"I could look at pictures of dogs all day", my dad would say once in the last decade of his life.

Living to almost 20, I was to learn, Scooter the Wonder Dog, above (and also below), taught me a lot about dogs. Every dog I've known has added to that "fund of knowledge", and I was basically raised with puppies and dogs as my parents started a commercial kennel before I was born. Today I am enjoying taking the concepts presented in this thread and applying them to dog care. And so the fund grows more. And it seemed fitting to present information on Father's Day for those guys out there who might tune in because this is about DOGS. And naturally, others, as well. I simply want people to get this information and start operating on it if it feels right to them to do so.

Below: A picture provided November 15, 2015 by Steve Beddingfield, which I'm editing in --- found in a sample of 'puppy puke'. 60X magnification.

This summer, the mainstream has made us aware of 'mold'; this blog topic, started on Mother's Day, includes that information, linked to above, and builds upon it, but in a different way. By fall, editing this in mid November, there was much more coming out that were 'dots' to connect with this information, and the topic I created about a month ago about SIBO I utilized the dog --- it's footprints in 'The Stuff' in the ruts in the desert after the water had disappeared, and then showing the ruts when they have the water and Stuff in them, which it also had gotten into when hot and thirsty one day.

Reducing the exposures is important, but then being able to see where all those exposures come from, and putting what we have gassing up our bodies being similar to what's gassing up the air we breathe and putting those pieces together was my aim with the SIBO topic. The link to the SIBO / Small Intestine Bacteria Overgrowth topic which 'ties that all together' and should help with learning about THE Stuff is http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/sibo-small-intestine-bacteria-overgrowth-big-deal-chronic-conditions-and-wellness-level

People often will take more care of their dog than self, intially. Sometimes when you make a change or do something treatment-wise with a dog (or other animal) and take out the psychological factor, you can see that 'this is really working'.

I remember how much a dog convinced me about acupuncture in decades past. The dog's human guardian / "owner" cared enough about her dog to take it to a Chinese veterinarian, and the dog responded incredibly to treatment. I'd understood the concepts, believed in it but had not seen benefit from the acupuncture I had gone to. I knew it was valid, I'd just not seen the evidence. Until I saw the dog not able to walk one week and the next go flying into the back of my truck, clearly thinking it would go on an adventure. That was twenty years ago, before Scooter came along. Her owner / guardian couldn't be convinced to try such things with her, but we did get a topical potion that was outside the box of conventional medicine which reversed her hearing problem.

Scoots, as we called her, was an adorable dog that had been kept at home, mostly inside and in the yard, groomed regularly and never taken anywhere else. Was she happier when I came along and got her out and about? Did she live longer because of it, or not as long? Once, I thought she was having anxiety and chewing on her feet, but it turned out we'd moved to western Colorado where 'cheat grass' would get in her paws and was causing infection. That's when I figured it was best to endure the learning curve and the change of habits to put booties on the dog, and pay for boots at the recreation store, find the right size, return the ones that didn't work. "It's always somethin'" has gotten to be a more commonly uttered expression with me.

The veterinarian had just had a dog die of an abscess a dog had gotten around it's rectum before the owner brought it in, too late for intervention. So what I was doing -- taking her to the desert and running her, was actually the problem. Now we have more information about the desert and what's in it that is contributing to 'our problems'. Here's the link.

www.PostIndependent.com/news/15634135-113/tred-cautiously-in-the-fragile-living-desert [23]

and a link to an article demonstrating what caused elk to die in New Mexico, having to do with bacteria as well:

www.livescience.com/41022-mysterious-elk-deaths-explained.html [24]

There was recently a similar story in another part of the world, with a majority of a herd of preciously regarded animals that suddenly died. This was at the same time as stories in the mainstream were focusing on the massive cyanobacteria / algae issue on the west coast of the United States (and Canada, and Mexico). Google 'dogs dying, cyanobacteria' and add in locations to make it more specific to where you live, or people you'd want to alert. This is a current event, and massively important, in my opinion.

Here are some basic ideas, for starters:

Keep pets indoors for a longer life -- other than a couple of 30 minute walks outdoors every day. Keep the animals out of irrigated areas, lakes, ponds, streams and the like. Keep them out of areas where decorative ponds have been bailed out and the pond replaced with clean water, as now the toxins are on the ground. Learn what's in the algae, learn what's in the water, learn about giant sulphur bacteria, horizontal gene transfer, symbiots, and cloning. That will help people reason through how to hand their dogs, cats, kids, selves, foods, drinks, cleaning, laundry, yard work, etc.

Give them safe, pure water. A simple water filter or similar takes out the larger particles and minerals, and greatly improves the water BUT does NOT take out the things that we're most concerned about today WHEN EDUCATED about what's in the water. Same as for humans. And you don't want to ozonate water that has minerals in it, that'll oxidize minerals. So ozonating water after minerals are removed by whatever means will yield a safer water for the dog to drink. Or be bathed in. Or to have used with it's food. Minerals in the foods consumed is considered to be sufficient for most except the very most frail beings, per the experts I have covered in information at Lumigrate about water.

Most will agree: use reverse osmosis / RO water (or distilled), and ozonate that so it's safe, pure water. There are people who are fans of distilled; I did the work on Lumigrate to sort through that, here and there, over three years time.

The additional oxygen will only stay in ozonated, high oxygen water a short time, so let it sit and the dog will be getting pure water within half an hour. (Humans can rinse their mouths and gargle with the high ozone water and it kills bacteria, etc. A dog could drink a small amount of high oxygen water and potentially clean up their mouth's 'biosphere'; people gargle with it, swish it around, and drink quantities they have experimented with starting with a very small amount and which is increasingly with more ozone.

Learn about these things, talk to others, decide what you think is right for your animal(s) (and children, etc.). Ideally, have a whole house RO system. Bathe your selves and your pets in it. And then revitalize the water. (See much about water at our topics on Lumigrate). Here's the link to the topic about ozone: www.lumigrate.com/forum/ozone [25] ... and good news for those who like toys, which boys like toys, as the saying goes. Ozonators are interesting toys for the home / office, etc.

Purchase food from a reputable, knowledgeable source. Consider going organic all the way. Perhaps go to raw food (which often is frozen), and then from there DIY, make your own. Do your homework on how long dogs can live when given proper nutrition (into their 20s!). My Healthy Animals dot com is the website of the homeopathic / holistic veterinary expert and educator Christina Chambreau, who I've used personally in 2013 with my baffling cat (which I came to figure had something that would equate to autism in humans, but later, after she was euthanized because I couldn't figure it out even with the resources I was turning to, back at that time). This is the link to her website's home page: christinachambreau.com/ [26]

I called to tell Dr Chambreau what I'd been told by the 'local' holistic veterinarian who did have experience with the condition, thankfully. She was very accessible, interested, and I will presume will continue to help advance the knowledge of those who focus on animal wellness from a holistic standpoint going forward.

The increase in special needs pets today goes hand in hand with the childrens' trends, so use your 'stone' to get the birds in your home -- treat the whole system. And much tracks to the foods and diet; I want to provide the link to her website's coverage of information on this aspect, specifically. This is a 2014 nutrition panel which is on a drop down on the tabs at her website: christinachambreau.com/learn-more/hunt-valley-videos [27], and you'll see the video of her presentation at the top with this verbage:

A panel of leaders in holistic health for animals and people spoke on feeding fresh foods for animals. Especially valuable are the slides in Kendell Reichart’s talk showing the changes seen in red blood cells for raw fed dogs versus kibble fed.

You'll see four videos, the first says "Christina Chambreau".

Here's an overview of what she presents if you watch the video:

Nutrition whether for people or for animals. What's best, fresh or processed? Fresh.

What's the next step? Best to get the ingredients at a big store or at a local farm? Local farm.

Does that really make a difference? (everyone agrees, they think so)

How many of you are still feeding processed canned or dry and why?

We need to learn how to do raw.

Messiness and bones all over the place with big dogs.

A specific diet from a 'prescription food' made for a specific problem that has helped symptoms, is why one person is still feeding a prepared, processed product.

Now, Dr C points out/asks: if you had allergies, would it be better for you to be eating things made fresh from things you purchase locally or a processed, prepared diet that was commercially made.

A lot of people don't feed raw because the veterinarian dissuades them. So Dr C gives her background as a DVM, if someone needs a vet "telling them what to do". However, she continued, those people out there telling you what to do can often know more than she does. What did they learn in veterinary school about nutrition? One class, one credit.

In college they went to a pet food company, back in the late 1970s (as she became a veterinarian in 1980). And it was sponsored/ taught basically by a pet food company. They were dogs living in cages, they were being bred to do well on that food. She never thought about that though, at the time -- it just seemed good that the food was doing well for dogs.

Reasons not to use raw were asked. Answers included Convenience. Portion size. How to know all the organic and what's fed to animals for meat. So going grain-free kibble was what one in the audience was doing. Do you know where that food is coming from? If you're concerned about what ingredients to get, be more concerned when it comes from a bag or can. The honesty of the company for what is in the bag compared to reality. And then the AFCO rules... beef dinner can mean 5% beef. Beef flavor can have no beef.

One woman who tried feeding raw gave her dog chicken and the dog looked at her. Plus aren't there supposed to be other vitamins with it. Another person said price, because with four beagles it would be a large quantity. Also nutrients and what they need.

We've only been feeding processed food about a century. Until right after WW2, most were not fed processed even though it was available. When we had TV dinners for us, there as stuff left over to make something with so they came up with more popular foods. Dr Morris was a vet who saw dogs and cats eating table scraps who by that time were not healthy. So the dogs got the tripe, the lungs, or scavenged rotten or fresh meat -- dogs can mostly eat very rotten meat and do fine. So his clinic he cooked vegetables and meat and that was the beginning of Hills pet food company. It was bought out by Colgate Palmolive and they had a different commitment to the animals.

When she became a vet, cats were dying because people trusted the regulators in the government to be having the processed foods be correct, but there wasn't enough taurine in it, which was causing the cats to be ill. Also, some companies just took dog food and labeled it for cats.

Then they changed things to address the urine problems in cats and screwed that up.

She started out with doing homeopathy but she couldn't cure a lot of animals until they got onto better food. They had to have enough nutrition in their body to really heal.

She's been teaching since 1987, so she's talked to tens of thousands of people. She hears over and over, the goop in the corner of the eyes has disappeared, the dog quit eating plastic, the dog quit licking the photographs, the cat stopped drinking water, I don't need to give them baths all the time.

If you buy chicken at the store, you know it's organic or not. You know it's a chicken leg at least. If you have it in a can, you don't really know what you're purchasing and if it's fresh and local you know even better.

How do you know how much food to eat? How do you know what volume of food you should eat -- answer, my stomach is full. How do you know how much to feed your children? Answer, there is no one right answer. Feed to where they look lean and strong.

How many of you feed the amount it says on the dry food? They're trying to sell more food --- 'nobody feeds what it says on the bag'. The answer is YOU figure it out for your dog.

Our dogs and cats are all different.

