Helping Your Pet Live Longer
Today, breeders are in high demand to create pets with certain looks and characteristics. Both dogs and cats have been faced with inbreeding and genetic tinkering, which has altered our pet’s natural ability to cure and maintain their well-being. In this article, we will focus on the area where we have the most control.
The poor quality nutrition in today’s pet foods and treats, along with excessive vaccinations, chemical bath washings and toxic medications inhibit our pets from the real opportunity to reach their healthy life potential.
Too common today with our pets is premature aging. We have accepted the shortened estimated lifespan of our dogs and cats. The question then arises whether we, the average pet owner, can make decisions for our animals that can reverse this alarming trend.
Dr. Lisa S. Newman, N.D., PH.D, owner of Azmira Holistic Animal Center, is quoted as saying, “Cats once capable of easily reaching the age of twenty-five now are seen as “seniors” at the age of six. Dogs die even younger, only living to be eleven when they should reach fifteen and even twenty years old for small breeds. My horses average thirty years in life, my cats have lived well in to their twenties and my large breed Rottweiler lived to fifteen, one to even sixteen years of age. Most importantly, they lived very healthy lives, not lives ruled by dis-ease.”
Dr. Newman has had great success using her holistic lifestyle system which includes, detoxification, high nutritional pet food, herbal and homeopathic remedies, exercise and proper communication and care. Why then, can’t all pet owners have the success that Dr. Newman has had in caring for her pets?
Awareness and Education
Awareness and education could be the answer. One area of awareness to review is pet food and the pet food industry. It has become increasingly obvious in this billion-dollar industry that stock prices are more important than true nutrition. You can understand why the average pet owner would unknowingly buy inadequate and sometimes harmful pet food.
Marketing campaigns are smartly designed to pull at our heartstrings. It’s hard to believe that these companies actually put very little money in the nutritional value of the pet food compared to the millions spent on marketing. We see our pets as true members of the family, so we need to be educated on the ingredients that we our feeding them.
Just as you wouldn’t feed your child a Big Mac and fries for breakfast, lunch and dinner your pet needs your help in making healthy choices for their optimum health. If we knew that the meat used in many pet foods was from diseased and decaying animals, we would probably think twice about feeding it to our beloved pet. Education is very important. We need to do our homework and investigate the ingredients on the products we give to our pets because they are solely depending on us for their welfare. When you see a sappy commercial with a bunch of cute little puppies that tugs at your heartstrings and have the urge to buy that brand for your pet, you might want to read what exactly the manufacturer is putting in the food. Unfortunately, the companies that have the best commercials usually have the worst food for your pet.
The bottom line is that if we love our pets so much, why don’t we take the time to research what we are putting in their bodies. If we did do the research, we might find out why more and more dogs and cats are dying from cancer. Why their lifespan has shortened and why more and more pets have developed conditions such as allergies and arthritis - to name a few. Some pet owners will spends hundreds on clothing and chew toys per month, but then say they cannot afford to purchase high quality pet food.
So if extending the life of our pets is our main goal, one main area we need to look at is their nutrition. We might find out that we have some control of our pet’s health and well-being. Slowly, we can turn the tables and start increasing the lifespan of our pets, not decreasing it.
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