Keep Your Dog Healthy the Natural Way by Pat Lazarus author of How to keep your cat healthy the natural way ( orthomolecular medicine )

340 Pages·2023·15.398 MB·English

by  Pat Lazarus, Linus Pauling, Abram Hoffer, Marshall Mandell MD, Pat Coleby, Wendell Belfield

COMPLETELY NATURAL PREVENTIVE CARE |
HEALING DIETS FOR OPTIMAL HEALTH
HOLISTIC ALTERNATIVES FOR SERIOUS CONDITIONS
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Copyright © 1999 by Pat Lazarus
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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.
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Lazarus, Pat.
Keep your dog healthy the natural way / Pat Lazarus. —1st ed.
p. cm.
Rev. ed. of: Keep your pet healthy the natural way. c1983.
ISBN 0-449-00514-3 (alk. paper)
1. Dogs—Diseases—Alternative treatment. 2. Dogs—Health.
3. Holistic veterinary medicine. I. Lazarus, Pat. Keep your pet
healthy the natural way. _II. Title.
SF991:133 1999
636.7'0893—dc21 99-10801
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Cover design by Barbara Leff
Cover photo © Steve Solum/WestStock
Manufactured in the United States of America
First Edition: July 1999
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_ Dedication
This book is dedicated to the people who shared my strong
desire to give to the public new information that can give
shiny, healthy, and long lives to our dog companions—
and who worked with me to make this book possible.
Obviously, I owe the very existence of this book to the
many holistic veterinarians who freely gave of their 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, VM.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 Racytn,
D.V.M., New York; Norman C. Ralston, D.V.M., Texas;
Robert J. Silver, D.V.M., Colorado; Priscilla A. Taylor, D.V.M.,
California; 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.
vi Dedication
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
Foreword xi
Introduction 1
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Preventing Disease and Premature Death in Your Dog:
This Is Almost Entirely Within Your Power
Chapter 1 - How Commercial Pet Foods
May Be Killing Your Dog—and Why 44
Chapter 2 > What Your Adult Dog Should Eat
for a Long and Healthy Life—and Why Ge}
Chapter 3 + Vaccinations Can Be Your Dog’s
Worst Enemy or His Best Friend: How You
Can Make the Right Choice Th
Chapter 4 + Special Diets for Special Times in Your Dog’s
Life: Pregnancy, Lactation, Puppyhood, Senior Citizenship 87
Natural Ways of Healing the Mildly Ill, the Very III,
and Even the “Terminally” Ill
Chapter 5 + New Help for Crippling Disorders 121
Chapter 6 - Problems of the Eye 149
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Chapter 7 + Problems of the Skin and Hair 165
Chapter 8 + Infectious Diseases: Pneumonia,
Parvo, Kennel Cough, Distemper, and More 185
Chapter 9 + Some Problems of Internal Organs:
Diabetes, Cystitis, Stones, Kidney Inflammation,
Intestinal Worms, and More 209
Chapter 10 + Heart Problems and Hypertension 239
Chapter 11 + Cancer: Terminal Often Doesn’t
Mean Terminal Any Longer 255
How to Reach Holistic Veterinarians
Throughout the Country 281
Index 309