My 10 year old beloved dog was diagnosed with cancer - a malignant tumor. The vets wanted to operated and do chemo and radiation. I soul-searched ( and even called an animal intuitive in another state) and decided that I would not put him through that. I found a pet nutritionist in the middle part of the country - I am on the east coast - and she was AMAZING. She took him off all the what-I-thought-was-THE-best food he was on, changed his water ( only distilled), added this, subtracted this ( he was only allowed ONE kind of treat that I had to order). Within seven months the tumor was half the size and within 13 months, there was none. Two of my neighbors decided to call her and had success with things that were going on with their dogs as well. "NO kibble EVER," she said ( they were not on it anyway); no chicken!; no traditional dog chews. Our animals are getting cancer at alarming rates and living many years less than they did years back -they aren't here long enough to begin with!! My dog is now 13 and a half and runs like a puppy. She is an angel: she started working with animals when she was 14 and has helped countless people with their pets for a fraction of the cost I would have paid to the vet hospital. I called a university which has an ongoing research program to study cancer in dogs to tell them and they were "not interested." Cancer is big business not only in the human world, it seems.
But also, don't forget: the association between vaccines and tumors goes all the way back to smallpox days. As does chronic disease, categorized in those days with a new term by British physician J. Compton Burnett: Vaccinosis.
Of the two, diet is easier to undo the wrongs committed before you knew better. Change the diet and you'll often see a positive outcome in a couple weeks.
But vaccinate today? Very difficult to undo that, and you'll find yourself having a "forever patient" if you choose allopathic (conventional )medicine.
Thank you, Will, for always bringing up the danger of poisons. I love your courses on VitalAnimal.com. I especially like your talk of Vitamin N. 'N' for No. Just say No to all poisons. I have followed you and Jennifer for years and I appreciate you both so much. Thanks to all who spread the truth. I have been feeding raw for twenty years. Raw meaty bones, organ meats, whatever fruit and veggies we eat for salad and dinner. Nothing complicated. Extremely healthy and beloved dogs!
I love your story! A happy ending! Our beloved pug died at age 10 from malignant tumors. I wish I would've thought to completely change her diet. I did try some natural remedies but they weren't successful ... Probably started them too late. That said, I'm really happy to have this info if needed in the future.
Hi Nancy…would you be so kind to share the pet nutritionist with me? I just recently lost my precious Sophie to Hemangiosarcoma I did everything possible holistic to save her but this cancer was a death sentence! I’m so scared her brother will get this same cancer and would love to work with a more holistic future for him. He has been on raw his whole life but would love to be guided by this nutritionist. Thank you
I've told you in the past about Tio. My mixed breed Chihuahua Pomeranian. He lived to 19 years and 4 months. He always had a sensitive stomach and as a result we fed him three times a day, smaller meals. He was sort of a picky eater his whole, long, wonderful life. During the pandemic, the sourcing of the lamb in his dried kibble changed. It killed our other Chihuahua who had low grade kidney disease. She went full blown into kidney failure. Tio was floundering at the time too. He was 17, so you think it's age, right? Well the pet communicator I used at the time said it was the food. I switched him to human grade wet food. My husband tried it. It tasted like homemade beef stew, literally. He lived almost 2.5 years after that. We amended his food with sweet potatoes, honey, yogurt and olive oil. His health may have been best when we "Barbara Bushed" it (apparently Barbara Bush gave up medical care when she got to a certain age, or so my MIL told me). At age 17 we decided no more vet care. He never needed a vet visit in that time.
So food was life changing. He also had a full blown anaphylactic reaction to the leptospirosis vaccine at age 8 or so. He never received a vaccine after that except rabies (required by law which is dumb, he was never alone near a rabid animal!). And that's when I started thinking about the vax industry bin animals and humans. We give digs vaccines every year? I titre tested him for a couple of years and he always had antibodies. I refused vaccines after the reaction and logic and I intuition.
And Tio walked the beach 3 miles nearly every day of his life. Sometimes he walked 10-15 miles in NYC when we were on vacation. He also got plenty of vit D kayaking, boating, swimming, riding in antique convertibles. He lived his best life. I make it my goal to live like Tio! He seemed to have longevity figured out. And add napping and being pet a lot!