How are dogs and cats designed. They have gripping and tearing teeth. They have one big set of bone crunching teeth. Their jaws only go up and down, they do not go side to side. They are not designed for chewing. The incisors in the front are to gnaw meat off of the bone. So if you're not giving them bones with a little meat, those teeth are never exercised.

So for a healthy jaw and healthy teeth, you need to feed pieces of meat that are big enough to sink their teeth into, whether that's heart or liver. Sometimes dogs will do enough gnawing on carrots or a big vegetable will do it.

Notice what else is happening to my body when she demonstrates this eating movement? Her whole body is getting chiropractic-like adjustment when I eat.

The stomach in dog and cat, like ours is, is acid, but the food sits there a long time. Acid doesn't do much for grains and vegetables, it's for meat.

The intestines are really short --- that's why you have to puree the vegetables for them to consume.

In the wild what do they eat? Something with fur and skin, bones, muscle meat, organs, and ground up, predigested vegetables in the stomachs and intestines. That's what they're designed for anatomically to eat. So that's where she comes in to make her raw food recommendations.

How many of you have heard different opinions on how people should eat?

Does that mean that being Westin A Price and mostly meat and fermented vegetables is right for everyone, or being vegan is not the way to raise a child? No. Once you're into this fresh foods for animals camp, you're going to get the same thing, all kinds of opinions.

Richard _____ talks about grains, and he's committed to sustainability on the planet and he's wanting us to not see us raising animals to feed our pets. But she's as committed to that but looks at it differently. If every one of you found four or five people who hunt deer, or go to a butcher shop. If you could feed your animals that, or for just the cost of butchering --- about a dollar a pound -- you'd not be eating meat intended for people.

If you go to local farms, you can get chicken feet, chicken backs, turkey necks, hearts,liver, ears, gizards -- things that most Americans don't eat. I believe in this, however, rather than feeding a lot of grains. However, she says again that she respects Richard __________. It's perhaps possible to feed grain and have them do well.

So there are all these opinions. You have to do what Arbor was talking about; you watch your animal and see how your dog or cat does. Keep a journal. She's been doing this for years. People about 13 years ago told her to write a book. She realized what was missing in what was available already was the people DECIDING what was best for their animal. So her book is called The Journal. There are some introduction pages on how healthy they can be, and overview. You need to read and know the early warning signs of illness, that's important, then it talks about how to make the journal FUN and work....

Write in pretty, FUN colors, what the animal is doing. We want to track the ill symptoms but we want to track what they're doing well.

And then holistic alternatives, such as nutrition like is the focus of this seminar being recorded, and not vaccinating. (Please see the vaccine plan / vaccine rights topic at Lumigrate, have a plan for your pets and people.)

As part of the beginning introduction, she talks about animals that are really healthy and what we see. That's where conventional veterinarians are lacking. They tolerate a lot of illness because they don't know what to do with it.

How many of you have dogs who have crud in the corners of their eyes? What about skin odor and they need bathing on a regular basis? Chronically waxy ears you're having to tend to? These are early signs, it's not there's an ear or eye infection, but the underlying vibrational pattern that is running the animal is out of whack.

Each animal (and each person) is born with a certain energetic pattern, based upon the mother's health and etc. Each one is sensitive to certain things. Some animals can eat dry food their whole life and live a long life, or get vaccinated their whole life and be fine. Others are so sensitive on their first vaccine they die, or there are only certain foods they can eat. That's why on the Internet and elsewhere you're going to get so many opinions.

By and large, her experience of feeding fresh food since 1990 is 80% of the animals that go onto a raw food diet are significantly better. And if they had those early warning signs, they'll go away. Cats on a raw food diet rarely if ever will drink water. That's healthy, as long as they're not on dry food.

Then there's a master symptom list. It shows you how to look for early warning signs.

Then you write in the journal how they are doing.

So if you're changing the diet, you write that down in the journal.

If you have a dog doing well on an elimination diet. So if it seems to be allergic to chicken, you'd start with feeding raw beef. However, about 80% of the time, once they're on a raw food diet, what was cooked and processed causing allergies/problems can be fed raw without it causing problems. Not always, but usually.

Dogs on a raw food diet eat less volume AND that means less stool to clean up. And the stool is just white powder and it completely dissolves. Think about that for a moment. When we're feeding processed food they have huge, stinky stools. When you're feeding fresh, appropriate foods for that individual animal, they're that small and they just melt. So what's in the processed food is filler and they can't digest it. You may discover that the stools get worse at one point when you start feeding differently.

She goes to a local farm, they carry these tubes for $1.50 a pound, which is beef heart and beef scraps. Right now she has one cat, her limit is two cats from my husband because I travel so much. Then she has a bag of chicken backs. They're sort of free range chickens. ... he gets them at 4 weeks and then they have a few weeks they're running around loose. I'm not saying this is THE BEST, but it's what works for her and for her cat. She sits down in front of the TV ... her cat wants the pieces to be about 1-2 inches.

She has a friend in Florida who rescues cats and she feeds once a day, and she's a vegan. She got a container out from the fridge that had thawed of chicken legs and thighs and has a friend put them in containers for the freezer with 10 as she has 10 cats. She has a friend that puts them in the containers as she can't stand handling it.

She gave each cat a thigh or a leg, with the skin, the bone. Each animal has differences in what they can do .... pancrease might not be healthy in a dog whose owner in the audience said her dog can't do skin or fat ... Standard Process pancreas supplement is what she mentions maybe trying. Dr C relates about a case with a cat that got symptoms from chicken, throwing up.

For her cat she chops things up into small pieces, then adds coarsely ground meat, then pureed liver and pureed vegetables. Cats need about 10-20% vegetables. She purees the liver because the cat likes it better. She uses beef liver, not chicken, because it's cheaper. ($1 versus $4 per pound).

How easy it is, it takes three hours one afternoon about every six or eight weeks, putting it into the freezer and she's not made the improvement yet to do away with plastic and go to metal or glass, she's using plastic. Best to thaw it in your fridge. This is how easy it is to serve breakfast, because some people think this is going to be harder. There are hunks in there that the cat actually gets to use his teeth and he's sinking his teeth into it.

If you have a dog at home, you can prepare ahead or make them part of your family's meals every night.

Depending upon how many and how big your animals are. So at farmer's markets, just before they close, a lot of the farmers are willing to ditch the vegetables to you for feeding your animals. So then you may process the vegies that night. It depends on how many and how big your dogs are, you might buy equipment that makes this easier.

But say you are with one dog ... you always keep your food processor sitting out. You can cut off the hard part of the broccholi that looks not good for your dinner. Eat your vegetables, put the leftovers in the food processor. Some people say only raw and only cooked vegetables, and she says use both as some things are more bioavailable cooked and some raw.

What about if you have olive oil or garlic in your foods that you'd give to the animals.

There's very little you should not feed your animals. She doesn't recommend putting extra onion in when preparing for your dog. Say you made a tomato sauce that had onions in it ....

You don't want to feed expensive chocolate to them, cheap chocolate is fine, avocado is fine. Garlic is fine. There's a food called AvoDerm, it has avocado ..... you can't feed the skin or the pit, but avocado is fine. So you could put some rice in if you had some of that with your dinner. One woman in Columbia who had a very large dog realized that her dog needed 1 T of rice per day was needed in with the three cups of food the dog was consuming. (She had a healthy pet food store.) So if you notice the way the dog looks based on these experiments just like with yourself.

She is of the belief of no grains, in the wild do your dogs eat animals that are eating rice? Maybe wild rice. Corn? Maybe, for a few months the mice might when the corn is ripe. They'll be eating seeds and other things. If you had some left over, it's fine to put it in IF it's not a problem. Dr Pitkaren says yes to grains.

Another example about foods

Grapes were brought up. They were killing dogs, they thought, because grapes and strawberries are among the most pesticided foods. Then a dog died that the owners had not allegedly sprayed their grapes, but it wasn't that carefully investigated. Could a neighbor have sprayed, perhaps, for instance. So if you've been feeding grapes and raisins, stick to organic. If you've never fed them, don't do it, just 'cause she's kind of on the fence about it --- in the wild would they really eat grapes?

Most importantly, YOU need to find out what works for YOU and your dog. If you looked at the early warning signs and didn't notice any difference when you were doing vegetables. You can get the early warning signs on her website, you don't need the journal for that.

As far as nuts go. They don't digest nuts if they're whole. They might appear to chew but they're not really able to chew a note up. The stomach acid likely doesn't digest it.

Animals that are supposed to 'chew their food' have flat teeth. Mammals that are supposed to chew their food will have flat surfaces on their teeth, like cows, horses, people.

If it's a treat for your dog and your dog LOVES it, then it falls in the category of 'am I going to spend money that gives my dog fun because they enjoy it that's not giving nutrition'. It's perfectly fine -- anything can be shared as a 'treat'. But some people might not be able to afford anything but what they need for nutrition. Dogs aren't eating a lot of grains, so you buy all these human snack treats that are all raw and nuts,

She married into Baltimore and they eat lox and bagels with cream cheese for breakfast. But give some of that to dog as a treat UNTIL you go to the journal. The question always is what did my dog eat just before the symptoms? Is it the bagel, the cream cheese, or the lox.

She relates that one of her main purposes in life is to be the mediator. YOU need to figure out what works for your animals.

Question from someone with a pet with missing teeth. You have to be appropriate to that. Remember, they are not 'chewing'. You may need to experiment. You certainly do small chunks, better than ground but ground's an option. Do you do raw fish, like a whole fish. Yes and she said better yet, you take the fillets off for yourself and give the head, tail and backbone to the animal.

"Don't feed cooked bones, they splinter?" How many heard this? How many have heard veterinarians say this? She was lecturing to 200 technicians once, and asked. Only a few knew that the problems they saw was from raw. Bones CAN get stuck. A stick can get stuck somewhere. Raw bones don't really cause problems often. What causes the problem ... the chicken leg, for instance, has all this stuff that hooks the muscles onto it. The dried out bone with nothing hooked onto it that a dog gets is the problem.

Dogs in the wild are not likely to eat a dried out bone unless they're starving. It's a slightly higher risk, they don't necessarily make a problem. After you've cooked bones for a soup, look at how flexible they are. What about choking? That can happen, in 30 years she's never had one choke and die. She doesn't recommend you put out food and leave no matter WHAT kind of food, processed or fresh / raw. Stay around so you know nothing got stuck.

Someone in the audience said they'd get on the floor with her dog with a leg on a bone. "It was a bonding experience". The dog would take the meat off the bone and eat it, quickly. Another 'frenchie' she has will eat fast, regurgitate it sometimes.

Another in the audience talked about another person who fed raw, the dog ate fast, threw up and the owner removed the dog from the room and cleaned it up rather than just letting it eat it.

Dr C said she has a few clients who have their dogs scavenging in the woods and their food bills are $0 now -- just keep them off the roads.

It has to be a bite wound to get rabies .. they say it doesn't but it really does. So an animal can eat an animal that has rabies without getting rabies.

SO:

There are health benefits.

You'll save money.

You won't have as many stools.

Your dogs will live longer.

The dogs like the food.

