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The Sick Pet Project

With old pots you make good soup! — Anonymous

This is a story of how I helped a sick dog by feeding it a wholesome raw meat diet. While it's wonderful this story shows you how a wholesome raw meat diet can help heal a sick dog or cat, I hope that people who read this realize that the cure and the prevention are one and the same. That which you do to cure is also the prevention for illness. I hope that people, who read this story, realize the importance of preventing health problems in their pets by feeding them a wholesome raw meat diet now, not when the pet gets sick. Sometimes, when you wait until the pet is sick, it's too late — as many loving pet owners have sadly discovered. While I am proud to have helped Jumbo get healthier, I will be more proud and pleased if you, the reader, can appreciate the need to feed a wholesome raw meat diet right now.

Meet Jumbo, the participant in The Sick Pet Project.

Jumbo — the participant in the Sick Pet Project

Although you wouldn't know it by looking at the picture, Jumbo is a Chihuahua — an unhealthy Chihuahua to say the least.

Before going any further, I would like to give you a brief history of how The Sick Pet Project got started.

Essentially, in 1999 I took a holiday in Southeast Asia. While travelling, I could not help but notice how many stray dogs there were. I couldn't help but notice just how many of them were sick too.

I decided, at that time, that it would be rewarding to help some of the less fortunate dogs (and cats) in Southeast Asia. I then waited until I had no more commitments in Canada allowing me to move to Asia. Originally the plan was to help dogs because I noticed, while in Thailand, that the dogs really lived and slept in packs. Literally, the dogs in Thailand slept in packs on the streets, walked in packs, etc. Having the dogs in a pack sure would make it easy to feed them. However, instead of going to Thailand, I went to the Philippines.

Once in the Philippines, I noticed that although there were still plenty of stray dogs (and cats), that the dogs did not live in the same sort of packs as the dogs in Thailand — don't get me wrong, there are dominant dogs in the Philippines, it's just that the dogs don't sleep in packs like they do in Thailand. As a result, the dogs in the Philippines are more spread out — one dog sits on one corner, another dog sits on the other side of the street and so on — no big packs.

Since the dogs in the Philippines were more spread out, I turned my attention to cats. I started my own small cat sanctuary. I fed the stray cats every day. What a difference this made. The cats that looked so dirty began to look so clean. People asked me if I gave the cats a bath and said are you joking? They would claw me to death!

I've helped many cats and dogs over the years, but here was my own little cat experiment similar to the experiment Dr. Pottenger did in the 1930's. I saw many things happen with the stray cats plus I got a chance to really notice how they ate, especially the kittens. I noticed many small and interesting details. Many of these little details are being added to new section of my web site, which I call What's New Pussy Cat. In the What's New Pussy Cat section of my web site, I provide new ideas — or more accurately — I provide ideas that build upon the information provided in my original book.

Anyway, to make a long story shorter, I eventually had to close my cat shelter. I always knew this was a possibility and so I always kept the cats wild while supporting them. Nonetheless, when I had to close my cat sanctuary, a sense of wishing I could do more came over me. I loved the cats in the sanctuary and I really wanted to take all of them with me when I had to move. But alas, I could not. I did, however, adopt two kittens at the time and they moved with me (and I am happy to report these kittens, which are now cats, are doing very well and are purrrfectly healthy).

Not feeling satisfied with the realization that I could no longer help the cats, I needed a new project — enter Jumbo.

Jumbo — the participant in the Sick Pet Project

Initially, I thought Jumbo was just unhealthy. It was obvious he had health problems — any dog (or cat) that has lost some or all of its hair like Jumbo is unhealthy — and believe me, if only pictures could smell then you would really know just how sick Jumbo was because he stunk worse than a skunk! Although I knew Jumbo was unhealthy, I sure was in for a surprise (as you will be too) when I saw just how powerful his healing was. I realized, as I began to help take care of Jumbo that he wasn't just unhealthy — he was in fact incredibly sick with a very toxic body.

Before beginning this project, I told Jumbo's owner that there was a high chance that things were going to get extremely scary and that things were going to get worse before they got better. I asked if she still wanted to proceed and she told me to do what I can to help Jumbo. While I knew things would get scary as Jumbo began to detoxify, I have to admit, I had no idea just how scary it would get. Even though I knew what was happening and why, I was even nervous because I've never seen a dog (or cat) detoxify in the way that Jumbo did.