Sorry this is so long. Tio just has so much he taught me and continues to teach me.❤️
We were always told chicken raw or cooked was bad for dogs because of the bone’s splintering, and parasites in raw meat. Has that changed? I want my pups to live as long as possible but there is so much information out there for positive and negative on raw diets. Just don’t know.
Raw chicken is a super food for dogs. Raw chicken bones are amazing for them. The issue with splintering is only with cooked bones. I was afraid about this too. But a friend whose aunt breeds doggies insisted that they were safe. And she was right.
Jennifer, do you make all of your own food for your sweet pup, Serenity? I have done that before, but I’ve never just tried raw, although I do give our pup raw chicken, and raw eggs sometimes. He doesn’t even like the kibble. But he was gaining weight so I cut back on his food and just put kibble. Thanks for helping me rethink that. I think the weight gain was probably all the treats I was giving him! We were training him and he had some puppy tendencies. We were trying to break him from. (he loves dehydrated sweet potatoes, freeze dried meats, raw chicken wings, and dehydrated feet. Do you think dehydrated or raw is best? My guess is raw. I imagine dehydrating is all about the concern of choking?). Anyway, thank you so much. As always, much appreciation.
All the science I’ve read points to raw food being the healthiest option. The less processed the better. I do half from the butcher shop — there’s a photo of the label in the post—so that is premade. And half I make myself.
Thank you SO MUCH for the article and all the examples of different foods! I have a very picky 12 year old Chihuahua, who unfortunately loves kibble best of all. I tried putting her on a homemade, mostly raw, food diet and was successful for a short while. Like KTon said above, I thought I was feeding her the best kibble... But then recently I watched a brief documentary about the kibble industry and am horrified! Another issue I have with my pup is she has very few teeth left... Her teeth have always been bad. I do give her raw ground beef often and her treats are all freeze dried raw beef or chicken hearts. I'm going to use your list and hopefully find some combos that work. Again, thanks!!
The friend mentioned above has an older dog with a sensitive stomach and no teeth. She figured out that cooked pork was the best protein for him. She cuts it into pieces so he is able to eat it. And also gives him cooked green beans. And pumpkin or sweet potato. His sensitive stomach can’t tolerate raw food. And he doesn’t do well eating other meat. So far as I can tell, Serenity does really well with all proteins but prefers chicken above all. I have a theory that she would love duck. She loves water and chasing birds. She hasn’t tried it though.
Thank you for this info! I was pondering cooked meat and veggies since she can't eat anything tough. I'm going to start trying different things until I find some winners :) We had a lab that loved water and chasing birds. Your dog sounds so sweet and fun!
Whatever we choose to feed our dogs, I think you've highlighted something important: being intentional. They depend on us to make those decisions with care, and that's one of the greatest responsibilities of loving them. X
I have heard raw and organ meat. It’s weird to think they would eat raw food but if they lived in the wild, they wouldn’t go cook it and then eat it. Hahahaha
Thank you for sharing this! I am still heartbroken over the loss of my beloved cat Oscar from heart disease at age 6 because I did not take the time to think about what I was feeding him. For all the research and teaching I do on human health and the importance of real food, I somehow trusted the industry with the 4-legged member of my family. I will never forgive myself. :-(
I wrote this article and gave a copy to our vet (who claimed to be holistic, didn't give Oscar any shots, the breeder had given as a kitten but we didn't give any more. However he is the one who recommended what to feed).
I feed my dogs a raw beef mix made by a local beef processing plant that they call “Pet Food” that consists of organ meat. One dog is 133 pounds and the other is 90 pounds so on a daily basis there’s a lot of food being eaten. It’s been cost prohibitive to go full raw so I mix a “high quality” kibble, some fresh veggies, with the raw meat. I know that sounds like an oxymoron. I just can’t figure out how to eliminate the kibble in a cost effective way. Ideas are welcome.
I was interested in how you can feed raw chicken a I’ve always been told to cook chicken because the potential for salmonella is high. I usually buy chicken breast for a change of protein and bake it until it reaches 165 degrees. My local beef processor flash freezes the meat as soon as it is ground and packaged so I’m not afraid of it being raw. Any insight on how chicken can be safely fed to my dogs would be greatly appreciated.
