Hello Mr Falconer. I read your emails, and always find them interesting. I've been following a raw food diet with our animal for the last 3 years without issue. Also have decided to never again have our animal vaccinated. That practice is a disgrace.
I do respectfully have questions regarding your steadfast belief that the rabies virus is in fact real, that there is an immune system, and that "positive tests" mean anything. On one hand you seem like a very well intentioned holistic vet fighting for the wellbeing of the animals, while on the other hand you continue upholding the dogma that "viruses" are real and the tests that are used actually mean anything, and that despite a lack evidence that there is an "immune system".
I don't claim to know what causes certain symptoms to appear in animals, but i have read and watched enough to ask these questions.
1-Could it be that "viruses" are a myth, and the particles claimed to be "viruses" are most likely dead cellular debris (which most if not all living beings would have inside themselves)?
2-Without undisputed proof that "viruses" exist, how can a positive test be anything but junk marketing and deception.
3- Using an anatomical picture, could you point out where exactly the immune system lies? Its easy to locate the muscular, digestive, circulatory, nervous and other systems.
Please don't feel like this is an attack. It is not. It is a plea for all to dig deeper for the sake of the wonderful animals and people in our lives.
Can you point out the wind? I can't, but I can surely see its effects (flags and trees waving, feeling it on my face, in my hair, etc.)
So, you're the first I've seen that's gone from "viruses don't exist" to "there's no immune system."
Wow. Quite a leap.
Rather than me proving to you these things exist, I'd suggest you start your own research, make it public on your own Substack or elsewhere, and interview 10 virologists and another 10 immunologists, human or veterinary.
Of course, you'll have a hard time getting any to give you the time of day, but it's not up to anyone to prove your theories right or wrong. It's up to you to prove what you're espousing has validity.
And this Substack won't be the place for it. I have no interest in this any more than I'd entertain a flat earth debate.
In the wind example, if hair is moving, or leaves are rustling, the ONLY possible cause is the wind, correct? It could never be anything else? Effects can have multiple causes, cant they?. A point i did a poor job trying to convey in original post.
I didn't claim there isn't an immune system, I asked for it to be pointed out. My personal belief is the entire body takes care of itself, i/e, healthy body is able to function properly and deal with whatever comes up...my issue is related to the use of "immune" to refer to creatures that for whatever reason dont "catch" the so-called "viruses"...it seems like a convenient work around for the germ theory industry.
I've seen how you respond to anyone who questions your views, so I am not surprised by your response to my query.
I won't be bothering this feed again, and I wish you all well.
Isn't it interesting that the good doc who makes a living pointing out the unwillingness of conventional medicine to engage in dialogue or consider the merits of other healing modalities also refuses to engage in dialogue with well meaning readers who ask questions he considers provocative and also engages in censorship? What's he so afraid of? This sort of behavior is sadly typical of those hiding behind their credentials. Or could it be that he's engaging in some tranferrence - as a devotee of an indian guru one wonders if he expects the same sort of fanatical devotion from his readers. In either case the unfortunate behavior points to the doc needing a few remedies, especially considering his apparent liver issues.
Doc was a government employee who "studied" rabies back in the 80's so he thinks he wrote the book on it. In reality, there is no rabies in Hawaii, so like a good government employee, he probably spent the time laying around the beach and golfing on the government dime. Too bad there was no DOGE back in the day.
You can do a quick online search to see where the immune system is in the body, with diagrams. It is in several places, including the bone marrow, blood stream, lymph nodes, tonsils and adenoids, even the skin. Plus others I forgot after I closed the search! Oh yeah the spleen too.
That's not actually an "immune system", but simply parts of the anatomy that work in tandem to keep one alive and healthy. Actually all parts of the body do that, so rather than an immune system, we actually have a body system. Everything affects everything, so nothing can be delineated as affecting the "immune system" negatively or positively.
Sounds like a matter of semantics to me. If something affects the parts of the body that act together to effect immunity, then calling those collective body parts the immune system when making the statement that those functions are affected is convenient and descriptive, and much easier than naming them all individually. So even though there is no specific organ and separate circulatory path called the immune system that does nothing else, I'll stick with the term immune system unless and until I see something better offered. 🤷♂️
Happy to see your post. I have asked this as well here but got no response. It's very clear there is no scientific evidence for any contagion, ever, historically and up to present day. Symptoms of dis-ease are easily explained but people like to be able to point to "one cause" for anything and that's simply not how the natural world works. It's easy to see that if contagion was real, there would be little to no life still here, yet, there are far more people that do not "catch" something that those that appear to. It's very easy once a person releases the indoctrination and looks at everything from an entirely open mind with critical thinking, scientific processes, and reason. I find it disheartening that Dr Falconer has yet to be able to do this, although I suspect he will state that he has and finds the evidence supports contagion. While there are clearly many, many professionals that choose to keep supporting the erroneous belief in contagion while knowing the truth, for their own purposes, there are also many that have always known, and those that have more recently become educated and have changed their methods of both seeing and treating the individual, whether person, animal, or plant. What is sometimes overlooked, IMO, is that when homeopathy or other energy healing appears to be effective, (which it is), it's not that it's treating "rabies", "measles", "lyme", etc, as it's commonly thought of, but rather it's correcting the underlying imbalances that give rise to these symptoms.
