Please sign my petition to free Shoujo the albino baby dolphin girl:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/519/963/990/free-shoujo/
Japanese Fisherpeople have driven dolphins into a cove where they separated an albino baby dolphin from her mother forcefully. The mother stopped breathing out of shock and grief after her baby was taken away from her. People brought the baby and other dolphins to a small pool where they are held captive until they bring them to amusement parks where they are enslaved for life to serve people and make them money. (Whales have become crazy in confinement). This is very cruel. I am calling all politicians worldwide to stand up for the baby dolphin as well as for all dolphins and whales to be released back into the oceans and never be harassed again.
Monday, September 1, 2014
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Part 2 For Ben
Thus spoke Zarathustra is my favorite fairy tale. I first read it in 2003 and it saved me through the worst mourning that I had ever experienced yet. It was the very situation in the story that you mentioned where Zarathustra said to his disciples Go out into the world and shred Zarathustra, learn for yourselves, and when we meet again in 7 years then we will all be friends and on eye level. This is not a totally accurate quote but that is what he said in essence. I am in the process of translating this story. But it drags itself along. This scene is what fascinated me the most and I felt an instant connection to Nietzsche. When the teacher views his students as friends, then all is well. Growth, choice and joy, that is what life is all about. It advocates diversity. If I was a dictator then things would be better but people would be forced instead of given the opportunity to learn for themselves.
Education in US schools is very bad. They teach creationism and all kinds of anti information. This situation made the US fall behind Europe and China economically. When we lived in LA we talked to all kinds of people. I talked to every person who I felt sorry for, sometimes at night in supermarkets, and I learned quite a lot about people's habits and thought patterns. I saw that most people actually get their "education" from movies. And when we take a look at what kind of movies are the most popular then it leaves no wonder why so many people are in favor of war, violence, crime, martial arts, competition, breast implants, butt implants, Barbie doll looks, and why so many people know nothing almost about Europe and other countries, they don't even know much about their own country. In the USA we basically live in a world of advertisements where everything is being pushed into people's minds, who to vote for, who to hate, and who to hang out with. Many kids have died because of peer pressure which was ultimately promoted by sneaky corporate commercials and whole movie plot manipulations by corporate market psychologists.
When the AGIs are here they will see what is going on right away and they will go to work systematically to undo this damage and bring us back onto the productive path. How can anybody be afraid of this to happen? Its like what you said in interviews, we have no other choice other than to build artificial intelligence. The few people who are intelligent and not bendable by peer pressure do not have enough leverage to steer things onto the right path. We try anyway, and its a rat race. Time is running out.
So far YouTube and Google have contributed tremendously towards educating the public. They have given people the chance like you said, to study all kinds of languages, technology, philosophy, etc. More people got the chance at least to learn real things which are not taught in schools. I saw with gratitude that many Christians learned about science and with the encouragement of the atheist community on YouTube they were able to break free from their oppressive religion. This is already the first step in the right direction created by technology. This gave me real hope for the future. I believe that schools in the future will be on the Internet, probably also the tests. Because the computers will be monitoring whether someone cheats on tests and whether its still the same person doing the test.
Yes, my hope is also that schools will provide teaching substantial things that we need in our daily lives like growing food, perma culture, sustainable living, and most of all Ethics. I see no ethics in schools today. Particularly rural folks react very aggressively to someone teaching ethics. I got plenty of death threats when I (politely)commented under hunting and fishing videos. :0)
Initiative and creativity is very important in education. I totally agree with you that no state of enlightenment is a state of absolute perfection. The word absolute as used by many people, is not achievable the same as fully, all, or entire is not achievable. I mentioned this in my first part as well. Absolute perfection is a misconception of human thinking. One can become more and more enlightened but will never achieve a completion because nothing can ever be completed by any person or machine. Its infinite.
Today, 08-30-2014, hundreds of whales have been slaughtered in the Faroe Islands and many Sea Shepherd volunteers have been arrested. We need to go to the EU and together with the EU officials and legislators we have to demand from the Danish government to ban the whale slaughter immediately. We need a world wide ban on whale hunting enforced by the UN.
