Heartworms, fleas, ticks: what they have in common and why a natural approach is a true preventive
By Shadrach on Jun 3, 2009 in Dog Heart Health, Dog Nutrition, Natural Modalities for Dogs, Natural Yard & Home for Dogs, Preventing Pests -Fleas, ticks, mites
These nasty critters are something all dog and cat owners get nervous about, especially during these warm summer months. But humans, if you understand that these critters can only truly infest, infect, etc. within a perfect host during a perfect storm in the body, then you’d not allow the big pharma-medical industry conglomeration to scare you into putting horrible topical and internal poisons ON us and IN us and believe you are protecting us from these pests.
These pests all have TWO things in common: they need a PERFECT host (a depleted immune system which most overvaccinated, kibble-fed animals are) and they need a PERFECT storm. Read the article on heartworm by Dr. Jeannie below to see what I am barking about here, WOOF! The only reason more pets get infected these days is bepaws of all the pesticides, toxins and junk food being slammed at them and then calling it HEALTH care, WOOF!
I’ve even had veterinarians tell my human she is cruel for suggesting you NOT use these POISONS on and in us. That makes NO sense. Understanding how the body REALLY works and supporting it through a proper, species appropriate raw diet, stopping the endless vaccines, etc. is the TRUE prevention. But hey, there is a LOT of money in treatments, drugs, pet food, and vaccines that include patents but very little in using what is in nature and seeing amazing results, WOOF! We sure don’t see any wild canids lining up to get their dose of poison to “prevent” these pests, why should we and why do humans buy into all this propagandized fear mongering to make these corporations richer? I don’t get it -- and we’re called the “dumb” ones.
Here are some articles to help:
http://www.thewholedog.org/heartworm.html
www.aspenbloompetcare.com/2008/06/parasites-obesity-and-paw-chewing.htm
Why Doctors Do Not Take Chemo
More Bad News for spot on Flea and Tick Treatments
The Center for Public Integrity has recently reported the EPA has asked manufacturers of spot on flea and tick treatments to provide detailed information of adverse reaction incidents. ABC News reported in 2008 more than 44,000 severe reactions and 1,200 deaths were reported.
http://www.truthaboutpetfood.com/articles/367/1/More-Bad-News-for-spot-on-Flea-and-Tick-Treatments/Page1.html
Here is a story from Ingrid, a friend of ours in South Africa, who had a very heartbreaking thing happen with her dogs and it’s also why she’s not only an adamant supporter of us dogs being cared for NATURALLY but why she’s so angry at the big pharma-medical industry agenda to keep us pets sick, dying and definitely NOT healthy (story used by permission):
Just as your “trusted” vets keep peddling useless and inefficient annual “booster” vaccinations, containing brain-scrambling and carcinogenic adjuvants, and (in many cases lethal) NSAIDs (non-steroid-anti-inflammatory drugs), such as Rimadyl, Deramaxx, Previcox, Metacam, etc., they will also assure you that tick and flea products, such as FRONTLINE are “safe” and any adverse reaction must have been caused by an “underlying conditions” -- their favourite moronic excuse!
When both of my boys, Andy and Mikey, who had never been ill in their 13-year old life, succumbed to FRONTLINE in 2004, both exhibiting the same symptoms, i.e. paralysis of the hindlegs, I researched the toxicity of Frontline and other flea and tick products and discovered that the active ingredient in Frontline is FIPRONIL, a known neurotoxin and carcinogen. The inert ingredients, which the manufacturer is not required to disclose for “confidentiality” reasons, are just as toxic. 
See this report:
http://honolulu.injuryboard.com/toxic-substances/fipronil-and-termidor-pesticides-followed-to-hawaii-by-bansandlawsuits.aspx?googleid=254906 and
http://www.apnm.org/publications/resources/fleachemfin.pdf
All of us, including our pets, already suffer from an overload of toxic chemicals, starting with our food. Most commercial pet foods are grain-based and most of the grain, soya, etc. is genetically modified, containing antibiotic-resistant marker genes, viral promoters (in most cases CAMV (cauliflower mosaic virus).(see my article in this respect http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/deadly_tuberculosis_174.html)
Also, Monsanto’s Roundup-Ready corn and soya, used for food and feed, contains glyphosate (now fortified -- believe it or not -- with Agent Orange! http://www.i-sis.org.uk/whoOwnsLifeNotMonsanto.php). According to a recent study conducted by CRIIGEN (“Glyphosate Formulations induce Apoptosis and Necrosis in Human Umbilical, Embroyonic and Placental Cells”):
“As a matter of fact, Roundup formulations are the most common herbicides used with cultivated GMOs. Roundup Ready soya, the main GMO imported in Europe for food and feed, contains Roundup residues. In this research, the formulations were diluted at minimal doses (up to 100,000 times or more) and they programmed cell death in a few hours in a cumulative manner. We also noted membrane and DNA damages, and found that the formulations inhibit cell respiration. In addition, it was shown that the mixture of the components used as Roundup adjuvants amplified the action of the active principle called glyphosate; one of its metabolites may be even more toxic. These effects are greatly underestimated by the legislation, which does not take these phenomena into account, but instead simply sets arbitrary contaminant thresholds in food or feed. The rules apply to glyphosate whatever its formulation may be, this is wrong.
The authorizations for using these Roundup herbicides must now clearly be revised, since their toxic effects depend on, and are multiplied by, other compounds used in the mixtures placed on the market; and glyphosate is only one of them. The detailed blood analyses of each mammal which has received this herbicide during regulatory tests before commercial release must be published immediately, since our research points to undesirable effects which are currently masked or hidden from scientific scrutiny.”
Full text:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/tx800218n
If on top of the pesticides already contained in their food (which do NOT break down in the gut!), our pets are then bombarded with toxic pesticides in flea and tick products, the rise in (money-spinning) chronic diseases and ultimately death shouldn’t come as a surprise…a friend in Australia, whose poodle suffered from cancer of the jaw bone said according to her vet, he put down an unusually high number of pets with the same cancer (not because the cancer would have killed them, but because pet owners couldn’t afford the treatment). All pets have one common denominator, they are taken for walkies in various parks where the grass, every tree, every lamp post and corner has been sprayed with Monsanto’s Roundup containing glyphosate. ~Ingrid
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Thank you for allowing us to share this Ingrid. We pets deserve so much better than this. Don’t let yourself be fooled into thinking this poison is protection for us humans!
For more help check out this Audio Program Set from Animal Talk Naturally:
Click here to buy Pest & Parasite Control, Naturally!
And this resource page on our website:
www.aspenbloompetcare.com/pet-resources and look for our NATURAL preventive products such as our Be Free, along with feeding a species appropriate raw diet!
You can also use products such as FOOD-grade diatomaceous earth. We get ours from www.earthworkshealth.com and it is VERY inexpensive. The guy who did the termite inspection on our home said this is the ONLY thing that deters termites effectively WOOF!
And join our Natural Health Care for Dogs Group on Yahoo:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NaturalHealthCareForDogs/
Have a pawsitively tail waggin’, NATURALLY healthy day, WOOF!
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