Having read so many articles in the past 2 years about viruses never having been scientifically identified, nor even existing as portrayed, it made me also question the rabies virus. Will be interesting to see explanations from various sources as more true research is done.
There is countless research on all of the so called viral diseases, both historical and recent. There has yet to be a single study or experiment that has been able to reproduce the illnesses in a healthy subject from any substance taken from a diseased subject via any normal route of exposure. Question it all.
My question is this- if viruses do not exist, what is the method of pathogenesis in the disease we know as rabies? It's transmission is proven to be through saliva/bite wounds, from an infected animal. There are challenge tests to show efficacy of vaccines, and instances of live virus vaccines causing rabies in dogs. The rabies challenge fund closed their research into determining duration of immunity for vaccines because they felt it was unethical to continue causing rabies in dogs and then euthanizing them. So, whether we call it a virus or not, clearly there is something passed from host to victim which induces the symptoms known as rabies. If not by virus, by what means?
My beef with the whole thing is that non-vaccine research regarding prevention/reversal has been stifled. For example, decades old previous research showed high doses of vitamin c could potentially reverse rabies in infected guinea pigs. But nothing more was ever done for research, my guess so that it would always be considered a "fatal and incurable disease" with the only prevention being the vaccine (Aka control through fear).
Excerpt from the conclusion of Mike Stone's Substack Article:
'The fact of the matter is that Pasteur fixed his own data to fit his scientific ambitions. He was unsuccessful in isolating any causative agent of a disease known to be rare in man and one in which treatment was found to be unnecessary in the majority of the cases. Symptoms and fatalities were rare even in cases of confirmed rabies attack. The use of the rabies vaccine is as a prophylactic in order to stop the potential of symptoms. However, the vaccine has been shown to produce the exact same symptoms. As with the smallpox and polio vaccines, this is yet another obvious case where the vaccine created the very disease it was meant to protect against which has perpetuated the myth that a rabies “virus” exists in the first place.'
It's very intriguing to me from a POV of at least just trying to understand the argument.
So, if I'm understanding correctly, they don't deny there IS rabies, just that there is any evidence of it being caused by a virus? Which may or may not be true, but I'm still left wondering if not a virus, then what? Dr Sam Bailey's theory of rabies possibly being caused by a "neurotoxin, produced by bacteria, introduced through trauma" is interesting, but the she follows up by saying "there's no evidence of any microbe transmitting rabies". So I guess it's just "we don't know"? (I hope this is coming through as me honestly trying to grasp, and not to criticise).
So then I still wonder about challenge tests proving protection against rabies by vaccination, as well as titer tests proving immunity (also please understand that I'm extremely antivax, just trying to understand). If not a virus, perhaps whatever the infectious agent is is present and providing the immunity? But still how are viruses alleged to be proved inactivated in lab settings, if they dont exist? (I was going to go back and read "Prevention of rabies by vitamin C" by Banic, 1975 but apparently you have to pay to view it...incidently I found more recent published papers allegedly proving the usefullness of vitamin c in inactivating rabies virus in vitro).
I guess I'm just rambling, but I just have a hard time understanding the concept. I try to keep an open mind and do appreciate you sharing the links/info.
These so called diseases are all from various toxicities. It has been shown to actually not be spread through bites reliably. As well, a bite has a lot more foreign material in it that will cause the person or animal to have a response. This does not indicate or prove any so called disease from a single source, virus, bacteria, or other contagion.
I love your newsletter! My chihuahuas still are raw fed and get raw goats milk. I had my eyes opened about a year ago and we no longer are getting vaccinated since my dogs are 6 and 8 and have gotten all of their vaccines until this last year. We also don't have heart worm where I live so since I learned that I have been able to stop giving them those risky meds. Wonderful holistic vet here doesn't encourage vaccines so unless I decide to travel overseas they don't need the "required" vaccines because nobody is checking. I do my own grooming and have a holistic vet, nobody is getting on my case about being "overdue for shots". Instead I spend my vet visits discussing homeopathy and nutrition.
