Feel Better:Complain About Anything, page-60095

Hi @NoBoDe - I remember being a big fan of one Juliette Bairakli-Levy, the Herb Magician of the Hippy generation - she travelled the world with firstly her two children, then two Afghan hounds, lived in gipsy camps, with Arabs in the desert, in the wilds, learnt all about natural ways of healing - eventually trotted around this universe with 2 Afghan hounds in tow. When young she trained to be a vet, was disgusted with the cruelty this job required, bred dogs, won competitions. One thing she suggests you do when trying to breed and feed healthy animals - get a carcass of sheep, goat, whatever, bury it for a while and then feed the dogs on this - she turned out prize-winning animals.

A vet might be able to explain why, but it seems that long long ago the distant relative to our domestic dog, the wolf, had to make do with whatever left-overs they could find and often it was carrion.

I lent this book to my daughter who's got two fussy and expensive mini-Schnauzer dogs, but to no effect - they are the typical product of a society which value-charges everything, hence the multiplicity of feed and multiplicity of diseases affecting domestic animals.

Sigh : Says me, who pre-warms her cat's feed, stirs it up, rattles the dish, makes 'come-on' meeauwing noises to a formerly wild living animal. Seems we are all prone to civilisation's coddling embrace.

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