Keep Your Cat Healthy the Natural Way ( orthomolecular medicine ) PDF
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e HEALING DIETS FOR OPTIMAL WELL-BEING e HOLISTIC TREATMENTS FOR SERIOUS CONDITIONS e ACUPUNCTURE, HOMEOPATHY, CHIROPRACTIC, AND NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS a UTTING-EDGE NATURAL THERAPIES AND PREVENTIVE avs iv in ue LOUIS RIEL Keep Your Cat Healthy the Natural Way Also by the Author Keep Your Pet Healthy the Natural Way Healing the Mind the Natural Way Keep Your Dog Healthy the Natural Way (Forthcoming) ee oS 7 4 ye gan + Gd ee Keep Your Cat Nera TETRA) Pat Lazarus Fawcett Books The Ballantine Publishing Group * New York Sale of this book without a front cover may be unauthorized. If this book is coverless, it may have been reported to the publisher as “unsold or destroyed” and neither the author nor the publisher may have received payment for it. A Fawcett Book Published by The Ballantine Publishing Group Copyright © 1999 by Pat Lazarus All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by The Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. A portion of this book was published in Keep Your Pet Healthy the Natural Way by Pat Lazarus, Macmillan, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by Pat Lazarus. Fawcett and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. www.randomhouse.com/BB/ LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Lazarus, Pat. Keep your cat healthy the natural way / Pat Lazarus. —Ist ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-449-00513-5 (alk. paper) 1. Cats—Diseases—Alternative treatment. 2. Cats—Food. 3. Cats—Health. 4. Holistic veterinary medicine. I. Title. SF985.L29 1999 636.8'08955—dc21 98-34704 Cover design by Barbara Leff Cover photo courtesy of FPG International Text design: BTD / Sabrina Bowers Manufactured in the United States of America First Edition: January 1999 10 *9 8. 27) 60 Soe Se 2 This book is dedicated to the people who shared my strong desire to give new information to the public that can give shiny, healthy, and long lives to our cat companions—and who worked with me to make this book possible. Acknowledgments Obviously I owe the very existence oft his book to the many holistic veterinarians who freely gave oft heir time and expertise in interviews with me, in sending published material, and in checking the manuscript word for word for accuracy. Those veterinarians are, in alphabetical order, Nino Aloro, D.V.M., of Virginia; Sheldon Altman, D.V.M., California; Ihor John Basko, D.V.M., Hawaii; John Fudens, D.V-M., Florida; Robert Goldstein, V.M.D., Connecticut; Michael W. Lemmon, D.V.M., Washington; John B. Limehouse, D.V.M., California; Jack Long, V.M.D., California; S. Allen Price, D.V.M., Alabama; Phillip Racyin, D.V.M., New York; Norman C. Ralston, D.V.M., Texas; Robert J. Silver, D.V.M., Colorado; Carvel G. Tiekert, D.V.M., Maryland; and Neal K. Weiner, D.V.M., California. I owe gratitude to my husband, Joe, also a medical writer, who helped me with many of the mechanical aspects of this compilation and who gave me strong psychological support, as he has throughout our marriage. And I must thank Brendan Robinson, who stepped in and rescued the manuscript after a computer breakdown. Perhaps fittingly, it was Brendan’s inspired work in devising a successful healing diet for his pet scheduled for euthanasia that started my interest in holistic veterinary medicine some two decades ago. Contents Introduction 3 Preventing Disease and Premature Death in Your Cat: This Is Almost Completely Within Your Power Chapter 1 - How Commercial Pet Foods May Be Killing Your Cat—and Why 23 Chapter 2 + What Your Adult Cat Should Eat for a Long and Healthy Life—and Why 41 Chapter 3 - Vaccinations Can Be Your Cat’s Worst Enemy or His Best Friend: How You Can Make the Right Choice 83 Chapter 4 - Special Diets for Special Times in Your Cat’s Life 97 PART 2 Natural Ways of Curing the Mildly Ill, the Very Ill, and Even the “Incurably” Il Chapter 5 - New Help for Crippling Disorders 123 Chapter 6 - Problems of the Eye 145 vit viii eer Chapter 7 - Problems of the Skin and Hair 155 Chapter 8 - Infectious Diseases: Distemper, Pneumonia, AIDS, and More 177 Chapter 9 - Some Problems of Internal Organs: Diabetes, Cystitis, Stones, Kidney Inflammation, Intestinal Worms, and More 199 Chapter 10 - Heart Problems and Hypertension 227 Chapter 11 + Cancer: Terminal Often Doesn’t Mean Terminal Any Longer 241 National List of Holistic Veterinarians 271 Index 301
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