For ears I have always used coconut oil vs. olive oil and curious to your thoughts about using fractionated coconut oil for ears. I know coconut oil is antibacterial anti fungal and anti inflammatory. Thank you!
You are living the good life, Jess! Envious of your situation and a hearty clap on the back for your vet, clearly a person of conscience!
Coconut oil should be fine, perhaps even better for its “anti-” effects as you point out. I’d probably not bother with the fractionated version, just for simplicity’s sake and out of respect for, you know, Mom N. 😉
We have two outdoor cats that live in our heated garage. They are littermates who adopted us. Our neighbors daughters begged their dad for barn cats. They did not like living in a cold barn where no one was around to love on them. They are both extremely affectionate even with people they’ve just met. Hubs is VERY attached as he spends evenings watching TV in the garage just to give them attention and love.
I’ve finally convinced him to do titre testing instead of just letting the vet have their way with them injecting poison. They charge an arm and a leg but it’s worth it. Their antibody levels were just fine.
Thank you Will, for educating us. If we ever need sound advice if one of our boys are in need, I hope I can pay you for a phone consult.
Thanks Laura, and I'm sorry the titer testing cost an arm and a leg. That was solely because the vet used an outside (3rd party) lab. Titers at Kansas State Vet Diagnostic Lab (where any vet can start an account) are very affordable in comparison.
Also, you and hubs can rest easy (and have no need to retest titers) as that immunity should be lifelong, even if the titers fall off later in life. They only measure half the immune response: http://vitalanimal.com/fallacy-of-titer-tests/
And maybe those lucky cats could become house cats one day?
Thank you for this Will. I will share with my husband in hopes that he will listen.
We have an indoor cat (Andie) that is not fond of other cats. She only tolerated our other cat before we lost her a year and a half ago to an issue with her liver. Oh how I wish I had known about you then. I noticed that Andie would hiss at Echo whenever she smelled her breath. She started doing it years before Echo ever presented with symptoms of illness. I assume it is possible that Andie detected Echo’s illness through her nose.
Andie is almost 11 and the outside boys are 5, so I feel sure one day, they will indeed be inside our home. In the meantime, hubs has made their garage home very comfortable. He keeps the heat at 63 all winter. Yeah - it’s a hefty gas bill!
Wow. I knew something was fishy with the whole raw cat food story, glad to hear this update! I can't imagine how it has impacted their company though- hopefully now they will get inundated with supporters & new customers. I kept my kitties on homemade raw through this whole fiasco, albeit nervously, but I felt confident over all that the best form of protection is a strong immune system through good diet. Thank God they've been doing just fine.
I wanted to mention, regarding oil in the ears, my pittie had recurring ear infections most of her life, and I tried a TON of natural drops in an attempt to avoid antibiotics. Nothing seemed to work, but I noticed that anything with oil tended to worsen her ears badly, and I didnt understand why. Her infections were always a combo bacteria & yeast, but come to find out she had malasezzia yeast, a particular type of yeast that thrives in oily areas of the skin and ears. Turns out wiping her ear with witch hazel (or flushing with trizultra, which isnt natural but worked) helped keep things clean, and giving a single oral dose of 1g vitamin c knocked her ear infections out almost instantly. Over all, changing her diet helped get rid of her allergies, but unfortunately she had developed a polyp in one ear that caused occasional infections. Thankfully the vit c worked every time, so no need for antibiotics.
Not knocking the oil trick, as I'm sure it can help significantly depending on whats going on in the ear. Just thought I'd share my experience in case it could help somebody!
Interesting on the oil + malasezzia rejoicing at its addition. And, what you describe is obviously the chronic, common version of the disease, so deeper work would be needed to get to a cure.
The reason I railed a bit at the "infection" word in the first part was this: the germs moved in because the ear was unhealthy, so the bacteria or yeasts they find are not cause but effect. I wrote more about this germ v terrain here: https://vitalanimal.com/kill-germs/
As a homeopath, I also see the polyp as another more serious symptom arising from the past treatments trying to suppress the symptoms. I don't know the drug you mentioned, but I suspect it had some steroids to quell inflammation.
Glad the raw diet has helped. If you're still left with symptoms after giving that a good run, I'd suggest considering hiring a qualified homeopathic vet to treat constitutionally.
The longer the run of chronicity, the longer the path to cure, but that method works better than any I've known.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Readers: any time any treatment makes things worse, even though it was supposed to sooth and improve things, simply stop using it.
I learned that the hard way with Rescue Remedy Cream in my early days with an itchy dog patient. Humble pie time.
