnostics and harmful treatments, and whose dogs got completely well within weeks under my guidance. Most disease is REVERSIBLE, if causes are removed. This is the best kept secret on the planet!

My new website is under construction now and was to be called “UltimateDogHealth.com”. However, I’m seriously but reluctantly considering changing the name to “NoMoreVetBills.com”. I’ve known health practitioners who were persecuted by the human medical industry for their work in teaching people how to live healthfully. As much as I would like to get in the face of the vet industry, I have no doubt that it could squish me like a bug if it had the slightest notion. I have no desire to be a martyr, not even for sick dogs. On the other hand, their own belief that disease is inevitable, unavoidable, random and indiscriminate may protect me, since they have convinced enough of the world of this that my target market only consists of the tiny fraction of people who aren’t completely buying it. With a potential market that small, I could probably stay under their radar indefinitely.

It is up to us lowly “LAY” persons to take the vet industry to task for their failures. How many people who have invested $200,000 and 8 years of their lives in vet training are willing to do this? I know of only two — Lonsdale and Billinghurst – and they barely scratched the surface of what needs to be done. As trained insiders, there’s only so much they’re willing, or able, to do. The rest is up to US.

Thanks again for speaking the truth about vaccination.

Best wishes,
Nora

You asked, where did a “uneducated, zealous owner”such as myself get my info about titer testing? It came from years of research and interviewing experts, including internationally-renowned pet vaccination experts W. Jean Dodds, DVM, and Ron Schultz, PhD. As you may know, Ron’s decades of vaccine research were the basis for the recommendations of the 2010 WSAVA Canine and Feline Guidelines and AAHA Canine Task Force Report of both 2003 and 2006. He sits on all these boards. These reports led to changes at every North American vet school and the AVMA. Jean, a former Veterinarian of the Year, runs a nonprofit lab that, among other things, runs and interprets titer tests. Incidentally, Jean and Ron spoke at a seminar I organized for vets, vet techs, dog trainers and pet owners last March (earning professionals 6 CEUs), benefiting the Rabies Challenge Fund research. We made a DVD of the best parts of it. Perhaps you’d be interested. http://www.dogs4dogs.com/saferpet Click here to read my article on titer testing.

As for commercial food, have you actually read the labels of that stufff? Most of it is predominately corn and by-products. Would you feed it to your child? Or eat it yourself? Would you prefer highly processed food for yourself over a fresh diet with lots of variety? Also, much of the “BILLIONS” pet food companies spend on research is for determining how to make it as inexpensively as possible and marketing it to vets and the public. You also surely know that food is tested only for the short term; it is not “complete and balanced” for an entire lifetime. Did you have to go to medical school to learn how to feed your own family? Why are dogs more complicated that humans?

I call all of my many vet friends by their first names, at their request, as do most of their clients. Pet health should be a partnership, with each learning from the other, both respecting the other. My book on holistic dog health has won two national awards and was a finalist for a third. I’m a frequent contributor to publications other than my own and have given considerable time and money to benefit dog health. I do not profit from my work. And yet you afford me no respect.

It saddens me to hear that you believe titers only need to be checked once in a dog’s lifetime. While titers ARE an alternative to vaccination, a dog’s immune status against a particular virus can WANE over the course of it’s lifetime. You clearly have not received adequate education on vaccination. I wonder, which veterinary school did you graduate from? Veterinarians go through extensive training and education, and are committed to remaining current and up to date on SCIENTIFICALLY backed methods of issues like vaccination. Unsubstantiated, anecdotal reports that cannot be backed up with scientifically sound research should not be preached about by uneducated, zealous owners such as yourself. A few years of “personal” research does not a veterinarian (or good education) make.

As for feeding commercial brand dog foods: major companies spend BILLIONS each year testing their products to make sure that they provide complete nutrition for dogs and cats. I love owners who are committed to good nutrition, but it requires an extremely high level of education and dedication to formulate a well balanced diet using home cooked meals.

Finally, I would like to address a topic in your vaccination video. As veterinarians, we dedicate our lives to continued education in our chosen profession. It is a form of respect to address us as “Doctor”, and if you are uncomfortable with using such a term, I encourage self reflection as to why you have an issue with showing respect

Dr. Denise

Flavor and “real meat” are the biggest tip offs. But humans don’t listen. They hear what they want to hear. It makes them feel good.

I wrote an article you might like on my Blog4Dogs: http://www.dogs4dogs.com/blog4dogs/category/dogfood/ You might want to pass it along to your well-meaning, but ultimately dangerous friends.