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Now, if you’ve been following us at all, then you’ll already know our views on vaccinations: don’t - ever!

However, whether you agree with us or not about the dangers of vaccinating your dogs, please, please, please, do NOT assume that Parvo shots guarantee your dog won’t get this horrendous virus.

We’ve seen far too many of our customers with dogs that are up-to-date with all of their shots (i.e. both the initial series and whatever booster shots were deemed necessary) still getting Parvo (and dying from it if not treated promptly and correctly) - and this does apply to both puppies and adults dogs as old as five or six.

Vets should be aware that Parvo is NOT 100% preventable, and by leading dog owners to believe that their pets are safe once they’ve been injected with these toxic cocktails of chemicals, they are lulling them into a false sense of security.

This situation is made even worse because many people don’t even know what the symptoms of Parvo are, and so watch their dog suffer for several days without taking any action.

If you need to know more about the deadly Canine Parvovirus, then please download our free book, Parvo Treatment 101, as the information it contains could just save your beloved doggie’s life. This is, after all, why we put it together.

We also recommend having a Parvo Treatment Kit on hand at all times, just in case the worst happens and your dog is stricken by Parvo - as with most illnesses, the sooner you can start treatment the better, and if there’s one thing you don’t have with Parvo, it’s time.

Please read The Pros and Cons of Vaccinating Your Dog for more details.

The list of toxic chemicals that the drug manufacturers are allowed to include in their vaccines is both scary and bewildering - how is it that ingredients that are poisonous are even permitted anywhere near such products?

If you want to read more about vaccinations - the truth, not some corporate drug pushers’ hype - then we can highly recommend What Vets Don’t Tell You About Vaccines by Catherine O’Driscoll.

Local humane society avoids recent outbreak of lethal canine virus

While we obviously applaud the work that Humane Societies, rescues and shelters do to save animals, we must take issue with the statement that Parvo is “is 100 per cent preventable through vaccination.”

This is dangerous, because it lulls dog owners into a false sense of security - they do as their vet recommends (and people tend to trust vets, just like they trust anybody in an apparent position of authority), get their dog vaccinated, and then, because of statements such as the one in the above-mentioned article, assume that their dog is safe from one of the biggest killers there is.

The sad fact is that many of the 3,298 dogs (and cats) that we have helped treat for Parvo during the past three years were fully-vaccinated and were up-to-date with all of their shots …

… and yet they still got Parvo!

And here’s another sad fact: this does not just apply to puppies, but to adult dogs as old as five!

The problem with such misinformation is made worse by the fact that many dog owners don’t know what the symptoms of Parvo are, which means they don’t take action soon enough.

If people know anything about this virus, it may be the fact that infected dogs get dehydrated and have diarrhea (which is frequently bloody).

However, in the vast majority of cases, these are not the first symptoms you’ll see.

They may be the first physical symptoms, but they usually follow on after behavioural symptoms, which include your dog not eating and losing his appetite, not drinking, and having no energy, being generally lethargic and not wanting to play.

By the time you notice the diarrhea, your dog can already have been sick for a day or more, and that is valuable time that you simply don’t have to waste with a virus such as Parvo.

We therefore implore all dog (and cat) owners to become better educated about Parvo, and you can’t do better than to download our free book, Parvo Treatment 101.

We would also recommend having a Parvo Treatment Kit on hand at all times - because you never know when Parvo will strike, regardless of whether your dog has been vaccinated or not.

So, what can you do?

You may already be aware that Parvo dogs can dehydrate rapidly, which is why vets will put them on an IV drip, but of course IV drips are not something you can just pick up at Walmart.

And if you don’t know about the risks of dehydration, a quick bit of research on the Internet will soon point you in the right direction.

The good news is that there is a home hydration therapy that is, in the vast majority of cases, at least as effective as IV fluids and Sub Q fluids …

… and it’s called the Parvo Emergency Tea Recipe.

What is it? (more…)

We monitor the websites and blogs for news about Parvo on a daily basis, so we see all sorts of stuff being published, but the problem is that a lot of this so-called information is actually mis-information, and when you’re talking about a virus as lethal as Parvo, then if you believe what these sites and blogs tell you, then you could end up losing your dog unnecessarily.

Now, you may well be wondering, so how can I trust what you’re telling me?

Well, as you’ll see from the sidebar to the right, we have helped treat over xxx dogs (and cats) since March 2007, so we have a ton of experience with this virus - probably more than most vets encounter in a life-time.

