Green tripe

Chris sent the following, along with this article:

A local holistic pet store, Pawsitive Karma carries “Green Tripe.”  This article is on the Green Tripe website. They report more robust litters, improved health, resistance to fleas, etc.  They say green tripe has been used in Europe for years, especially by oldtime breeders. 

Interesting!!

So, after reading ‘this article’, I did a little investigating. One of the products I feed is Oma’s Pride, especially their meatloafs. I belong to co-op and The Leader of Our Pack places an order monthly. Besides my usual order, I experiment and add something new or unusual to my order. A while back it was Performance Dog. My dogs loved it, but it smelled like something dead!! Guess what? It contains tripe! It does come freeze-dried, so maybe I’ll give that a try instead. If it lives up to the testimonials – or rather the tripe-a-monials – clean teeth on all the dogs might be worth the smell!

Epigenome

The following is taken from a private post to a fellow breeder and I’m using it as an intro for a post I’ve had sitting, unpublished.

The RD test… Genetics… It’s all fascinating and the more I learn, the less I know! Have you heard of the epigenome? Nova featured a piece on identical twins and how useful they are to researchers. Same DNA, but often one will manifest a disease and the other doesn’t. Why was the subject of the piece. There were also mice that were littermates; clones actually. I think some were knock-out mice. That’s when researchers actually remove gene/s.. Anyway, it was amazing. The epigenome spirals around the DNA and regulates it with tags, telling the DNA to be a heart cell, etc. or to turn off or on and other things I probably didn’t catch. The epigenome is directly affected by nutrition, environmental factors (and surely hormones, etc. that continually flow through our bodies). And the epigenome is hereditary, including the changes! Wow! Consider that!

Defintion of epigenome

Whew! Your DNA Isn’t Your Destiny

Armchair Travel to the Himalayas

Chris sent this link and I thought some of you might enjoy a cybertrip to the Himalayas. For a complete journey, visit all three parts!

To start, click this photo of the Himalayas from Likir gompa…

Our Precious Pets

Under Marley and Me, Gail had commented on a book, “I found an amazing book by Ann Wigmore, the living foods advocate who started the Hippocrates Institute in Boston..and started reading it….It is just a gem….even has living foods recipes for pets at the end of the book….and talks about vaccines!! Amazing when you start searching for answers….was thinking of you Katy and Ken…!!! It is called “Our Precious Pets”, National Humane League, Inc. 1987…happened to find it online..what a find!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Read about Dr. Ann Wigmore 

Gail sent the following about ordering this out-of-print book, “Our Precious Pets”: http://www.sunfood.com/Products/0298.html Book: “Our Precious Pets”  by Ann WigmoreList Price: $9.95
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(198 pages, 1987, softcover) — The best “pet-care book” ever written. Long-thought to be out-of-print until recently resurrected by Nature’s First Law, this book contains Dr. Ann Wigmore’s amazing advice on alternative pet care and her collection of startling, yet true animal stories.Contents include: Care of Pets * Pets Can Help You Get Healthier * Listening To Your Pet * What To Do When Your Pet Is Sick * Pure Food Law For Animals * Feeding Your Pets * Recipes For Dogs & Cats.

Science of Vaccine Damage

Here’s the latest article I’ve added to the website:

Science of Vaccine Damage