I buy her organic free range chicken drumsticks from wherever they’re on sale. She gets one a day. She loves them! They are completely safe. No processing necessary. I should probably wash them. But I don’t even do that. (I’m not very helpful, am I?)
I just bought a box of those chicken drumsticks from Azure for a great price. I found a great meat grinder that can handle chicken bones from LEM products. We have been so happy with it. Bones are the best, but our pup needs his ground up.
You are certainly feeding two big dogs! The cost can be very high, but you might want to check into RotationalMonofeeding.com by Nora Lenz. I don't follow all of her protocol, but she is very natural health oriented, and feeds a mix of raw meat days, plant days and fasting days. On plant days she focuses on quinoa and sweet potatoes, from what I remember. Both much more affordable than raw meat. Eggs are also a good value and very healthy. I hope you can find a healthy and affordable way to avoid the kibble. Thank you for caring so much about your dogs.
p.s. I've been feeding raw chicken for twenty years and have never heard of a bad reaction.
Thank you for this wonderful post, Jennifer! I love how well you care for your pup. And how your information can help so many more do the same. Blessings to you, Serenity and the puppies!
From a professor of veterinary pathology in Europe: “I see you have found the most ultraprocessed food of all: dry food for dogs and cats. A mixture of God knows what and tones of additives that make the food very attractive to pets. A huge business, bigger and bigger every day.
“It is true that this is based on so many advantages they have for owners in term of food preparation, time spent, not thinking much on it and so on.
“Meanwhile, inflammatory bowel disease, allergies and other intestinal problems are on the rise but just by chance, as usual.
“I had my own experience at home: Dotty, our female cat was living with us for 17.5 years. She was always very healthy as she came directly from the street. She moslty had dry food from the supermarket as it was so convenient in all senses.
“However, she developed skin allergy to something. For a strictly indoor cat, it was odd. We tried many other dry foods and finally one was able to control her problem almost completely.
“Whatever it was, it was not present in that dry food… and all veterinarians and owners know that but do very little about it.”
Oh, one other thing found in kibble, way more than once: Pentobarbital. Let's dissect that for a moment, eh?
That's the drug we vets use to euthanize animals. Cows and horses? No, too expensive. What then? Dogs and cats.
Wait, so you're telling me… Indeed I am.
Pet owners have also photographed pet bodies getting loaded into the truck bound for the rendering company from the clinic that was supposed to gather their ashes… Let that sink in.
If you haven't already, you'll want to visit Susan Thixton's Truth About Pet Food (dot com).
Oh no. This is all so disturbing and worth investigating and educating oneself about. I can’t “heart” your comment because it’s too sad. But I’m grateful for you letting us know about this.
I fully understand. I wanted another choice besides “Like” earlier when Jenna McCarthy posted about the mom recently thrown in prison a year after her twins died of SIDS, 8 days after their vaccines.
Thank you for this info- phenobarbital? Good grief!! I recently learned about the horrors of kibble - even the "good" brands. Disgusting!! I can't remember where I saw it but maybe it was the site you mentioned above.
Vaccines - I stopped vaccinating my dogs about 10 years ago but for a couple of them it was too late, sadly. I plan to take at least one of your online courses before I get another dog, as I don't intend to vaccinate again. Thank you for all you do to help us have healthy pets!!
My 10 year old beloved dog was diagnosed with cancer - a malignant tumor. The vets wanted to operated and do chemo and radiation. I soul-searched ( and even called an animal intuitive in another state) and decided that I would not put him through that. I found a pet nutritionist in the middle part of the country - I am on the east coast - and she was AMAZING. She took him off all the what-I-thought-was-THE-best food he was on, changed his water ( only distilled), added this, subtracted this ( he was only allowed ONE kind of treat that I had to order). Within seven months the tumor was half the size and within 13 months, there was none. Two of my neighbors decided to call her and had success with things that were going on with their dogs as well. "NO kibble EVER," she said ( they were not on it anyway); no chicken!; no traditional dog chews. Our animals are getting cancer at alarming rates and living many years less than they did years back -they aren't here long enough to begin with!! My dog is now 13 and a half and runs like a puppy. She is an angel: she started working with animals when she was 14 and has helped countless people with their pets for a fraction of the cost I would have paid to the vet hospital. I called a university which has an ongoing research program to study cancer in dogs to tell them and they were "not interested." Cancer is big business not only in the human world, it seems.
