Natural Cat Health – Keeping Cats Health Strong

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Keeping your cats health strong can be challenging in today’s world, when you are confronted by so many advertisements and claims shrieking at you that their product is the best. How do you cut through the hype and choose the best one?

First, you need to know a little about the psychology of marketing. Psychology is used very aggressively in marketing high profit commodities. The commercial pet food industry is a multi million dollar market and corporations have whole departments devoted to finding out just what makes you buy something.

Guilt is one very cleverly used tactic. Authority is another. Of course, much goes into making the product packaging look as attractive as possible.

But these are not based on any reality. Let’s examine them. Guilt is easy to stir up in any responsible pet person, or parent for that matter. It doesn’t mean that the guilt has any foundation. Of course you want the best for your cat. It’s a dumb question. Take it for what it is. Turn the question around and ask yourself, why is someone trying to make me feel guilty?

The answer is, to make you buy their product. That’s it.

What about authority? If you have been reading my blog posts for any time, you’ll know that veterinary schools are all financed, in part, by the pet food industry. It’s in their interests to do so, because once they have the students ‘on side’, their products will be promoted for life. Very good marketing! But again, is it based on reality?

Veterinary schools, along with medical schools, give little or NO training in nutrition.

How can this be so, when everyone who is anyone, knows that good nutrition is at the heart of good health?

Maybe wealth, rather than health is at the heart of these qualifications.

And finally, everyone knows that we are more likely to buy something that comes in an attractive package, rather than the exact same product that is not attractively packaged. Even if we know this and the attractively packaged product costs more.

So when you are confused by the advertising hype surrounding cat food, consider what is the reality.

Cats health depends upon several things, but nutrition is the number one priority. If you feed your cat food that helps to make an individual or corporation wealthy, then your cats health is likely to suffer. If you feed your cat according to her evolutionary history, then you have a much higher probability of having a healthy cat.

Cats whole physiology remains totally dependent on this for their health, despite man’s manipulation of breeds. Cats evolved over millennia. This far outpasses anything humanity has done.

Feed your cat as nature intended. Naturally Healthy Cats.

Natural Cat Health – Human Salmonella From Commercial Pet Food

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There has been a recent outbreak in various states of the United States of people infected with salmonella poisoning. It is thought that it comes from contact with dry pet food. It’s not the first time a commercial pet food brand has been found contaminated with salmonella and it probably won’t be the last.

Reports don’t go on to reveal the harm done to the pets fed this food.

Salmonella enteritidis is a bacteria that causes intestinal infections. It is very common. It is commonly present in raw meats, eggs and dairy, but at a level that rarely causes problems. Food poisoning normally occurs when the food that is eaten has been kept too long, which allowed the bacteria to spread rapidly.

Cooking destroys the bacteria.

Now, bearing in mind that most pet food comes from rendering plants, which have to comply with few if any laws, and you can begin to make a connection. The raw material may come from the waste from slaughter houses, butchers and commercial kitchens but also from road kill, euthanised animals from veterinary clinics, zoos, small laboratories, farms, stock markets and so forth.

So the source of the pet food is already old. Its transport is not refrigerated. The carcasses or meat waste is often left outside or in unprotected areas, until the plant is ready to use it.

This means the origin of most pet food is likely to be highly contaminated with many bacteria, including salmonella.

However, the processing of this food, if you can call it that, is under very high temperatures and pressures. This is why there is little concern for the bacteria to be active in the end result.

For the end result to be infected, it must indicate that there are further questionable procedures at the plant, that allow for the cross contamination of the waste and carcasses with the end result.

This is unsurprising, given the nature of the plants. What is surprising is that it doesn’t happen more frequently.

Salmonella poisoning normally lasts around a week, with diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting and abdominal cramps. It is unpleasant but not fatal, unless the immunity of the host is badly compromised.

Medically, it is treated with antibiotics. But there are some highly effective holistic treatments that not only deal with the infection, but raise your level of immunity at the same time.

Homeopathic treatment, for both the infected human and the animal can make very short work of the whole process. Homeopathy works by matching your individual symptoms with those of the curative remedy.

And a better way for the future is to avoid commercial cat food altogether. Making your own cat food can be not only healthier for you but also healthier for your cat. You remain in control of the quality of the food.

Naturally Healthy Cats shows you how to make this a simple and healthy option.

