In this video i'll talk about the three key steps to a healthy dog.
Hi i'm Dan Scott, canine nutrition and home remedies specialist, and if you're new here
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to comment or ask questions below. Sharing life with a dog at your side is a joy not to be missed
but when it comes to responsibilities to keep them healthy and happy and that's when it can
go pear-shaped if you don't take a proactive stance. Dog parenting can be broken down into
three key steps that if you take you'll enjoy life with your dog that much more.
The hard facts of life beyond the rosy pet food commercials is that dogs are a commodity for
business to profit from. The pet food and drug making titans have it easy with dogs because
lax pet food laws bring big profits at the cost of your dog's health. So it's important
to step up and be proactive in protecting your dog's health and well-being by understanding
the three key steps that you can take that will benefit your dog's health and longevity.
Step one is to protect your dog's good health. Dogs start out with great health and through
our ignorance to the vet care, pharmaceutical and pet food industry, we allow them to think for us
and be led into practices unhealthy for our dogs. As the rap song states, "don't believe the hype".
The problem is that we listen to everything told us and then apply everything without question
and years later wonder why our dogs are so sick and miserable, leading to an early demise. We
buy heartworm pills, flea and tick spot on drugs, antibiotics, dewormers, vaccinations
for just about anything recommended, and all the while thinking this is to prevent disease,
not realizing we have just intoxicated our dog with a whole load of unnecessary drugs.
We've been told it's for prevention but how can that many dangerous chemicals flooding around
your dog's system be good for your dog's health? The chronic ill health affecting most dogs today
is from the toxic load they have to carry from conventional drug treatment,
additives in pet food and environmental contamination, arthritis, allergies, hot spots,
digestive problems, hypothyroidism, diabetes, liver disease, renal failure, and cancer,
are directly related to the lifestyle choices you make for your dog. It doesn't have to be
about treating illness, it can be about building health. Dogs are naturally designed to be tough
hardy animals but conventional medicine deals mainly with suppressing poor health symptoms which
blocks the body's own immune system response. And this is short-term convenience thinking with
long-term consequences, as your dog's body has to expel toxic residue from the drugs,
allergies, ear infections, yeast overloads, skin lipomas and cysts,
hot spots, and the eye staining of the dog's skin, trying to expel toxins built up from dewormers,
vaccines, heartworm pills, flea and tick drugs, commercial pet food additives, antibiotics,
and other drugs. On top of this the dog now has to deal with steroid treatment, new rounds of
antibiotics, prednisone, conventional treatments to hide the toxic outpouring of previous
conventional treatments! All the while what was a tough heardy animal becomes another statistic.
Continual use of new and improved suppressive drugs drives the toxic load deeper into your dog's
system and into the liver, kidneys, and gut, where it ends up causing cancer, liver disease, and
bowel disease. It's a vicious cycle you can stop when you decide to use a more holistic approach
to your dog's health. Think of conventional medicine as 'emergency medicine' and holistic
medicine as 'health support medicine'. Look at what you give or allow to be given to your dog
and the toxins they're exposed to and how you can limit them. There are natural and 100% effective
flea and tick treatments. there are natural and 100% effective antibiotics, and i'll leave a
link in the description below to a book that has all three of them. The vaccinations a puppy gets
are enough for life and repeat vaccinations only ruin your dog's health, and more on this later.
Today dogs are sicker than ever before as rates of chronic ill health soar. Try and unshackle
your mind from conventional thinking and choose a healthier lifestyle for your dog by cutting way
back on drugs and choosing the natural options. Your dog will be happier and longer lived for it.
Step two is to stop over vaccination. Minimizing drugs, medications, vaccines, and toxic flea and
tick applications, will simply lower your dog's toxic load and at a time when more toxic drugs
loaded into your dog's system is the very last thing they need. Just because your vet say's so,
doesn't mean it's true or healthy. Vets don't know everything, they don't know about nutrition,
never having learnt about it in any meaningful way, and they don't know about drugs, never having
studied them. They do sell both and often that's where the motivation comes from. It's 30% of their
total business income so nothing personal. Think about using a good holistic or homeopathic vet
who can get your dog off the toxic flea meds and drugs or use my home remedies book, linked in the
description below. They all damage your dog's gut, the center of your dog's immune system protection.
Never give an unnecessary vaccine, once an adult dog has responded to a vaccine, research shows she
doesn't need any more. Instead of revaccinating, ask your vet to run a titter test first to see
if she even needs that vaccine and chances are she's already protected and doesn't need it.
Pioneering work done by veterinary immunologist Dr Ronald Schultz, studied every major vaccine in
over a thousand dogs and every study he did delivered the same conclusions every time.
