Depending on where you live, your car if of a certain age has to go through an MOT or NCT or if you have a commercial vehicle then a DOE.
Likewise, the older in years us humans get, the more likely we are to go to our GP and have a yearly check up, to make sure all our working parts are in order, and that our general health is to be what is expected.
The question is then, how many of us take our dogs to the veterinary surgery, when there are absolutely no signs of anything wrong ?
Well we went down this road for the first time last week. Danno, one of our home bred Standard Smooth Dachshunds, who will be 4 in august, suffered an auto immune attack on his system last year. It was terribly frightening, as the options for treating the same were limited. We could have dosed him with strong steroids to suppress the symptoms, but instead finally went the homeopathic route which at the time, many people thought we were mad in doing so.
At the same time we were advised to strengthen his immune system, and one of the best ways we learned in how to do this was change his diet. We switched him from a very good commercial food to the BARF diet. Like placing all our trust in homeopathy, we were now going against everything we had read or been advised about feeding a well balanced commercial food that was developed by people that knew what they were doing, ensuring that our dogs feeding requirements were met 100%.
Now WE had taken on this task.
Like all things in life, it’s easy to sit and think about things, and never do anything about it. I equate it to standing at the open door of an airborne aircraft, with a parachute on your back. The hardest thing is to make the jump, but once you do that, you will do everything in your power to make sure the parachute opens in time.
Thankfully for us it looks like the parachute has opened, as Danno hasn’t had any further set backs, and in fact is in fine fettle. Not to leave it there though, nearly a year after making the big move, we wanted to be reassured that we were going about things the right way, and arranged for some blood work to be done.
The results confirmed our thoughts, that everything is as it should be, for a small, healthy, male entire dog such as Danno.
Maybe I’ll attach a tax disc holder to his collar to let everybody he comes into contact with know that he passed his doggie NCT with flying colours !
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