So, to illustrate what we mean about this mis-information, and without picking on the site specifically (it’s just the most recent article we came across), please have a quick read of an article called “How Do You Know if Your Dog Has Parvovirus?” on a site called Biopathics Research before returning here (otherwise the rest of what we have to say won’t make a great deal of sense).

(This article will open up in a new browser window, so when you’re done, you can just close it and you’ll be back here.)

OK, so you’ve read that article and you’re back.

As we said, it’s a relatively short article, so you’re probably wondering, what on earth is wrong with it?

Well, on one level, nothing - it’s trying to educate dog owners about the dangers of Parvo.

But sadly, the article doesn’t tell you the full story, and that’s dangerous too.

Firstly, the list of Parvo symptoms is dangerously incomplete.

While it’s true that many people do know that Parvo causes diarrhea (especially foul-smelling diarrhea that often contains blood) and vomiting, what this article fails to mention is that physical symptoms such as these are not what you usually see first.

No, the most common early signs of Parvo are behavioural in nature: you’ll find that your dog loses his appetite and won’t eat, he may not want to drink either, and he’ll probably appear lethargic and not want to play like he usually does.

Now, we’re not saying that these signs definitely indicate Parvo, but they can and often do, and to not notice these and/or ignore them is a potentially fatal mistake to make, because by the time you find that your dog start vomiting and having diarrhea, you can already have wasted one or more precious days - days that your dog may not have.

And this brings us on to the second problem with this article.

They do state that Parvo can kill a dog within two days, and that’s probably already scary enough, but the sad fact is that this virus, especially the latest 2c strain, can claim a dog’s life within as little as five hours after the first bout of diarrhea.

This is not scare-mongering - this has actually happened to at least one of our customers!

That is so fast that, even if you could get your dog to a vet’s in time, which is sometimes doubtful given that Parvo can strike at any time of day and night, and frequently does (i.e. when there are no vets open), it probably doesn’t give you enough time to save him.

And that’s just one of the reasons why we strongly encourage all dog owners to have a Parvo Treatment Kit on hand at all times, because that way, you can start treatment the instant you notice anything wrong. As with any illness, the sooner you start treatment, the better chance you have of a successful outcome.

Finally, and although the above-referenced article does not commit this final sin, this would be an appropriate time to point out too that many sites (and vets) will talk about dogs being “immune to Parvo” once they’ve had their first series of puppy shots and have reached 20 weeks of age.

Unfortunately, this is simply not true!

We have had many customers whose dogs are fully-vaccinated and up-to-date with all of their shots, and this includes both puppies and adult dogs up to five years of age, who are getting Parvo - full-blown Parvo, that is, which can and does kill them if they are not treated promptly and correctly.

So, please, do not believe everything you read on the Internet about Parvo (or even everything your vet tells you), because it may cost your beloved pet his life.

Vaccines, all vaccines, are immune suppressing; that is they depress our immune functions. The chemicals in the vaccines depress our immune system; the virus present depresses immune function, and the foreign DNA/RNA from animal tissues depresses immunity. Toraldo, et al found that the chemotaxis and metabolic function of PMNs (polymorphonuclear neutrophils) was significantly reduced after vaccinations were given and did not return to normal for months. Other indicators of immune system depression included reduced lymphocyte viability, neutrophil hyper-segmentation, and a reduced white cell count. All vaccines are immune depressing to some extent and that is the trade-off we are risking. The medical thought is that we trade a small immune depression for an immunity to one disease. Now let me repeat, we are trading a total immune system depression (our only defense against all known disease - including millions of pathogens) for a temporary immunity against one disease, usually an innocuous childhood disease. Therefore, the trade is not at all fair. Mullins puts it this way, “Are we trading mumps and measles for cancer and AIDS.”

The trade-off is not worth the risk. We are risking getting many more diseases than we are “preventing” from getting. [Later we will see that there is literally no prevention.] Another good example is the ritual of the yearly flu shot. There may be only two or three varieties of flu viruses in each shot, hence the names “Asian-Flu”, “Japanese-Flu” “Indian-Flu” or “Swine-Flu”. But there are literally thousands, may be millions of flu-causing viruses. Taking one or two does not make sense and many people report getting the flu after taking a flu shot. We do not know which variety of flu will affect us each year and in each locale. Therefore, the best method to avoid the flu is to strengthen our immune system by eating properly and getting all the essential vitamins and minerals that our body needs. Only nutrition can build and support a strong immune system, while vaccines help to tear our immunity down. Vaccines have been linked to AIDS and other immuno-deficient disorders as well.