Bravo!! The wonders of real food and healing.
But also, don't forget: the association between vaccines and tumors goes all the way back to smallpox days. As does chronic disease, categorized in those days with a new term by British physician J. Compton Burnett: Vaccinosis.
Of the two, diet is easier to undo the wrongs committed before you knew better. Change the diet and you'll often see a positive outcome in a couple weeks.
But vaccinate today? Very difficult to undo that, and you'll find yourself having a "forever patient" if you choose allopathic (conventional )medicine.
Thank you, Will, for always bringing up the danger of poisons. I love your courses on VitalAnimal.com. I especially like your talk of Vitamin N. 'N' for No. Just say No to all poisons. I have followed you and Jennifer for years and I appreciate you both so much. Thanks to all who spread the truth. I have been feeding raw for twenty years. Raw meaty bones, organ meats, whatever fruit and veggies we eat for salad and dinner. Nothing complicated. Extremely healthy and beloved dogs!
And Extremely Lucky Dogs! Whoo hoo! I’ll bet their tails could power a small city when it’s feeding time.
❤️❤️❤️
I love your story! A happy ending! Our beloved pug died at age 10 from malignant tumors. I wish I would've thought to completely change her diet. I did try some natural remedies but they weren't successful ... Probably started them too late. That said, I'm really happy to have this info if needed in the future.
Hi Nancy…would you be so kind to share the pet nutritionist with me? I just recently lost my precious Sophie to Hemangiosarcoma I did everything possible holistic to save her but this cancer was a death sentence! I’m so scared her brother will get this same cancer and would love to work with a more holistic future for him. He has been on raw his whole life but would love to be guided by this nutritionist. Thank you
Could you share the name and contact info for the nutitionist?
Good job Will spreading the truth.
I love your post! So happy your dog healed using what nature and God provide. Beautiful story. Thank you for looking for healthy alternatives.
I've told you in the past about Tio. My mixed breed Chihuahua Pomeranian. He lived to 19 years and 4 months. He always had a sensitive stomach and as a result we fed him three times a day, smaller meals. He was sort of a picky eater his whole, long, wonderful life. During the pandemic, the sourcing of the lamb in his dried kibble changed. It killed our other Chihuahua who had low grade kidney disease. She went full blown into kidney failure. Tio was floundering at the time too. He was 17, so you think it's age, right? Well the pet communicator I used at the time said it was the food. I switched him to human grade wet food. My husband tried it. It tasted like homemade beef stew, literally. He lived almost 2.5 years after that. We amended his food with sweet potatoes, honey, yogurt and olive oil. His health may have been best when we "Barbara Bushed" it (apparently Barbara Bush gave up medical care when she got to a certain age, or so my MIL told me). At age 17 we decided no more vet care. He never needed a vet visit in that time.
So food was life changing. He also had a full blown anaphylactic reaction to the leptospirosis vaccine at age 8 or so. He never received a vaccine after that except rabies (required by law which is dumb, he was never alone near a rabid animal!). And that's when I started thinking about the vax industry bin animals and humans. We give digs vaccines every year? I titre tested him for a couple of years and he always had antibodies. I refused vaccines after the reaction and logic and I intuition.
And Tio walked the beach 3 miles nearly every day of his life. Sometimes he walked 10-15 miles in NYC when we were on vacation. He also got plenty of vit D kayaking, boating, swimming, riding in antique convertibles. He lived his best life. I make it my goal to live like Tio! He seemed to have longevity figured out. And add napping and being pet a lot!
Sorry this is so long. Tio just has so much he taught me and continues to teach me.❤️
I love your story too!! So sad about your female Chihuahua, but so happy you had your Tio for so many years! Sounds like he had a wonderful life!
I love hearing all of this about Tio. So inspiring and lovely. He sounds like he was an amazing dog. And to live to almost 20! Wow.