Such a lively discussion! However, just when I think I might have a grip on how to care for my dog, I come across even more viewpoints - just like I read here - and become even more confused! Between fighting with my vet, struggling to combat my Golden’s chronic issues & trying to figure out what is truthful vs what isn’t - caring for a pet is now becoming a stress-inducer instead of a stress- reliever! Sometimes ignorance is bliss 😢
The bottom line is conventional medicine has *never* cured chronic disease, in any species. For that, homeopathy excels. See my website and the page on homeopathic vets, where I’ve got a YouTube video on how to find the most qualified people, and get your dog on the road to cure.
As the past and present owner of 3 dogs I believe were injured by the rabies vaccine, when I saw this on X, I thought of you. My injured breeds were a Chihuahua who had seizures and congestion heart failure who has passed, a German Shepherd who had seizures and ate non-food items who has passed, and presently a Russian Toy that did not move, eat or drink for 3 days after his second rabies vaccination. We dripped water in his mouth until the end of the third day when he got up and drank on his own.
I'm so sorry, Deborah, and hope your latest will beat this vaccinosis. I interviewed Dr. Robb on a couple of episodes of my Vital Animal Podcast. May be of interest to you. https://vitalanimal.com/podcast/
Isn't it interesting that the good doc who makes a living pointing out the unwillingness of conventional medicine to engage in dialogue or consider the merits of other healing modalities also refuses to engage in dialogue with well meaning readers who ask questions he considers provocative and also engages in censorship? What's he so afraid of? This sort of behavior is sadly typical of those hiding behind their credentials. Or could it be that he's engaging in some transference - as a devotee of an indian guru one wonders if he expects the same sort of fanatical devotion from his readers. In either case the unfortunate behavior points to the doc needing a few remedies, especially considering his apparent liver issues.
My dogs have somewhat itchy ears which are sometimes warm, but no evidence of ear mites. I've used warmed coconut oil in my cats' ears to smother ear mites with success, but since there is no indication of mites in the dogs I wasn't sure if it would do any good. I thought perhaps it was the dry cold weather. The dogs will often lick each other's ears, and they are clean. I never thought of it being vaccines... they eat mostly raw and have only ever had rabies shots, and only that because I can be fined for not having it done if anyone noticed they didn't have tags. But even so it's been a couple years since their last shots because I got the three-year ones last time.
As has been noted before, the three yr shots are the same as the one year. Just as a "dose" is the same for a Saint Bernard as it is for a Pomeranian. All extremely toxic and unnecessary, regardless of any "laws". I have never, ever, in all my years, given a rabies vaccine or any other.
You say you've never "given" vaccines -- does that mean you are a vet, or did you simply mean you haven't had your dogs vaccinated? I've been lucky enough to find a vet who understands the harm potential and is OK with not giving all the shots, who gave my dogs the thimerosol-free rabies shots along with cards saying they were current on all the shots so I wouldn't have issues.
So so so glad to read that the Northwest Naturals cat food issue has been laid to rest. Now to undo ALL the negative press and opinions being spread that resulted from it all. And Dr Falconer…a question if you don’t mind? My 10 year old golden retriever has been suffering from eyelid inflammation for the last 5 months. Left untreated they become reddish swollen bumps especially on her inner lid area and her top lids. We have done eye A/B and pred drops to no success. Then we did 5 mg daily pred which worked beautifully but any tapering down brings the symptoms back within 4 days of every other day tapering. Of course the tentative diagnosis is blepheritis but what is causing it is a mystery. She has been fed a raw diet for 9 years with appropriate supplementation including wild caught EFAs, probiotics/DE, mushrooms and colostrum, etc. along with various berries, organ meat treats and veggies. Her energy is excellent along with great muscle and body condition at a slim 75 pounds. She has never had this issue before. With this background do you have any suggestions for us to try using homeopathics as a treatment? Appreciate your time. Hope
While homeopathy can likely cure this, it'd be a process, never a single remedy. Such is the way of chronic disease treatment. As this is only 5 months in, the prognosis is pretty good, but you'll need to hire professional help. Here's how I'd recommend starting your search: https://youtu.be/XyEklB8W6M0 p.s. great work on diet, etc. Sounds like people would mistake this senior for a much younger dog!
Hello Mr Falconer. I read your emails, and always find them interesting. I've been following a raw food diet with our animal for the last 3 years without issue. Also have decided to never again have our animal vaccinated. That practice is a disgrace.
I do respectfully have questions regarding your steadfast belief that the rabies virus is in fact real, that there is an immune system, and that "positive tests" mean anything. On one hand you seem like a very well intentioned holistic vet fighting for the wellbeing of the animals, while on the other hand you continue upholding the dogma that "viruses" are real and the tests that are used actually mean anything, and that despite a lack evidence that there is an "immune system".
