Natural Pet Care

By: William Greenbaum

by William Greenbaum, aka love ya woof!

1. Regular Exercise. To detox your pet the first step is to ensure regular exercise and it should be daily. Exercise gets everything moving, particularly blood circulation, lungs, heart, lymph fluid, truly the entire body is active and engaged. Its not only good for your pet its essential. One key thing that happens is that waste material is moved around inside the bowel and via exercise micro-toxins and cellular debris are expelled.

2. Good Food & Treat Choices. Bad food, bad life, toxin build-up. Simple as that. Your pet needs a top notch diet enriched with vitamins, nutrients and minerals notwithstanding a life force. Switch right now if you\'re buying the lowest grade dog or cat food. It would be like giving you a McDonald\'s Hamburger everyday for the rest of your life. Commercial pet food is rife with additives, artificial flavors, chemicals plus all the essential minerals are leached out during the manufacturing process. Eating this stuff means your pet is building up pretty nasty toxins in its body. Switch today to a raw food diet or premium food infused with Omega-3s, EFAs, minerals, vitamins and other nutrients. There are many on the market. We recommend Dr. Lisa Newman’s Azmira holistic pet foods, which place emphasis on clean, high-quality, human-grade ingredients that will detoxify your pet and rid it of many of its health problems.

3. Minimize Exposure to Pollutants. Keep your pets away from anti-freeze spills in the garage, motor oil spots, second hand cigarette smoke, mold and mildew, lawn chemicals, cleaning fluids, just anything hazardous; because in small amounts your pet either ingests it and vomits or toxins leech into its body and remain since they are hearty bugger microbes, art

ificial and man-made. Your pet\'s environment has got to be treated the same way you treat your own. How about a clean-up after work?

4. Provide Fresh Water. This one\'s a no brainer quite frankly yet it should be articulated and emphasized. You know how we all have gravitated to pure source water in our daily lives and many people have Brita Water Filters at home and we are all very conscious these days about the purity we\'re drinking. Well same goes for pets. If you wanna detox, you gotta have pure fresh water on a daily basis. No dirty stream water, chlorine, fluoride, chemical residues, harmful bacteria, or parasites toxins from the city water supply, mercury, etc. Nasty stuff, but once again, treat your pet with the same caution as you would your kids. Fresh water flushes your pet\'s body in the most delightful way.

5. Use Natural Medicine, Herbal Detox Remedies. This is a good one too. Natural herbal remedies heal and detox. The magical ingredients that mother nature has infused into herbs such as burdock root, dandelion, milk thistle and licorice root, safely and consistently support the organs that help flush toxins from the body such as the liver, kidneys, lymphatic and immune systems. In addition, theses herbs act as a kind of blood cleanser to improve the body\'s abilities to remove toxins from the blood.

What is a Good Herbal Detox Remedy for Your Dog?

Try All Pet Natural\'s Liver Detox Blend from Animals Apawthecary

Milk Thistle (courtesy of Lighthelper /Flikr)

This natural remedy contains the power detox herbs burdock root, licorice root, milk thistle, dandelion and alfalfa. It gently assists the body in correcting chronic skin problems and other imbalances that may be related to liver dysfunction symptoms or poor waste elimination. Squirt directly into mouth as suggested by label or as directed by your veterinarian.

How Can You Tell If Your Dog Needs A Detox?

He stinks! This is a quick test indicator that your companion\'s body is trying to flush out some nasty toxins that have accumulated over he past few weeks or months. Other signs of toxicity build up include bad breath, oily fur, yeast infections and allergies. We\'re seeing a lot of this these days and other chronic conditions such as cancers and various tumors and the most reasonable explanation is the adverse effects of the environment on biological life on this planet.

Call me loud and annoying but more to come of this in the weeks ahead. Blame global warming and pollution in our air and water for the higher rates of disease and toxicity that we are seeing everyday. Its happening to us and to our companion animals as well.

During The Detox Process You Should Be A Careful Observer

As you dose herbal remedies to your dog and as it goes through the detox process watch for any physical changes such as runny nose or appetite or bowel movements. These are all good signs, and it means the detox is working. They are likely to go away in few days. However, if you see something that concerns you consult your veterinarian for help and guidance.

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William Greenbaum (aka love ya woof!) hails from Ferndale, WA and Vancouver, B.C. He is an entrepreneur, writer, musician, theater producer, poet and tiathlete. He is also a life-long lover of the arts and sits as a volunteer board member raising money for Ballet British Columbia. He is also the Founder and President of All Pet Naturals - a natural health company dedicated to providing pet owners with the finest holistic line of natural, organic herbal, homeopathic and biological remedies on the market today. For more information visit www.allpetnaturals.com, or email him directly at bill@allpetnaturals.com.