You know what is in the food, so you can do an allergenic diet. You don't know what is in processed foods.

How many who are feeding raw feel it's more, less, same? It costs her 1/4 what it would cost me to feel a high quality canned to my cat, she said because she's making it not purchasing a raw food diet.

As you'll see with Kendall and _____ in their presentations,

I don't know about vitamin D toxicity, but feeding a raw food diet should help the body cleanse, then if you support that with holistic modalities that should clean that up.

Lyme -- if you have a healthy animal it won't show symptoms of Lyme. If you have a positive antibody for Lyme but it's asymptomatic, don't even worry about it. Feed a raw food diet.

For those who haven't already been feeding raw, just from hearing her so far, how many have been converted.

Then at the end we'll have Kathleen ask. If anyone's left then ... we'll go in the lobby and talk (because they might need this room).

A woman in the audience says: I buy almost 500# at a time, and have three freezers, one woman said.

One very important piece, this is new 'freaking news'. A month and a half ago on their monthly homeopathy veterinary webinar, even with the free range chickens -- really truly chickens running around and eating grass not just with a door they could go out -- if they are being fed GMO grains, you develop problems in your dogs and cats.

So now we need to up the ante. But local, free range AND..... she digresses --- there's a farm called The Contented Rooster Farm in Hartford's farmer's market, and the man says that we've gotten to expect these chickens that have big breasts ..... we've bred them in a way they can't get their nutrition naturally, they have to be fed grains .... 90% of their nutrition comes from grains, even if they're outside 24/7. So now we need to find did the beef get finished on grain or not?

What about our venison .... the farm across from her kills deer year round because they're eating on the farm, so the deer are eating GMO soybeans and corn all the time, she wants deer from the woods. Your neighbors are spraying the grass, do you want the deer that's hanging out on your lawn? So today, this year for her, it's about upping the ante about what we're eating and our animals are eating.

Other seminars at this tab are :

Kendell Reichart

Kevin Matthews

Kathleen Lester (and summary)

7 Keys to Health Animals, from Christina Chambreau's website:

christinachambreau.com/learn-more/7-keys-to-healthy-animals [28]

which includes the afore-mentioned early warning signs which people are encouraged .. YOU are encouraged to document in a journal using COLORFUL things about the happy, good things with the pet so it's not a journal focused on 'problems'..... from the link:

EARLY WARNING SIGNS OF ILLNESS FOR DOGS AND CATS

Is your companion really healthy?

Can you tell if the treatment you selected is deeply curing?

Can your companion be healthier than you realize?

Most health problems are the result of an underlying energy imbalance, made worse from poor diet and vaccination. They are rarely acute diseases (except injuries). Therefore, 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. As we cure animals of “disease”, we find that certain other “NORMAL” things go away, too. Do not be satisfied until most of the following symptoms are gone. In young, apparently healthy animals, these apparently “normal” problems may be the only indications to start treatment.

This is only the beginning of a list – as more animals are cured we will find new levels of health. Tracking these is easy when you use the Healthy Animal’s Journal by Dr. Christina Chambreau (www.HealthyAnimalsJournal.com [29])

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 parasites.

MUSCULAR/SKELETAL:

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 to conceive easily, deliver normally, and not pass on “genetic breed” problems.

Remember, Dr C and other 'experts' might not yet have learned about the cyanobacteria / giant sulphur bacteria information that I'm weaving into Lumigrate in 2015. I really like that her presentation credits that others know more than she does about many things, and that she's continuing to 'up the ante' and progress with being more careful about things as she has to incorporate doing all this into her life, same as everyone. At some point, everyone's going to be learning about this information is my projection, and then we can look for how these experts change their education. Until then, do as she is saying here, which is so a duet with my foundational concept of YOU have to take charge of these things and figure things out. I'm just trying to make it easier for YOUsers by providing examples and information.

It is a lot, maybe too much, to think about all the water and food changes. What about the medication aspect? Safeguard's website is set up to take people to the various products they are marketing specifically for the various animals. Here's their link: www.safe-guard.com/ [30] and this is the link for the button/tab about canines: www.safe-guard-for-dogs.com/ [31]

You'll see:

Safe-Guard® is safe for:

Dogs of all breeds

Puppies (at least 6 weeks of age)

Pregnant females

Older dogs

Safe-Guard® is the ONLY over-the-counter canine dewormer that treats ALL 4 major intestinal parasites in dogs. See How We Stack Up [32]

AND an image of a dosing chart, which has slightly different information on it about what kind of dogs... as they include 'working dogs' on there too. I'll let you go to that resource they provide as they might be updating that and changing and I wouldn't want to have the outdated information carved in 'stone' on Lumigrate.

www.safe-guard-for-dogs.com/images/dosage-chart-large.jpg [33]

I know from being in the circles I am on Facebook that many have ordered their fenbendazole from Jeffers, and by the way, they have never talked about using this short-term treatment for 'worms' for the longer, chronic 'stuff inside our guts'. It was my asking "Poster Gal" in late July what she'd been doing lately with it with her dogs, since I knew she originally had treated her dogs, larger dogs, one 'lame' that was now getting out to the neighbors' again and 'wandering', a new problem created by solving the physiological problems in the dog underlying the lameness. Due to cost, she switched from the Safeguard suspension with the canines to the pellets and continues to routinely use it since they will continue to get the 'stuff in them' that is causing 'our problems'.

Let's start with the 'multi-species' product at Jeffers, which is Safeguard brand pellets. Quantities: 1 and 5 pounds. Description:

DESCRIPTION

Safe-Guard® Multi-Species Dewormer

Broad-spectrum, pelleted dewormer for use in beef and dairy cattle, equine, swine, growing turkeys, zoo and wildlife animals.
Contains 2.27 grams fenbendazole per lb.

DIRECTIONS FOR USE:

Cattle - (Beef and Dairy) - For the removal and control of lung-worms, barber-pole worms, brown stomach worms, small stomach worms, hookworms, intestinal worms, bankrupt worms and nodular worms. Feeding directions for 1,100 lbs body weight: 1 lb in a one day treatment. Re treatment may be needed after 4-6 weeks. 13 day slaughter withdrawal; no milk withdrawal.

Equine - For the removal and control of large strongyles, small strongyles, pin-worms and ascarids. Feeding directions for 1,100 lbs body weight: For strongyles and pin-worms - 1 lb in a one day treatment; For ascarids - 2 lbs Safe Guard in a one day treatment. Re-treatment may be needed after 6-8 weeks.

Swine - (growing pigs, gilts, pregnant sows and boars) - For the removal and control of lung-worms, gastrointestinal worms, large roundworms, nodular worm, small stomach worms, whip-worms and kidney worm. Feeding directions for 200 lbs body weight: 1.92 oz daily for 3 days. No slaughter withdrawal.

Turkeys, Zoo and Wildlife Animals See label directions or visitMarsyt.com [34] and click on animal species icon for dose calculator.

www.jefferspet.com/products/safe-guard-multi-species-dewormer [35]

Here's the suspension for horses and goats they have a link for when Searching on the Internet (please do your own Searches too). www.jefferspet.com/products/safe-guard-suspension [36]

Safeguard paste: www.jefferspet.com/products/safe-guard-paste [37]

They have the Panacur (different brand) paste for horses as well: www.jefferspet.com/products/panacur-paste [38]

Remember to look at what the other ingredients are.

Keep in mind, this is what the 'on label' not 'off label' uses are that they put on their products and website marketing. By now, most medical consumers (people) are aware of how that works of using chemicals for things that they're not officially on the market for.

When it comes to the more progressive concepts that I think are cutting edge right now, dogs don't drink coffee, but learn and apply the concepts from the Bulletproof 'guy', who just produced the movie Moldy. Apply that to the dog (or cat, etc). I think it was 'meant to be' that Dave Asprey was on with Patrick Timpone this past Thursday at OneRadioNetwork (I transcribed it, so it's now readable at Lumigrate, too). Here's the link to the comment topic about that: www.lumigrate.com/forum/mold-four-letter-word-and-cofactor-consider-chronic-illness-and-wellness-prevention-too#comment-2901 [39].

Basically, if you see someone having behavioral changes, weight gain, and other symptoms, suspect mold. In people, he was referring to but wouldn't this extend to our pets and other animals as well? Have we heard about the animals in the wild behaving differently or observed it personally? I sure have, increasingly and recently in particular. Could it be they're getting 'whammed' by the fungus amongus, the bacterial Trojan horse, etc. ?

Dave Asprey, a father, said on his marketing video about Moldy that he really didn't like being away from his family when he had to travel to interview people for the movie. Think about how fortunate his children are that he took the 20 years to figure out what caused his health problems, and now the two to make Moldy, after having the foresight to create a low micotoxin coffee product with the concept of putting FAT in your coffee and then body. Becoming a sensation, having enough money to now go into movie production such as Moldy.

Something about the conversations I've heard make me think there's more to the story than we've been told --- and the timing of Moldy coming out just after Dr Oz did a topic and Suzane Somers' book came out about mold being the ultimate cause of her problems she popularized and sold books about in the past. Clearly 'someone' wants us to learn about mold NOW. But remember, to add on 'et al.' after mold. Mold et al. is what we teach at Lumigrate, now as you see at the above topic and the subsequent links.

BRUSH / Groom the coat of the dog often, looking for any insect problems, and to be reducing the surfaces that the bacteria intermingling with other microbes can be on. Only use quality essential oils and some diatomaceous earth for flea and tick control, I've heard from a wise woman whose brain I picked a little about pets in the home, with the family, in terms of keeping the home/family system as safe and healthy as possible in today's difficult times with all the exposures. Look into Borax for use in the home for flea control, not on the dog. (And for use in laundry, etc.)

CLEAN the area where the dog spends time. Use blankets and towels, etc. that can be washed. Use appropriate cleaning methods. Use carpet remnants that can be taken outside and put in the sun for the UV light. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Consult our laundry cleaning information at Lumigrate, it's prepared specific with the expertise of Steve et al. about bacteria, fungi, et al. Here's the link: www.lumigrate.com/forum/cleaning-your-environment-and-doing-laundry-light-new-information-toxins-and-earths-environmen [4]

TRAIN the dog to be disciplined on the leash so that you are more apt to keep them on the leash and out of UNSAFE WATER. Learn what is making standing water unsafe versus safe. Decide what your plan will be for your dog if they are exposed; learn the symptoms a dog will usually have if they're in need of medical attention.

Is it a 'dog's good life' to never get to go jump in a lake, or is it a compromise to let them go into safer waters? What about bathing them afterward to get (some of) the toxins off their coat. What about treating the coat with fenbendazole? There are some who will say to put liquid on a damp cloth and wipe the pets off, others will say to obtain fenbendazole powder.

Have you talked with your veterinarian about what you've learned at Lumigrate, and how does that integrate with what YOU think, and what YOU are going to do as the responsible pet guardian. What then, do you think after talking with your 'team', and contemplating.

Consider getting booties for your dog so they don't get as much exposure through their feet. And then you can take those off at the door as a person would their shoes and you get less toxin in your home. By putting one bootie on a back paw initially, then the other, and letting them get used tot that, then adding the two front, it is a way to ease them into accepting the newfangled things.