I don't claim to know what causes certain symptoms to appear in animals, but i have read and watched enough to ask these questions.
1-Could it be that "viruses" are a myth, and the particles claimed to be "viruses" are most likely dead cellular debris (which most if not all living beings would have inside themselves)?
2-Without undisputed proof that "viruses" exist, how can a positive test be anything but junk marketing and deception.
3- Using an anatomical picture, could you point out where exactly the immune system lies? Its easy to locate the muscular, digestive, circulatory, nervous and other systems.
Please don't feel like this is an attack. It is not. It is a plea for all to dig deeper for the sake of the wonderful animals and people in our lives.
Can you point out the wind? I can't, but I can surely see its effects (flags and trees waving, feeling it on my face, in my hair, etc.)
So, you're the first I've seen that's gone from "viruses don't exist" to "there's no immune system."
Wow. Quite a leap.
Rather than me proving to you these things exist, I'd suggest you start your own research, make it public on your own Substack or elsewhere, and interview 10 virologists and another 10 immunologists, human or veterinary.
Of course, you'll have a hard time getting any to give you the time of day, but it's not up to anyone to prove your theories right or wrong. It's up to you to prove what you're espousing has validity.
And this Substack won't be the place for it. I have no interest in this any more than I'd entertain a flat earth debate.
Take it elsewhere. And good luck.
Interesting response.
In the wind example, if hair is moving, or leaves are rustling, the ONLY possible cause is the wind, correct? It could never be anything else? Effects can have multiple causes, cant they?. A point i did a poor job trying to convey in original post.
I didn't claim there isn't an immune system, I asked for it to be pointed out. My personal belief is the entire body takes care of itself, i/e, healthy body is able to function properly and deal with whatever comes up...my issue is related to the use of "immune" to refer to creatures that for whatever reason dont "catch" the so-called "viruses"...it seems like a convenient work around for the germ theory industry.
I've seen how you respond to anyone who questions your views, so I am not surprised by your response to my query.
I won't be bothering this feed again, and I wish you all well.
Isn't it interesting that the good doc who makes a living pointing out the unwillingness of conventional medicine to engage in dialogue or consider the merits of other healing modalities also refuses to engage in dialogue with well meaning readers who ask questions he considers provocative and also engages in censorship? What's he so afraid of? This sort of behavior is sadly typical of those hiding behind their credentials. Or could it be that he's engaging in some tranferrence - as a devotee of an indian guru one wonders if he expects the same sort of fanatical devotion from his readers. In either case the unfortunate behavior points to the doc needing a few remedies, especially considering his apparent liver issues.
Doc was a government employee who "studied" rabies back in the 80's so he thinks he wrote the book on it. In reality, there is no rabies in Hawaii, so like a good government employee, he probably spent the time laying around the beach and golfing on the government dime. Too bad there was no DOGE back in the day.
You can do a quick online search to see where the immune system is in the body, with diagrams. It is in several places, including the bone marrow, blood stream, lymph nodes, tonsils and adenoids, even the skin. Plus others I forgot after I closed the search! Oh yeah the spleen too.
That's not actually an "immune system", but simply parts of the anatomy that work in tandem to keep one alive and healthy. Actually all parts of the body do that, so rather than an immune system, we actually have a body system. Everything affects everything, so nothing can be delineated as affecting the "immune system" negatively or positively.
Sounds like a matter of semantics to me. If something affects the parts of the body that act together to effect immunity, then calling those collective body parts the immune system when making the statement that those functions are affected is convenient and descriptive, and much easier than naming them all individually. So even though there is no specific organ and separate circulatory path called the immune system that does nothing else, I'll stick with the term immune system unless and until I see something better offered. 🤷♂️
Happy to see your post. I have asked this as well here but got no response. It's very clear there is no scientific evidence for any contagion, ever, historically and up to present day. Symptoms of dis-ease are easily explained but people like to be able to point to "one cause" for anything and that's simply not how the natural world works. It's easy to see that if contagion was real, there would be little to no life still here, yet, there are far more people that do not "catch" something that those that appear to. It's very easy once a person releases the indoctrination and looks at everything from an entirely open mind with critical thinking, scientific processes, and reason. I find it disheartening that Dr Falconer has yet to be able to do this, although I suspect he will state that he has and finds the evidence supports contagion. While there are clearly many, many professionals that choose to keep supporting the erroneous belief in contagion while knowing the truth, for their own purposes, there are also many that have always known, and those that have more recently become educated and have changed their methods of both seeing and treating the individual, whether person, animal, or plant. What is sometimes overlooked, IMO, is that when homeopathy or other energy healing appears to be effective, (which it is), it's not that it's treating "rabies", "measles", "lyme", etc, as it's commonly thought of, but rather it's correcting the underlying imbalances that give rise to these symptoms.