We were always told chicken raw or cooked was bad for dogs because of the bone’s splintering, and parasites in raw meat. Has that changed? I want my pups to live as long as possible but there is so much information out there for positive and negative on raw diets. Just don’t know.
Raw chicken is a super food for dogs. Raw chicken bones are amazing for them. The issue with splintering is only with cooked bones. I was afraid about this too. But a friend whose aunt breeds doggies insisted that they were safe. And she was right.
I can buy a raw chicken and gv it to my dog. How do you cut it raw? I also heard “the kibble” or hard food helps their teeth.
Jennifer, do you make all of your own food for your sweet pup, Serenity? I have done that before, but I’ve never just tried raw, although I do give our pup raw chicken, and raw eggs sometimes. He doesn’t even like the kibble. But he was gaining weight so I cut back on his food and just put kibble. Thanks for helping me rethink that. I think the weight gain was probably all the treats I was giving him! We were training him and he had some puppy tendencies. We were trying to break him from. (he loves dehydrated sweet potatoes, freeze dried meats, raw chicken wings, and dehydrated feet. Do you think dehydrated or raw is best? My guess is raw. I imagine dehydrating is all about the concern of choking?). Anyway, thank you so much. As always, much appreciation.
All the science I’ve read points to raw food being the healthiest option. The less processed the better. I do half from the butcher shop — there’s a photo of the label in the post—so that is premade. And half I make myself.
We’ve learned a lot about “these shots” in the last 5 years on humans and animals. Our skepticism about their “enormous value” is clearly rising.
Thank you SO MUCH for the article and all the examples of different foods! I have a very picky 12 year old Chihuahua, who unfortunately loves kibble best of all. I tried putting her on a homemade, mostly raw, food diet and was successful for a short while. Like KTon said above, I thought I was feeding her the best kibble... But then recently I watched a brief documentary about the kibble industry and am horrified! Another issue I have with my pup is she has very few teeth left... Her teeth have always been bad. I do give her raw ground beef often and her treats are all freeze dried raw beef or chicken hearts. I'm going to use your list and hopefully find some combos that work. Again, thanks!!
The friend mentioned above has an older dog with a sensitive stomach and no teeth. She figured out that cooked pork was the best protein for him. She cuts it into pieces so he is able to eat it. And also gives him cooked green beans. And pumpkin or sweet potato. His sensitive stomach can’t tolerate raw food. And he doesn’t do well eating other meat. So far as I can tell, Serenity does really well with all proteins but prefers chicken above all. I have a theory that she would love duck. She loves water and chasing birds. She hasn’t tried it though.
Thank you for this info! I was pondering cooked meat and veggies since she can't eat anything tough. I'm going to start trying different things until I find some winners :) We had a lab that loved water and chasing birds. Your dog sounds so sweet and fun!
Whatever we choose to feed our dogs, I think you've highlighted something important: being intentional. They depend on us to make those decisions with care, and that's one of the greatest responsibilities of loving them. X
I have heard raw and organ meat. It’s weird to think they would eat raw food but if they lived in the wild, they wouldn’t go cook it and then eat it. Hahahaha
Thank you for sharing this! I am still heartbroken over the loss of my beloved cat Oscar from heart disease at age 6 because I did not take the time to think about what I was feeding him. For all the research and teaching I do on human health and the importance of real food, I somehow trusted the industry with the 4-legged member of my family. I will never forgive myself. :-(
I wrote this article and gave a copy to our vet (who claimed to be holistic, didn't give Oscar any shots, the breeder had given as a kitten but we didn't give any more. However he is the one who recommended what to feed).
https://emmatekstra.substack.com/p/i-wish-i-wouldve-known
I feed my dogs a raw beef mix made by a local beef processing plant that they call “Pet Food” that consists of organ meat. One dog is 133 pounds and the other is 90 pounds so on a daily basis there’s a lot of food being eaten. It’s been cost prohibitive to go full raw so I mix a “high quality” kibble, some fresh veggies, with the raw meat. I know that sounds like an oxymoron. I just can’t figure out how to eliminate the kibble in a cost effective way. Ideas are welcome.