Wash their booties and feet (and the rest of the dog) in ways that will reduce the toxins getting into the dog AND into the home and other family members. Clean the bedding frequently. Many who follow Steve Beddingfield's work and protocol are treating the entire family, fur babies and humans. And recognize this is emerging information and thinking and you'll maybe not find exact information out there of what to do, you'll have to reason through things.

There are increasing numbers of people using fenbendazole, or following the specific protocol Steve is adamant about being 'the right way'. Find what fits for YOU. But please do give it the thought of how important this is and if you're going to be committed to doing the steps to help you and your family be safer and healthier. A very experienced group member had recently told someone their dog only needed a few days of fenbendazole before their symptoms were gone; they put the appropriate amount on a piece of bread -- something the dog enjoyed eating. In a dog case I've been working in on this summer, even without the fenbendazole being added, as the owner had to ease into all this information, it was remarkable how many things changed within just the first month of our working together. I think it's really encouraging for the people, who simply take longer typically, to see this in the dogs.

Consider whether you're going to do more exercising where you'll get less exposure to the toxins; read about cyanobacteria (and giant sulphur bacteria, though that's emerging information) in your area and think about where it's at.

Example: If the irrigation water flows and gets pumped into a pond where it stagnates and algae (and etc.) grow, then that gets shot through sprinklers onto the grass VERSUS walking where there was no stagnant irrigation water being sprayed. Walking on the street or sidewalks versus walking out in the desert or the woods and the wilds. Compromise. This is why it is SO IMPORTANT a person studies enough to really understand the information. This takes work, you'll have to give up something you'd rather do with your time and energy and money. Priorities. Mature priorities.

"Notice" what you see growing on the north and west and east sides of rocks, trees, buildings, etc., or other objects. Look closely. Think in light of the information that is presented by the sources I've suggested YOU study potentially. Are we to the day when a healthier dog and human will come from exercising indoors? I've seen obese dogs walking on treadmills in water, via veterinary clinics. Have their endocrine systems been blown out by these little toxins and it's not about calories in and calories out? Etc.

Consider treating the dog inside and out (orally and topically) with fenbendazole; consider powered fenbendazole. Consider also giving them reishi, and fenbendazole per 'the protocol' Steve Beddingfield came up with (after doing research about what's in it and the patent trail that I've presented on the topics about Steve's research, protocol, etc. Naturally, get the opinions of professionals as needed.

I believe there's much truth in what he's coming up with, though it is obviously a work in progress and I present it as such very intentionally so YOU realize you can be on the cutting edge and what that means.

Consider treating the SOILS the way we've presented if you look at the soil topic at Lumigrate. Really, won't the dog prefer to roll in the dirt? Make it safer dirt. That's just what makes sense to me. Dave Asprey has much to say about soils, at this thread at Lumigrate, and be sure to take a peek at the pickle photo to see the giant sulphur bacteria / cyanobacteria 'mess' someone found inside a commercially purchased pickle. www.lumigrate.com/forum/gardening-starting-seeds-coffee-filters#comment-2887 [40]

This means smaller areas we'll need to have so we can be more diligent with our efforts. This is a major rethinking of 'everything', which can START with thinking about 'man's best friend'.

I got the ball rolling, what else can YOU think of?

Scooter the Wonder Dog, whose 'father' was my beau from about the time of 9/11 (2001) to spring of 2004. Thankfully, we kept in touch enough that I got to hear the ending of her life story, and to see him off to his next chapter of his life, ever the rolling stone.

Scooter became a certified therapy dog at the age of 14, as I was working with a rehab manager who did that certification and used dogs in the facility I was hired initially to work at. There's more about her on the vaccine plan thread at Lumigrate, because she'd just gotten her hearing back at this time due to a veterinarian who went out of his way to research after we presented with her having gone totally deaf immediately after getting her vaccinations in the city he was moving from (to follow me with my work).

I'd gotten a flu vaccine earlier that month and had gotten 'the clear visible reaction' I needed to 'get it' that vaccines were contributing to my ongoing health problems. Hence I suggest everyone study about vaccines, make a plan, act upon that plan based on what YOU believe is right for YOU (or those you are an advocate / guardian for).

There have been four hundred reads of the blog from Mother's Day, my last blog entry at Lumigrate, and my first for a very long time. That's about 100 per week, a decent number, which I'm pleased to see. I hope it is helping in significant ways, those who either find it by Searching online OR by having someone suggest they go here and 'put it and go from there'. Just in the last week, whenever I use the Search bar at Lumigrate, I get 404 error messages.

I wish technology came easier to me, it seems not many people with environmental illness seem to have that 'skill set'. Maybe there's no connection, but I do see a lot of people using technology despite it being difficult, because they are SO DRIVEN to use the tools they see as necessary to get their 'work done' on Earth.

Today is Father's Day, and I had already decided that for Father's Day related to this information, I was going to approach things from a 'if I were a man, how would I do it' way. And the answer is to approach it like you would do when teaching a dog. I'm thankful for a wise teacher/ therapist I encountered in 2008 for helping me see that.

And by year's end, I was literally hearing the theory of a man who said 'there are two kinds of men, Mardy; those who are like a dog, and those who are like a cat'. More good advise, and I'd never thought of things that way. That was a guy who was a financial world big shot that I met through my personal life at a time I was having to ask myself with literally every person my age who I met, whether personally or professionally "why are we all messed up, now?"

This guy, who I'd met through someone I knew -- they were best friends from college 30 years before -- had allegedly fallen apart just after Katrina hit their area of Louisiana. Everyone attributed it to the 'stress' on his mind and emotions, the domino effect from the financial stress in his industry brought on by the devastation. Put on a different set of 'lenses' and look with your microscope or detective's magnifying glass and was it more from being around the molds and different and increasing enviornmental toxins as well? Primarily? Is there A ROOT CAUSE?

Is everyone attributing the difficulties between men and women, between men and men, with men in general (and women in general, kids in general) incorrectly? Have those who let us know in vague ways what might REALLY be going on been trying to lead SOME OF US to the CORRECT answer? To a new answer? I think that's appearing to be the case. Is it more physiological and less psychological? I think so. The patent trail for what chemicals similar to fenbendazole shows certainly will lead a person to believe that to be the case. Again, look into it. Decide for yourself. Unplug from other things taking up your brain space and time, and think about things.

This, I was now seeing at New Years 2008/9, was not just Coloradoans who were coping well enough and then lost their footing, sliding into addictions to substances, and dysfunctional other addictions or behaviors. I'd seen it start in people from my little area outside of Denver, long ago. The father next door became a multiple chemical sensitivity statistic about the same time my health collapsed when living two hours north and east, in Fort Collins, Colorado. And this encounter coincided with when my father was spending his first days in a hospital and being transferred to subacute rehabilitation, I blasted back and forth in a week to be at each and also meet my obligations on the western side of the mountains.

This was at the same time as the website was being put together, the videos were being edited to put on it, and the new part-time business manager was sorting out all the paperwork that had occurred in 2008 when I was able to get things going but not keep up with how to do all that 'paperwork'. My brain simply cannot 'do it' anymore. I was always slow with it, but could do things with low error rate with enough time and effort. That's disintegrated slowly for a long time. Yet as those doors closed, others for me opened, creative ones, visionary ones. So it's not all 'bad'.

I only this year, 2015, via Steve Beddingfield's words put it together that the cystic acne that onset with me x13 lesions in 1980, July was from the swimming hole I'd gone to via my fiance at the time. Thankfully I encountered Steve in 2014, August, and followed my intuition about putting in a friend request. The rest, we might say, is history. Lumigrate was the first to put his work on the Internet beyond what's on Facebook.

To double check my memory about the swimming hole back in 1980, I contacted my ex to be sure I remembered who took us there, when, etc., and was met with such noxious, toxic response from him I had to say 'what has happened to you? He appeared to have lost his memory a bit too, as he accused me of going with people he thinks broke up our marriage, who weren't to come alone until after we were unhappily married for years.

"Look into the information I'm telling you about here, maybe, you have the symptoms it appears to me", buddy. He'd not responded for a while and so it was a surprise to see first thing one morning, and then to read it and it was just so"ugly", similar to the first time we'd communicated, on Father's Day 2009 when I thought my dad was perhaps going to die at that time; he'd gotten C-Dif. But the team took my advise finally and did what I'd suggsted from the start finally, and he recovered and never had more problems. Very simple to work on the gut, really.

My ex's family had moved to my area when we were in elementary school, he was a year younger but was helping my BFF and me on our party line with algebra homework when we were his 'upperclass men'.

He'd always been shy, like the cat I'm going to talk about later, but friendly. Wide eyed and sweet. He'd do bold things if he thought about them long enough, and was actually quite a thrill seeker when it came to how he drove. The only fight we had was in Boulder when my door's dome light on the passenger side came on from the centrifugal force of the turn we'd just made. My car, me that'll once again get hurt due to a crazy brain driving the car, it had already happened to me once as a kid with my sibling. So I made him pull over and I drove from there. Again, my car. I'd hear he had quite a bad crash due to his driving too care-less-ly not long after we were not a couple anymore. Maybe he changed, maybe not. I have no way of knowing.

He got into the usual substances for our area and times, which I'd not done in high school, and in college only got into the requisite binge drinking that Colorado State University was promoting at the time. For a while, he argued successfully that drugs are drugs and we just 'partied' as we wanted, but by mid 20s I wanted to not have a hung over, checked out husband and I wanted to feel good again, so I quit everything and asked him to only 'party' on special occasions. He refused to change. Refused my request he go to counseling, I had thought it was rooted in his brother having died just before we got married, though his substance use had started when he was in junior high school.

I left the relationship in my mid 20s, after my health had started collapsing and I was literally fighting to keep myself out of the drain. I'd go to work on Fridays talking about what I hoped to go do on the weekend and come back on Monday and have gotten to do none of it because he was not only going to school full time and working a little bit, he was playing with his 'party friends' and other friends with more 'contact hours' than he was playing with me every week. My house, my full time job and paycheck, that didn't sit well with me. Encouraged by a coworker who also wanted to be living his life more fully, we both made big changes and ended up marrying just before my mother died. Where I was to see my first husband, just after he'd asked our mutual friend who 'that lady was' (pointing at me). To say I'd blossomed is an understatement.

I made the right move, my next relationship was one with very healthy use of alcohol and no other drugs, yet when I grew into the blooming onion or rose I became, whichever way you look at it, he was threatened by that and tried to sequester me to himself. To undermine. I wasn't going to be held back by that either. And because we were coworkers, I changed jobs to one that was meant to be, at age 32-34 I worked for the health education's key people at Colorado State University. Almost all women, and no dogs. I'll not go into that here, back to dogs and men, and fathers. Suffice it to say, they taught me how one has to figure out the audience to appeal to before creating your message .... I want to appeal to people who have DOGS, and to men (and women, and those who have cats, and children and grandchildren or who will be planning to have children someday).