Natural Cat Health – Immediate Response to Ill Health

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This is probably going to sound rather strange, especially coming from a health practitioner. But you don’t always have to act. At least, not immediately. Most caring cat people do tend to panic and race off to their preferred health practitioner at the slightest problem. And sometimes it is wise and necessary. But at other times, it is better to wait and see.

For a variety of reasons, people do tend to over react when their cat is below par. Sometimes there is a feeling of guilt, that if they don’t act and something happens, they will never forgive themselves. This is very human in our present consciousness.

But we need to consider the cat and what they want. This is rarely given any thought, but it should be a priority. Would we want someone making us comply against our wishes, simply because they think they know best?

The body also has amazing healing capacities and it should always be allowed to work to see if it can indeed heal the present problem.

There are three important health keys to monitor to help you decide if your cat, or anyone for that matter, needs help.

Appetite.
Sleep.
Energy.

If all these are all normal, then your cat is likely doing a good job and you just need to monitor progress. Don’t act too hastily, whatever is going on, unless it is something obvious such as a serious injury.

If one of them falls off, then again, all things being equal, just monitor. If two or three of them fall off, then I suggest help is needed.

For example diarrhoea, vomiting or constipation may be easily dealt with by a healthy cat, but will probably affect the appetite for a day or two. If they do continue, then problems can occur, so help is needed.

If a serious problem has occurred, at least one of the three important health keys will have changed. For example, if poison has been ingested, the appetite will be absent and they will either sleep more or won’t be able to sleep.

It’s also a good idea to nurse your cat at home. Leaving them with strangers is not going to help them heal. They will feel abandoned. Home is familiar.

You need to really trust the practitioner, when you let your cat out of your sight, as at that point you have no idea what is happening, you lose control.

There are so many incidents that you can either just wait and see what happens or that you can treat yourself at home, saving both your cat the anguish of being mauled by strangers, and your wallet.

Learning how to use the common homeopathic remedies at home can save you many mad dashes to practitioners at times that are inconvenient to you.

Many moons ago, long before I had ever heard of homeopathy, one of my cats came home late one night. She couldn’t walk. She had dragged herself home. Once I had collected myself, I decided that she had probably been hit by a car.

The vet wouldn’t see her until the next morning.

We both had an anguished and sleepless night. Had I known about homeopathy and home prescribing it, I could have started the healing off to a great start. It may not have been complete, but it would have saved her a lot of pain.

The vet kept her in for a few days, causing us both grief. Her X ray showed a broken hip, confirming my thoughts. This is not something that can be set. But it is something that causes a lot of pain. And this pain responds exceptionally well to homeopathic remedies.

She was an excellent patient, lying in a box in my office, elevated so she could see out the window. And she did fully recover. But it could have been faster, less traumatic and pain free had I known a fraction of what I know now.

You just never know how useful this information might be.

There is no difference between treating humans and animals, with homeopathy. So the information cleaned with be useful for everyone, for the rest of your life.

My Opal Homeopathic Membership Group is a year long, home study course, with easy to comprehend weekly emails. During the course of the year, you have full access to me, to help you with any problem.

The price is ridiculously low cost when you see what other homeopaths are charging for the same advice.

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Natural Cat Health – Perceived Values

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Perceived values have nothing whatever to do with real value. The perceived value, of say a hard backed book, is much greater than that of a paperback. Both may contain the same information, but our humanness perceives one to be of greater value than another.

That may be because a hard back book will last longer. But the contents, the information is exactly the same.

Price is another area where real value has nothing to do with perceived value. Marketers spend much time tweaking prices to find the one that sells the most. Low prices are usually perceived as low value, while high prices are perceived as having high value.

In the case of established systems, medical and veterinary care is often perceived as having higher value than alternative health. It is often only experience that changes our minds.

Many years ago I adopted a kitten who had been found in a lay by. He was small and very thin. He also has a serious problem with his hips. He looked as if he was a Persian or part Persian. Perhaps he was inbred. He may have been injured. Or it may simply have been a lack of nutrition during his formative months.

After getting his weight back up, I took him for a vet’s visit. This vet was one of the old school. He was wise and knowledgable. He knew the limitations of his discipline. He said there was little he could do. The old school of vets knew when to leave things alone.

Greylion could get about very well, but couldn’t jump or run. He didn’t appear to be in any pain, and seemed quite happy in every other way.

A few years later I had to consult another vet, a more modern vet who suggested surgery, as there had been so many recent advances. It seemed a good idea at the time. But it was a disaster. I should have remembered the first vet’s advice. After the surgery, the cat could no longer walk at all, and died not long afterwards.

Not long after that experience I started on my homeopathic journey.

