Why Dogs Get Cancer was the title of a post which I put up yesterday. Todays post, entitled Cancer in Dogs is a follow up to that post.
The number of cases of cancer in dogs is increasing. This is no surprise, since the incidence of cancer in cats is also increasing, as is cancer in humans.
Just why cases of cancer is becoming more common, not just in people, but in our household pets, is quite easy to work out.
The main cause of cancer in people and animals is environmental. The biggest contributors to our sick environment is the amount of herbicides and pesticides which are used in producing food, and which are sprayed around our city parks and streets to kill weeds. In the household, ant and cockroach killers, and fly spray are the most commonly used poisons which are very detrimental to our health, and to the health of our pets who walk around the areas where these poisons are laid.
Some things in our environment can be controlled, but not all, unfortunately. We can stop using fly spray and toxic chemicals to eradicate fleas, cockroaches and ants, but we cannot stop the effects of radiation, which also causes cancer and other degerative disease, from nuclear activity and the proliferation of cell phone towers in our environment. We cannot stop agricultural chemicals being put onto farmland and injected into the animals which provide us with meat, milk, cheese, butter and eggs. We cannot stop the council spraying our parks without a concerted effort to get this stopped……and this should be our next goal after fixing our own immediate environments.
However, meanwhile, we can do much to prevent cancer developing by taking care to buy organic and free range food products for both ourselves and our pets. We can make an impact environmentally on our own little patch of ground by eliminating the use of ALL harmful chemicals in our houses and in our gardens.
FLEA TREATMENTS: Flea collars, flea tablets, and flea powders are very bad to use on your pet, unless it is stated that the product contains no harmful chemicals and is completely organic. Making your own flea remedies is an excellent thing to do for your pets, and for your family too: when you use toxic chemicals on your pets, or use insecticide anywhere in the house to kill cockroaches or ants, the whole family gets a dose of it, and the poison is transferred about the house, onto cushions, bedding, carpet – wherever the dog or cat may sit. This puts you and your family at risk as well as your pet.
Harmful chemicals such as insectides which are used on dogs and other animals, or fly killers, get absorbed into our blood stream through the pores of our skin. The same thing happens to our pets: the poison which we put on their skin to kill fleas is actually being absorbed through the pores of the dog or cat’s skin, or our own skin. Poisons such as these find their way, via the blood, into the liver where they get stored. These stored poisons, in time, cause cancer and other degenerative disease unless they can be purged out of the body of a person or an animal.
Calcium Ascorbate to Prevent Cancer: One way to help purge toxic chemicals from the body is with the use of calcium ascorbate, a non-acidic form of vitamin C. This has been used for many years in alternative cancer treatments. Recently, in New Zealand, research scientists proved for a fact that vitamin C does inhibit cancer, and that it can help to reduce the size of a cancer. So vitamin C as a preventative, and also a cure, when used in conjunction with other special dietary and detoxification measures, is a pretty well established treatment for cancer and other degenerative disease.
Detoxification of Poisons: A dose of calcium ascorbate vitamin C, or ester C, can be given to your dog via its food to counteract the effects of toxins which have built up in the liver. A dose could be somewhere between 100mg and 500mg daily, depending on the size of the dog, and whether the calcium ascorbate is given for prevention or for a cure. If your dog already has cancer, then larger amounts of Vitamin C should be used.
Herbicides in Public Places: It is important to watch council spraying programmes, or those of your neighbours, if you live in the country. A dog or cat who walks through freshly sprayed grass is endangering its health. Animals, including cows, have direct contact with agricultural chemicals if they tread on the grass with their unprotected feet. You just cannot say how much poison a cat or a dog will come across as it roams about a park, or a farm, or, as cats do, around the neighbouring properties in a town.
DIET OF YOUR PETS: One very harmful thing about many commercial dog foods and cat foods is that preservatives and flavour enhancers are added. These are very bad for animals when they have a steady diet of these foods which have chemical additives.
To help prevent cancer and other degenerative disease developing, you must make sure to give your pets unadulterated, fresh food. It is better to prepare the food yourself rather than buy any packaged foods for dogs. Dry biscuits are very bad for both cats and dogs, as these lead to kidney and bladder disease, and are hard on the digestive system.
Animals’ digestive systems are not made to take ongoing diets of dry material, no matter how organic and nutritious the product is. If you use a quality dry biscuit, then the diet should also include some fresh quality meat each day, and a little of what you yourselves eat – some mashed vegetables and rice mixed in with the meat is a good way to get nutrients into your dog.