This is the fifth Father's Day holiday where I don't have a father alive on Earth anymore; mine died on Labor Day 2010, about 20 years after this photo was taken of us (which was included in the modern media photo and music 'story' of his life

He'd had life-long symptoms of what we'd now recognize as environmental illness, autism, etc. He was one of the quirky ones who was a genius in many ways, particularly sciences, yet what had gotten him adopted at age three was his looks. His adoptive mother spotted him in the yard of a house nearby hers in Chicago where he was in foster care. The adoptive couple were able to provide him 'fine things', particularly for the Depression era they would go into not long after, and an 'all American-Norwegian immigrant extended family'.

One thing he had that brightened his childhood life was a dog. Another highlight of his childhood was his parents and his aunt (and her husband) purchased cabins side by side on a lake north of Chicago, in Wisconsin. Did this contribute to his unwellness? Was he, in both places, being exposed to bacteria, fungi, algae?

At the lake, he'd connect with another boy from his neighborhood in Chicago who was extremely athletic, Artie Moss (I don't know how the last name was spelled, just how it was pronounced). I use the moss word because, ultimately, what we have going on right now is an 'off the chain' reaction going on which has created, essentially, moss on the inside of our 35 feet of intestines (on average, in adults) and much recognition now that it's "all about" the gut and autism. All about the gut and chronic fatigue and adrenal fatigue, something my father had strike him down in his first semester of college, at renowned science and engineering school Purdue University in Indiana, USA. That was in the late 1930s.

In the late 1980s, essentially fifty years later, I'd be struck down for the first time after life-long symptoms, while living in Fort Collins, Colorado, where Colorado State University -- another renowned 'tough school' for some programs, such as occupational therapy and veterinary medicine, animal sciences.

Dr. Temple Grandin's career in animal sciences came about at Colorado State, and her office was on The Oval, the old part of campus, along with the occupational therapy building. Just before our completion in 1996 she came into our little classroom and spoke to my class about autism. So it's been very interesting to see the award-winning movie be made about her life, via HBO, and her outreach to the public and how that has contributed to the proverbial 'ripple effect' about sensory integration and autism. I would recover 100% and be really 'well' for the first and so-far only time in my life, but then collapse again when in the OT program in my mid thirties.

I would then work again to find solutions, try things that worked to improve symptoms, again think I had found the actual cause, and later have a relapse. I'd compare my path to that of my father's, and he seemed to just have symptoms come and go but overall deteriorate, and end up with what is called Lewy bodies dementia. I prefer to call it Lewy bodies disease because you actually see the bodily, Parkinsonian, symptoms before you see the cognitive aspect.

It was a horrible way, in many ways, to have life end, but we all learned a lot from it. I mostly got to see how resistant people are to the suggestion of the experts in palliative care being called 'to the scene', and then how once they are on board, they can make things so much easier for everyone involved, and facilitate that 'home stretch of life' as I call it.

There was nobody at the funeral who attended solely because of him; he had become very dependent upon my mother for his socialization, prior to her death, and then upon my sibling and whomever was brought with, after that. The funeral director and others from the mortuary were there because of him, I suppose; the director commended me, quietly, afterward for the portion that I'd written of the words that were read in the 50 minute-long service; my component had it been read at the proper pace, would take nine minutes and was focused upon how there are interventions, including palliative care and hospice, and other things to keep people from having the fate that my father did, because he simply refused to go to any providers that were outside what the system suggested. He'd even stick to what the RDA was on supplements, and therefore suffered from that consequence. Ironic, when you know what information I am a leader and provider of, isn't it? (Label THAT personality disorder if you might, behaviorists!)

We even waived the military musicians coming to play taps and present the flag, as the mortuary was able to do the flag and the musicians hired to perform the music entertainment portion of the service could play taps.

My friends mostly never even saw my father unless out in public at the store or a restaurant because he was such a recluse the longer he was alive. But they always thought he was 'cute' and 'interesting' and they also were supportive of me and so some came. He never knew who any of my friends were, his brain only committed things that had to do with my older sibling. I'd mention one of my long-time friends and he'd say 'did they have the four girls in the family, that wore all that perfume the night I drove you to the school?' No, that was not even me, you never drove my friends anywhere. Naturally, I was rather hurt by this lack of commitment, on the one hand, and on the other realized how his health reality was simply very different in the seven years it took me to be at that age where it would have been nice to have a father driving you to something. Particularly because my mother had become unavailable due to her issues.

My friends in western Colorado, some of them, were very supportive, contributing money to help me pay for getting more information on the website to help people who were in 'our position' -- aging in place parents, families falling apart due to the behavioral problems they knew I'd gone through. They never saw a photo of him even, just knew I was gone a lot, over the Rockies, trying to help care for him and his property, where I'd finally been conceived and carried to term and born five years after he and my mother purchased the five acres in the mountains outside of Denver, Colorado.

I just wanted to get back to work after he passed, I had a website calling me -- the year was 2010 and Lumigrate had been on the Internet just 18 months at the time of his passing. I kept feeling like there was something more out there I needed to find and present. In finding Steve Beddingfield's information in 2014, I believe I finally got to the end of the bone, finally, if you envision a dog on a bone.

Ironically, my father passed without having had a dog for many years, and surrounded by cats, which were not his favorite. But having been lonely enough in his advancing years and with a cat that lived long after my mother passed, he'd gotten to appreciate them, I think. Still, he didn't want them in his room, and my cat somehow got the memo on that and obeyed him ONLY when he was actively dying. It was nothing short of incredible to get up that night and see her lying outside his open door, keeping an eye on him all night.

I found, after he died, a photo he took of "my" dog the morning before he took her to the veterinarian, having decided it was time for her to be euthanized. I'd suggested it when I was home for the holidays, she just was in so much pain in her hips and just didn't feel well. She wanted to be rubbed all the time. She had been the best dog. And she had lived almost 16 years; my mother called me the Saturday after to tell me.

Mom had gotten two cats the summer I was married to 'the boy next door', 1981. He'd come with us to pick from the litter as it was our sixth grade teacher's cat who had the kittens. My dad had said while we were gone that we'd come with TWO not ONE, and sure enough we did.

I'd used logic to pick the two that didn't mind having their ears rubbed. My mother was more visual and thought the white and black ones were pretty but couldn't decide which she liked better. My fiance was just starting college and was taking English that summer and had to write something so he wrote about the trepidation of being an accessory to the crime of coming back with TWO kittens. He got a good grade.

He would, upon my father's upcoming passing, write a lovely thing to read to him about how his being a scientist had inspired him to become one. That was when it finally made sense to me why it was he and I were together, it was more for him to have the influence of my father, it wasn't about 'us' together forever, it was about his career. Ironically, his work would take him to the exact same place in England and put him on an airplane with a movie that inspired him to contact me and further allow me to have a glimpse of 'what maybe happened to him'.

He's just "not the same guy." He'd started gaining weight when we were married but I attributed it to the six pack a day of beer habit he'd developed. We lived near campus and walked, miles a day. Since we'd always walked miles a day, that didn't seem like exercise back then, it was flat, not mountainous like when we'd lived in the hills.

Could it be all this time we were both exposed to bacteria that interplayed with mold and fungus and other bacteria, algae, etc., and we'd have had a whole different life had we simply used SAFE water back then? Did we live in a place that had mold and I still don't know it? Or are people focusing on the mold on coffee, in buildings, and not other things that are in our water, soils and therefore foods?

We were just happy to have water, we rented a place that was an old trailer park and sometimes it took half an hour to get a cup of water. The manager was a medical student of some sort and said the pipes were 'occluded'.... what was in those pipes? I was in a custom home built in the 1950s with my second husband, a mile to the west when my health collapsed in my later 20s. There was an outbreak in Fort Collins, I learned then. Why?

He went on to fulfill his dream of being a father, and so I hope that his kids learn of this information somehow, or he does. I hope all men do. How many women do you know who say "he just changed .. I didn't know who he was anymore". !! ?? WHY, there has to be a reason. And I think the reason is being shown to us by layman researcher from his hillbilly little laboratory in North Carolina, Steve Beddingfield. Enough so to put your thinking cap on from there.

And don't just stop with what Steve teaches. He's not much of one to talk about diet, but I believe it's extremely important. Back to the cats 'we' picked out the summer of our marriage, for my mother. The black one was a terrific hunter and so ate many mice. The white one was not and so it got less mice and more cat chow. It died very young.

The other one lived to almost 20, and I almost got to help with the euthanization of that animal BUT my father pushed me aside as he always did with that or learning to plow snow, and handled it himself. Back he came in less than half an hour, cat in the cage; we're going to try antibiotics. Which worked, it was a tooth problem. Until it meant staying on antibiotics always and finally he had the first-born share that with him. That's how he was comfortable.

And that is why I had to do the first euthanization 'on my own' at the ripe age of 53. It was the start of a two year period of intense change and growth for me. I often believe I'm being collaborated with by those who've passed. So I hope that 'they' like how I do this blog topic today. I keep this more esoteric thinking to a minumum, so I hope you're not dissuaded if it seems a bit 'out there' when reading this.

It's not that I loved the other animals less, or they were less important, but I'd never been there with ANY of them when they passed. And she'd been there when my dad passed. It just seemed to all weave together. Also, due to her intense needs -- craving foods, being hyperactive, incessantly chewing on things or playing with my feet as a kitten, climbing on me like I was a tree and I could NOT get her to stop it was like she just 'could not help herself' -- and her progress due to the interventions I tried, it had been a different kind of relationship.

I now believe she had 'feline autism', and one of my old friends who is an animal researcher at Colorado State had published about cats and Lyme, leading me to suspect she had Lyme etc as part of the underlying contributing causes. If people are now calling fibro and fatigue in people 'adult autism', then let's just translate that to the feline world. And then look at the dog world too, perhaps.

Connect the dots: WHY ARE WE ALL -- cats included --- MESSED UP now? My brain, like my father's, is good at connecting dots. But I also have the benefit of having my mother's genes mixed in with me too, and she was very intuitive, very wise, and was known for her gregarious laughter.

My life growing up was like if Leonard and Penny had gotten married on The Big Band Theory and moved to where the show South Park is about. Yes, South Park's co-creator, Trey Parker, is a decade younger than I, from the same school and area. Then imagine that they had a kennel operation and raised and sold golden retrievers. My first steps were recorded on the movie camera and I was holding onto adult golden retriever that would move when another one would come to engage in play with it, and down on my butt I'd fall, then pull myself up again.

Imagine a 40 ish year old Penny was to become the 4-H dog leader, and have a baby that grew up watching her teaching first the girls in 4H with their dogs, then become a fourth grade teacher at your school. My mother had the insight to learn about sensory integration problems and what to do about them with activities (nothing about diet, or causes, just how to connect the brain back up) way back around 1970, and she screened EVERY third grader in the school (back when only one person was home schooled sometimes, due to having cancer) for almost a decade, and found that only one in all those years had no evidence of neurological impairment.

So, we were MESSED UP -- ALL OF US (except maybe one, though with more extensive testing could symptoms have been teased out? I suspect so.)

