This is a true tale about a female
dog named Mizbe. Mizbe has spent most of
her life as a companion of Christine, who
is a female human, and
who was 16 years old when she received Mizbe as a pup. For many years
Christine and Mizbe shared a life together, Christine engaging in
her human activities, Mizbe living as a connoisseur of sticks and
tennis balls. Life seemed good until Mizbe began to limp in 1993.
Contrary to Christine's hopes, Mizbe's limping only worsened until
she could no longer walk upon her withered, back-left leg. Since
there seemed to be no alternative, Christine took Mizbe to the vet
for an examination. The vet performed various tests, bone and blood,
and informed Christine, upon receiving the results, that Mizbe had
cancer of the bone, or osteosarcoma. The vet also informed Christine
that Mizbe would surely die within two years if her leg was not promptly
amputated, and if Mizbe didn't undergo standard chemotherapy. Of
course Christine was devastated. She wanted her beloved Mizbe to
live, but she didn't want Mizbe to be handicapped for the remainder
of Mizbe's life. Christine seemed to be stuck in a dilemma. Something
in her, though, felt skeptical about her options, both of which were
fairly dim. So she decided to choose neither, hoping that if she
could find the right natural therapy for Mizbe, that The Girl (one
of Mizbe's many "pet" names) would heal without radiation
or amputation, and most of all, without dying. The first step Christine
took was to take Mizbe off of the conventional dog food diet, feeding
her soaked oats, grains, avocados, salads, or what ever she her herself
was eating. In addition, Christine began to feed Mizbe wheatgrass
juice. Christine learned about wheatgrass from a man who was deaf
since birth and who lived on her same property. This man ate and
drank mostly of the wheatgrass, in addition to taking in benzonite
clay. He swore by the healing powers of wheatgrass and clay, which
were also demonstrated in his young appearance. So Christine took
his advice, minus the clay, and grew wheatgrass in her garden of
which Mizbe gladly chomped on daily. It was at this point that I
entered the scene. I had already been living on living foods for
a while, and as Christine and I got to know each other, I told her
about the living foods way. Christine then read Blatant Raw Foodist
Propaganda, and in one night her way of thinking about eating changed.
Christine began to understand that it was the dead food and lack
of life and nutrients that were killing Mizbe, and that living foods
were appropriate for all animals. So she transitioned Mizbe to a
raw dog food diet. Mizbe then ate mostly what we ate, in addition
to raw, organically raised, free range eggs and raw cow cheese. Mizbe
did go through an unusual cleansing process, one that differs from
the processes that I had heard about; probably because Mizbe's means
of elimination is slightly different than that of humans'. Mizbe
is unlike us in that most of her sweat glands are in her paws (this
is partly why dogs pant in order to cool themselves). So her stored
waste had to find another means of escape, which turned out to be
her ears! For a while Mizbe would go through phases of excreting
black and smelly gunk out of her ears, of which we had to clean out
with q-tips. Sores also manifested all over Mizbe's body, which
seemed like a stage in her cleansing process. Of course this quetip
routine wasn't Mizbe's favorite, as she quickly learned the ominous
words "ear goop." Upon hearing those words, if out in the
open, she would jump up on us and beg us not to engage in the invasive "degooping." Or,
if she would be under a table when she caught a hint of our intensions,
she would simply stay undercover, and would only budge after much
creative coaxing on our part.
Eventually the gooping ceased, and Mizbe's leg grew from a withered, unstable
stump, to a strong, normal looking leg. Now she runs free from any noticeable
problems. She is ten, about six years after her bleak diagnosis of her
death within two years, and is cancer free. (A vet confirmed this recently
when tests came back free from all indications of cancer.) Mizbe still
eats holistic dog food and living foods, as do we, her human friends. Her
raw dog food differs mostly in that she eats raw eggs, and raw cow's milk
cheese.
Interestingly,
Mizbe has acquired a very mellow temperament, and does not smell badly
like many other dogs, in fact, she shows little interest in most other
dogs. Her coat is shiny, and she is quite happy, unless brushing or grooming
her is involved. She runs freely and continues her life as our friend and
stick/tennis ball connoisseur.
Jack Hoot Stuff is the proprietor of Alternative
Health Talk, a place on the internet
to learn more about alternative medicine
and holistic healing. Email Jack at owner@alternativehealthtalk.com.
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