Back to Reason #2 to Fire Your Vet: Raw Food Attitude
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Thank you for this information. I'm one who believes that, if our pets are healthy, stress free, happy animals, then diseases, parasites and alike are less likely to hinder them. They are far more likely to effect or attack the animals of a weaker immune system.
I will also share this "Para-B-Gone" with the members of my group.
Cheers!
Good for you for resisting the gut killing treatment, Barb. Can't tell you how often "treating the lab results" happens. Glad you saw through that.
Like Louann, I suspect many could show it on a fecal, yet not be sick from it, just like your guy.
Same is true of Lymes. Many get treated because they found a high titer which only indicated exposure and immune responsiveness. A month of tetracycline to a dog showing no illness. Net result: immune system impairment, as the gut flora die off.
I think if I did fecals on my dogs they would all test positive for giardia. We live in the foothills of the Rockies and there are beaver & muskrats in our pond and a wide variety of wildlife in the forest and surrounding valley. My dogs hunt mice, play in the pond, eat deer poo, etc. I am sure they all have giardia, but it doesn't affect them. The only time it might flare up is if they get stressed by something. I am beginning to believe that giardia is just part of the normal flora of the dog's digestive system around here anyway.....
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