Vaccines for diseases like distemper and canine parvavirus once administered to adult animals
provide lifetime immunity. Distemper provides seven years by challenge and 15 years by serology,
parva virus provides seven years by challenge in seven years by serology, adenovirus provides seven
years by challenge and nine years by serology. Dr Schultz revealed that vets were vaccinating
dogs and cats every year, not because they needed annual boosters, but because the makers of those
vaccines only tested them for a few months. But thanks to Dr Schultz's work, the major veterinary
associations now knew that the core vaccines were extremely likely to protect dogs and cats for
life, so in 2003 they changed their revaccination guidelines. The AAHA and the AVMA only changed
their recommendations from annual to every three years and this is still based on pure speculation
not science. So how do we protect our dogs and cats from infectious diseases while limiting
their risk to vaccine damage? Titter testing is the scientific way to know whether and how
much vaccine is needed in the first place. But what most pet owners don't know is that vets
have always been able to tell whether a vaccine was required or not. A simple blood test called
a titta shows whether your dog is protected and whether she needs a follow-up vaccine. Vets and
pet owners can finally put an end to dangerous and unscientific vaccine schedules. What to do next
time your dog is up for vaccination? There are two in-house titter tests now available to vets,
this means the test is done right in your vet's clinic and you get quick results. TiterCHEK and
Vaccicheck are two simple tests your vet can do right in the clinic and for about the same amount
of money as a vaccine. Many vets would rather just give the vaccine and that one shot could
be the one that causes the severe and irreversible harm to your dog. But you have a choice remember,
it's your dog you're, the one paying after all. You can choose to allow your vet to over vaccinate
your dog or you can choose to protect your dog and ask your vet for a titter test instead.
Today, inclinic titter tests can be done for the following: Canine distemper, canine parva virus,
and canine adenovirus, and feline parva virus. The rabies antibody titters is still only conducted
at specialist labs and to date a rabies virus antibody titter cannot be taken as an indication
of immunity in lieu of revaccination. So when these in-clinic tests are performed correctly,
it means that a positive test result reveals that your dog does have protective levels of antibody
against the virus. Also it's good to remember that a negative test result does not necessarily define
susceptibility to a virus, the dog's history and age would have to be taken into account.
Testing is vital to protecting your dog's health from over-vaccination. It's also an important way
to find out the vaccine history of dogs coming from shelters and to know the antibody status for
what they truly need. As Dr Schultz states, "you should avoid vaccinating animals that are already
protected and the titter testing can determine if adequate effective immunity is present.
It is often said that the antibody levels detected is only a snapshot in time and that's simply not
true, it is more a motion picture that plays out for years" And step three is to feed your
dog a Healthier Kibble Diet. The ingredients in processed commercial pet food have been dealt
a bad hand, with extreme high heating killing off all enzyme, vitamin, and vineral life in the food
to sterilize it, which means it has to be fortified with synthetic vitamins and minerals,
gets no enzymes added but has extra preservatives, colors, and stabilizers added. It's now become
convenient fast food that despite the rhetoric from pet food manufacturers and vets it needs
help to bring use to your dog as a healthy long-term food supply. You do have the option of
feeding your dog a raw food diet or a home-cooked food diet but if that's not an option, feeding
a healthier kibble diet should be an absolute minimum if you want to do better for your dog
and stave off future acute disease. Feeding your dog a healthier kibble diet is the key to less
oxidative stress, better vitamin, mineral, and enzyme intake, and reducing chronic ill health.
That's why I created the Healthier Kibble Diet to help killable feeding dog owners reclaim their
dog's health from those day-to-day health issues that plague so many dogs. Dog health issues that
include vitamin and mineral deficiency, allergies, blocked anal glands, diarrhea, yeast infections,
ear infections, skin and coat problems, hot spots, arthritis, and poor digestion or sensitive
tummies. This changes things dramatically for your dog and simply by adding some essential
extras. Once added, those day-to-day chronic conditions begin to fade fast now that your
dog's getting the essential elements pet food manufacturers do not add to kibble. You'll
find a link to a video explaining more about the Healthier Kibble Diet in the description below.
The three key steps to a healthy dog begin with protecting your dog's good health by limiting
their exposure to toxic drugs and supplying their body with a boosted Healthier Kibble Diet
to ensure your dog is getting more of the vital nutrients missing from a regular kibble-only diet.
And as you cut back on unnecessary vaccines and drugs, the diet helps your dog to much
improved all-round health. Think seriously about making better, more informed lifestyle
of choices and your dog will enjoy richer health and longevity. And if you found this video useful,
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