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More Healing Tips, PLUS Ellen Degeneres’ Shelter Dog Story
By Dr Andrew | October 17, 2007
From: Dr Andrew Jones
Author: Veterinary Secrets Revealed
Website: www.veterinarysecretsrevealed.com
Re: More Healing Tips, PLUS the Ellen story…
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Thank You to those of you who responded to yesterday’s newsletter.
It got me thinking about even more common supplements that you can give your pet to speed up healing after surgery.
Most of these can be found in many balanced vitamin mineral tablets..
A, C and E are all powerful antioxidants which provide protection against free radical damage, and are helpful in disease prevention, and wound healing.
Vitamin E is incorporated into cell membranes as well as guarding the fat molecules in the bloodstream from free-radical damage. Studies have also shown that it is a potent stimulator of the immune system, helping protect the thymus gland and guarding white blood cells from damage. Vitamin E has also been shown to reduce levels of inflammatory prostaglandins, which can lead to a number of health problems.
Vitamin A is manufactured by humans and animals from pigment substances called carotenes, which are commonly found in plants. Vitamin A is fat-soluble.
Vitamin A is essential for:
Supporting healthy eyesight
Maintaining healthy skin and mucous membrane
Growth and proper digestion
The production of red and white corpuscles in the blood
Lactation
Growth and repair of body tissues
Protecting the mucous membranes of the mouth, nose, throat and lungs, thereby reducing susceptibility to infections
Protecting against environmental pollutants
Aiding in bone and teeth formation
Vitamin C is the body’s primary water-soluble antioxidant, which makes it an important weapon in the immune system’s arsenal against bacteria and viruses. It also helps protect unsaturated fatty acids, and the fat-soluble vitamins A and E from being oxidized, therefore protecting their potency. Since your pet can’t manufacture it, vitamin C must be obtained
through diet and supplementation.
A protective vitamin essential to over-all body health, vitamin C is especially important for neutralizing free radicals. It also:
Helps in the production of collagen, and maintaining healthy skin
Promotes the healing of wounds, scar tissue, fractures
Strengthens blood vessels
Helps the body utilize iron and folic acid
Supports the thymus gland
Enhances T-cell production, increasing resistance to viral and
bacterial infections, and some allergies
Glucosamine HC l, Chondoitin Sulfate, MSM (methylsulfonyl methane)
These are the top 3 ingredients to aid in stopping further arthritis progression, and actually increasing the amount of cartilage.
Glucosamine, Chondroitin and MSM work together and in combination these are the MOST EFFECTIVE combination of supplements for treating arthritis.
They are anti-inflammatory and will help in tissue repair, especially after surgery.
l-arginine..it is a key amino acid of connective tissue and enzymes, as well as some hormones. It is helpful for many chronic degenerative diseases, such as Cruciate Ligament Rupture.
A reader send me a link to this story. Apparently Ellen Degeneres was on air crying about a dog that she adopted from an animal shelter, then gave away to somebody else.
Here is the story….
October 17, 2007 — ELLEN DeGeneres may be crying in public over the
dog she gave up, but her flack, Kelly Bush, is doing the TV host’s
dirty work behind the scenes.
Yesterday on her show, DeGeneres bawled over Iggy, the mutt she adopted
a month ago, then passed off to her hairdresser two weeks later, claiming
the pup didn’t get along with her cats.
But in handing off the pooch, DeGeneres broke a contract she’d signed
with Pasadena-based pet adoption agency Mutts & Moms stipulating she was
to return Iggy to the agency if the pet wasn’t a good fit for her and
girlfriend Portia de Rossi.
When Mutts & Moms called to check on the dog, DeGeneres told them she had
given it away. On Sunday, they went and took Iggy back, leaving the
hairdresser’s two kids devastated. DeGeneres begged publicly for them to
return it to the family, saying she was an “animal lover” who thought she
was doing the right thing.
But Keith Fink, a lawyer for Mutts & Moms, tells Page Six’s Marianne Garvey
it’s all an act. Behind the scenes, DeGeneres’ publicist was calling the
small agency and threatening it, says Fink, who played a vicious voice-mail message for us:
“This is Kelly Bush. We are filing a legal case against you. We are going
to be contacting the media. This is not going to be good for your store or
your organization. You did not do the right thing. You need to call back.
There is no reason for you to take this dog. Please call back before this
gets further out of hand.”
“Ellen’s lying,” said Fink. “She is using her power and her access to the media
to destroy this agency in the media. This is a woman who has signed many seven-
figure contracts. She knows what she signed.”
According to Fink, after yesterday’s show aired, Ellen’s fans bombarded Mutts &
Moms’ owner, Marina Batkis, with threatening calls to “burn her house down.”
One fan said, “You slimeball bitches are not worthy of living. How dare you make
Ellen cry. Give Iggy back!”
Bush denied making threats. “I have not left any threatening messages at all,”
she said. “The agency threatened to go to the media and I said that wouldn’t
be a good idea. I told them there’s just no need to escalate this . . .
They started this by wanting to take it public. I was the one who said,
‘Let’s talk about this.’ ”
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P.S. My Animal Shelter, Second Chance, has similar policies. I am glad that this small Animal Shelter didn’t back down to a ‘celebrity’. Can you imagine if Ellen had adopted a child, decided things weren’t working out, then just have the child away to someone else?
Illegal, Ms Celebrity.
Dogs aren’t toys that you just Give Away.
We are making progress in getting pets the respect they deserve… but it is slow…
Do what you can to advocate for dogs and cats.
P.P.S. If you are looking for even MORE supplements to Help Your Pet Heal After Surgery, then you should check out my Inner Circle.
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Best Wishes,
Dr Andrew Jones, DVM
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