Comments on Walk With Me: Curing Lily’s Heartworms Without Drugs | 5

I just read this whole story and am so bummed that Margo never finished following up with you.

I think of Lily often and wonder how she's doing. I just read your addendum and realize we'll never know. Darn!

I bought your natural Heartworm prevention booklet and I read it in one sitting, and it confirmed that I'm doing all of the right things (except day dare but I can't afford to do that every day because I already spend close $300 a month on her raw diet of beef, chicken, buffalo, quail, lamb, green tripe and venison and I prefer the convenience of having it done for me so I don't get the ratio of meat/organ/bone wrong, preparing it takes time I don't have, and including time to find all the varied meats and organs. So I Use Reel Raw. Since I don't do day care I make sure when I wake up, my dog gets 45 min to an hour walking on my treadmill while I do some reading and studying, then I feed her before I leave for work. after work, I take her off leash hiking in the fields and woods. We work on training and play fetch and she plays with other dogs. A few times a month I also volunteer at a dog rehab center for dogs with all issues but mostly aggression. My dog will go with me and get walks, swim, train and socialize. She's become a great role model for the dogs there for learning. My dog is extremely well behaved, respectful and highly obedient but the only reason I can have her off leash and have as much fun and freedom and take her anywhere with me is because of the e-collar, I trained her on it using low level stims but I have certainly used it to correct for noncompliance of a known command, like blowing me off when I call her back to me when she just wants to go say hi to that dog in the woods who is on leash and attempting to lunge and going nuts, and now that my dog is not licensed because I refuse to give th rabies vaccination again, I have to be damn sure my dog is 100% reliable and well behaved off leash, to avoid fights and situations where our cover might be blown. The e-collar is an amazing tool and it actually doesn't shock dogs like the old models too. The modern day e-collar is like a muscle stim that just gets your dogs attention so say your dog is running after a ball and going into the street where a car is now coming, you say Allie here and activate the stim and as soon as ur dog turns and comes back to you you release the pressure/ stim and deliver praise. I am certain that there are people that abuse the e-collar but you can abuse anything, like you hand, you can use it to pet or use it to smack. I just didn't agree with #6 in your book. I think having vocal cords removed is abusive and using citronella spray bark collars is abusive but proper use remote collars and bark collars is not. My dog as a freaking menace and positive only trainers could not help my dog and they said it was untrainable and even told me to put my dog down, if it wasn't for balanced training and remote collars my dog would be ill behaved, super stressed out and stuck in the house all day. Now because of "shock" collars I can walk my dog without her being leash reactive, take her off leash with 100% recall and take her anywhere I go and she is amazing, the e-collar remove stress in fact. When you properly use it. But for anyone interested in using one, you do not just strap it on your dog and start pressing buttons, you have to TEACH your dog what the stim means, and this will result in having a well trained, balanced, stress free dog that you can take anywhere with you. Thank you Dr Falconer for your awesome Heartworm book and incredible resource/webpage which I tell a lot of people about, but please please learn more about How e-collars are helping dogs and actually save their lives when it comes to aggression rehab. It is like using an invisible leash.

So, it's almost 4 months now since "episode 5", and many other blog posts have come since then. What happened? I know I'm not the only one who expected "episode 6" with the rest of the story...
Thanks!

Thanks, Dr. Will. YES! YES! YES! It felt SO great when I no longer had cravings for carbs or sugar. I'm back in that place now, but not without having gained back a good portion of what I lost last year due to breaking my ketosis with small amounts of sugar and fruits.
To get back on track recently, whenever I had a craving for something quick and sweet or carb-y, I'd grab a handful of raw macadamia nuts. And sometimes I'd drizzle Organic Whole Goat's Milk Plain Kefir (Redwood Hill brand...yum!!) over it and make it into something that resembled a "bad carb" dish. What else disappeared was pain in my joints and indigestion. Lots of reasons to stick to high fat/protein/low carb (carbs for me being salads and veggies) lifestyle.
Just showed Dr. Merritt's videos to my husband and voila! He now understands why he has been unable to lose weight. It's those spikes in blood sugar and the concomitant bodily reactions throughout the day. We have definitely used up our lifetime carb allowance. I had to laugh when she talked about the Snackwell era. I was right there in the 80's eating Snackwell cookies because they were low fat (ha!ha!) and the whole grains, etc.
Your postings are invaluable...more than you'll ever know. Thanks!

This may be the wrong place to post this, but I watched the 4 videos you recommended from Dr. Marlene Merritt on Blood Sugar and they were really well done. I was on a ketogenic diet about a year and a half ago and lost about 30 lbs. I looked and felt great. Then I found out the hard way that when you begin to eat sugar again even in small quantities, you are no longer burning fat for fuel and you have to start the whole process of weaning yourself off sugar and carbs again. This has been an illuminating experience to be sure.
Dr. Merritt is brilliant and she has an easy way of talking that makes this subject understandable. There's also a book called The Fat Switch by Dr. Richard Johnson that also makes this case quite clear with a multitude of historical examples and scientific research.
I'll miss your weekly newsletter while you're away. I really look forward to it every week. Thank you so much!

Jealous.. I want a Will Falconer in my area ! lol

What a fascinating case to follow! I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for Lily's test results. Because of all that you post and share, I did some searching and found a homeopath for my dogs. Our first appointment and remedies were given at the end of July. It's quite amazing to see the changes take place!