Vaccinations depress our body’s immune functions and that keeps us open to developing many other diseases. It is very childish to think that we are going to take one flu vaccine and never get sick from the many varieties of flu that exist, especially since viruses can mutate so fast when the conditions arise. Keeping up with these fast mutating viruses can only be done by priming our immune system with good nutrition and keeping the conditions/environment for their growth minimal. In other words, pathogenic viruses will not grow where the conditions will not allow it. It is the terrain which dictates our health and not the germs/viruses themselves. Germs are pleiomorphic, meaning that they can change with their environment; rods become cocci, and vice-versa. Thinking that germs cause disease means that we are not responsible for our own health and we place that responsibility in the hands of some one who has the means to kill these germs with toxic chemicals (drugs), even if those drugs/vaccines harm our body. Vaccines prevent health!

 Vaccinations reduce our immunity in many important ways:

1) Vaccines contain many chemicals and heavy metals, like mercury and aluminum, which are in-themselves immuno-suppressing. Mercury actually causes changes in the lymphocyte activity and decreases lymphocyte viability.

2) Vaccines contain foreign tissues and foreign DNA/RNA which act to suppress the immune system via graft-vs-host rejection phenomena.

3) Vaccines alter our t-cell helper/suppressor ratios … just like those seen with AIDS. This ratio is a key indicator of a proper functioning immune system.

4) Vaccines alter the metabolic activity of PMNs and reduce their chemotaxic abilities. PMNs are our body’s defenses against pathogenic bacteria and viruses.

5) Vaccines suppress our immunity merely buy over-taxing our immune system with foreign material, heavy metals, pathogens and viruses. The heavy metals slow down our immune system, while the viruses set up shop to grow and divide. It is like being chained and handcuffed before swimming.

6) Vaccines clog our lymphatic system and lymph nodes with large protein molecules which have not been adequately broken down by our digestive processes, since vaccines by pass digestion with injections. This is why vaccines are linked to allergies, because they contain large proteins which as circulating immune complexes (CICs) or “klinkers” which cause our body to become allergic.

7) Vaccines deplete our body of vital immune-enhancing nutrients, like vitamin C, A and zinc, which are needed for a strong immune system. It is nutrients like these that primes our immune system, feeds the white blood cells and macrophages and allows them to function optimally.

8) Vaccines are neurotoxic and slow the level of nervous transmission, and communications to the brain and other tissues. Now we know that some lymphocytes communicate directly with the brain through a complex set of neurotransmitters. Altering these factors will also depress our immunity.

Links of Vaccines to AIDS

While the medical profession does not lightly discuss AIDS and vaccines in the same sentence, there is much evidence linking AIDS to vaccines. Buttram and Hoffman state, “Indirect immunofluorescence evaluation of T-lymphocytes from blood samples taken … after vaccination revealed a temporary drop … in the helper/suppressor ratio after vaccination.” What that means is that immediately after vaccines are given our blood “looks” like the blood of and AIDS patient. AIDS is diagnosed when the T -cell (helper to suppressor) ratios are depressed and vaccines cause that same occurrence. Now is it any coincidence that the countries where AIDS is rampant most, are the same countries which received the most vaccinations? It is no joke when one asks, “Are we trading mumps and measles for cancer and AIDS?”

When we look into vaccine production we see the links of vaccines to monkey viruses, like SV-40, which causes immuno-deficiencies (similar to AIDS) in monkeys. Some scientists feel that SIV and HIV are very similar viruses and may be one in the same. If it is found in monkeys it is called SIV and if it is found in people it is then called HIV. Very likely, it is the foreign nature of SIV which makes it deadly to our immune system and our immune system goes on the blink. Vaccinations and AIDS are clearly related, and the medical literature shows us many links to AIDS. The first Hepatitis vaccines made were notorious for causing AIDS and were made from the blood of the gay populations, who had high levels of hepatitis and AIDS. Links of AIDS to the hepatitis vaccines were numerous in the medical literature at the time (the 1970s) of the first hepatitis vaccines and people were afraid to take them for that reason. Yes, one may fear hepatitis, but we also had a greater fear of AIDS, which was more deadly and serious a condition, although many more people experienced hepatitis each year.

