Comments on #9 Thomas Sandberg: Laughing at life expectancy statistics - Vital Animal® § The Natural Path

This was such a great podcast! I really enjoyed how easy Thomas made the raw diet concept and his beautifully compassionate intention of the rescue center. Thank you for binging him on your show!
Christina

Thank you Dr. Sandberg for your work in this arena and certainly for your rescue efforts! Hoping this will take off and become the new norm as we learn to disentangle ourselves from the conventional path. I have 6 rescue dogs of my own plus a 501 dog rescue here in Houston. All my dogs are naturally reared which includes raw feeding. I do not vaccinate every year and I do not use any parasiticides. My pups do not get altered until older. All my prevention and even treatment is done with natural products. It is effective, safe and economical. I teach my adopters how to use the protocols but I have found sadly that it's about 50/50 that they continue them. I am learning homeopathy for non-critical care and this has been the biggest boon of healing care for myself and the dogs. I could go on and on but just wanted to thank you and Dr. Falconer for this great interview. I will be completing your sign up and hopefully become part of your raw feeding study.

Loved the podcast with Tom...he has a wonderful vision for rehabbing rescues! My 8 year old rescue has been on raw from a butcher shop [human grade but not organic] for several years. Got a senior blood panel done and was horrified at his ALT [845!]. All else perfectly normal. A month later the repeat was 731. Wondered if the food was too fatty or maybe there was an accumulation of antibiotics, growth hormones from the meat? Went on various kibbles, used a homeopathic type of detox. He went from seeming to be healthy to sick. Went back on raw and he looks healthier. Have to wait one month more for ALT repeat. What would cause that one enzyme to be so high? And if I start with one meal a day instead of two, would that meal be too big? I suspect he has acid reflux. And should it be in the morning or night? Thanks for confirming what my intuition has told me about feeding raw.
Would love to tell my vet about that study where they fed the dogs with Salmonella-infected food and none got sick...I love it!!
Linda

Been feeding raw (dogs) off an on. Also cook their daily food as well in between. They hate can food now. Only my damaged, beagle born with lots of parts missing and deformed likes some can and cooked food, he will not touch raw.
My cats are not raw feed :(

Question, I been told to much meat for an old dog will raise their liver/kidney reading. Would love to hear about that subject.

I got 6 cats and 4 dogs, all Rescues and strays, so I don't know their whole story.

Now since the mosquito are dying, I want to get them HW tested, but vaccination for one dog is overdue :) my vet will latch on to that. That dog is 1.5 yeas old now, but itchy when calming down at night (not to bad), but I fear it will push her over the so called allergy threshold when I let her have her 3 year vaccination. She been pumped full of medications when she was found with parvo as a pup, her other two siblings did not make it. Grrr

Love to listen and ready about natural healing and prevention. I dropped pretty much out of volunteering at the local shelter since they do 1 year vaccination and meds, meda, meds trough the Vet. I used to be the one who had to keep track of that and send them. I started to feel like I send them to the slaughter house. Now I only go there to walk a dog and also sit down with them for hugs and snuggles in the field.

I wish it would be possible to do a all natural no-kill shelter.