Having read so many articles in the past 2 years about viruses never having been scientifically identified, nor even existing as portrayed, it made me also question the rabies virus. Will be interesting to see explanations from various sources as more true research is done.
There is countless research on all of the so called viral diseases, both historical and recent. There has yet to be a single study or experiment that has been able to reproduce the illnesses in a healthy subject from any substance taken from a diseased subject via any normal route of exposure. Question it all.
My question is this- if viruses do not exist, what is the method of pathogenesis in the disease we know as rabies? It's transmission is proven to be through saliva/bite wounds, from an infected animal. There are challenge tests to show efficacy of vaccines, and instances of live virus vaccines causing rabies in dogs. The rabies challenge fund closed their research into determining duration of immunity for vaccines because they felt it was unethical to continue causing rabies in dogs and then euthanizing them. So, whether we call it a virus or not, clearly there is something passed from host to victim which induces the symptoms known as rabies. If not by virus, by what means?
My beef with the whole thing is that non-vaccine research regarding prevention/reversal has been stifled. For example, decades old previous research showed high doses of vitamin c could potentially reverse rabies in infected guinea pigs. But nothing more was ever done for research, my guess so that it would always be considered a "fatal and incurable disease" with the only prevention being the vaccine (Aka control through fear).
@Johanna - Tom Cowan, Dr. Sam Bailey, Mike Stone and others have explained the rabies fraud.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=434482891734230. - Dr Tom Cowan
https://youtu.be/xPEFy8mnlkc?si=IVn9pclAXb1UNkh1. - Dr. Sam Bailey
https://viroliegy.com/2022/02/25/louis-pasteurs-unethical-rabies-fraud/. - Mike Stone
Excerpt from the conclusion of Mike Stone's Substack Article:
'The fact of the matter is that Pasteur fixed his own data to fit his scientific ambitions. He was unsuccessful in isolating any causative agent of a disease known to be rare in man and one in which treatment was found to be unnecessary in the majority of the cases. Symptoms and fatalities were rare even in cases of confirmed rabies attack. The use of the rabies vaccine is as a prophylactic in order to stop the potential of symptoms. However, the vaccine has been shown to produce the exact same symptoms. As with the smallpox and polio vaccines, this is yet another obvious case where the vaccine created the very disease it was meant to protect against which has perpetuated the myth that a rabies “virus” exists in the first place.'
It's very intriguing to me from a POV of at least just trying to understand the argument.
So, if I'm understanding correctly, they don't deny there IS rabies, just that there is any evidence of it being caused by a virus? Which may or may not be true, but I'm still left wondering if not a virus, then what? Dr Sam Bailey's theory of rabies possibly being caused by a "neurotoxin, produced by bacteria, introduced through trauma" is interesting, but the she follows up by saying "there's no evidence of any microbe transmitting rabies". So I guess it's just "we don't know"? (I hope this is coming through as me honestly trying to grasp, and not to criticise).
So then I still wonder about challenge tests proving protection against rabies by vaccination, as well as titer tests proving immunity (also please understand that I'm extremely antivax, just trying to understand). If not a virus, perhaps whatever the infectious agent is is present and providing the immunity? But still how are viruses alleged to be proved inactivated in lab settings, if they dont exist? (I was going to go back and read "Prevention of rabies by vitamin C" by Banic, 1975 but apparently you have to pay to view it...incidently I found more recent published papers allegedly proving the usefullness of vitamin c in inactivating rabies virus in vitro).
I guess I'm just rambling, but I just have a hard time understanding the concept. I try to keep an open mind and do appreciate you sharing the links/info.
These so called diseases are all from various toxicities. It has been shown to actually not be spread through bites reliably. As well, a bite has a lot more foreign material in it that will cause the person or animal to have a response. This does not indicate or prove any so called disease from a single source, virus, bacteria, or other contagion.
I love your newsletter! My chihuahuas still are raw fed and get raw goats milk. I had my eyes opened about a year ago and we no longer are getting vaccinated since my dogs are 6 and 8 and have gotten all of their vaccines until this last year. We also don't have heart worm where I live so since I learned that I have been able to stop giving them those risky meds. Wonderful holistic vet here doesn't encourage vaccines so unless I decide to travel overseas they don't need the "required" vaccines because nobody is checking. I do my own grooming and have a holistic vet, nobody is getting on my case about being "overdue for shots". Instead I spend my vet visits discussing homeopathy and nutrition.