This is a story of Jumbo — how he responded to a wholesome raw meat diet.

I offer this guide to show you and others how a wholesome raw meat diet can help the body heals and what can happen when the body begins to detoxify. Believe me, I've never seen a dog detoxify in such a powerful way and for as long Jumbo did — it was quite a shock to me.

One part of The Sick Pet Project was to help Jumbo get healthier. The second part of the project was to help educate local Filipinos about how to properly take care of dogs (and cats). The second part of the project is proving to be more difficult than the first. Nonetheless, I keep trying!

The 3 pictures on this page show Jumbo at day 1, day 46 and day 84.

All pictures are clickable. Once clicked, you will view a larger image. If you were to view the larger image of the second picture on this page, or if you were to look more closely, you will see Jumbo detoxifying through the eyes. You can actually see a white milky like fluid leaving his eyes.

As you will learn while reading my notes, I originally thought Jumbo had cataracts. But around day 46, he started to detoxify through the eyes and as the white milky like fluid began to leave, you could begin to see the color of his eyes once again. Truly an amazing experience — especially sine I was right there while this happened and it was a good thing I had a camera to take a picture of this event.

I don't want to give too much away, but needless to say Jumbo is doing fine now — relatively speaking of course. I am not sure if he will ever have hair again as a year or so before I began to help Jumbo, he had major skin and coat problems that caused him to scar much of his body. Where there is scar tissue, the hair will not grow back.

Jumbo — the participant in the Sick Pet Project

Throughout the duration of The Sick Pet Project, Jumbo the sick Chihuahua, was fed based on my method of feeding. The primary meats fed were beef and chicken. The supplements used were EggShellent Calcium, FloraZyme LP, Pet GO, Rena GO, Thyro GO and Trace AniMinerals.

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The Wonders of A Wholesome Meal!

2010-03-10

Hello everyone,

We are two Pomeranian brothers Dolce & Gabbana.

We were born on the 18th of November, 2009 in Malta, Europe (near the southern part of Italy in the Mediterranean Sea).

We have been struggling with allergies since we started eating at 4 weeks of age.

When our mother took us home for the first time she immediately realised that there was something wrong with us, Big possibility it was allergies. Mummy took us to the vet with no delay. Our vet changed our food, yet another garbage dry food perhaps even worse from what we where having. It was full of corn, maize, corn, maize. Mummy thought this food was more appropriate for chicken and not puppies. This food only made us feel worse with watery eyes, itchy skin and it just irritated much. So Mummy thought ok I will feed them what I believe is nutritional and healthy – nothing can beat natural food.

So mummy started cooking for us fresh cooked food – 2 parts meat and 1 part vegetables and some boiled apples, pears and raw bananas instead of vegetables for breakfast. Our skin and itching had improved in the first week but our eye irritations and watering got worse. To the vet again. This time the same brand food but a veterinary diet and still with corn plus some supplements such Omega 3, Omega 6, taurine, minerals and vitamins. Since Mummy did not know much about these sources she did not trust it and believed this was another commercial crap. She bought it and the food also but never gave it to us. Now Mummy came to the conclusion that we were allergic to wheat – so no treats, allergic to corn – so no commercial food. Mummy had to find what was harming us in her fresh food diet that she believed in so much.

Mummy began to believe that we had protein allergy. So our diet had been adjusted to boiled duck breast and sweet potatoes. At this point Mummy was worried sick about us and our health at this very crucial time while we are growing from babies to young boys. She was worried that we are going to be weak for the rest of our lives just because she did not know what was the proper food for us. She was feeling irresponsible that she had brought us to her without knowing how to take care of us properly. The love she gave us was not enough for our needs. She hesitated to go to the vet again as she felt that he was not understanding her when she explained natural food was her choice to feed us.

Meanwhile Mummy kept on searching on the internet for a remedy, day and night of course this was how she learned to detect our allergies to wheat, corn and also protein – from the internet. Mummy was worried sick, Saying to her self, but if I don’t feed them protein from meat what can I feed them to make them grow strong and healthy? Vegetables were not enough! Dogs are not vegetarians! It is against their nature. Mummy’s head was spinning now feeling down and sick of not eating herself. Spending nights not sleeping, staying on the internet searching for a remedy for our proper intake and praying to mighty God to help her find a solution to make us healthy and happy. On Friday night or early Saturday morning on March 5th, 2010, Mummy came across Pets Need Wholesome Food Also. She thought, here I am, this is the answer to my prayers!