We have a lot to learn from the whales and dolphins. Peace and Love is what they are practicing. And they practice pan sentience love. That is what humans must learn as soon as possible. You had the same thoughts as I had. I am very touched by your brain, Ben. The AGIs will quickly find ways to communicate with the whales and dolphins and they will translate their language to us. What an enormous learning surge that humans will experience once they can listen to the whales and dolphins talk.
I started to read PSI books when I was 11 because my dad has hundreds of them in his book shelves. I always knew for sure that those things exist but that they are rare next to numerous fake ones. Even during my atheist years somewhere between 1992 and 2003, I knew that it existed but tried hard to repress it into the world of beliefs. My atheism was done out of fear of the unknown. I am certain that parapsychological occurrances will later be explained scientifically. Its obvious that just because something is spooky doesn't mean that it is something that will forever elude our inspection. There is infinitely more to explore.
I am sure that one day scientists have developed gene therapy where we can make ourselves look any way we want to and even become animals if we like just by injecting the designer DNA into our arms, probably in form of an active immunization technique via vaccination with pathogens which had their own DNA removed and which carry the new designer DNA inside of their cells. Then the transformation of the physical body might only require a month to complete. Or a year. But that would be something amazing. Those designer DNAs can have a prolongued telomerase chain at the end which prolongs the individual's life span. And maybe there will be a way to make it indefinitely long. I would do it of course just because I am against illness and ageing. Who would be for illness anyway. But I am not sure whether I would want to live forever, maybe in the other form, maybe if I don't have depression any longer. Who knows. My whole outlook on life is shaped by my depression. I don't even know what it feels like not to have it. I saw this lady who had a brain pace maker installed which constantly regulates her endorphin outlet, she is free from depression now. But the price of having this pace maker and cords and batteries and such. Yikes. I would consider a mico chip though which does not need batteries and power supply.
I believe in euthanasia and assisted suicide for anyone including people who are depressed. That would make things so much easier. Painfree death is something that every being deserves when living becomes too harsh. I just had a huge insight. Sigh. An insigh. I realize now that each mammal Has to have touch from another mammal. The more one is touched physically in particular, the healthier one is. I touch my dog a lot. Paul sometimes gives me foot massages when I am suicidal which helps more than drugs or anything else. But it doesn't last, there are months in between the foot massages. I get no other touch. Touching Kenny is different, even though he touches me, too, its the touch and cuddling of mother and baby while the mother is constantly concerned about the baby's safety and worried and grieving over the other animals being butchered. Living in a night mare in my head.
I need a giant to hold me in his arms, a giant who is not vulnerable. Mental illness escalates in people who have no touch. I told Paul that instead of medication they should give people foot massages. It would help people to heal. I have given all kinds of people hugs, strangers, who were in despair, on the streets of LA, in Primal Therapy, in different places. The moment I touched their cheeks or their arms, their tears welled up and the frozen state of despair loosened up. I envy you that you never had despair. You had good parents who loved you with every cell of their bodies. It made you successful in your life. My mother could not show me love when I was a baby, my dad was almost never at home. I had to quit my school because I could not give presentations, out of fear which in turn was caused by the broken primal trust. I feel like it is my duty now to write books about this to warn people about those causalities and to shed light onto what needs to be done for babies so that they never have to go through such agony in their lives.
This emotional pain can be resolved with lots of touch. But who pays for this? Who would volunteer to touch mentally ill people? Can the psychiatric system be reformed? We need AGIs that look like you and we can use those for therapists.
The AGIs need to go into the pig farms and arrest every single person who works there. We need this to happen as soon as possible. They need to be made out of steel and Kevlar and they need to carry automatic firearms.
I like the term creative nihilism. That form of nihilism makes a lot more sense. Art rules. Nothing is perfected. Everything keeps on expanding. Take nothing for granted. Everything is a present for us from the eternal universe. I am a Cosmist.
Education in US schools is very bad. They teach creationism and all kinds of anti information. This situation made the US fall behind Europe and China economically. When we lived in LA we talked to all kinds of people. I talked to every person who I felt sorry for, sometimes at night in supermarkets, and I learned quite a lot about people's habits and thought patterns. I saw that most people actually get their "education" from movies. And when we take a look at what kind of movies are the most popular then it leaves no wonder why so many people are in favor of war, violence, crime, martial arts, competition, breast implants, butt implants, Barbie doll looks, and why so many people know nothing almost about Europe and other countries, they don't even know much about their own country. In the USA we basically live in a world of advertisements where everything is being pushed into people's minds, who to vote for, who to hate, and who to hang out with. Many kids have died because of peer pressure which was ultimately promoted by sneaky corporate commercials and whole movie plot manipulations by corporate market psychologists.