Many other views of how vaccines started the AIDS epidemic are available, but none can be proven with any degree of certainty. Whether HIV is a disease similar to the SIV found in monkey, remains to be seen. Is SIV and HIV the same virus? Is SV-40 involved in immuno-suppression and immunodeficiency? There were reports of the smallpox vaccines delivered to Haiti, Brazil and Africa containing HIV by the London Times in 1987. Some persons have taken conspiratorial views of AIDS, but none have surfaced with any degree of veracity and it misses the point … all vaccines are immuno-suppressive and compromise the host’s immunity. Whether they contain actual HIV viruses may be disputable, they will depress the immune system. Today more care is taken in vaccine production and there are better methods of locating and removing contaminant viruses, but vaccines are still dangerous from their humble beginning and set the stage for many other diseases to follow suit many years later.

True Immunity: Where Does it Come From? Nutrition!

Science has glossed over the most valuable point of health, … nutrition. What is it that boosts our immune system and gives one a vibrant healthy life? … nutrition. What is it that allows one to over -come the most devastating diseases known to mankind? … Nutrition. What is the key factor for the recovery of disease? … Nutrition. What is needed for the body to heal itself? … Nutrition. What key factor prevents disease? … Nutrition. What is missing from allopathic medicine today? … Nutrition! It is nutrition and only nutrition which boosts our immune system and helps the body defend itself from foreign pathogens. Herbs, foods, nutrients and vitamin supplements are the tour-de-force of our immunity and it is virtually ignored by medical science in favor of drugs (chemicals).

One can speculate many reasons why medical science has chosen to ignore this most important aspect of our health … perhaps, because there is no profit in broccoli and carrots. But regardless of profit there is a side of science that altruistically searches for truth. Herbalists and naturopaths for centuries have cured devastating diseases with nature’s remedies and proper diet. Medicine has shunned diet and nutrition (and herbs) as not having a place in scientific medicine. But the lowly herb can cure more than an equal share of allopathic man-made (synthetic) drugs which although originally came from many herbs are now toxic according to their dose and must be tightly regulated.

The divergent paths of allopathic medicine and herbal naturopathic remedies is seen in the philosophy of vaccination. Vaccines are the only way modern medicine has to “prevent” disease for they don’t believe in or use herbs or nutrition. Therefore, toxic vaccines are their only tool to “promote health”. Herbalists and naturopaths, on the other hand, see the person with a totally different point of view and understanding. The person is taught how to live with nature, how to eat naturally and how to not create the environment for pathogens to grow. When the body is periodically cleansed, disease is not a problem. Allopathy desires to force health by giving the body more toxins (vaccines) to deal with in a futile and erroneous attempt at “preventing” disease. Yet, vaccines cause illnesses, many diseases, numerous disorders and set the stage for cancerous grow while depressing our body’s ability to fight off pathogens. Allopathy depresses important body functions, while making the body more toxic. Naturopathy helps the body eliminate toxins while supporting the body’s immune functions.

Therefore, there are many points in which allopathic medicine and naturopathic medicine diverge and differ. Yet, the laws of our land only allow allopathic methods (vaccinations) of disease “prevention” and not other more effective and less damaging methods of prevention, i.e., homeopathy and naturopathy. Many religions refuse vaccines on religious grounds, because vaccines are contrary to their beliefs and vaccines are blood products grown on aborted fetuses and human and animal tissues. Vaccines grown on animal tissues, aborted fetuses, and cancer cells would be against anyone’s fair judgement and common sense, regardless of religious beliefs. Therefore, it is common sense which mandates our opinions against putrid vaccines, as well as religious beliefs.

It is no secret anymore that proper nutrition builds good immunity, when the medical literature is full of studies on the intimate details of our immunity as related to nutrients. The fact that nutrition plays a large role in one’s health (and immune functions) can no longer be suppressed by prejudice. The over-whelming science today substantiates nutrition as a key factor in our health. Nutrition boosts our immune system like nothing else can. Field stated, “it is accepted that nutrition is important in the development and function of the immune system.” Harbige noted that “Nutrition and nutritional status can have profound effects on immune functions, resistance to infection and auto-immunity in man and other animals.” Scrimshaw and SanGiovanni state that “infections, … have adverse effects on nutritional status. … Conversely, almost any nutrient deficiency, if sufficiently severe, will impair resistance to infection.” Chandra (Am J Clin Nutrition, 1997; 66(2):460s-463s) also noted, “Nutrition is a critical determinant of immune responses and malnutrition is the most common cause of immunodeficiency worldwide.” Chandra and Chandra (Prog Food Nutrition Sci, 1986;10(1-2):1-65) stated that “the immune system plays a key role in the body’s ability to fight infection and reduce the risk of developing tumors, autoimmune and degenerative disease.”