For ears I have always used coconut oil vs. olive oil and curious to your thoughts about using fractionated coconut oil for ears. I know coconut oil is antibacterial anti fungal and anti inflammatory. Thank you!
You are living the good life, Jess! Envious of your situation and a hearty clap on the back for your vet, clearly a person of conscience!
Coconut oil should be fine, perhaps even better for its “anti-” effects as you point out. I’d probably not bother with the fractionated version, just for simplicity’s sake and out of respect for, you know, Mom N. 😉
Another great newsletter. Thank you.
We have two outdoor cats that live in our heated garage. They are littermates who adopted us. Our neighbors daughters begged their dad for barn cats. They did not like living in a cold barn where no one was around to love on them. They are both extremely affectionate even with people they’ve just met. Hubs is VERY attached as he spends evenings watching TV in the garage just to give them attention and love.
I’ve finally convinced him to do titre testing instead of just letting the vet have their way with them injecting poison. They charge an arm and a leg but it’s worth it. Their antibody levels were just fine.
Thank you Will, for educating us. If we ever need sound advice if one of our boys are in need, I hope I can pay you for a phone consult.
God bless you.
Thanks Laura, and I'm sorry the titer testing cost an arm and a leg. That was solely because the vet used an outside (3rd party) lab. Titers at Kansas State Vet Diagnostic Lab (where any vet can start an account) are very affordable in comparison.
Also, you and hubs can rest easy (and have no need to retest titers) as that immunity should be lifelong, even if the titers fall off later in life. They only measure half the immune response: http://vitalanimal.com/fallacy-of-titer-tests/
And maybe those lucky cats could become house cats one day?
Thank you for this Will. I will share with my husband in hopes that he will listen.
We have an indoor cat (Andie) that is not fond of other cats. She only tolerated our other cat before we lost her a year and a half ago to an issue with her liver. Oh how I wish I had known about you then. I noticed that Andie would hiss at Echo whenever she smelled her breath. She started doing it years before Echo ever presented with symptoms of illness. I assume it is possible that Andie detected Echo’s illness through her nose.
Andie is almost 11 and the outside boys are 5, so I feel sure one day, they will indeed be inside our home. In the meantime, hubs has made their garage home very comfortable. He keeps the heat at 63 all winter. Yeah - it’s a hefty gas bill!
Wow. I knew something was fishy with the whole raw cat food story, glad to hear this update! I can't imagine how it has impacted their company though- hopefully now they will get inundated with supporters & new customers. I kept my kitties on homemade raw through this whole fiasco, albeit nervously, but I felt confident over all that the best form of protection is a strong immune system through good diet. Thank God they've been doing just fine.
I wanted to mention, regarding oil in the ears, my pittie had recurring ear infections most of her life, and I tried a TON of natural drops in an attempt to avoid antibiotics. Nothing seemed to work, but I noticed that anything with oil tended to worsen her ears badly, and I didnt understand why. Her infections were always a combo bacteria & yeast, but come to find out she had malasezzia yeast, a particular type of yeast that thrives in oily areas of the skin and ears. Turns out wiping her ear with witch hazel (or flushing with trizultra, which isnt natural but worked) helped keep things clean, and giving a single oral dose of 1g vitamin c knocked her ear infections out almost instantly. Over all, changing her diet helped get rid of her allergies, but unfortunately she had developed a polyp in one ear that caused occasional infections. Thankfully the vit c worked every time, so no need for antibiotics.
Not knocking the oil trick, as I'm sure it can help significantly depending on whats going on in the ear. Just thought I'd share my experience in case it could help somebody!
Interesting on the oil + malasezzia rejoicing at its addition. And, what you describe is obviously the chronic, common version of the disease, so deeper work would be needed to get to a cure.
The reason I railed a bit at the "infection" word in the first part was this: the germs moved in because the ear was unhealthy, so the bacteria or yeasts they find are not cause but effect. I wrote more about this germ v terrain here: https://vitalanimal.com/kill-germs/
As a homeopath, I also see the polyp as another more serious symptom arising from the past treatments trying to suppress the symptoms. I don't know the drug you mentioned, but I suspect it had some steroids to quell inflammation.
Glad the raw diet has helped. If you're still left with symptoms after giving that a good run, I'd suggest considering hiring a qualified homeopathic vet to treat constitutionally.
The longer the run of chronicity, the longer the path to cure, but that method works better than any I've known.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Readers: any time any treatment makes things worse, even though it was supposed to sooth and improve things, simply stop using it.