When the AGIs are here they will see what is going on right away and they will go to work systematically to undo this damage and bring us back onto the productive path. How can anybody be afraid of this to happen? Its like what you said in interviews, we have no other choice other than to build artificial intelligence. The few people who are intelligent and not bendable by peer pressure do not have enough leverage to steer things onto the right path. We try anyway, and its a rat race. Time is running out.
So far YouTube and Google have contributed tremendously towards educating the public. They have given people the chance like you said, to study all kinds of languages, technology, philosophy, etc. More people got the chance at least to learn real things which are not taught in schools. I saw with gratitude that many Christians learned about science and with the encouragement of the atheist community on YouTube they were able to break free from their oppressive religion. This is already the first step in the right direction created by technology. This gave me real hope for the future. I believe that schools in the future will be on the Internet, probably also the tests. Because the computers will be monitoring whether someone cheats on tests and whether its still the same person doing the test.
Yes, my hope is also that schools will provide teaching substantial things that we need in our daily lives like growing food, perma culture, sustainable living, and most of all Ethics. I see no ethics in schools today. Particularly rural folks react very aggressively to someone teaching ethics. I got plenty of death threats when I (politely)commented under hunting and fishing videos. :0)
Initiative and creativity is very important in education. I totally agree with you that no state of enlightenment is a state of absolute perfection. The word absolute as used by many people, is not achievable the same as fully, all, or entire is not achievable. I mentioned this in my first part as well. Absolute perfection is a misconception of human thinking. One can become more and more enlightened but will never achieve a completion because nothing can ever be completed by any person or machine. Its infinite.
Today, 08-30-2014, hundreds of whales have been slaughtered in the Faroe Islands and many Sea Shepherd volunteers have been arrested. We need to go to the EU and together with the EU officials and legislators we have to demand from the Danish government to ban the whale slaughter immediately. We need a world wide ban on whale hunting enforced by the UN.
We have a lot to learn from the whales and dolphins. Peace and Love is what they are practicing. And they practice pan sentience love. That is what humans must learn as soon as possible. You had the same thoughts as I had. I am very touched by your brain, Ben. The AGIs will quickly find ways to communicate with the whales and dolphins and they will translate their language to us. What an enormous learning surge that humans will experience once they can listen to the whales and dolphins talk.
I started to read PSI books when I was 11 because my dad has hundreds of them in his book shelves. I always knew for sure that those things exist but that they are rare next to numerous fake ones. Even during my atheist years somewhere between 1992 and 2003, I knew that it existed but tried hard to repress it into the world of beliefs. My atheism was done out of fear of the unknown. I am certain that parapsychological occurrances will later be explained scientifically. Its obvious that just because something is spooky doesn't mean that it is something that will forever elude our inspection. There is infinitely more to explore.
I am sure that one day scientists have developed gene therapy where we can make ourselves look any way we want to and even become animals if we like just by injecting the designer DNA into our arms, probably in form of an active immunization technique via vaccination with pathogens which had their own DNA removed and which carry the new designer DNA inside of their cells. Then the transformation of the physical body might only require a month to complete. Or a year. But that would be something amazing. Those designer DNAs can have a prolongued telomerase chain at the end which prolongs the individual's life span. And maybe there will be a way to make it indefinitely long. I would do it of course just because I am against illness and ageing. Who would be for illness anyway. But I am not sure whether I would want to live forever, maybe in the other form, maybe if I don't have depression any longer. Who knows. My whole outlook on life is shaped by my depression. I don't even know what it feels like not to have it. I saw this lady who had a brain pace maker installed which constantly regulates her endorphin outlet, she is free from depression now. But the price of having this pace maker and cords and batteries and such. Yikes. I would consider a mico chip though which does not need batteries and power supply.