But the dogs didn't seem messed up to me. Nor the cats. Not back then. Then in 2012 I came home one day from an early morning training at the local medical center and my cat attacked me. Not a normal attack, it was truly in another mindset, and later I could see that it had acted like it was having a small seizure before hand.

I could find little information about it on the Internet, I could not find a veterinarian's office who seemed competent with hearing the history and dialing in on the eyes fully dilating and the seizure-like symptoms. I realized that people were taking pets to trained medical professionals who were messing up the animals as much as the doctors taking insurance (and others) have been messing up human medical care.

I contacted the local animal behaviorist that I'd learned about via the Business Incubator, which provided services to me related to Lumigrate from 2007 until their change to a new director in recent years. She didn't know anything about my background and emailed and said 'have you heard of sensory integration dysfunction, I've had a few dogs present with that recently and I suspect your cat maybe has that too". I'd recognized her sensory integration issues AND her natural gravitation to what she needed for activities which was surprisingly similar to what OTs and others know to do with young or older people to help integrate the sensory / neurological system.

So that was another step in my understanding of things. Not only do people have various conditions diagnosed, from A to Z anymore, but they clearly 'overlap' and maybe have a common cause or causes, but we're sharing something similar with cats and dogs, it appears. What is it? So I kept working.

In 2012 I'd come to understand a lot about water due to information we developed about fluoride and other additives to water, and how to process water to get things out of it and it back to being water that's SAFE. Safe Water is Great, SWIG, was created by me (with help from a few locals) in 2012. I knew that water was going to be the key to the future. I'd come back and work on that more in 2015, because the most important thing we can do for our wellness is USE SAFE WATER.

My mother had taught me that when I was a teen, back in the 1970s, but her concern was more about quantity than quality. She was to be run out of school on a rail for what she was doing with identifying the problems with the neurologically impaired students and doing exercises with the ones needing the most help in her home room class (instead of things the curriculum called for). This was the beginning of the iceberg called Common Core, I believe.

I figured that connection out, saw the similarity to how I was standing up to NOT work in mainstream medicine anymore due to their similar monkeybusiness (namely requiring flu vaccines for one thing), and I got more committed than ever to figuring out how to advance my work to the people without compromising what is RIGHT FOR ME. Yes, I miss my $25-50/hour pay, and benefits. But I don't miss knowing there's more I could tell the people I serve. I sleep well at night. I feel I am doing the work I came here, through my parents and family of origin and their toxic property, to learn from and then do from there.

She had to retire early, and sell the ranch she'd bought to give me -- which had great water rights. With a broken heart, she would live out the rest of her life with my father, unhappily, but not wanting to push further for the divorce she would refer to. Her episodes of drunken anger would increase, her ability to feed herself and my father would decrease, but she was still teaching kids at the Catholic church.

And the last time I spoke with her, the night before she died unexpectedly, she was laughing and relating a funny/sad story of what happened to my father that day when he was visiting with his mother. For whatever reason she said "I love you" before she hung up, and she had never done that. Nor did she ever call me during the week when it wasn't the absolute cheapest long distance like on weekends. That was spring of 1987.

The spring of 2013 I was dealing with my cat's problem and passing, and then in summer I saw the abundance of chemtrails over our area, which started on June 1 and were heavy for weeks on end. Months. I'd notice the trees dying from the tops, after people in the geoengineering Facebook community would talk about that in their areas on the west coast. But in 2014 I saw an improvement and by spring of 2015 some trees looked 'well'. The grasses looked better, too, in some areas.

Enter Steve Beddingfield's perspective on chemtrails, which is that they're all about the fight to remedy the GSB, giant sulphur bacteria. I saw him say this in his Facebook group just as I was starting to see the improvements in 2015 in CW Colorado, where I've lived for 11 summers now.

In 2014, through Facebook work I was doing related to the ever-increasingly known Lyme disease, and developing that information on Lumigrate for our YOUsers, I met Steve Beddingfield, as is evident from the above topic and links if you follow them relative to my Mother's Day blog post. I'd been working hard in 2015 to understand what Steve was teaching in his 'classroom', and then in turn be digesting it and teaching it my way via Lumigrate.

I'd started working with a dog in the last week, and applying the principles to reducing toxic exposures to a dog for the first time was, I knew, what I wanted to present on Father's Day via another blog post. What better way of now simplifying what I finally have covered OVERALL, and presenting it via the situations I'm being called upon to come into and work with 'under their roof', whether that be an office, a home, etc.

So far in 2015, since 'getting into' Steve's protocol and research information, I've worked in person with house plants, a young man who had horrendous symptoms as a child yet went almost totally missed-, mis- or un-diagnosed, garden soils, two middle aged women who became single mothers when their children were under age 10, and one elderly house-bound woman, totally depending on others for transfers and all activities of daily living. And a dog. Giving different clues as to what to be studying, how to be changing routines, and integrating things in order to have improved health status or stave off the inevitable downwardness that comes with time.

Thankfully, I had the years of my father not wanting to be proactive despite being able to present evidence that should have convinced him, so I understand now fully that people are going to create their realities. I no longer get frustrated if someone won't take in and act upon what I offer, though sometimes if it's someone I'm doing to hate to see the downhill or have to be involved with, I struggle with wishing I could 'get through to them'.

So now, finally, the simple DOG. If a family would just do for the dog and all the people about the same things, then the whole system could get healthier without a whole lot of fanfare. Don't swim in water with a lot of bacteria, algae, etc. Drink when you're thirsty. Consume SAFE, pure water, not unsafe water. Wash off with safe water. Play a lot. Take a nap if you're tired. Go to bed at night and get up in the morning. Eat good food, similar to what your ancestors ate. Be obedient. Stick around home most of the time and enjoy going on an adventure in the car now and then. Poop twice a day, at least. Look out for ticks and fleas, keep your bed simple and clean. Love the one you're with but not if they're not good to you, avoid them if so. Escape if possible, and find a place where you're treated WELL. We can only hope all living creatures on Earth will have that some day.

To my surprise, Steve posted mid-week as I was working on how to present this information, a photo of a dog that is the same or similar breed to the mixed breed I am working with currently. He was letting us all know that the dog had passed. It appeared later on that the dog was with him through the roughest patch of his illness; this is what he'd added as a comment on the morning of Father's Day:

"My friend Blue taught me a lot about unconditional love, fearlessness, the struggle of life at his level, this dog was my child, my BFF, my comfort when I was sad and alone, he never deserted when I became deathly ill, he never shyed away because of my horrid condition, if anything changed with his perception of me, it was that I needed to be watched over by him.

It is my prayer that he was able to feel and just how much that I appreciated him, especially while I was alone, except for him, and suffering badly. It'smy belief that I came to this Earthly home to learn to love and to develop into a human being that is kind, compassionate and understanding of all life, to see a mere dog lead me in much of this quest, has helped me greatly with my search for an understanding of my own being. Thanks Blue for all the love and understanding that you brought into my life, you are greatly missed."

It turns out that one of the more interesting photographs Steve had posted recently was GSB (giant sulphur bacteria) which was growing on a sample of dog poop that was from another dog Steve's had at his place, which he said is really 'sick with this stuff we have'.

©2015 Steve Beddinfield Giant Sulphur Bacteria Sample Grown in Steve's Tiny Laboratory on Dog Poop from a Very Sick Dog (not his dog that just passed, 'the other one' he has at his place, he said.)

Not all men are dog men, some are cat men. So let me include here about my cat. She was incredible when my father was actively dying, and taught me a whole new level of respect about animals and how wise and sensitive they are (or can be). One and a half years later, in February 2012, she'd launch, literally, into symptoms which lead to her passing, via the veterinary assistance of euthanasia, in April of 2013. Of my 'very own', I'd had six cats before her, she was #7. And I learned so much, and everyone who heard the story of how she came to live with me remarked at how it was clearly meant to be that the two of us connect. One of the more intuitive experts I'd been put in touch with remarked that her brain and my brain had the same appearance and needed the same things to restore.

It wasn't until a June 2015 video about autism given by a woman from Utah that I 'got it' that my cat had hit young adulthood and had something similar happen to her as what happens with some autistic humans, where the parents end up with very physically dangerous situations at the hands of their 'child'. I remembered my mother turning to me when my older sibling was RAGING as a teen, and saying 'don't worry, you're different, you won't be like this as a teen'. They had a lot of symptoms like my cat ... very sensitive to noise and touch, could be very sweet and shy but the loved thrill seeking. Was it that we all have had giant sulphur bacteria doing horizontal gene transfer and growing exponentially, cloning things and an accumulation forming on our small intestines?

Let me look at my life-long symptoms a bit at this point, as well as the backdrop of anything else from my background:

Thankfully, I was able to observe many things as my experiences grew in life through the home movies my family took with the 8 mm camera they purchased shortly after being married, which were culled to be put on VHS by my sibling, and then the year I started Lumigrate, I had that transferred to DVD format, thinking I'd add the information to our videos tab in order to show people my early childhood symptoms, clearly visible on my first birthday (which happened to coincide with Easter that year). My mother had no initial issue conceiving and having her first child, but then it was problematic once they tried for the second, which was after they moved to Colorado and found their home to purchase, land, etc.

It turns out something my parents both had fond memories of from their rather traumatic childhoods (or so they felt it that way) in Chicago, was DOGS. Wanting to have a career, and wanting my dad to get out of the military, my mother hatched a plan to bring a few dogs with them back to the United States, and to make money selling puppies. She coerced him to take a deal they were offering officers, and he was to finish his 20 years in the Reserves, at Buckley AFB in Denver.

When a new OT in Denver, feeling 'well off again' due to having a good income again, I saw something called Cirque du Soleil was going to come to Denver to a big tent they were putting up in LoDo, near the new Colorado Rockies stadium. I bought tickets to take my whole family. As we were crossing the railroad tracks at Union Station, my dad stopped and pulled me a few feet one way then the other, and said 'right here ... on this spot .... is where I was changing trains during World War Two and looked at that view of the mountains and said to myself 'maybe this is where I'm going to live after the war' ".

Do you see how his mind and memory / recall worked? Do you see me as the apple not far from that tree? Think about what made his brain be like that when it was growing and maturing. And think about that for mine. Think about YOU, and your family. There's been a correlation between high intelligence and learning disabilities. With high intelligence and chronic illness, fatigue, etc. They even called it 'Yuppie flu' at one time because so many 'young urban professionals, intelligent, driven, educated people, were seen having the condition moreso than the 'average Joe'.

You see, my father was a mathematical, science, engineering genius, who had attended Purdue initially after high school. Which is where he became extremely ill over Thanksgiving weekend his first year. I grew up with him telling the story --- he'd been scared by the first day of class when the professor told them to look at the person on their left and their right and one of the three would not be there the next year, as they were going to weed out those who weren't really up to Purdue's educational rigors. He had been studying hard, intent to not be one that had the shame of failure. Not going home for Thanksgiving, he enjoyed playing pick-up basketball and didn't go in for lunch the day that his symptoms came on at night, so he'd wondered if that had something to do with it.

