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Reply to: What dry dog and cat food would you recommend? Posted March 14, 2023

She hasn’t reached the end of her life. Most cats die of cancer or kidney failure, many of diabetes. Kidney failure and diabetes in cats, now so common, were almost unknown before dry food. Dry food usually has less protein than they need, and is very high in carbs, which they don’t need, and which breaks down into sugars. It is also dry, depriving the cats of the high water content of raw meat. They will not drink enough water to make up for it. You have to do what you can. If he won’t eat canned food, he won’t. Our previous cat developed kidney failure at the age of eighteen. I gave him sub-cutaneous fluid infusions with a needle and Ringer’s lactate for the last three years of his life. It gave him deveral more happy years before his creatinine got out of control and he developed an inoperable oral tumor, so the vet came here to put him to sleep. Drs. Lisa Pierson and Elizabeth Hodgkins say cats do not go into kidney failure if they never get dry food. I know cats are all different. We took in a little abandoned kitten a year and a half ago, anout six weeks old. I bought queen’s milk to give her as well as canned food, but it caused diarrhea every time I gave it to her. And even when I didn’t. She had a coccidia infection, but Albon did nothing for it. I googled it and asked for Marquis paste, which the vet let me order from a compounding pharmacy. It was miraculous, stopped the diarrhea right away, but it was not the treatment my vet thought was usually effective.

Reply to: What dry dog and cat food would you recommend? Posted March 13, 2023

We give our dog Nature’s Logic and Taste of the Wild Ancient Grains. She likes TotW better. She’d eaten original TotW all her life, but I was shocked a couple of years ago to read that it had caused cardiomyopathy and death in many dogs, apparently because of the beans and legumes in it. They started the Ancient Grains line without beans or lentils to address the problem. Both brands stay good forever, I just close them with a twist-tie. It’s healthier not to give a cat dry food, even if it didn’t have grains. Cats are obligate carnivores and giving them the usual dry food floods their system with carbs which break down into sugars and eventually cause kidney failure or diabetes. It also keeps them from getting enough water. They won’t drink enough to make up for the water they’re not getting by eating dry food. Catinfo.org has a lot of information on this.

Reply to: News for week of 2023-01-23 (all current event convos go here). Posted February 28, 2023

I just saw this: https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/27/17/5405

Reply to: News for week of 2023-01-23 (all current event convos go here). Posted February 25, 2023

https://www.webmd.com/covid/news/20221207/microclots-may-explain-long-covid-symptoms i’ll put up Pretorius’ study next. The article above references Hannah Davis and shows the microclots in her blood test, discusses the concepts.

Reply to: News for week of 2023-01-23 (all current event convos go here). Posted February 25, 2023

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1205453/v1 Pretorius and Kell, South Africa

Reply to: News for week of 2023-01-23 (all current event convos go here). Posted February 25, 2023

https://medhelpclinics.com/post/long-covid-treatment-news-2022-09-09 Good discussion, several studies at end.

Reply to: News for week of 2023-01-23 (all current event convos go here). Posted February 25, 2023

One of many comments on Twitter and Reddit by people with long Covid discussing dosage of nattokinase, with testimonials of how well it’s working for them. https://twitter.com/montnicole/status/1586536070526619648?s=12&t=_HSMZwoafmlVg8lgQbLHjw i’ve been in extremely bad shape for three years now with breathlessness at any movement at all, gasping for breath, constantly exhausted beyond words. I’ve taken one 400 IU capsule of nattokinase four mornings this week, and I’m feeling a lot better, more alive, as though I have a future. I don’t know if it will continue or if I’ll get well, but this is hopeful.

Reply to: News for week of 2023-01-23 (all current event convos go here). Posted February 23, 2023

High doses of the enzymes nattokinase and serrapeptase are helping a lot of people. I’m following the Twitter account of Hannah Davis on her research into treatment of long Covid. Study by Pretorius. A blood test for microclots blocking oxygen from getting to capillaries is available in some countries, but difficult to get in the US.

Reply to: Would you like to make your own chicken coop? Posted August 1, 2022

I thought about it, but no. Chickens need a lot of space to be healthy and happy. Seven square feet of run each for average size, fifteen each for large. Five square feet of coop space each, with a nesting box for every two. Chicken wire or similar buried a foot deep around the perimeter to deter digging predators. A cover for the run to deter hawks. You have to put them in the coop at night and fasten a lock strong and sophisticated enough that raccoons can’t open it. Make sure there’s no way raccoons can enlarge and get in through the tiniest space. In hot summers, you’d probably need to provide air conditioning in the coop, and heating on the coldest winter days. Do you have someone who would feed the chickens and clean the coop if you go on vacation or out of town? Too hard for me. It would always be cheaper to buy eggs at the store.

Reply to: How to survive this nasty heat wave of 110+ degrees Posted June 17, 2022

I use these:

Reply to: What does prepping look like in your area of the world? Posted May 30, 2022

I have it and I also would take it in the case of a nuclear explosion. I took it for several days at the time of Fukushima in 2011 and had no reaction.

Reply to: How to survive an active shooter Posted May 28, 2022

I thought your comments were good, detailed and well thought-out!

Reply to: How to survive an active shooter Posted May 28, 2022

You too!

Reply to: How to survive an active shooter Posted May 28, 2022

Excellent points! There seems to be no explanation for the at least five or six widely-reported crucial events which within days were reported to have been false. Even the governor Abbott said yesterday that he had been operating in the belief that some of these reports were true, and he is angry now that their apparent falsity has been revealed. Someone must have deliberately invented and disseminated these false reports. I have not read of any attempts to figure out who and why. That should surely be something we should try to ascertain.

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