This lady really took my nutrition advice to heart and I’m gratified. Putting a young dog on Platinum was also really brilliant, as it will protect her joints as she ages.
Tracie -
I picked up your book at the library the other day, and have been reading parts of it that pertain to us and our 2 year old Shih Tzu! Her name is Cinnamon, and she is a pure bred that overall has been a great dog. After listening to you on Sirius the past year, we have changed her diet from Avoderm (which wasn’t that bad), but now she eats like a princess. Her diet consists of chicken, carrots, pumpkin, sweet potato, rice (not all at once), but she really enjoys the variety, and never turns her nose up to her food anymore. And for breakfast, we make scrambled eggs, cottage cheese or yogurt! I also want to thank you for recommending the Platinum Performance, we got her started on it a year ago, and she is very energetic. My husband takes her running. She is for sure a “large dog” in a small dog body, because she loves to run for miles!! I want to thank you for changing her and our life too!
My questions are:
1. Cinnamons yearly shots are coming up (Bordatella shot) and a fecal one (not sure if this is a shot), but I wanted to know if the yearly shots are necessary for a 2 1/2 year old dog? We don’t take her to kennels, or dog parks, just walks in the neighborhoods?
2. We have noticed in the past week or so she has been peeing ALOT more, and she has a gooey matter coming from her girl area down there. After listening to you, I assumed it could be a UTI, and so my husband called the vet today. They asked we bring in a urine sample to test it. I think what threw my husband off was today, she went pee in the middle of the kitchen on the rug. She has never done that before! Anything “natural” we can do to cure this UTI, or should be take her in the vet for a check up?
I hope you can help out, we haven’t had one health problem with her since we have started the all natural diet and again “THANKS”!!!!
PLEASE HELP!!!
Thanks,
Page, Charlie & Cinnamon from Seattle
Dear Page and Family -
I am delighted to know you love my radio show and The Bible, but since you do, why don’t you BUY a copy of The Dog Bible and you’d have all the info you need right at your fingertips?? It would have told you that OF COURSE those symptoms show that darling Cinnamon needs to get right to the vet — but by now that urine test will have shown a UTI and she’ll be on antibiotics. Remember to give her a few spoons of yogurt every day hours before or after her pills and for a week following the end of the tablets to protect her digestive tract from the medication.
As for yearly vaccinations: Noooooooooooo! Never yearly. The Dog Bible explains why — as do loads of postings on my blog and website Q&A. And absolutely not the Bordatella. Please keep a copy of The Dog Bible by your bedside so all these important answers will be right where you need them! And then you’ll get an autographed bookplate, too.
Tracie