He returned home and the doctor sliced a lymph node out of his neck and looked at it under a microscope and said it was chronic mononucleosis and he'd have to drop out and go to the desert and recover. Which he did. He had been adopted by a lovely woman who was not well mentally, and she drove him 'nuts', so it was not an easy assignment for him to be accompanied by his mother to Arizona for the winter to "recover". But he got better and returned to Chicago with her and plugged into a University in that area, also known for it's engineering expertise, particularly with the atomic field. He was allegedly working in the atomic program through the end of his career, after the war.

By the time my health collapsed in the late 1980s, about exactly fifty years after his, they were not telling people to go to the desert to recover; the doctor told me that you had to keep moving, "believe it or not, despite how tired you are, that's what you need to do". I not only used that advise to spur my successful recovery then, but in 2007 when a string of people with fatigue and pain started finding their way to the clinic where I was providing occupational therapy services.

When my health collapsed, I stayed right where I was in my 'college town' of Fort Collins, Colorado, with the others presumably in the 'outbreak' that one doctor disclosed to me (which is not in any online resources I've been able to find, it was not publicized, in other words). Is it that the more intelligent, hard working / striving people are having more likelihood of getting these kinds of illnesses? It would seem so, and studying MTHFR gene information will show you why that would be.

My health collapse would occur in my late twenties, not late teens, and I would have the same course of recovery initially -- I got well enough to get by, but my brain didn't come back fully. Then other symptoms would start. For him. And for me. We both in middle age had migraines and other headaches. We'd have neck pain. Pain with sitting. Shoulder pain and mobility problems. Our muscles would waste away despite our being very vigorous with activities and exercise. We both loved hiking, tennis, skiing, bicycling, bowling ... and most of all hiking or walking with DOGS.

I ended up walking with my CAT, on a leash, most every night. And she'd walk about as fast as my dad had, which was a shuffle. I'd see my balance problems the slower I'd go, obviously. I realized at some point that I was basically following in my father's health footsteps. And my cat had followed in the footsteps of my sibling as a young adult, tempestuous, unpredictible and nasty, unprovoked attacks. I've now seen it personally with other people who have 'this disease' we all have, and I've heard of TWO cases in 2014 where cat owners were attacked and called 911, getting them into the mainstream media. Mainstream is wanting us to learn of these things now, it seems. I'd also seen, once again, a massive, sudden weight gain in myself --- which is a symptom to suspect mold (and what interlopes with mold) exposure. That was the fourth time that had occurred, and the only thing in common with all four was I'd decreased my time moving around. Could it be that it's THAT important to keep moving THAT MUCH? That you can have the same exposures but if you keep moving you fare better? Do dogs help you keep moving? YES THEY DO!

So this week when the producer of Moldy, the movie, was on One Radio Network, I listened. And then I spent time transcribing most of the words, enough there's something to refer to for our YOUsers while still encouraging that people actually LISTEN to the hour of information. But when you hear MOLD, think MOLD AND OTHER THINGS, perhaps. Study what Steve Beddingfield presents; it turns out there has been a Trojan Horse called mold, or algae, and inside of it was something else.

As I said in the initial topic of the blog, above, from Mother's Day, I've gravitated to using the blog at Lumigrate in the opposite way that these websites with forums and other functions (products, videos (which are a form of product, you 'produce them') typically do, and 180 degrees from the way my teacher / advisor in 2008-10 had instructed. Back then, the forums were going to be an integration of experts -- both laypeople and professionals -- weaving conversation threads with some input from me.

I'd continue hosting live seminars, recording them so we had the information the professionals provided, and later producing the ones which were the best addition to the palate of produced videos already hosted on Lumigrate's videos tab.

Today I do the majority of the work in the forums, solo, and then the blog is merely what I hope EVERYONE finds when they come to Lumigrate and from there they can be lead easily to the most important things 'going on' in the forums (or other places if we dust those off at some point). I can say 'just go to the blog tab, look at the one that's titled about mothers and others'; people can remember that. They might actually then do it, and then be helped IF it's for them and IF they see the importance for them to put in the TIME.

This blog addendum and my day today is dedicated to all men who act as fathers to others, wether they be humans, dogs, cats, horses and cows. I have the utmost respect for the work ethic my father had, which he passed on to me in one way or others. When I was a teenager, he was the age Steve was when he had his health meltdown, and I can only guess what challenges that put upon those who were his 'children' whether biological or adopted as a beloved pet. I know my father later revealed that he'd verbalized suicidal thoughts to his health provider, which was potentially being contributed to by the narcotic medication they'd prescribed for the headaches, which they were now realizing was not the right thing to have him on yet when doing the right thing in ceasing to further prescribe, yielded a thread of suicide.

I was unaware of that at the time, all I knew was he came home a lot from work and went to his room, dragged to do his outdoors work and to the table to eat dinner when it was ready, prepared always by me and my mother (and sibling if they were home). I was putting more and more on my plate, trying to help outside with anything I could. I just last weekend injured my left knee significantly lifting something very heavy when I was tired, and going back to a pattern I developed as a young person carrying bales of hay for the horses my father supported my sibling having.

Except with the connective tissues being what they are, I hyperextended my knee last weekend, and it's not improved at all in a week. I was using a tennis ball and racket to exercise the dog, and I cannot believe how much my body held together well when younger with forces that I thought were 'normal' and 'good for you', but which I now recognize were not for me. I love smashing a tennis ball, though, and I even practiced the 'unreturnable' serve "Dad" taught me. Our tradition on Father's Day was to take the dog if we had one, and mom if she was alive, and go on a hike in the mountains; it was the one day of the year she'd go on a hike. She'd pretended to like hiking when she met him, he'd later tell me. So that is still what I do as a tradition, with a little picnic.

Back in the years after I moved to Junction and he was still mobile, we'd meet halfway or so and do something. One year it was walking around Central City. He was always taking pictures of trees or gravestones, not of people. I thought of him today on my hike, when I took photos of something that Steve has me looking closely at now, which is algae or lichen or moss and whatever mix, growing on the northWEST facing aspects of wooden palates that are very old. With nothing blocking the sun. Think about that. This is the desert area, which gets irrigated as it became an agricultural valley when the west was settled.

I was shocked. I used my cell phone cam and took a photo. I'll go back with something to chop off a sample and bag it. And send it off to Steve, if he'd like, and look forward to what he can teach me about what's in my immediate environment, and help me educate others. I'm thankfully not with anything near suicidal thoughts or the kind of pain my father had either psychologically or physically, nor spiritually.

I have my struggles, which he didn't have then, in the realm of financial, but that's just money. When you have your health you have the most important thing. I thankfully have fairly good health and hope it will get better thanks to the new information I've gained this year. I hope the same will ripple effect there for YOU. If you would like some assistance in how to incorporated this into your daily regimen, I'm able to help people via the telephone or in person.

Or 'in person with dog', I'm having a good time teaching the dog how we ozonate water and dry food, how we are avoiding the water that has more likelihood of harmful microbes, and instead enjoying the water that is relatively safer. How we keep moving, both actively and with massage. And they remind me of the pure joy that comes from the moment. May you find that today too, particularly if you're a man and fathering something today.

Live and learn. Learn and live better! ~ Mardy

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You can find this information at the following link ... it is one comment among the many as I was adding on components and grouping up the information being presented in the group lead by Steve Beddingfield so I could then later utilize it in various ways to the benefit of Lumigrate YOUsers. It makes this more complete -- some of the information will be repetitive with what is above, but there will also be additional pictures and reinforcement.

Keep in mind the timeline, this comment information, below, was originally produced in March of 2015 and not only do I understand it more, so does Steve and others who are on this cutting edge --- being increasingly substantiated as mainstream disclosure is made about The Stuff and it's connection to human health without so far (as of mid November) being that direct about it. (Seek out information at our Search bar using the word disclosure to a topic I have about how things are being disclosed, if that is of interest and benefit to you in your learning.)

www.lumigrate.com/forum/steve-his-images-his-protocol-and-facebook-group-community-and-other-resources-chronic-illness#comment-2814 [45] PET INSTRUCTIONS

From 21 Year Old Bernie The Cat. Strands of "The Stuff", as seen in what comes out from the intestinal tract. From Steve's lab, sample of dog poop, without magnification:

It was in the group's conversation in late March that people need to check about the type of BIRD they might want to be dosing with fenbendazole, as it's contraindicated in some breeds. So reminding here, as always, to do your homework about all things and contraindictions.

By April I have encountered a woman I was educating about what's in the water, who 'related' to the information because someone she knows personally and well lives in an area of Florida where there have been cyanobacteria / algae problems for a while now ... and the person's dog had gotten ill, they thought from it just getting on it's feet and fur and then into them the various ways. I love examples where something that has occurred with a pet or livestock animal then helps a person see the application of the information to their situation -- in this case it was an avid gardener with irrigation water they're 'always in during the summer' and so they were somewhat 'tuned in' about the information I was introducing them to.

A standard for me as an OT student and ever after at my desk at work whether more recently at home / home office as a consultant on education routes OR as an occupational therapist in the various places I worked over the years is the Merck Manual. I am such a fan I have a topic in the Lumigrate Bookshelf forum about the Merck manual that's geared for people that's not as professional, which I found at my local Kroger grocery store's book section.

So it was naturally something I liked seeing PosterGal present in Steve's Images today (April 19, 2015, as I edit this in) the Merck online veterinary resource on algae poisoning. Here's the link:

www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/toxicology/algal_poisoning/overview_of_algal_poisoning.html [46]

Not only does this topic, naturally, describe symptoms and treatments for algal poisoning in veterinary medicine applications, it has good information about cyanobacteria and treatment of water. Here's an excerpt, which is how the topic wraps up/ends:

Water treatment techniques can be highly effective to remove both cyanobacterial cells and cyanotoxins (especially microcystins) with the appropriate technology. Most cyanotoxins remain intracellular, unless the cells are lysed or damaged from age or stress from water conditions or chemical treatment. The one exception is cylindrospermopsin, which is actively secreted from even healthy cells. This makes it possible to remove cells and cyanotoxins (especially microcystins) by coagulation and filtration in a conventional treatment plant.

Treatment of water containing cyanobacterial cells with oxidants such as chlorine or ozone, while killing cells, will result in the release of free cyanotoxin. Therefore, the practice of prechlorination or preozonation is not recommended without a subsequent step to remove dissolved cyanotoxins.

Microcystins are readily oxidized by a range of oxidants, including ozone and chlorine. Adequate contact time and pH control are needed to achieve optimal removal of these compounds, which is more difficult in the presence of whole cells.

Microcystins, anatoxin-a, cylindrospermopsin, and some saxitoxins are also adsorbed from solution by both granular activated carbon and, less efficiently, by powdered activated carbon. The effectiveness of the process should be determined by monitoring cyanotoxin in the product water.

Dogs
Fenbendazole dosage is 2 mils daily of liquid or 2 grams of paste, generally. (if your dog is unusually large or small you can use the same formula used for humans 1ml per 50 lbs)
Reishi dosage is 1/2 capsule of Aloha Medicinals Gano Ultra daily, 2caps for big dogs.

