A Warming Alternative to Cooking
I was warned by Vida's holistic vet that if she got more lipomas I'd be advised to go from raw to cooked food for her. This is to relieve the dampness that is behind their appearance.
Well, if you've been reading my blog you can imagine my resistance. It's not that cooked food is bad, I just don't see her as needing that much diet adaptation.
Well, I have a theory that kinda splits the difference. I think that freeze-dried and dehydrated diets warm the food up without going quite as far as full cooking.
So I've been playing around with it, being wintertime (and very wet and relatively chilly here) it's a good time to warm things up a bit. I'm a big fan of mixing and matching food anyway, so I've been mixing regular raw with Stella & Chewy's Freeze-Dried raw (the Duck Duck Goose flavor), or mixing the freeze-dried with Honest Kitchen. (the warm/hot water to rehydrate it literally warms it too). She eats it up quick, no matter which permutation.
I'm very lucky to have easy access to all these goodies, of course. But really, it's all cheaper than the mainstream advice I was given (further surgery, radiation, etc). And it's way more fun for both of us!
Oh yeah, and I just joined Twitter... tryin' it out!
2 Comments:
Greetings..I saw your post on Lipoma, and wondered how you are making out with Vida? My girl has a large chest lipoma, I had it aspirated and it was all fatty. But it is HUGE. Baseball size and I am trying naturalized therapies instead of the surgery which my vet wants to do. I also give redclover tincture, and feed both my girls the raw diet.
Suzanna
Hi Suzanna,
Luckily my dog's lipoma is very small, so it's not interfering with her at all.
Her holistic vet, who practices from a traditional chinese medicine perspective, prescribed a chinese herb blend for clearing phlegm to deal with the cancer diagnosis.
I check her pulse every week or so to see that it's not going slippery (it was slippery before we started the chinese herbs), as this is a sign of damp.
Check back through some of my posts (since august 08) as I detail more about the herbs I've been using. The chinese herb blend we're using is only available through vets, so you might check the Chi Institute website to find a practitioner near you. (I have a link on my website: http://theartofdog.com )
If the growth get so big that it's a problem for her it's probably best to just get it removed.
I've found TCM to be the modality that really addresses problems like this, which of course is why I got in to doing animal acupressure!
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