Yet, although this information is new to us now, it is not new to everyone. Many people have always maintained that a strong immune system began with good nutrition. Roger Williams, Linus Pauling, Ewan Cameron, Adelle Davis, John R Christopher, Jethro Kloss, and many other notable nutritionist have claimed nutrition was important to our health for many years, but were ignored. Profit of man-made chemicals came before the health of the patrons, many asked to suffer needlessly in the name of science when they could have been cured by a simple herbal remedy or a food. Nutrition has been down-played in the last 80 years in favor of patent-able drugs (man-made chemicals). Perhaps, the penicillin era was the greatest cause of the downfall of nutrition as a part of our health. The search for the magic bullet began with Paul Erlich’s compound 606, and continues to this day. We think that cancer must be cured from without by a man-made chemical, while we ignore the inner terrain and the body’s natural innate abilities (to heal) within … governed, of course, by nutrition. Hopefully within the next decade great strides will be taken in nutrition and health to make up for lost time. Many physicians are learning nutrition and herbology and homeopathy on their own time. Their patients will be the better for it. As more nutritional oriented physicians become available, the people will have a choice and a place to turn to when in need. Nutrition Produces Health and Vitality! Vaccines Prevent Health!

Vaccines and Cancer

“I never saw cancer in an un-vaccinated person.”

Dr W B Clarke, circa 1909

We don’t usually associate vaccinations with cancer, but there are many citations in the medial literature where vaccines caused cancers. Sometimes cancer occurred at the site of injection and sometimes a lymphatic type of cancer would occur many years later in locations. Vaccines cause cancer. Yes, not everybody gets cancer after receiving a vaccine, but their body has been seeded with the ingredients for cancer to grow. Picture cancer as a window of opportunity. Once that window is opened, cancer can grow. Dr Vincent’s work with Biologic Terrain Assessment (BTA) found that all children were pushed into the cancer “window” after vaccines were given. Now those children who don’t develop cancer were (obviously) able to negate that cancer “window” with good nutrition. It is the environment which allows cancer to grow in the first place, and vaccines create that environment. When the cancer is at the site of the vaccine injection, it is hard to deny a causal relationship. Miraculously, doctors tell their patients it is co-incidental or unrelated to the vaccines.

Yet, it was known in the 1800s that vaccines clog our lymphatics and contain toxic materials which could lead to disease, even cancers. Even Jenner himself had trouble with his vaccines causing diseases, and death. He was nearly lynched in one town for his specious concoctions. Our lymphatic system is designed to carry our lymphocytes throughout our body and maintain control over our cellular immunity. Therefore, the injection of large molecular sized proteins (foreign tissues in the vaccines) will clog our lymph-nodes and create problems for the lymphatic system. Therefore, it is no mystery that vaccines and lymphatic diseases, like leukemias and lymphomas, are related.

“Syphilis, phthisis, scrofula, cancer, erysipelas and almost all diseases of the skin, have been conveyed, occasioned, or intensified by vaccination.” Dr William Hitchman

“Cancer and other vile diseases are daily inflicted on virtuous families by vaccination.”

Dr Edward Haughton, BAMD, MRCS

“Experts say 98 million Americans who took polio shots in the 1950s and 1960s may get a deadly brain cancer from the inoculations … Researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center say that a virus contaminated the polio vaccine and they have now found genetic material from the virus in a number of brain cancer victims.”

Dr Jacob Rachlin quoted from Weekly World News of Lantana [FL]

Of course, anything which depresses our immunity will eventually lead to cancer, since it is our immune system which cleanses and eliminates mutated (cancerous) cells from our body daily. If this is not done, cancers will grow and develop unchecked by our immune system. Therefore, a healthy immune system is needed to protect us from cancer and Vaccines Prevent Health.

Vaccines and Auto-Immune Disease - [The injection of foreign animal DNA/RNA.]

