Sometimes I keep my children’s dogs
I have a lot children. They have all grown up and most have married. The one son who is not married has two yellow labs named Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Are some of you old enough to remember the movie with Paul Newman and Robert Redford? I am pretty sure those two Labradors have watched it. I always tell people “Never name your dogs after outlaws!”
All of my children have dogs. And it seems to fall to me to keep them when the children are off on their travels. Some would say that that is easier than keeping the grandchildren, but I am not certain of that. At the moment I have 7 dogs staying with me. Now, two of them are mine, so they really don’t count. However when it comes to feeding them all, they certainly do count. We have worked out a system though and everyone seems to know their places for being fed. So far it has not been the chaos you might imagine.
It is just lucky for my family that i am willing to do this dog-sitting job and that I have a place with enough space for them inside the house and outdoors. I live in the country so there are some challenges such as skunks. Then there is the urge to chase a deer because what dog can resist such a delightful scent. And deer seem to live in our driveway at times. Then there are the rabbits. I believe I must have more rabbits living next to me than most people. There seems to be an unending supply even when tragedy strikes, as it did last spring when some of the dogs discovered some very young baby rabbits and, shall we say, “dispatched them”. This would not have been so bad if some of my grandchildren had not been right there to witness the event. Nature can be pretty unforgiving, and not every baby animal makes it to adulthood. This is a lesson we 21st century people sometimes forget.
Blacksnakes also live here, though I rarely see one. My dogs let me know when there is one nearby. Today a pair of geese flew overhead, but so close to the ground I thought they might be about to land in my pool where I was swimming at the time. I am lucky enough to have a swimming pool. (some people think that is such a nuisance that they have buried theirs.) Every morning when I swim my laps I spend the time being grateful I am grateful for the privacy that allows me to swim without bothering to wear a suit. I am grateful for my geraniums some of which I have had indoors and out for several years. I am grateful for the blue of the sky and fantastic cloud formations. Sometimes I try to read a story or some meaning into the shape of the clouds. Always I thank my Higher Power, God or Goddess, my spirit guides and my ancestors for allowing me this wonderful time in my life.
A few minutes ago I heard a strange clucking sound some distance from my house. The dogs perked up and all rushed outside. I was on the phone so I was not paying much attention to what went on. A little while later, my own sweet loving little Jack Russell, Lord Byron, scurried into my kitchen and went to lie down in a basket near the air conditioning vent. This was not unusual so I did not go over to look at him. But there was just a feeling of “silence” surrounding him and I decided to take a look. There he was with a baby goose in his mouth. He looked up at me as if to say, “This is mine. I caught it and I am going to take my own sweet time in eating this dead thing.” I sighed. I told you nature is brutal. What am I supposed to do about this? He is a dog. He does not understand our human horror of killing things, especially baby animals or birds.
So I did not take the little body away from him but let him keep it. And I went back to typing about my life as a dog keeper. There is nothing I can do to undue what has been done. In the great scheme of things, I suppose it could have been worse. As I write peace reins and everyone of the 7 dogs is sleeping. They must be dreaming of more days in the sun, more meals of dogfood and the occasional wild kill. They are my friends, sometimes my protectors and my constant companions, at least till their respective owners come home.
Do you have a pet? Do you think I was wrong to let my dog have his kill? Do you think I am crazy to keep so many dogs for my adult children? Let me know your thoughts.
You need to know that the current health care system is designed to create fear.
The illusion that is being created is that it is being done for public safety, and the enforcement mechanism is a government-backed police force. Tragically, many legitimate objections to violations of your health freedoms are overpowered in the name of national security.
Of course our current system has enormous benefit and value in the treatment of acute medical emergencies that require the use of trauma centers, skilled surgeons, and intensive care units to help repair and heal us when we are injured. But when this acute care system is applied to chronic degenerative health conditions that compromise more than 95% of the health problems, it becomes a miserable failure.
We have a miserable failure. And the average American’s health reflects that miserable failure.
But it’s not a failure for the food and drug industries.
It is a stroke of genius for the drug and food industry who distort the evidence to convince you that it is perfectly logical to use the highly effective acute trauma approach for chronic health conditions. Successful implementation of this major philosophical shift allows them to create windfall profits.
The drug industries have traditionally been one of the most profitable industries on the planet, generating hundreds of billions of dollars in profit annually.
This enormous amount of capital has created the largest legislative lobbying influence in Congress. That drug lobby has been able to manipulate U.S. laws to maintain a system that perpetuates their influence through tax breaks, a weakened regulatory system with the FDA, and loosened marketing restrictions that allow them to target their message to ever-growing segments of the population.
Drug and Food Industry are the Problem, Not the Solution
Are You Surprised By the Following Facts About Americans?
- Two out three are overweight
- One of three has either diabetes or pre-diabetes
- Cancer is now the number one cause of death
If you are surprised then the following facts help to explain these statistics:
- 90% of the money Americans spend on food is for processed foods
- The number one source of calories in America is the sugar in sodas
- In a typical year the average Americans consumes:
- Over 56 gallons of soda a year
- 150 hamburgers
- 200 orders of fries
Selecting the right foods to nourish you, and avoiding the toxic poisons that are loaded in commercially processed foods, are two of the most important choices you can make to allow your body to repair the inevitable damage that you encounter at some point from merely being alive.
However, most of you are exchanging convenience for your health. While it is an easy choice for most to make, it is of course regularly encouraged and facilitated by the very industries that provide these “convenience” options.
Masterful Manipulation by the Media
Have you ever had that nagging feeling that all those drug commercials you see on TV and read in the magazines may not be the best solution for your health challenges?
Did you know that the US is only one of two countries in the world that allows drug companies to advertise prescription drugs to the public? (The other is New Zealand and they may change that soon)
It is vitally important for you to understand that these industries have conspired to deceive you with their army of evil marketing geniuses, and controlling the media is one of their most effective strategies.
The drug industry is spending over three billion dollars every year to market their products directly to you as consumers. This masterful manipulation of the media creates fear to motivate you to choose their expensive and self-serving (and health-destructive) solutions.
Consider the massive propaganda campaigns regarding the bird-flu hoax and the swine-flu hoax. Millions were supposed to die from each of these, and despite refusing their “cure”, it never occurred. Consider the Vioxx scandal that killed over 60,000. Consider the lies told to the public about fats and cholesterol to make hundreds of millions on cholesterol lowering drugs. The examples are nearly endless. These types of intentional psychological manipulations and distortions of the truth have allowed them to effectively convince most of the population to rely on their expensive, short sighted, misguided, ineffective and false solutions for health challenges.
In the end, nearly everything you think you know about health is FALSE!
But thanks to the internet, communication of the truth has become much easier then ever before. I spend lots of time perusing, reading, learning and sharing what I can. One of my favorite internet sites is www.mercola.com In fact, much of this information today came from his site.
I encourage you to re-think all that you think you may know about health, since much of it has been given to you to cause you to act out of fear, and was designed to seperate you from both your health and your money.
The above information taken directly from the Blog of Brad Pennington D.C.
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Everything in the above article is worth thinking about. Do your own research. Do not believe everything your doctor tells you. And especially DO NOT believe everything you see on Television about drugs that are supposed to help you. Listen to the side effects. Pay attention to what they are saying about what these “helpful” drugs can do to you.
I always tell people not to take a drug that has more side effects than their disease has symptoms.
Your health is in YOUR hands. Don’t give it over to people who are trying to make money from you. You may have to make some tough choices when it comes to diet and exercise. Is your health worth these? I bet it is.
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