I learned that the hard way with Rescue Remedy Cream in my early days with an itchy dog patient. Humble pie time.
Such a lively discussion! However, just when I think I might have a grip on how to care for my dog, I come across even more viewpoints - just like I read here - and become even more confused! Between fighting with my vet, struggling to combat my Golden’s chronic issues & trying to figure out what is truthful vs what isn’t - caring for a pet is now becoming a stress-inducer instead of a stress- reliever! Sometimes ignorance is bliss 😢
The bottom line is conventional medicine has *never* cured chronic disease, in any species. For that, homeopathy excels. See my website and the page on homeopathic vets, where I’ve got a YouTube video on how to find the most qualified people, and get your dog on the road to cure.
Hi Dr. Will.
As the past and present owner of 3 dogs I believe were injured by the rabies vaccine, when I saw this on X, I thought of you. My injured breeds were a Chihuahua who had seizures and congestion heart failure who has passed, a German Shepherd who had seizures and ate non-food items who has passed, and presently a Russian Toy that did not move, eat or drink for 3 days after his second rabies vaccination. We dripped water in his mouth until the end of the third day when he got up and drank on his own.
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1894448871050260927?t=YHfOKnt9r98E8Sc3BHfN5Q&s=19
I'm so sorry, Deborah, and hope your latest will beat this vaccinosis. I interviewed Dr. Robb on a couple of episodes of my Vital Animal Podcast. May be of interest to you. https://vitalanimal.com/podcast/
Isn't it interesting that the good doc who makes a living pointing out the unwillingness of conventional medicine to engage in dialogue or consider the merits of other healing modalities also refuses to engage in dialogue with well meaning readers who ask questions he considers provocative and also engages in censorship? What's he so afraid of? This sort of behavior is sadly typical of those hiding behind their credentials. Or could it be that he's engaging in some transference - as a devotee of an indian guru one wonders if he expects the same sort of fanatical devotion from his readers. In either case the unfortunate behavior points to the doc needing a few remedies, especially considering his apparent liver issues.
My dogs have somewhat itchy ears which are sometimes warm, but no evidence of ear mites. I've used warmed coconut oil in my cats' ears to smother ear mites with success, but since there is no indication of mites in the dogs I wasn't sure if it would do any good. I thought perhaps it was the dry cold weather. The dogs will often lick each other's ears, and they are clean. I never thought of it being vaccines... they eat mostly raw and have only ever had rabies shots, and only that because I can be fined for not having it done if anyone noticed they didn't have tags. But even so it's been a couple years since their last shots because I got the three-year ones last time.
Nice on the ear mites! Pitcairn spoke of that in his Complete Guide book years ago, and mites can be difficult to dislodge.
As has been noted before, the three yr shots are the same as the one year. Just as a "dose" is the same for a Saint Bernard as it is for a Pomeranian. All extremely toxic and unnecessary, regardless of any "laws". I have never, ever, in all my years, given a rabies vaccine or any other.
In that case, I'm glad my dogs are large...
You say you've never "given" vaccines -- does that mean you are a vet, or did you simply mean you haven't had your dogs vaccinated? I've been lucky enough to find a vet who understands the harm potential and is OK with not giving all the shots, who gave my dogs the thimerosol-free rabies shots along with cards saying they were current on all the shots so I wouldn't have issues.
So so so glad to read that the Northwest Naturals cat food issue has been laid to rest. Now to undo ALL the negative press and opinions being spread that resulted from it all. And Dr Falconer…a question if you don’t mind? My 10 year old golden retriever has been suffering from eyelid inflammation for the last 5 months. Left untreated they become reddish swollen bumps especially on her inner lid area and her top lids. We have done eye A/B and pred drops to no success. Then we did 5 mg daily pred which worked beautifully but any tapering down brings the symptoms back within 4 days of every other day tapering. Of course the tentative diagnosis is blepheritis but what is causing it is a mystery. She has been fed a raw diet for 9 years with appropriate supplementation including wild caught EFAs, probiotics/DE, mushrooms and colostrum, etc. along with various berries, organ meat treats and veggies. Her energy is excellent along with great muscle and body condition at a slim 75 pounds. She has never had this issue before. With this background do you have any suggestions for us to try using homeopathics as a treatment? Appreciate your time. Hope
While homeopathy can likely cure this, it'd be a process, never a single remedy. Such is the way of chronic disease treatment. As this is only 5 months in, the prognosis is pretty good, but you'll need to hire professional help. Here's how I'd recommend starting your search: https://youtu.be/XyEklB8W6M0 p.s. great work on diet, etc. Sounds like people would mistake this senior for a much younger dog!