Auto-immune disease is common-place today, but were very rare just a few years ago. Does anybody wonder why one day we are healthy and the next day our body no longer recognizes our own cells as self? Could the injection of foreign animal DNA/RNA have anything to do with our epidemic rise in auto-immune disease today? Bart Classen, MD has done some remarkable research on vaccines and auto-immune diseases, especially Diabetes mellitus, which he sees as a marker disease for all auto-immune conditions. His research finds that the more that vaccinations are given the more diabetes (and auto-immune diseases) appears. Dr Classen’s research found that this held true for many animal models; after receiving vaccines they experienced increases in diabetes. Then he carried his research to include vaccinated human populations. He found that in retrospective studies of vaccinations in five different human populations, this fact held true also. The more vaccines one received the more was their incidence of diabetes (and auto-immune diseases).

Now it is interesting that the increases in diabetes included Juvenile-onset diabetes, which we are told today is a profoundly “genetic” disease. Yet, Dr Claussen’s studies revealed that vaccinations [any vaccination] can cause increases in Juvenile-onset diabetes, too. Now one theory said that the antigenic structure of the measles/mumps virus was similar to the antigenic structure of the beta cells (which produce insulin) in the pancreas. So when our body makes antibodies to fight off measles virus, those antibodies attack the pancreatic beta cells, too. Viola diabetes!

Vaccines create the foundations for auto-immune disease when foreign animal tissues are injected into our blood streams. It alters our genes (”jumping” genes) and creates havoc in our lymphatic system. Auto-immune conditions are more common today than before massive vaccination programs began in the 1940s. Auto-immune conditions such as ALS, MS, RA, and Diabetes are severe diseases and not to be taken lightly. They alter people’s lives for ever and cost more than money when we consider the time involved, the stress involved, and eventually death ensues. There is even some speculation that auto-immune conditions may be behind the brain conditions they see in autism and there is some talk in the medical literature of auto-immunity to brain cells. If the body can not even recognize its own cells, then it has been tricked into thinking that those cells are no longer self. Why does this occur? Could AIDS be an auto-immune condition where the lymphocytes are reacting against each other? What about the myriad of neurological disorders, kidney disorders, blood disorders and the many diseases associated with vaccinations? When we are looking for excellent health, we need to avoid auto-immune disorders. One must remember that Vaccines Prevent Health!

[Note: Dr Classen feels that Diabetes is an indicator (marker) disease for auto-immunity.

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Less worrying reasons might include stress, such as moving to a new home, which nonetheless will need to be addressed, but it can be very dangerous to make such an assumption and consequently ignore other possibilities.

You see, dogs not eating, especially when combined with a lack of energy, lethargy, and a general unwillingness to play, are often the very first signs that they have (more…)

The latest such email came in just a few days ago from Bob Steppelo, a Licensed Veterinary Technician, so in the interests of both using this post as a vehicle for replying to him (as he didn’t even have the courage to leave us a valid email address to reply to), and as a way to help demonstrate how narrow-minded and hypocritical many people are, we are reprinting the content of Bob’s email, as well as our comprehensive reply.

So, here is the email we received:

$139.95 for a product with no guarantees and no FDA approval or efficacy tests? Sounds like a winner. I especially love your misinformation about the parvo virus, and making veterinarians out to look like the devil, that was a nice touch.

Bob Steppelo, LVT

And here is our response:

Bob,

1. How about the $500 to $12,000 per animal that our customers are being quoted by their vets (yes, these figures are not made up but come from customers we’ve worked with), and with an average success rate of only 50% (compared to our 90%)?

   One of our customers in New York took her cat, who had Feline Distemper (aka Feline Parvo) to her vet, and he tried to extort $12,000 from her even though the cat died under their treatment. No offer of any refund there, you’ll note!

   Against her vet’s “advice”, she did not choose to kill her other cats, but instead found us and managed to save them both, for a total cost of about $200. Why not read her unsolicited testimonial?

   So, which do you think is the better value here?

2. How many vets do you know that offer any guarantee / promise of a refund with their Parvo treatment? (BTW, not one of our thousands of customers has been offered one, ever.)
3. One of our customers told us his vet had never managed to save a dog from Parvo.

   How long do you think we’d be able to stay in business if our success rate was 0%, or even the still appallingly low 50%, which seems to be the average quoted by most vets?

   To put this in perspective, would you wager maybe half your annual take home salary on the spin of a roulette wheel in Vegas coming up red as opposed to black? Because those are the sort of odds and costs many vets are offering?

