While this was not when I wanted to end helping Jumbo, this is the time when the owners wanted to take care of him themselves. Unfortunately, this means that Jumbo has gone back to eating the very food which caused the problems in the first place.
For me, this is a personal failure — well, perhaps failure is the wrong word but the reality is I wanted to keep helping Jumbo. The failure was not in helping Jumbo, but in not being able to show the owners of Jumbo a better way of doing things.
The real challenge from the beginning was showing
the owners the way and how the cure and prevention are the same
. It seems to me that once they saw Jumbo was well enough, they thought the healing was done. When in fact, it's just the beginning.
Jumbo came a long way and days before the owners decided to begin feeding Jumbo his old diet, his improvements were really starting to show. The hair was coming in thicker and with such amazing color — which was a really positive sign because the body is only going to give nutrients to the hair when the more important parts of the body are healthy, getting healthy or healthier. Ultimately, in the scheme of things, hair is not that important to health. Thus, the body will sacrifice providing nutrition to the hair when the nutrition is needed elsewhere. So when the hair starts to get healthy again, it really means the body is doing much better internally and there is plenty of nutrition to go around.
For now, Jumbo is back to his white rice, cooked meat and some commercial pet food diet — the very same diet that caused him the problems in the first place. The worst part is, I was going to start a second sick pet project
because an 8 month old puppy, who has the same owners as Jumbo, is beginning to loose her hair too. Her name is Chai Chai
and this dog is really beautiful, if you ask me. She is very submissive and a real cutie, to say the least. But she is getting sick fast. I offered to help Chai Chai but the owners just wanted to do things their way. So every day, I watch Chai Chai get sicker and sicker.
Chai Chai's hair is falling out fast and furiously. She walks with a limp and yet she still smiles. How I wish I could help Chai Chai. At her age, chances are she would fully recover with 2 months or so.
Sad to say, 8 weeks ago, the same owners had a Bull Mastiff puppy, which subsequently died 2 weeks later. While I don't know the exact cause of the death, what I do know is the puppy was being fed the same food. Then one day the puppy stopped eating and unfortunately, I was not aware of this nor was I told. In hindsight, it appears the puppy had either a stomach ache or food poisoning from the food it was being fed. This caused the puppy to stop eating, this led to dehydration and that ultimately killed the puppy.
I didn't see the puppy until it was too late and sadly, I could already see the puppy had gone past the point of no return. But nonetheless I tried by giving the puppy some homeopathic Traumeel.
While it is unfortunate that Jumbo's project has ended, while its sad that Chai Chai is following the same path and while it's truly heartbreaking that the puppy died, this overall experience has been a good one. Not only have people been able to see how Jumbo responded and healed, with the help of wholesome nutrition, but ultimately Jumbo had a chance to experience much better health — even if for only a short period of time.
While I may have not accomplished all that I wanted too, I still planted a seed in the minds of the owners — one that I am hopeful will develop when the time is right for the owners to fully embrace this idea and concept I call wholesome foods
— and now you know why my book is entitled Pets Need Wholesome Food Also.
I hope to start another sick pet project in the future. When the opportunity presents itself, I will take up the challenge once again.