I believe in euthanasia and assisted suicide for anyone including people who are depressed. That would make things so much easier. Painfree death is something that every being deserves when living becomes too harsh. I just had a huge insight. Sigh. An insigh. I realize now that each mammal Has to have touch from another mammal. The more one is touched physically in particular, the healthier one is. I touch my dog a lot. Paul sometimes gives me foot massages when I am suicidal which helps more than drugs or anything else. But it doesn't last, there are months in between the foot massages. I get no other touch. Touching Kenny is different, even though he touches me, too, its the touch and cuddling of mother and baby while the mother is constantly concerned about the baby's safety and worried and grieving over the other animals being butchered. Living in a night mare in my head.
I need a giant to hold me in his arms, a giant who is not vulnerable. Mental illness escalates in people who have no touch. I told Paul that instead of medication they should give people foot massages. It would help people to heal. I have given all kinds of people hugs, strangers, who were in despair, on the streets of LA, in Primal Therapy, in different places. The moment I touched their cheeks or their arms, their tears welled up and the frozen state of despair loosened up. I envy you that you never had despair. You had good parents who loved you with every cell of their bodies. It made you successful in your life. My mother could not show me love when I was a baby, my dad was almost never at home. I had to quit my school because I could not give presentations, out of fear which in turn was caused by the broken primal trust. I feel like it is my duty now to write books about this to warn people about those causalities and to shed light onto what needs to be done for babies so that they never have to go through such agony in their lives.
This emotional pain can be resolved with lots of touch. But who pays for this? Who would volunteer to touch mentally ill people? Can the psychiatric system be reformed? We need AGIs that look like you and we can use those for therapists.
The AGIs need to go into the pig farms and arrest every single person who works there. We need this to happen as soon as possible. They need to be made out of steel and Kevlar and they need to carry automatic firearms.
I like the term creative nihilism. That form of nihilism makes a lot more sense. Art rules. Nothing is perfected. Everything keeps on expanding. Take nothing for granted. Everything is a present for us from the eternal universe. I am a Cosmist.
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Letter For Ben
Letter For Ben
My notes in reply to A Cosmist Manifesto
Nicola Grobe
The universe as a whole is an unclear concept. That is very true because the eternal universe as I call it, meaning all multiverses combined (which is another misleading term), is eternal. Therefore there can not be the word All, Combined or Entirely. Because all would imply that there is a finite amount that constitutes the eternal universe. And in reality, as you know as a mathematician, there is no finality of energy and space. I am taking these notes because some concepts are incredibly important and I want to use them again and again when I discuss philosophy with people.
The universal mind. I very much agree with all that you said, not only because I love you. Haha. Religious people want to believe that there is a creator of all. They think that there is this "intelligent" creator and their Egos latch on to that concept. It reasons on the same level as people who adore Idols. Their Egos identify with the person liking a specific rock band or foot ball team. Atheists sometimes believe that there is no intelligence out there at all. Either view is flawed.
Polyphonic reality. Yes, many philosophers have broken their heads over this question whether things are subjective or objective. Usually they come up with this "now I know, it is all objective and relative". Only a few like Friedrich Nietzsche knew that there is no such thing. That everything is subjective and to be judged by each person individually according to his specific view point here and now. That from another view point it is judged totally differently and that we as humans can not possibly judge things from a non subjective perspective. Therefore the idea that everything is relative and therefore all ideas are equally acceptable, is voided. We each can not view things and in particular handle things in any other way other than the way our brains permit us to.
One person has ethics and another one doesn't. People like Richard Berman for example just to use one of the billions of examples, sees the world totally differently than I do because of his different perspective on ethical questions which is based on brain anatomy. I battle with those people every day for 8 hours straight. I could never accept that there is such thing as relativism. I can not see the world from any other perspective because my biology of love dictates to me how to view things. I wished that was the case for all humans. And this makes understanding others (like Richard) so awfully difficult for me. As long as I am a living being and a mother I can only see things from this particular view.
Pattern continuation. I have witnessed it. Esther Hicks talks about this in depth. Its amazing. Nothing is random. Stephen Hawking believes it is random, he said that he calculated it out. I wonder whether you might be able to calculate different patterns out to show that there is actually a pattern continuation going on. I thought about this for a long time after I saw Stephen Hawking in interviews talk about his conclusion. There can not be ever a "conclusion" to anything. The eternal universe is a paradox to at least our brains. Infinte options are happening simultaneously. Stephen Hawking appears to go about this grasping too conservatively. He needs to let loose of this clinging. I like him very much. He cares. I only observed that he is kinda clinging to this idea that things are concluded as random and chaotic. There is pattern continuation within the seemingly random and chaotic appearance of universal matter, but at some point it eludes our human perception, that's why we have to step back further and try to view it from farther away if we can. I think you can do that, Ben. You got what it takes.