   (FYI, we’ve been selling these products since March 2007, have worked with thousands of customers and helped treat well over three thousand dogs, cats, and other mammals - all with about a 90% success rate.)

4. How many vets offer 24 x 7 support to all of their customers? Is the vet you work for available at 3:00 am on a Sunday morning, for example? We suspect not.

   We offer this level of support because we are here to save sick animals and get them better - not stuff them full of chemicals that will, in many cases, necessitate return visits to “treat” the secondary problems caused (and, of course, this is part of that cash cow referred to earlier).

5. How about the typical in-clinic Parvo test that routinely generates a false negative which frequently opens the door for the vet to coerce pet owners into vaccinating animals exposed/infected with Parvo?

   This scenario is so common - we encounter this multiple times a day. Since these animals are indeed infected, the vaccination is more than enough to send them over the top and almost guarantees they’ll develop full Parvo symptoms within a matter of days.

   Would you want your animals to be subjected to that type of experimentation?

   That’s gross negligence and that is precisely why we have little faith in those that put money before life.

   Vets (and human doctors) are in bed with legalized drug pushers. They get all sorts of deals, bonuses, and so forth to push the drug du jour on to unsuspecting patients. You will not find vets turning down business; they will not suggest alternatives to vaccinations, they will not tell their patients to stop filling their animals with harmful chemicals, synthetics, artificial additives, etc. because there are just too many residual income streams and they could never make that type of cash selling inexpensive herbals.

6. Why are we seeing so many of our customers’ dogs developing full life-threatening Parvo symptoms within one or two days of being vaccinated?
7. Why are we seeing more and more adult dogs (some as old as five years) who are up-to-date on all of their shots still getting Parvo?

   Could it possibly be that the vaccinations are increasingly less effective against the 2c strain that some vets still deny even exists?

8. Why are so many vets still giving vaccinations every year (even though the AVMA recommends every three years), when the latest research shows that vaccinations are typically effective for at least seven years, if not longer, when the dangers of over-vaccination are now well-documented (e.g. a weakened immune system, chronic inflammation, cancer)?

   Actually, we know the answer: money, as vaccinations are a cash cow!

   According to one Canadian vet (who is starting to see the light about natural treatments), one dose of rabies vaccine costs the vet about 61 cents. The client is typically charged between $15 and $38, plus a $35 office visit. The mark-up on the vaccine alone is 2,400 percent to 6,200 percent - a mark-up equivalent to charging $217 for a loaf of bread.

   According to one estimate, removing the one-year rabies vaccination and consequential office visit for dogs alone would decrease the average small vet’s income from $87,000 to $25,000 - and this doesn’t include cats or other vaccinations.

   Still think the vet offers good value?

9. Why do vets spread misinformation about Parvo to distraught pet owners?

   For example, many of our customers have been told by their vet that once the bloody diarrhea appears (which it does in almost every single one of the thousands of Parvo cases we’ve dealt with), they might as well murder their dog (yes, we know you call it euthanasia, but we believe in calling a spade a spade) because they have no chance of survival, even though this is patently untrue.

10. Why do our customers have to leave their sick pets at the vet’s or animal hospital for up to a week, incurring massive fees, when at the end of all that, their animal is still sick? (Dogs tend to be eating by themselves and keeping the food down by the end of the second day of treatment when using the products we sell, which is not the experience of those customers of ours who chose to go down the vet route.)
11. Why would a vet, who presumably has chosen that profession in order to save animals, recommend murder instead of giving pet owners a chance of their pet surviving if they would only open their minds and try these products?

    Murdering your pet gives them a 0% chance of survival (and sometimes for a cost that is greater than the cost of buying the products we sell), whereas administering a home Parvo treatment will, in most cases, give the animal a second lease of life and save the family from having to make that gut-wrenching decision to kill their dog - a decision which we know haunts some pet owners for years to come, as they will always wonder “what if?”

13. Why do so many vets recommend giving products such as Pedialyte, Gatorade, chicken and rice to dogs with Parvo when these can cause additional and avoidable problems (e.g. excessive vomiting, the risk of bacterial infection by agents such as campylobacter, the risk of a fatal blockage)?
14. Why would so many people send us unsolicited testimonialsand case studies if these products weren’t effective?

Until you have tried these products yourself, which you clearly have not done, then please leave us to get on with our mission of saving sick pets from viruses such as Canine Parvo and Feline Distemper, instead of having to spend our valuable time replying to your highly uninformed opinions, as that is all they are.