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President’s letter
by Jane Keogh
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.
The year has turned and the days are increasingly shorter and colder. The shortest day approaches, but before the days start to lengthen again we will experience the deep chill of Winter – a time to light the fire and contemplate both the year past and then year to come.
Our past year has been highlighted by both our Spring meeting in March, which looks set to be a regular feature in the calendar now – details will be posted on the BAHVS website for the 2016 meeting, so keep an eye out for that – and of course our hugely successful conference in Dublin in September. Sadly I was unable to attend, but the write-up elsewhere in the Mag will detail, what a great weekend it was. Next year's Conference is to be held in Bath, again watch the website for more details.
With eight new members joining our association we can view the year to come with optimism and hopefully look forward to continued growth. A big welcome to Sally Ryan, Vicky Simons, Marianne Kjelgaard-Hansen, Nini Skaerlund Kristensen, Katrine Boel, Rikke Mark Schultz, Birgit
that Pete is a great choice to take this role on and carry it into the future – Veterinary Homeopathy is in safe hands!
Whilst mentioning Chris Day, most
of you will be aware that Chris
suffered a cardiac arrest in April
and we are very lucky to have him
with us still. Far from succumbing,
Chris has gone from strength to
strength and is making a remarkable recovery – we continue to send our very best wishes to him and his wife Sheila and look forward to Chris's contributions in 2016.
It may seem early to mention this, but time has a habit of passing quickly, and Spring will be here before we know it. Homeopathy Awareness Week (HAW) 2016 has been brought forward to 10 –16 April from June. This is to celebrate Hahnemann's birthday alongside World Homeopathy Awareness Week (HAW) and the international community. I would urge all those in a position to do so to take advantage of material provided by the Faculty and 4 Homeopathy to spread the word about homeopathy to a wider public. It still amazes me, how many people are surprised at the concept of homeopathy for animals.
HAW 2016 will be supported by Neal’s Yard, who will be featuring posters and information in their shops nation-wide. Take advantage of the publicity to spread the word to all your clients in general practice.
It only remains for me to wish you all a peaceful and very happy Christmas and Solstice and to hope for a bright and magical New Year for us all.
Ex IAVH President Peter Gregory has taken up the post of Veterinary Dean at the Faculty
Brunsberg and Morten Riis.
An additional hugely positive happening this year is Peter Gregory taking up the post of Veterinary Dean at the Faculty of Homeopathy. Chris Day has done the most amazing job in this role for many years, and I would like to extend grateful thanks from all of us for the work, he has done over that time for all of us. There is no doubt
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