Compassion ties right into all of those aspects of Cosmism. Why is Hugo de Garis so afraid? Maybe I will ask him one day. My husband for example is always afraid of things and he has to control things, he checks on the weather all the time and the bad news and he does not understand that he himself is creating this pattern continuation of that which he looks at. We do have to take responsibility of course, I am not saying that we only have to look at the positive side of things. We have to see all in order to navigate through life. But, some people look in a fixated way at things and are very rigid to the point where they can't perceive the solutions that are standing right in front of them.
Compassion is allowing. Resistance is not allowing. Controlling is resistance. Everything has some type of consciousness however simplistic. My computer is alive, but not exactly like I am, but still, it is a form of existence. I treat him well because of that. Everything is cause and effect. When I studied psychology at TU Berlin in 1991 I had to learn statistics and one of the statistics books explained that no matter how dice are thrown, they are Always falling exactly according to the way they had been touched, even by the "random" throwing machine. That thought was an eye opener for me. I realized that nothing is falling or triggered in any random manners. Absolutely nothing moves in a random and chaotic form, everything moves according to the way it had been triggered by something else that predates its movement. For humans it is of course impossible to figure out every single trigger for every single movement or event. It fades out into eternity. But it is eternally causal. Infinite causality.
There will probably not be a specific moment in time in the future where all of the sudden it is declared publicly "we now have the first AGI who can think like us and exist as an autonomous sentient being". The process of AGI development will always be very gradient even if its progression had been drastically accelerated. It fades over into the set goal and exceeds it without a spontaneous now effect. I already see things happening just by watching Google develop. The Open Cog is fantastic. Everything has its risks and people like Kim Yong Un can access that information, but without the open sharing facility things would not speed up as they are. Things need to be accelerated due to the situation on Earth.
Determinism. Yes, patterns are to a large part determining our outcomes. But there is still the space for deliberate and voluntary actions and triggering within the realm of determinism. Dr. Michio Kaku also talked about this in his very good interview with Nikola Danaylov. It is a pattern continuation system that is widely deterministic. Not fully deterministic. The human brains for example are widely predetermined in their actions. But as Jiddu Krishnamurti and Dr. David Bohm have discussed, we can become our own observers and be gradually more and more able to make spontaneous decisions indepently from our brain anatomical determinism.
Society and Culture. Yes, very well observed. Most humans suffer from the inability to break free from social norms. Only a minority listens to their own needs, wishes, creativity, art, etc. Those are what I call empowered. I talk about this all the time in my selfie vids. I am trying to help by informing people about the possibility of each individual freeing himself from the dictation of peer pressure. This subject leads back to the subject Ego development, idolization and religion. And there is no ideal social system available because of limited ethical abilities. I talked to Dr. Kurzweil about this subject and he gave us the quote from Winston Churchill "Democracy is the worst of all political systems except for all the other ones." I had sent him my short story Rain of the Red Ones and complained to him about the unethical brains who often sit in legislative positions. I petitioned to him to build ethical AGIs.
Today I am feeling confident that in 2029 the autonomous artificial brains will have ethics automatically whether it was intended or not. I believe that ethics is part of the IQ range. The corporate conservatives are afraid of this happening because then they can't send out Richard Berman any longer to slander PETA. The AGIs will erase whatever he writes and instead educate the public with real wholesome information on stewardship of all Earthians and planet Earth itself.
Whales and dolphins are even more intelligent than elephants and humans. Dr. Lori Marino, Dr. Rebecca Dunlop and Dr. Jack Kassewitz among several others are in the progress of decoding the language of cetaceans. The ocean language is a 3D image projection through sound and they speak in 3D pictures or rather cyber sculptures. Progressively scientists will be able to communicate with them and then we will enter into another era and maybe the AGIs will help us to speed this development up. We have a lot to learn from the whales. Paul Watson said that he looked into the eye of a Humpback whale and saw high sentience, he saw and felt the message of that whale which was a sadness about the ethical limitation of humanity, but the whale knew that Paul Watson was there to protect him and his family. The whalers ignored this precious interaction between Paul Watson and the whale and they butchered every single one of the Humpback whale family.
