Comments on #35 How to Get Your Vet Needs Met - Vital Animal® § The Natural Path

I am so grateful that I found your blog and for you sharing your holistic veterinary knowledge with the world. This podcast was so incredibly helpful especially for me as I have never took my dog of 8 years to the Vet because I wanted to avoid vaccines and Big Pharma. She has a very clean healthy diet and is athletic has never had any problems until recently she had an outbreak on her belly and legs of these pimple like bumps that turn to puss and she is itchy and severely bad. I have been treating her with organic vegan yogurt, trace minerals for the open cuts and wounds and pesecilite clay. Just when she seems to get better it gets worse so I gave in and took her to my local vet who also practices holistic care. I asked all the questions you shared and I also told them I would think about the products they are recommending so I can do more research as you said. They said her condition is so severe that nothing holistic is going to help her, they admitted the steroids and simparica are toxic but they will help her with healing from this skin outbreak. I do have a challenge with fleas ever since I moved into my new house in Oct of 2019 I also listened to your episode on the skin is alive and have tried of few things your guest recommended I really enjoyed that episode and will be ordering her products online. I was wondering if you would be so kind and give me some advice, should I just give in this one time and give my dog what the Vet has recommended? Here is what they subscribed her it would mean so much much to me if you could give me some feedback. Thank you again and God bless.

Polyflex/B12 Dex SP injection
Polyflex injectable 25 gm
Vitamin b12 injection 1000 mcg
dexamethasone SP 4 mg/ml inj
Cefpoderm 100 mg tabs #100
Apoquel 5.4 mg tablets
Simparica 6 month supply

Thank you once again for the great information, Dr Falconer.

But we think this one fell short and left out context. For example, how does one ask questions before hiring, or prefacing the asking of questions in order to have chance to talk with a doctor, getting through the gatekeepers?

Are there doctors who will speak with us? It seems we need an appointment just to ask questions.

Also, the context begs navigating topics so the very doctors are comfortable answering them. How do they know they are not being set up by mean spirited pet parents who blindly and mindlessly love orthodox ''medicine'' or by mean spirited members of the vet associations or of pet feed associations, all trying to catch the doctors straying from the 'party line.'?

I am not a doctor, but a consumer, and these things go through my mind all the time. I feel like I have to assure the vet biz I want to try, that I am legitimately interested in finding a match for my pets' needs.