Health

Much research is now being done as to whether yearly boosters are actually necessary, we and many of our friends have never given our dogs boosters we believe that they are totally unnecessary for our animals and are responsible for auto-immune disorders, transient infections, skin problems, behavioural problems, epilepsy, thyroid disease, allergies and possibly cancer. Janet only uses homeopathic nososodes with her dogs and has done so for many years.

Quite simply we give our children vaccines as babies but we do not continue to vaccinate them every year of their life, why not? because it is not necessary. So why do people do it to their pets? because the vet sends you a card every year "Don't forget Boris is due for his booster"

With the average cost of a booster being £35 and approximately 13m dogs and cats in the country it's an industry worth tens of millions of pounds. Our dogs are either immune or not, giving a booster every year will not make them more immune.

This subject is as complicated and emotive in animals as it is in children but it has long been our opinion that animals are innoculated too often. There are too many coincidental medical conditions that occur suspiciously close to an animal having their booster, mainly associated with the immune system. my own animals are innoculated homeopathically & I have no objection to boarding animals that are innoculated in that way.

Who are we to advise you, no-one special but we don't want your £35, or collectively your millions, we just want dogs to live long healthy lives again but we are not alone, many people share our beliefs, vets are now warning the pharmaceutical industry and their own profession about the issue.

Many of you will of heard the name Catherine O'Driscoll, she has written several books about the issue of over vaccinating, for example, 'What Vets Don't Tell You About Vaccines' When the book was first published in 1997, vets around the world were advising pet owners to vaccinate their friends against disease every year. Now they are not so sure.  

An excert from Catherines' book, from our dear chum Jane Whiteley, Admirari :

Canine Health Concern CHC was formed in 1994 by Catherine O'Driscoll, after two of her beautiful young Golden Retrievers - Oliver and Prudence - tragically died. She asked, 'why?', and the answers that came back were sufficiently disturbing to make her feel that independent research was necessary - free from commercial bias. Catherine was sent scientific papers which told her that commercial pet food was nutritionally inadequate, and that many deficiency diseases are the direct result of poor feeding. She also learnt that the annual boosters we give to our pets each year, in the belief that we are protecting them from disease, are actually the largest cause of ill health in our pets today.

CHC advocates real food for dogs. That is, food that Mother Nature has designed, over millions of years, and which has made the species thrive for millions of years. Members of CHC who have reverted to a CHC-recommended natural diet have seen illnesses disappear and vet bills plummet. Our diet survey showed an 85 per cent drop in the number of veterinary visits once dogs were changed to real food.

  Visit the website and find out more, In Search Of The Truth About Dogs.

One of the main reasons many people booster their dogs is for putting them into boarding kennels but there are kennels who will accept dogs who are un-innoculated, ourselves included as Clunkamoor is actually a boarding kennel but they are boarded at the owners risk.

  Clunkamoor is set in the rolling Devonshire countryside, click on the top photo to visit the kennels