While industry manufacturers have put online support services at the forefront of their Internet agenda, online sales are also in the works, although few manufacturers currently allow club owners to purchase directly from their sites. One reason could be that the Web is just too new to the industry, and it will take some time for systems to be put in place. Another reason could be that it is unknown just how widespread Internet use is among club owners. As such, the idea of purchasing products via computer could take some getting used to. Continue reading
Category Archives: Animal Fact
Lynxacariasis
Lynxacariasis is caused by the fur mite, Lynxacarus radovskyi and is more commonly reported in cats from Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Australia and Fiji, although it is now being recognized in the continental United States, especially Florida. Continue reading
Complementary Care For Your Pets
Complementary, alternative, holistic, homeopathy, acupuncture, chiropractic, herbal therapy, flower essences. do any of these terms sound familiar? If so, you may have tried one of them yourself. Maybe you’ve tried them all.
Animal Allergies
Allergies to animals can be triggered by breathing (respiratory allergy) or touching (skin allergy).
The most common animal allergy is to cats. People are allergic to the cat’s saliva and dander, not their fur.
When cats lick their fur, they coat the fur with saliva. The saliva dries, breaks off in little pieces (especially when someone pets the cat) and floats into the air, where people breathe it. It makes no difference whether the cat is long-haired or short-haired. It’s possible to be allergic to only one breed of cat. Continue reading
The Treatment of Trauma in Pet Animals Post 4
Useful rubrics might include:
Mind, forsaken feeling (this is the most important)
Fear, alone, of being
Fear, solitude
Anxiety, when alone
Some homeopaths use the “Delusions” rubrics in these cases. I do not, since we are not able to assess delusions in animals, and in their minds, they probably are truly forsaken. Continue reading
The Treatment of Trauma in Pet Animals Post 3
A recent discussion of animal behavior problems delineated 6 “etiologic” categories:
genetic
problems caused during developmental stages
ethogram deviations
disturbed social interactions
disease related behavior
adaptation inabilities Continue reading
The Treatment of Trauma in Pet Animals Post 2
Paralysis
Paralysis occurs from a variety of causes in animals; since slow growing tumors or inflammation of the spinal cord may also cause paralysis, one should treat traumatic paralysis only if it occurs with a sudden onset. Continue reading
The Treatment of Trauma in Pet Animals Post 1
The Treatment of Trauma in Pet Animals:
What Constitutes Trauma?
Consideration of trauma in animals, whether physical or emotional, provides the practitioner with familiar conditions as well as challenging differences from human patients. Animals experience many of the same sorts of physical trauma as do people (albeit from different causes), and close attention to the types of injuries and resulting signs will often yield familiar prescriptions. Treatment of emotional trauma in animals is not so clear, and this paper will attempt to address animal behaviors that provide clues to a history of emotional trauma. More importantly, a discussion of over-interpretation of animal behaviors may assist the practitioner in assessing the traumatized animal without straying from the appropriate remedy. Continue reading
Two Veterinary Cases Post 2
A Sepia State in a Spayed Cat
At the end of a telephone consultation, the client wondered if she could ask “one quick question” about another of her pets. This cat had been a stray, one of a family of four, about a year old, when she made her appearance at her new home. Her adopter took her to the animal hospital to be spayed. Continue reading
Two Veterinary Cases Post 1
Below I am sharing with you two illustrative feline cases. The first one is a severe case of painful urination, which improved remarkably with the right remedy. The second one illustrates the deep changes homeopathic remedies can work on the emotional level, even in animals. Continue reading