In This Issue:

• Editorial: Weighing In on Pet Obesity
• A Weighty Problem - Natural Ways to Prevent Weight-related Diseases in Your Pets
• Preventing Feline Diabetes - Is Your Cat at Higher Risk?
• Resources: Ask Our Experts
• Featured Testimonial
• Contact Us

FROM THE EDITOR

Weighing In on Pet Obesity

We are all concerned about our own expanding waistlines and know that when those loose jeans no longer button, well, we have a problem. But who would have imagined that we need to pay closer attention to Fluffy and Fido's waistlines.

Although there are no clothes to grow out off (for most pet's anyway), growing bellies is a growing concern to veterinarians all over the country as felines and canines alike join the obesity epidemic.

I only realized the severity of the issue when I read that about prescription drug use for weight loss – IN DOGS. I shook my head in disbelief - are pounds (lbs that is!) such a problem for dogs that we actually need to medicate them?

Right now, almost 40 percent of the pets in the United States are estimated to be anywhere from 5 to 20 percent over their ideal weight. This doesn't just mean that Fido only wants to play fetch for five minutes instead of thirty - excessive weight can greatly increase the risk that your pet will develop numerous other ailments, including arthritis, liver disease, heart disease and even cancer!

So we get that being overweight is dangerous even for pets but is medicating our animals with prescription drugs are the only way to remedy this problem? Especially when we have to weigh the pros against the cons - the unknown side effects of these drugs that have been just introduced to the market.

A Weighty Problem - Natural Ways to Prevent Weight-related Diseases in Your Pets

In this issue, we wanted to explore how natural remedies can help get our pets into tip-top shape. This way we can stop our dangerous habit of turning to prescription drugs to fix every little problem, even when it can be fixed naturally!

While obesity can lead to a number of dangerous conditions in both cats and dogs, we found that the risks are exceedingly high for hefty kitties. Cats that are overweight have an increased risk of developing feline diabetes; their likelihood of getting the disease actually triples.

To help you get a handle on your pet's health, we researched these trends and found some very helpful information that will help you treat, but more importantly prevent health problems in your dogs and cats before they start, with a wide variety of natural remedies.

Preventing Feline Diabetes - Is Your Cat at Higher Risk?

We hope you enjoy this month's newsletter, and that you find it helpful in protecting your furry family members from some of the common health issues they face.

As always, be sure to let us know what you think. We would love to hear about the topics you want to see in our upcoming newsletters, answer your questions or even just read your comments about our articles. We wish you and your pet good health!

So, send us an email at editor@nativeremedies.com and tell us what you think.

Paulette Gough, Editor
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A Weighty Problem

Natural Ways to Prevent Weight-related Diseases in Your Pets

The continuing trend in the upward weight spiral isn't restricted to the human population anymore. While we recently reported that more than 60 percent of men and women are overweight or obese in this country alone, studies also indicate that that canine obesity is certainly a significant problem in the United States.

Studies indicate that a staggering 40 percent of domesticated canines in the United States are considered overweight, a term applied when a dog is anywhere from 5 to 20 percent over the ideal body weight for its size and breed. Read More…

Preventing Feline Diabetes

Is Your Cat at a Higher Risk?

As cases of obesity rise in canines and felines around the world, so do corresponding cases of the diseases caused by obesity. One of the most prominent and perhaps alarming examples of this trend is the drastic rise in instances of feline diabetes.

There are many causes of feline diabetes, including excessive weight and obesity, as well as the use of medications including steroids and progesterone derivatives used to treat behavioral abnormalities and skin diseases.Read More…

Our Featured Testimonial

How PetAlive Helped WindStorm

Dear PetAlive,

Just for your records, you might wish to hear our story regarding the effect your C-Caps product has had on our cat Windstorm, who is about 12 years old.

Three weeks ago, we noticed she was making occasional gagging noises. By the end of two weeks, her neck was terribly swollen and she was choking and gagging about 75 percent of the time.

We took her to the vet, who took samples and conferenced with several other vets, and their consensus was thyroid cancer, in very advanced stages. He suggested she had perhaps another week or two [to live] at most. He did, however, offer us some Metacam to be administered once daily to help alleviate pain and possibly reduce the swelling of her neck. He did not, however, offer much hope, stating this would be palliative care only, and we should anticipate having her put down within a week or so.

By last week, her condition had not improved at all, and she was choking about 23 out of every 24 hours, losing sleep and energy. Late last Sunday, we came across your site and decided to give your C-Caps a try, as a last-ditch effort.

Windstorm's (AKA Windy) condition had degraded to the point where we were preparing to have her put down in a day or two, simply to relieve her of her constant suffering.

We ordered the extra-fast shipping, which your company states arrives in between 2 and 4 days. We had to hurry, since she was definitely fading terribly fast. Well, your product arrived from your company to Huntsville, Ontario in Canada in just under two days, mid-Tuesday, about 40 hours, definitely worth the extra shipping costs.

That same day, I had taken Windy to the vet for a final assessment. He wanted to put her down immediately, or the next day at the latest. I insisted he administer a Prednisone shot to initially begin to help reduce the tumor size (which by now had swollen her neck to about twice its regular diameter). He was so certain that it was an ineffectual choice that he did it for free.

I took Windy home and we started her on C-Caps, putting the powder into the few drops of liquid she could occasionally drink, or try to push some into her mouth with a tiny feeder syringe. Having nothing to lose and in such desperate circumstances, we started with the equivalent of two C-Caps a day, most of which she was able to ingest with tiny amounts of liquefied food.

We also kept a gently warming blanket over or around her as often as possible, on the basis of observed and reported evidence that most cancers cannot tolerate heat and generally begin dying off at temperatures approaching low fever levels at prolonged exposures of a couple days or so.

By the end of Wednesday, no improvement had been noted, but no further degradation of her condition had occurred either. By the end of Thursday, she was gagging less, and finally getting a few intermittent hours of rest during the day. Thursday night she had almost an entire night's sleep for the first time in well over two weeks. By Friday (yesterday), she was resting on and off during the day, and the gagging and choking was down to only a few minutes out of every hour.

Today is mid-Saturday, and she is resting more comfortably, choking only a couple times every few hours. Her weight loss has stopped, and she seems to be slowly rebuilding her strength.

Read the rest of Windstorm's story here