Mummy kept reading till morning – her eyes filled with tears of joy. She knew this was it. Same diet as she was giving us, which she believed in so much except uncooked! So Mummy has found the key. At least, that was what she was hoping.

After she read and understood all which was very plain and easy for her to understand, she went to the freezer, got the fresh meat which she had bought and packed in portions the previous day for us. Mummy thought she would start off with chicken breast minced, although, there was a time that she was beginning to think that we where allergic to chicken meat but after she read the story of the The Sick Pet Project, it encouraged her to give it to us. She thought this is for sure more wholesome than the poor meal of 2 parts sweet potatoes and 1 part cooked duck breast which we have been eating for 3 days now.

So Mummy prepared the well blended vegetables which consisted of carrots and peas and defrosted the chicken mince by putting it in a plastic bag and soaking it in warm water: For this time she had learned not to use a microwave for our food. Than she broke some eggs, washed the shell and removed the white lining inside and also removed the parts which where printed with ink for date of consumption, then she crushed them as fine as possible by putting them in a plastic bag and crushed them further with the rolling pen several times. Unfortunately, in Malta we do not have a homeopathic veterinarian, let alone a place where to buy the homeopathic remedies for pets.

By now it was 6 o’clock in the morning. Mummy had realised that we where hearing her all the time so we were not sleeping in our playpen. While Mummy always gave us breakfast at around 7:30 AM or 8:00 AM, she could not wait to start giving us this wholesome meal and start us fresh on this what she called miraculous raw diet. We where so starving that we ate double the portion we normally eat. Mummy started crying and showered us with kisses and cuddles and telling us that now we were on the road to recovery, good health and happiness. We had a very nice sleep afterword and Mummy was very much concerned about our reaction to the new diet so she kept watching us constantly while we where sleeping like two little angels.

When we got up we where rather upset because it was our digestive system. Mummy thinks we needed some FloraZyme LP according to what she understood in her reading but unfortunately Mummy did not have any on hand, neither could she go buy it nor make it her self for us like she did the calcium. So Mummy decided to rub our tummy and stomach with warm hands after some time one of us went to the washroom on the nappy to get relieved, that was me Dolce, and immediately I started playing and running with my toys. Gabbana was still upset looking up at Mummy with mercy. He did urinate quit a few times, not only on the nappy but wherever. His urine was very clear like water. Meanwhile, five hours has passed and Gabbana had no sign of apatite.

This time we were not so keen on the food both of us. Not much of a nice taste like the food we are use to. So Mummy decided to mash some peanut butter in it because that is our favourite treat. We ate it all from Mummy’s hands, given with love.

My brother Gabbana still has not been relieved and he was sleeping again when Gabbana got up went to the nappy pad and got relieved. Seeing us happy playing and full of life was a great relief for Mummy! We have been fed 4 times a day as usual but much bigger amount, almost double of what we normally ate. Although we are very small, we still have managed to take big meals until this morning. I, Dolce, weigh 1.6 Kg and my brother Gabbana weighs 2.1 kg. Today is our fifth day on the wholesome meal raw diet. At our first meal of the day we ate the usual big meal and after some small pieces of pear and bananas. At our second meal we ate a little less and our third meal was less for Gabbana. Gabbana always seemed to be the strongest.

In these 5 days, we had become two complete different puppies – no excessive itching, no eye irritations and the rough hair patch on the lower part of our back and tail begin to get smoother. Mummy had helped it a little by messaging some olive oil on it too. It is unbelievable how much benefit we have had from the wholesome raw diet in just 5 days. We are already feeling and looking healthier – and much more playful, relaxed and obedient. And all this was not possible without the help and amazing educational information to our Mummy of how to feed and make wholesome meals for us (http://www.pet-grub.com/).

We have no words to thank you enough Jesse. You are a God sent gift to us and those like us. May God be with you and bless you always!

– Dolce & Gabanna


Dolce and Gabbana

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2008-06-12

SharonHi Jesse, I am so delighted with your products. I really appreciate your sending the extra gift of the enzymes the past 2 orders. They are really good and I can see that they are extremely beneficial. Many thanks for making these products available. My dogs send you many wet kisses.

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