Part of the Family
If you're like us, your pets are not just pets, they are members of your family. You want to do everything you can to keep them as happy and healthy as the rest of the family and just like humans, they need pure, healthy food to eat, pure water to drink, and the kind of healthcare that promotes and maintains a strong immune system.
Some of you might be surprised to find out that all of these essentials for health and wellbeing are available for pets, just as they are for humans. We are not veterinary experts, but have had multiple pets all of our lives and vast experience in caring for them without straying from our green path. We learned decades ago from experts in the field that our pets can live as green as we can, but they have to rely on us to make all the green choices for them.
Some of you might be surprised to find out that all of these essentials for health and wellbeing are available for pets, just as they are for humans. We are not veterinary experts, but have had multiple pets all of our lives and vast experience in caring for them without straying from our green path. We learned decades ago from experts in the field that our pets can live as green as we can, but they have to rely on us to make all the green choices for them.
The photos in this blog post are of my own cats, Clarence and Freddi (Frederica). Clarence--the beautiful, sweet, big brown Tabby with the huge green eyes--is nine-years-old and Freddi--the super smart and alert Tuxedo kitty--is seven-years-old. They have both lived green their entire lives, enjoying all the benefits of organic cat food, water filtered by reverse osmosis, a non-toxic home environment, pharmaceutical-free healthcare, and requiring very little and minor, if any, medical attention. I have had many other cats over the years and dogs, as well, and I have seen each generation live longer and thrive more, as more healthy options for them became available to me.
How Deep it Goes
All the toxins we ingest from our diets and medications, and absorb from the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the substances we apply topically to our skin, adversely affect us over time at a cellular level. Unless those effects are reversed by homeopathy and/or other deep acting, natural healing modalities, by the time we mature, the damage, though perhaps as yet imperceptible to us and even medically undetectable, has gone deep into our cells waiting to surface at some unpredictable future time. When we reproduce, this cellular damage is passed on to our offspring, going even deeper into their cells, and on the pattern goes. Because cats, dogs, and some other pets procreate so much younger (in human years) than humans do, producing so many generations in such a short span of time, it doesn't take long to create serious hereditary health problems in the offspring.
An added danger for our pets is that most commercial pet foods contain meat and animal byproducts from animals that were not slaughtered when in a healthy condition or may even have expired from illness. Some have seriously diseased organs. Their meat cannot be legally sold for human consumption, yet it is being sold as pet food. This is not only the case with the cheaper, big box brands, but with some of the more expensive brands touted as healthy, and even the ones that are recommended by, and sold exclusively through, unwitting, well-meaning veterinarians--a horrific fact of which most devoted pet owners are completely unaware.
An added danger for our pets is that most commercial pet foods contain meat and animal byproducts from animals that were not slaughtered when in a healthy condition or may even have expired from illness. Some have seriously diseased organs. Their meat cannot be legally sold for human consumption, yet it is being sold as pet food. This is not only the case with the cheaper, big box brands, but with some of the more expensive brands touted as healthy, and even the ones that are recommended by, and sold exclusively through, unwitting, well-meaning veterinarians--a horrific fact of which most devoted pet owners are completely unaware.
Even when we adopt a young dog or cat, puppy or kitten, that has been given a clean bill of health, there are potential health problems already in their cells. So it is more than just a matter of keeping them healthy, it is a matter of doing everything we can to help them to be truly healthy at a cellular level, making sure that any seeds of illness hiding in their cells are deactivated, rather than fed until one day eliciting a devastating diagnosis from the vet. And although even our best efforts cannot guarantee our beloved pets a long and healthy life, there is a lot we can do to help them experience just that.
Other Benefits
There may be additional benefits from creating a Green Lifestyle for your pets. If you or any of your family members and friends have suffered from pet allergies, you just might see the symptoms drastically reduced or even completely alleviated around your own pets. I won't attempt to go into the science of it and I am not trying to raise an argument with the medical establishment, but I will share with you that I have had several friends with cat allergies, including a dear lady in her nineties, whose symptoms were usually severe, yet they would repeatedly come to my home where there were multiple indoor cats, and even pet the cats (in fact one friend with a severe cat allergy would even roll on the floor with my cats and bury her face in their soft, furry bellies) and puzzle that they never experienced even one allergy symptom. That raised some pretty strong questions in their minds--questions I think all pet owners and animals lovers with pet allergies should be asking.
As Green Lifestyle Consultants, we can teach you how to create an authentic Green Lifestyle that includes your pets. They deserve it . . . . . . and so do you!
As Green Lifestyle Consultants, we can teach you how to create an authentic Green Lifestyle that includes your pets. They deserve it . . . . . . and so do you!