I was interested in how you can feed raw chicken a I’ve always been told to cook chicken because the potential for salmonella is high. I usually buy chicken breast for a change of protein and bake it until it reaches 165 degrees. My local beef processor flash freezes the meat as soon as it is ground and packaged so I’m not afraid of it being raw. Any insight on how chicken can be safely fed to my dogs would be greatly appreciated.
I buy her organic free range chicken drumsticks from wherever they’re on sale. She gets one a day. She loves them! They are completely safe. No processing necessary. I should probably wash them. But I don’t even do that. (I’m not very helpful, am I?)
I just bought a box of those chicken drumsticks from Azure for a great price. I found a great meat grinder that can handle chicken bones from LEM products. We have been so happy with it. Bones are the best, but our pup needs his ground up.
Good to know! Thanks 😊
You are certainly feeding two big dogs! The cost can be very high, but you might want to check into RotationalMonofeeding.com by Nora Lenz. I don't follow all of her protocol, but she is very natural health oriented, and feeds a mix of raw meat days, plant days and fasting days. On plant days she focuses on quinoa and sweet potatoes, from what I remember. Both much more affordable than raw meat. Eggs are also a good value and very healthy. I hope you can find a healthy and affordable way to avoid the kibble. Thank you for caring so much about your dogs.
p.s. I've been feeding raw chicken for twenty years and have never heard of a bad reaction.
Heard eggs were good for them and the vet also said that it can gv them high cholesterol
Oh and thank you for writing this post!
Can I order it from them?
Unfortunately, no. They are not interested in it.
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What’s flash freezing mean?
Not sure how it works but it’s not anything like a residential freezer.
Thank you for this wonderful post, Jennifer! I love how well you care for your pup. And how your information can help so many more do the same. Blessings to you, Serenity and the puppies!
❤️🙏❤️❤️❤️
♥️♥️♥️
From a professor of veterinary pathology in Europe: “I see you have found the most ultraprocessed food of all: dry food for dogs and cats. A mixture of God knows what and tones of additives that make the food very attractive to pets. A huge business, bigger and bigger every day.
“It is true that this is based on so many advantages they have for owners in term of food preparation, time spent, not thinking much on it and so on.
“Meanwhile, inflammatory bowel disease, allergies and other intestinal problems are on the rise but just by chance, as usual.
“I had my own experience at home: Dotty, our female cat was living with us for 17.5 years. She was always very healthy as she came directly from the street. She moslty had dry food from the supermarket as it was so convenient in all senses.
“However, she developed skin allergy to something. For a strictly indoor cat, it was odd. We tried many other dry foods and finally one was able to control her problem almost completely.
“Whatever it was, it was not present in that dry food… and all veterinarians and owners know that but do very little about it.”
Oh, one other thing found in kibble, way more than once: Pentobarbital. Let's dissect that for a moment, eh?
That's the drug we vets use to euthanize animals. Cows and horses? No, too expensive. What then? Dogs and cats.
Wait, so you're telling me… Indeed I am.
Pet owners have also photographed pet bodies getting loaded into the truck bound for the rendering company from the clinic that was supposed to gather their ashes… Let that sink in.
If you haven't already, you'll want to visit Susan Thixton's Truth About Pet Food (dot com).
Oh no. This is all so disturbing and worth investigating and educating oneself about. I can’t “heart” your comment because it’s too sad. But I’m grateful for you letting us know about this.
I fully understand. I wanted another choice besides “Like” earlier when Jenna McCarthy posted about the mom recently thrown in prison a year after her twins died of SIDS, 8 days after their vaccines.
These comments can be awfully sad, but I give a like to the spreading of truth. Thank you for always speaking the truth.
Thank you for this info- phenobarbital? Good grief!! I recently learned about the horrors of kibble - even the "good" brands. Disgusting!! I can't remember where I saw it but maybe it was the site you mentioned above.
Vaccines - I stopped vaccinating my dogs about 10 years ago but for a couple of them it was too late, sadly. I plan to take at least one of your online courses before I get another dog, as I don't intend to vaccinate again. Thank you for all you do to help us have healthy pets!!
We all agree on the goals but if you give up on science, where you have precise definitions, you are going backwards intellectually and increasing risk. My take on it all: https://richardfeinman.substack.com/p/ultra-processed-food-darwins-wrong