November 9, 2015 He was saying this for a case of dog that was a small dog:

Mix fenbendazole liquid for goats (Safeguard brand) with 50 parts of water, spray 4 times each day, give dog 3mls daily internally for 3 weeks and your dog will be growing new hair and feeling much better. After three weeks stop the daily internal dosing and give every three days, spray coat twice daily until sheen has returned to dog's coat, this works.

I've fixed hundreds if not thousands of dogs, plus I now advise vets on this, a lot of vets have taken this treatment protocol and passed it on to other vets. Fenben is now the number one choice of vets nationwide.

Cats
Fenbendazole dosage is 1/2 ml daily of liquid only.
Reishi dosage is 1/2 cap daily (same brand mentioned above).

November 9, 2015 Steve was saying this about a cat:

Give cats 2 Mls of liquid fenbendazole daily for 2 weeks, then once a week. Mix fenben 50 to 1 in a spray bottle, spray coat twice each day.

Dogs get the same treatment. This works great.

Treat animals 4-7 days per week keeping a close eye on changes in behavior or signs of recovery/healing. Take any breaks you think necessary.

MARDY's NOTE: I've been relating this information as a running history of things because I want people to see how the information changes as time changes / goes on. This, as I say many places, is not the usual source of information most people turn to, but this is a source that was having his share of successes (and problems) and so I have felt that Lumigrate's YOU concept of YOU doing the work and figuring out what YOU need to do is going to allow a good foundation for people to go on and consider what Steve Beddingfield presents.

Maintenance doses are the same amount formulated for your pet only less often, most do once or twice weekly to keep pets healthy. Some even go to once a month. Use your discretion.

Spray with fenbendazole liquid diluted down to a 50 to one ratio (using safe water, naturally), is what Steve also recommends; I/Mardy feel that it's going to work better to spray on a cloth or disposable cloth-like paper-type towel and wipe the animal that wouldn't appreciate a spraying.

Treating pets as we treat ourselves ensures we are eliminating sources of reinfection for both parties. wink emoticon

*Only use fenbendazole on pets, other types can be harmful.

We will be making a permanent file once I fill in more details. I wanted to get this out since we are getting an unusually high amount of questions on pets. There are other members using reishi products that they love. I can't guarantee that they have been tested for purity but if any of you feel confident to share what you are using, post below and we will add some to the file. smile emoticon

Any experiences treating animals with this protocol are encouraged here as well.

In the spring there was an exodus of admins from Steve's group, some stayed as members, others did not. The new admin who is now Steve's 'right hand woman' had this to say on August 6, 2016:

"The dosing for dogs is (She later said she went off top of head and my version was correct). Can mix with food and give with some "good" fat, like olive or coconut oil, for example. The dose for the reishi is 1 capsule a day.

Keep their bowels moving. Some pet owners give their dogs/cats some organic pumpkin from a can. It helps move things along."

I wanted to add, I'd think that a good fat would be grass fed, organic (or along those lines) butter. Think about what a dog's long lost relatives would have been consuming and that's what their bodies are going to be set up to do well with ... a good lard (again from a well-raised animal, however and that's particularly important where their fats for consumption are concerned).

In May, someone in the group added this: "Both dogs treated with fenben at 1 ml per 5#'s of a 10% paste mixed in a bit of goat yogurt. They gobbled up the mixture with no hesitation. It really is not bad tasting stuff. This is from a veterinarian's website, for dosing."

From mid March, Steve had said this: Vet treatments are now centered around fenben. My friend's vet talked to me about my procedures being utilized for the tmt of algae infestation, he agreed with my beliefs about HABs killing and torturing animals, mostly pets. Wild animals are wandering about acting weird, going to the highways too often.

Parvovirus is to be Vxd for, rabies too. (vaccinated abbreviation); you can't play with these two killers.

Heart worms can be prevented by fenben if started early on in a pet's life. If pet has heartworms at adult stage of worms, go with vet procedures.

Some collies and a couple of other breeds cannot tolerate Ivermectin -- instant death, check breed interactions first. Parvo is my worst fear for my (dogs). I'll re-treat mine today, as he got into a fight with a huge ground hog, looked bad afterwards, the GH got his licks in.

Mardy's Note: Consider approaching your veterinarian about the information you're learning about from Steve's Images/ Protocol and involve them if you feel that would be of benefit to you and your veterinarian (and your pet you're the guardian for). Discussing something with a variety of people will help process the information. As with anything, consider printing something to take or if you're emailing with them, email a link.

In order to provide YOUsers with more supportive information, here's a link I found in Searching 'cyanobacteria, dogs'. I knew there were cases in California recently where a lake was posted forewarning people about not getting in the water but the owners didn't keep their pets from getting in. In this topic at the following link, Annabelle was a dog that jumped from a boat near the shoreline, wanting to swim in and thankfully had a veterinarian who pieced together what to do to turn the symptoms around when in liver failure shortly thereafter.

www.the-scientist.com/ [47]

The closing of the article: "“We are increasingly aware that many dogs and other pets are exposed to these toxins every year, and that the blooms are likely increasing,” says Kudela. And new findings on the chronic impacts of cyanotoxin poisoning have him worried. “We know that even low-level exposure results in decreased reproduction in fish, and probably promotes cancer in mammals, such as dogs and humans.”"

Interjecting this on May 27, 2015 and hot off the press from what's being conversed about in Steve's group today. A woman who experiences a lot of stinging sensations, all over her body, and Steve had a conversation volley that I thought was very insightful AND he posted a picture.

Steve: GSB spores do the biting and stinging, they're the tiny dark particles we see everywhere.Kitty.Kitty!

Woman: Reports she lives in a tiny house, and the cats don't stay in her room, one roams the house where it sleeps and the other sleeps in one spot. She asks if what she's seeing and experiencing is 'coming from' the cats. She had the cats before she had 'drug damage' (many in the group talk about 'floxing' but I'm not certain what this particular woman's patented medication history is), and had no issues such as this very annoying symptom. She says they are both getting fenben and reishi. She said "I still dont know anyone in any Morgellon's site that their entire body, every pore, stings like it is the entire skin all at once.. it is insane. ..... I feel like blowin out my brains. at this point. I am worn out.

She reports that she just had gone and cleaned under the bed she sleeps in, which has hardwood floors. She'd done the same thing yesterday and already there were tons of red and blue fibers again, and sparkles. "everything that is coming out of my skin..... cleaning, washing (seems) useless. She relates that she went to another part of the house where she doesn't live and took a sample under the bed and only found a few red and blue fibers "but NOTHING like under my bed, which I clean daily."

Steve: Treat them, never allow on your bed or anything clothwise which contacts your body. You and cats didn't make each other sick, you're just keeping each other sick. Wipe down cat fur with a damp cloth which contains some fenben on the cloth. Do this for your cats twice each day. I know many sufferers who are experiencing this biting sting.

I also have many pics of the sulphur bacteria spores which cause this."

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In June, someone asked him if bartonella was causing their three year long, incessant, electrical stinging-feeling all over the body. Steve's answer: "GSB is the issue, Bart was picked by GSB. All came with your cat. Keep cat wiped down with a wet cloth containing fenben."

Parasitipedia dot net has nice information and naturally their requisite caution placed prominently to dissuade humans from using veterinary products. This is one of the better overviews I've seen about this type of medication, however. I'll bring you and excerpt, below, and naturally here's the LINK TO TAKE and go to the source as they're a good resource for studying what YOU think about this 'stuff'.

parasitipedia.net/index.php [49] AND what you'll find just for 'starters' if you take the link:

Written by P. Junquera

Last Updated on January 12 2015

What are benzimidazoles? [50]

albendazole Benzimidazoles are a chemical class of compounds with broad anthelmintic activity that are vastly used on livestock and pets to control all kinds of parasitic worms [51] (helminths). Some veterinary benzimidazoles are also used as anthelmintics [52] in human medicines. Other benzimidazoles are also used in agriculture to control parasitic helminths of plants, or as fungicides. In fact, benzimidazoles were already used as plant fungicides before their development as veterinary anthelmintics.

The first veterinary benzimidazoles introduced in the 1960's (e.g. thiabendazole, parbendazole, oxibendazole [53]) were highly effective against adults and larvae of most gastrointestinal roundworms [54] (nematodes) of livestock. In the 1970's newer benzimidazoles such as albendazole [55], fenbendazole [56], mebendazole [57] and oxfendazole [58] were introduced that are also effective against non-gastrointestinal roundworms (in the lungs, kidneys, skin, etc., depending on compound and dose) as well as against tapeworms [59] (cestodes). Albendazole is also effective against adult liver flukes [60] (Fasciola hepatica).

triclabendazole [61] is a special case: it is not effective against roundworms [54] or tapeworms [59], but controls all larval and adult stages of various parasitic liver flukes [60] (trematodes).

Closely related with the benzimidazoles are the so-called pro-benzimidazoles febantel [62], netobimin [63] andthiophanate [64]. These compounds are pro-drugs because once in the organism of the host they are transformed into the active benzimidazole, mainly in the liver. Febantel is transformed into fenbendazole, and netobimin into albendazole. Pro-benzimidazoles have the advantage of being more soluble in water. This makes it easier to formulate them and they are also better absorbed in the host's body.

Benzimidazoles and pro-benzimidazoles are veteran anthelmintics, i.e., they have lost patent protection long ago and are available as generics manufactured by numerous chemical companies (typically in China, India, Israel, Brazil, etc.).

parasitipedia.net/index.php [49] (same link as above, to encourage taking it).

So if you're interested, take the links I've set up. I've come in and edited in NEW information because of the closure of Steve's Images in midApril 2015 due to the explosive growth they had and needing to get a group of people effective in their knowledge and application of the information and create other groups they can facilitate in order to create 'the ripple effect'.

Editing AGAIN mid July, the group's leadership 'split' or were no longer admins and mostly do not comment now but remain to stay up on what new might be presented there. He then started letting people back into the group and it is at this time approaching 2,000 members. A few experienced ones post things I transfer to this overall thread. One recently was from a woman with Morgellons and a dog, who said her dog took only a few servings of the fenbendazole to heal up, they'd gotten the outward skin symptoms after the owner/human guardian did. She said she put it on bread that was considered a desirable treat by the dog. I believe she was using the goat / sheep version not the dog version; there is a dog/ canine version.

Naturally, seek out advisors who are qualified to help you. Remember that the run of the mill medical professionals in human and veterinary medicine today are very brainwashed, brain dead, or otherwise simply BEHIND where YOU might be with what YOU know and can figure out. Use your senses, think like a dog and about how dogs and cats and horses and others we can learn from show us the way with their intutiveness sometimes. But do get advise from those YOU feel are the right fit for YOU at this point in time. Unfortunately, Steve's group does not have the dimensionality of advisors it used to have, it's 'Steve's classroom' and he's the teacher and not a lot of people feel like commenting like in the past. Fortunately I grabbed those highlights and transferred them HERE for YOU on this very long thread.

Thanks again to all in the group who have contributed to creating and facilitating the information there, and their desire to have people finding it and being 'grate' with my having these topics at Lumigrate.

Live and learn. Learn and live better! ~ Mardy

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