Louie’s Recovery from Cancer (Natural Pet Care)

My father had commented that our 23-pound poodle, Louie, seemed to be slowing down at nine years old, but I was shocked when the veterinarian said the lump on his underside contained a very aggressive type of cancer cells. Just before our August vacation, our daughters had taken him to the animal clinic and he was given medicine for an ear infection, as well as a shot containing multiple vaccines. That September I took Louie back to the veterinarian to be sure his ear had healed. My veterinarian told me that Louie’s ear was fine but he had found a lump on Louie’s abdomen and recommended that I watch it for any significant changes. Since I was there, I suggested that we aspirate the lump just to be safe. The results showed the lump to be a rather aggressive type of cancer. Louie was scheduled to have surgery to remove the lump the following week.

By Janice Curtin

My father had commented that our 23-pound poodle, Louie, seemed to be slowing down at nine years old, but I was shocked when the veterinarian said the lump on his underside contained a very aggressive type of cancer cells.  Just before our August vacation, our daughters had taken him to the animal clinic and he was given medicine for an ear infection, as well as a shot containing multiple vaccines.  That September I took Louie back to the veterinarian to be sure his ear had healed.  My veterinarian told me that Louie’s ear was fine but he had found a lump on Louie’s abdomen and recommended that I watch it for any significant changes.  Since I was there, I suggested that we aspirate the lump just to be safe.  The results showed the lump to be a rather aggressive type of cancer.  Louie was scheduled to have surgery to remove the lump the following week.

After the surgery, Louie became rather uncomfortable as the anesthesia wore off but was feeling better after a few days.  Then a call came about the lab work and our family was devastated.  Though the doctor had successfully removed cancerous tissue around the tumor, he was not able go deep enough to remove all of the cancer cells.  He assured me that without further treatment, the cancer would come right back in full force and therefore offered me two options. He said that Louie could either have more surgery to remove part of the abdominal wall or we could try numerous radiation treatments for which he would have to be anesthetized each time.  I felt strongly at that time that both treatments would not only cause Louie great pain and suffering, but there was also a good chance that neither would work in the end. “No,” I said.  “I’m not putting him through that.  We’ll work on him with natural treatments. If they fail, at least he will not have a long, painful death.”   The veterinarian was understanding.

Years earlier my daughter became so sick that she was forced to drop out of school in the fifth grade.  During our three-year search for what was making her ill, I had been to many traditional medical doctors who consistently offered unhelpful solutions to her illness, if that.  After seeing my daughter, most would respond telling me that they had “good news” because “she is totally fine, and nothing is wrong with her.”  As I became more and more desperate I began to look to the field of holistic medicine, where eventually I found that my daughter had strong chemical sensitivities, poor digestion, and a lack of good colon bacteria.  After we found the cause of her illness, she was able to make a full recovery rather quickly.  My daughter’s path to wellness not only showed me that every illness has a cause, but it also showed me the importance of  a nutrient-rich diet for growing children to ensure a strong immune system.  As a result of her illness, our family changed the way we ate — giving up all processed foods and buying from local farmers.  Now, we rarely get sick.  Not only do these foods play a major role in preventing illness by providing the body with the proper nutrients, but going back to the diet of our early ancestors means that what we eat strengthens rather than harms our bodies.  I felt that just as these things had worked for my daughter, holistic medicine and a raw food diet could possibly work on Louie’s cancer.

Immediately I called Dr. Jeniece Schaller, the naturopath in Annandale, VA, that I had been seeing and told her the bad news. She said she would be glad to take Louie as her patient. She agreed to come to the house and bring her Phazx 2010 BodyScanner and computer. The Phazx reads the energy field and determines the major stressors on the patient. In Vibrational Medicine, by Richard Gerber, M.D., Gerber calls the Phazx “one of the most sophisticated systems on the market.” Using the Phazx, Dr. Schaller can also determine what organs and systems are being stressed and which remedies would be best for that patient. She can determine if the patient has any allergies and if so what they are allergic to. I had been impressed by Dr. Schaller’s work, but this was a true test. I felt Louie must have certain stressors suppressing his immune system if cancer was there: there had to be a cause.