A few years ago, I adopted a dog who had been run over. The damage had affected his spine, leading to incontinence in both departments, weak back legs and a tail that didn’t wag.

Toby has only had homeopathic treatment. He is far from perfect yet, but he is active, happy, races after his ball, rather lopsidedly, but the speed is there. He is still a little incontinent, but there does seem to be more sensation. His tail sometimes wags now, but involuntarily.

Homeopathic treatment is non invasive. The worst thing you can do is to get the wrong remedy. In some situations, that can cause problems. But these are short lived and of a temporary nature. No lasting harm can be done.

People, or animals, who have been given the death sentence by their doctor or veterinarian, often turn to homeopathy as a last resort. And in many cases, it can turn the problem around completely.

Being human, we do tend not to think much. We are often too busy to give due consideration to important issues. Until we are confronted with the ultimate.

I suggest we need to stop following the herd and start to follow our feelings and gut instincts. Often we are persuaded to do something against our better judgement, because of the perceived value of the person or product.

The herd is not always right, for either the herd or the individuals in it. Everyone is different. Every situation and circumstance is different. These differences should be honoured and respected, not ridiculed.

This is exactly what homeopathy does and is just one of the reasons I am so happy to have found it. There is nothing that homeopathy can’t treat, because it treats the individual, not the problem. And it is the individual who is out of natural balance that creates the problem.

Natural Cat Health – Treating Cat Flu Naturally

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Treating cat flu naturally is not something that should be undertaken by a novice to the holistic world. Having said that, there are some things you can do to improve the protection against future bouts and to improve the odds in an established case. Natural cat health is all about ensuring your cat remains naturally healthy, against every disease, not just a handful.

Cat flu is a general name given to cats suffering with upper respiratory tract symptoms. It is a viral infection and is considered to be highly contagious. The symptoms can include:

eye inflammation and discharge
sneezing
nasal discharge
a fever
salivation
mouth ulcers
throat affections making swallowing difficult and painful with the resulting loss of appetite

A veterinary diagnosis of the type of virus can be made by taking a swab and having this tested.

However, this is of little use, as there is no veterinary treatment of viruses.

Sometimes, cat flu can worsen and go into the lungs. So antibiotics are prescribed in case this bacterial infection results. However, antibiotics, and other veterinary medications, lower the immune system.

It is common for cats at the extremes of life to be more vulnerable – ie young kittens and old cats. These cats are more likely to succumb to this disease, than are others. However, there is much more to this common disease.

A cat with a strong and healthy immune system will not get cat flu, or will only get a mild dose. A healthy mother cat will have healthy kittens, who will not be prone to getting any virus or any disease, whatever is going on around them. Her milk provides the necessary protection as the kittens’ immune systems develop.

So the priority is to ensure your cat’s immune system is at an all time high. The best way to ensure this is to feed a quality, natural diet. Diet is the main maker or breaker of a healthy immune system.

Even if your cat already has cat flu, and may have a depressed appetite, it is still the best thing you can start doing.

Other obvious things to do to ensure your cat’s greatest chance of quick recovery are:

a warm and comfortable bed in a safe place which is dark and quiet
little disturbance from other animals or children
free access to where the cat normally has access to – the rest of the house or outside
free access to fresh grass
free access to water
extra attention and love if this is desired

The homeopathic treatment of cat flu, as with any disease, is highly effective. Results can be staggeringly fast.

Homeopathic treatment works by collecting the total of the personal symptoms the cat is exhibiting, including any emotional differences from normal. For example, if your cat is more sooky during this time, whereas normally she is rather aloof, this must be part of the symptom picture.

A curative remedy can only be prescribed on the totality of the individual (or collective in the case of an epidemic) symptom picture. This will depend on how observant you, or the homeopath you are consulting, are.

The normal veterinary advice to prevent cat flu is to vaccinate against it. Vaccinations have a multitude of problems associated with them. Yes, they do appear to give your cat protection against the targeted disease, but this comes at a price.

Vaccinations don’t improve the immune system. Rather they depress it, leaving your cat more disposed to contract other diseases. Vaccinations don’t kill viruses. These simply mutate to take on a different form. Often these are ‘discovered’ as new diseases, rather than recognised as the mutated form of an old disease.

The best things you can do in treating cat flu naturally, as well as preventing future bouts, is to improve your cat’s immune system. This is best done by feeding a quality, natural diet and by using a natural method of health care which does just that. Homeopathy far out passes probably all other methods of any health care system.