EARLY WARNING SIGNS OF UNDERLYING INTERNAL IMBALANCE OFTEN DEEMED NORMAL IN DOGS, CATS & HORSES
You want your companions to live a long and vital life, right? Often we wait until full blown disease appears. There is another way! Members at the Holistic Actions! Pet Health Academy are supported to look for early clues of health and begin building health from day one. You can start now using this easy and reliable way to know if there is less than full health, even on the energetic level. Over the years veterinary homeopaths have observed that many symptoms accepted as normal are actually early warning signs of ill health.
Current pets – young or old – need to be evaluated on a regular basis by checking through this list. If super healthy, every few months or more. If ailing in any way – daily to weekly. If you have to constantly be treating in order to not have these symptoms not present, or to ease actual ill symptoms, your health creating job is not yet done. If you have to give a special diet, feed at certain times, heat the food, freeze the food, feed pumpkin (or anything else) to prevent constipation or other digestive disorders, give a supplement to prevent limping, etc., then you need to change something in your pets’ lives to improve health, probably on an energetic level.
Most health issues are rarely acute diseases (except injuries). If your companion has health issues, you may find that the problem does not clear up as you expect or it recurs. If so, you are dealing with an underlying predisposition to illness, and these clues to underlying ill health will help you select a remedy and monitor the results. Continue exploring new treatments and life style changes until most of the following symptoms are gone.
New pets – young or old – need to be evaluated by you for all of these symptoms. Please record any that are noted. The Healthy Animal Journal makes it easy. This is only the beginning of a list – as more animals are cured we will find new levels of health. Remember, these are not symptoms of actual illness, they are clues that the underlying energy field is out of balance.
DOGS AND CATS
SKIN:
- doggy smell; attracts fleas a lot; dry, oily, lack-luster coat; excessive shedding; not grooming, ear problems – waxy, oily, itchy, recurrent mites; eye discharge, tearing, or matter in corner of eyes; raised third eyelid; spots appearing on iris; “freckles” appearing on face; whiskers falling out; fragile, thickened, distorted claws that are painful or sensitive to trim.
- BEHAVIOR:
- Fears (of loud noises, thunder, wind, people, animals, life); too timid; too rough or aggressive (even at play); too hard to train; barks too much and too long; suspicious nature; biting when petted too long; hysteria when restrained; clumsy; indolent; licking or sucking things or people too much; not using litter box or not covering stool.
- DIGESTIVE:
- Bad breath; tarter accumulation; loss of teeth; poor appetite; craving weird things (rubber bands, plastic, dirt, cat litter, paper, dogs eating dog or cat stools, rocks, sticks…); sensitivity to milk; thirst – a super healthy cat on non dry food will drink at most once a week; red gum line; vomiting often, even hairballs more than a few times a year; mucous on stools; tendency to diarrhea with least change of diet; obesity; anal gland problems; recurrent worms.
- STIFFNESS:
- when getting up, early hip dysplasia; tires easily in hot or cold weather; can no longer jump up on counters, or go up or down steps.
- TEMPERATURE:
- Low grade fevers – Normal for healthy cats and dogs is 100-101.5.
- AGE & REPRODUCTION:
- Should live a long life (Shepherds 17 years, Danes 12, cats 24). Should be able conceive easily, deliver normally, and not pass on “genetic breed” problems.
HORSES
- MIND:
- cribbing and/or weaving; pen/stall walking; flank sucking; over-reactive; fearful, territorial or aggressive; Fears of loud noises, slightest noises, narrow spaces.
- SKIN, RESPIRATORY:
- puffy around eyes; chronic conjunctivitis; dull eyes; “foal snots”; asthma; sweat on upper body but not lower, sticky sweat, unpleasant odor, dry and/or dull hair coat, dry skin, poor-healing wounds, greasy skin on face.
- STOMACH:
- foul breath, fissures at corners of mouth, salivation from clover, hollow seeming teeth, hard to float, loose teeth at under 20 years old, coprophagia/pica, craves salt, fussy eating, intolerant to fat, repeated colics, sensitivity to weather changes with GIT signs, excessively susceptible to parasites, potbellied foals, distended abdomen (hay belly) in adults, rectum tears easily when palpated, hard dry fecal balls.
- EXTREMITIES:
- warm up very slowly; stiff muscles; tie up if not warmed up; swollen legs: hot or cold – may or may not go down with exercise; unable to lift back feet; unable to balance on three legs, bad odor without pathology, excessive moisture in feet, sensitive to hammering in nails
- GENERALITIES:
- poor exercise tolerance; fat deposits- cresty necks, around tail head, top of croup; disturbed by temperature changes; offensive odors; not wanting to be touched, groomed.
OTHER SPECIES
- How would they be in the wild?
- Is this really health?
- Learn the normals and be open for more health.
Your additions: Email me at HealThyAnimals@aol.com with signs that you think indicate early ill health. Add anything you think a healthy animal would not be doing.