Louie’s scan showed that his major stresses were: Hepatitis vaccine, parasites, emotional problems, heavy metals, nutritional deficiencies, poor digestion, and allergies. Seeing “Hepatitis Vaccine” on the list caused me to wonder what was in the shot that Louie had been given before our vacation in August. On checking the record, I saw that he had been given a multiple shot with six vaccines, including a form of Hepatitis – while he had an ear infection!

I realized Louie had had a rough month. First, our dog gets upset when we leave for vacation and has a hard time adjusting to new dog sitters. On our most recent vacation he had two different sitters during the two weeks that we were gone. In addition, Louie had to get stitches because the dog next door had taken a bite out of his ear. Additionally, Louie had gotten the ear infection, and after seeing his Phazx BodyScan, I realized the six vaccines that were given to him had likely done some damage to Louie’s health.

Dr. Schaller suggested that we work from almost every direction to remove the stressors on Louie’s body. She used homeopathy to get rid of the Hepatitis and chlorella to detoxify the metals. We used flower essences to calm Louie’s emotions, Wobenzym N (enzymes) to clean his blood of cancer cells, Ambrotose by Mannatech, and other types of immune and organ support. Standard Process food concentrate vitamins were also an important part of our program. We decided that since Louie had such a serious disease we would use a drug to kill the parasites quickly. I called my veterinarian and asked if he would give me a prescription for something, probably flagyl, for amoebas, although Dr. Schaller had told me it was very strong. “Dogs don’t get amoebas,” my veterinarian said when I told him about Louie’s test results from the Phazx BodyScan. “But I’ve got cats that have been on flagyl for a year or more. I’ll do some research and call you back.” When he called back he said, “I found that dogs do get amoebas and some in this area have had them. As for flagyl, it is very toxic.” He did give me a prescription and I used it but Louie’s scan still showed amoebas. I have a Biofrequency machine for personal use and I decided I would use that to kill the parasites. After several treatments additional tests showed that it was successful.

I had read about Dr. Francis Pottenger, Jr., and his studies with cats and immediately switched Louie to a raw meat diet. A homeopathic veterinarian I had once taken Louie to also had mentioned the benefits of the raw meat diet. I began preparing his new food myself. It consisted of mostly raw organic ground beef, some raw bones, and a bit of chopped vegetables. Several times a week I added raw egg. I started with raw chicken necks, as they are easy for dogs to eat. I usually threw in a handful of parsley to help with the metal detoxification and a cod liver oil capsule. For treats, I keep a bag of bite size pieces of organ meets and thaw a few at a time. I think changing from processed pet food to the raw meat diet was one of the best things I did for Louie. Not only did this new diet provide him with an incredible source of nutrients, but I believe his newfound love for his food gave him a huge emotional boost. In the past, he would wander over and have a few bits of dry dog food a while after I set it out for him. Now, not only does he wake us up early in the morning to get him breakfast, but he is always on time and typically early for dinner! Though I have no way of knowing, I think his new love of food gave him a reason to want to live through the next day just so that he could enjoy another one of his meals.

As another part of Louie’s treatment, I called my friend Margie Hasley who practices Total Body Modification (TBM), a chiropractic technique. She had used TBM many times before to clear my family of allergies and being an animal-lover herself, she was happy to go to work on Louie. She balanced him and did numerous clearings for sensitivities to everything from essential fatty acids, vitamins, fleas, pollen, parasites, his own organs, and much more. She also did a cancer correction and a T- cell correction. Margie explained that when one is allergic to a vitamin he or she often becomes deficient in it because of an inability to absorb it correctly. After Margie cleared Louie’s allergy to any vitamin, we usually supplemented that vitamin because his body could now absorb it so much better. Each month Dr. Schaller checked Louie with the Phazx and adjusted the remedies and vitamins that he was taking. Louie’s scan slowly started to look better.

