Ensure That Your Pet Lives A Long, Healthy Life
Today, breeders are in heavy demand to create pets with certain looks and characteristics. Both cats and dogs have been faced with inbreeding and genetic tinkering, that has changed our pet’s natural ability to cure and maintain their contentment. In this piece, we intend to focus on the area where we've got the most control.
The bad quality nutrition in the current day's pet foods and treats, along with disproportionate vaccination treatments, chemical bath washings and dangerous medications hold back our pets from the real chance to reach their healthy life potential.
Too common today with our pets is premature ageing. We have accepted the shortened guessed lifespan of our cats and dogs. The query then turns up whether we, the average pet owner, can make choices for our animals that can reverse this shocking trend.
Dr. Lisa S. Newman, N.D, PH.D, owner of Azmira Holistic Animal Center, is quoted as saying, “Cats once capable of simply reaching the age of twenty-five now are seen as “seniors” at the age of 6. Dogs die even younger, only living to be eleven when they should reach 15 and even 20 years of age for small breeds. My horses average 30 years in life, my moggies have lived well in to their twenties and my massive breed Rotty lived to fifteen, one to even 16 years old. Most vitally, they lived awfully healthy lives, not lives ruled by dis-ease.”
Doctor. Newman has had great success using her holistic lifestyle system which includes, detoxification, high nutritional pet food, herbal and homeopathic cures, exercise and proper communication and care. Why then, can’t all pet owners have the success that Doctor. 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 is increasingly clear in this billion-dollar industry that stock prices are way more significant than true nutrition. You can see why the average pet owner would innocently buy insufficient and sometimes harmful pet food.
Marketing campaigns are smartly built to pull at our heartstrings. It’s hard to credit that these companies actually put very little money in the nutritional value of the pet food matched against the millions spent on promoting. We see our pets as true members of the family, so we want to be educated on the ingredients that we our feeding them.
Just as you wouldn't feed your kid a Large Mac and fries for breakfast, lunch and dinner your pet wishes your help in making healthy decisions for their perfect health. If we knew the meat used in many pet foods was from ill and rotting animals, we might doubtless consider carefully about feeding it to our beloved pet. Education is critical. We want to do our homework and analyze the ingredients on the products we give to our pets because they are only depending on us for their welfare. When you see a soppy commercial with some cute tiny 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 maker is putting in the food. Sadly, the corporations that have got the best commercials often have the worst food for your pet.
The bottom line is if we adore our pets so much, why don’t we take the time to analyze what we are putting in their bodies. If we probably did do the analysis, we might learn why more and more cats and dogs are dying from cancer. Why their lifespan has shortened and why more and more pets have developed conditions like allergies and rheumatism – to cite a couple. Some pet owners will spends hundreds on clothing and chew toys a month, but then say they cannot afford to buy prime 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'd find out that we've got some control over our pet’s fitness and well-being. Slowly, we will turn the tables and start inflating the lifespan of our pets, not decreasing it.
Jackie Boylan is La Quinta Realtor, pet lover and CEO of Window Cleaning San Diego.
