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Raw Feeding Veterinary Society Conference
London, 21 November 2015
Following the three times over-subscribed inaugural conference near Chippenham in March this year, the RFVS is organising something similar, if bigger, in a London Hotel the 21 November this year. Two conferences in one year! Unprecedented, but so is the interest in raw food, natural feeding and why processed foods high in soluble carbohydrate are so detrimental. See our speaker/lecture line-up below.
The venue is the Kensington Close Hotel, London W8 5SP. Special rates are available there, but we’ve been told much cheaper (£40- 50/night?) is available close by. We’ve chosen the 21 November as it’s the day after the London Vet Show. Kensington Close is 1.2 miles from Olympia.
All vets and vet nurses are welcome. Cost is £100 including lunch and refreshments.
Speakers we’ve secured so far:
Dr. Chris Furley, UK. Specialist in Zoo and Wildlife Medicine.
How to Feed a Carnivore
Dr. Lyn Thomson BVSC, DipHom and Assoc.Member of ACNEM (Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine), New Zealand. Veterinary Founder and Director of Raw Essentials: Eight Pioneering Raw Food Stores in the North Island of New Zeeland.
2 sessions: Raw Feeding in New Zeeland (and the world) AND Raw Food Therapeutics.
Anna Hielm-Björkman, DVM, PhD, CVA (IVAS), Finland. Assistant Professor (Osteoarthritis research and treatment, Chronic pain evaluation and treatment, Canine nutrition, Complementary veterinary medicine). Raw Food – Current and Future Research
Dr Isla Fishburn, UK. Kachina Canine Communication PhD, MBiolSci, BSc, INTODogs, Dog Welfare Alliance Panel Expert. How Wolves Feed in the Wild: Part II
Jonathan Self, UK. Author and Journalist, Co- founder of Honey’s Raw Dog Food. Reflections on the Raw Food Industry in 2015
My cushion – Edward De Beukelaer
A nine-year-old spayed female Chihuahua called Tina was seen in 2013. She belongs to one of the nurses and she was always the one dog. Now the nurse is married and she has a baby. Tina growls at the child, since it has started moving around in the flat. It appears serious: the nurse is worried she may bite the child one day and that she has to go.
She had her as a pup. When the nurse left her home, the family wanted her to go away with the dog. She would growl at everybody when she sat on the nurse’s lap. She would even growl at the mother, she normally loved. In 2009 the nurse acquired a second dog: a pug-nutter. She tries to play with Tina but Tina does not want to know. The pug does not care about the growling and snapping Tina does. She watches the owner when she is dealing with her baby. She cannot stand the baby. She is jealous.
She is frightened of us in the surgery (I have emptied her anal glands a few times). She may snap, when I do this. She rushes away and wants to go back to her sofa upstairs. She was always treated as a little princess. She is not interested in much apart from making sure, she has her cushion on the sofa. She will growl at the husband as well, he leaves her alone. She is hardy interested in walking. She is a bit podgy.
Because of the image of this princess 'I want the best for me only', I was painted, I gave her Platina 200 two doses. She gets a bit better but it does not hold, and a repeat dose makes no difference.
After asking a bit more, I realise, what Tina is really doing is protecting her safe place, her home, her spot on the sofa. It is not really jealousy (that was what everybody thought); it was about keeping to herself, what she always had had. Together with the major picture of general immobility, it becomes clear the remedy is Bryonia. One dose in 1M and over the next weeks the growling stops. Bit by bit the child and Tina can build a little relationship, Tina will take treats of her now. A year later things are still well. The owner is not worried at all anymore about leaving her daughter with Tina. There is more growling.
In 2014, the owner is worried because Tina is getting older. She does not want to go out and cannot get down the stairs anymore. She is reluctant to go for a walk. One dose of Bryonia 1M and a few days later she is up and down the steps, as she used to and back to her normal self. Of course this means she is more with the family than just on her little cushion on the sofa. Mid 2015 and she is still doing very well.
A short sentence to understand Bryonia: He does not move to preserve, what he has and hangs on to the security and provisions, he has.
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