Then one morning Louie could not walk. I was frantic. I gathered him up and took him to the veterinarian. He gave him a physical and said, “The good news is he’s fine.” I picked up poor Louie and left, knowing that would be the last time I ever went there. I called Dr. Schaller at home and she said she was going to be in the office on the weekend so she would check Louie with the scan. When she did, it showed that he was stressed by pesticides, particularly his liver. I remembered that I had seen a sign on the neighbor’s lawn saying there had been spraying and thought that maybe he had eaten some grass there or drunk some runoff water containing pesticides. I knew that pesticides could cause cancer, and I doubted that Louie would ever recover. In order to help Louie to detoxify the pesticides, Dr. Schaller recommended a mouth spray called Addex. Using the Addex was difficult because Louie required incredibly small doses of it. If I gave him too much and he detoxified too fast, his detoxification organs became overloaded.

Louie was barely able to walk a few steps a day and my doubts about his recovery grew, but I continued to feed him the raw food diet. I would roll raw meat around a number of vitamins and feed them to Louie in order to give him his supplements. I also decided to begin giving him baths with the BEFE, a machine which I had bought for myself.  It energizes the water and the person in the bath to provide the body with enough energy to heal itself in any way needed. I thought it might help his body detoxify the pesticides and after seeing some unusual black blobs floating in the water I felt that was exactly what was happening. Louie always seemed more energetic when he came out of the bath and each time his energy seemed to last longer. Slowly, he gained more strength as we continued to detoxify him and build up his immune system with nutritional supplements and the raw food diet.

Louie has been well for over three years now. He can jump up on the highest bed in the house and into the front seat of my Jeep. His funny personality has returned and he is back to throwing his toys in the air for us to fetch. Just the other day he took off like a shot toward the back fence when he noticed a dog in the park behind us. My husband commented, “He is more energetic now than in the three years before he got sick.” People who visit are amazed to see him alive and can’t believe his energy. He is thirteen years old now and we have noticed that his coat is darkening from gray back to black.

I believe that Louie’s cancer was almost inevitable, because of the nutritionless diet of dry dog food that we had been feeding him. In this toxic world we need all the nutrients we can get in order to provide our bodies with energy and strength to maintain good health. Louie’s energy had been decreasing for several years before his tumor developed. Not only did eating raw foods play a major role in Louie’s recovery from cancer, but I believe it is the reason for his incredible health today. Now, I do not even have to conceal Louie’s vitamins and supplements in a ball of meat because the raw foods alone provide him with almost all of his nutrition needs. I just add a little powdered nutrition by Standard Process and give him a capsule of cod liver oil daily. Many dogs Louie’s age do not act as energetic and excited about life as he does. Each day Louie makes sure to remind us of the importance of his raw food diet as he prances into the kitchen around five o’clock and barks and barks until he gets his dinner!

For anyone who wants to have a healthy pet, I suggest the advice of the Canine Medicine Chest in Logan, Iowa, and the teachings of Dr. Francis Pottenger, Jr.

1.  Prepare your own pet food and make it raw or at least partially raw.

Give your dog a raw egg and a raw bone often and a half-teaspoon or teaspoon of cod liver oil. Organ meat is an excellent addition. Cooked bones are not recommended, as they will splinter.

2.  Build up your dog’s flora with good bacteria.

3.  Build up the immune system with trace minerals and macro minerals and vitamin supplements.

Standard Process makes an excellent food concentrate product called Canine Whole Body Support that I continue to give him every day in food.  The Standard Process company was founded in 1929 by Dr. Royal Lee, a contemporary of Dr. Weston A. Price.  Many of their products contain concentrates of organs which have healing properties, according to Dr. Price and Dr. Lee.  They can be purchased from a practitioner or from N.E.E.D.S. at 1-800-634-1380.  They have a veterinarian on staff for phone appointments.

4.  Get rid of parasites and toxins with natural remedies like homeopathy and herbs.

This will help prevent tumors.

5.  Do not use vaccines for anything other than rabies.

If you would like to implement any of these health care practices, you can look for a TBM chiropractor through www.TBMSeminars.com or from Standard Process, Inc., Palmyra, WI 53156.

Janice Curtin is a longtime PPNF member. She may be reached at 703-751-5505 or e-mail: [email protected]

For more information on this subject, see Natural Nutrition for Dogs and Cats, by Kymythy R. Schultze, CCN, AHI, a CD available via PPNF’s online store.

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Published in the Price-Pottenger Journal of Health and Healing
Summer 2004 | Volume 28, Number 2
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