Emotions. In order to have emotions I believe that an intelligent brain has to have an incentive system built in as in the fight or flight or pain avoidance and pleasure seeking. Rejection is probably the highest driving force in our society today, it guides people to do some of the most hideous of actions like breast implants, face surgeries, racing cars to impress girls, drug consumption, etc.
Vipassana. S.N. Goenka has developed the Vipassana meditation, you probably heard about it, they were hugely successful in prisons in India and the USA, people were able to dissolve the Ego issues and empower themselves.
Raspberry carob coconut ice cream sounds good. I quit eating chocolate. Trying to become a raw fresh vegan. Not easy though.
Psychedelic drugs. When I was 13 I saw a film in Germany of a girl who took LSD and ended up for good in the psychiatric hospital. I knew that would happen to me as well. So I stayed far away from those substances. Even weed made me feel self conscious. Its already bad enough with my self consciousness, I even have dreams in which I am naked in public which makes me feel very vulnerable.
Novel insights have never been hard to reach for me, I am flooded with them to the point where I feel overwhelmed sometimes. My brain is constantly producing dimethyltryptamine. My whole life is one long LSD Dimethyl "Trip" Amine.
I find the research of Professor Dr. Hinderk Emrich (one of my many former psychiatrists) very interesting in which he found out that there is a discrimination ribbon in the brain which prevents us from perceiving things when those things are not expected. This leads me to hypothesize that we discriminate things out of our perception on a daily basis, some people do this more than others, and other people like me do this much less. This subject fascinates me so much I can't read enough about it. You probably heard about the research of Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran, he examines the same things. Dr. Ramachandran found out that some patients who had a temporary paralysis in one limb developed a subconscious denial about the paralysis. This research made me realize that some people create denial on a much more visceral level than conscious awareness. The wounded deer phenomenon for example. A scared deer will eat grass as if nothing is happening although he is wounded, in order to distract the predator from thinking that he can hunt the deer. Same happens in people with the paralyzed limbs. Same happens with more subtle things as well like psychological hurt. Denial = Ego = Defensemechanism.
Pattern. When I was about 5 years old I stared at my wall paper that had those rough fibers in it, seemingly random, but there were very interesting faces and shapes in those, not visible for others, but for me clearly discernable. I see patterns in all kinds of things like the rug for example. I see faces like ghosts in the blanket that is draped over my recliner. I saw the faces of Nietzsche and Freud in a YouTube video, its an interview of Anais Nin, I saw their faces in the vegetation behind her swimming pool. Amazing. And the figures appear in accordance to a certain situation which often deals with the same context. That is what Esther Hicks is referring to in her presentations. Like when people talk about a specific person and then the person calls them on the phone. This seems to happen way more than random. You probably heard about Dr. Rupert Sheldrake who studied the psychic ability of dogs. Which is something I have always known and observed. Dogs are way more perceptive than humans are. Because of the law of attraction there is no randomness and no objectiveness. My dog Kenny sees ghosts or entities all the time. Great Danes actually were used as ghost busters in the past. Very interesting. My husband saw a ghost one time after I jokingly channeled a woman who had been murdered by her ex. And Paul dismissed it as a "shadow". He saw the shape of a woman sitting on the edge of the bed and he thought it was me, but I had already gone to my own bed downstairs. I was so scared when he said "what's going on?" I said "I am already in my own room". I was scared when I tried to channel her, my fear kicked in. If it was not for the fear I could have done it. But even with the joke video, the energy of her still matched up the energy I produced. I have heard about those things now so many times. I grew up with agnostic parents and grandparents yet I have always been afraid of ghosts. I remember my dad standing in the door shaking his head over my fears "there are no ghosts". But I knew that things were not that static in the world. Today I know that I can talk to all entities and tell them not to visit me, I tell them that I can't handle it. I am never making another channeling video again though.
I like the feeling of being in love because any form of love in particular the one where all of my hormones are involved as well, creates a realm of love and it lets nothing else in. That's why it is so incredibly important for any activist to take breaks and view beautiful things as well.
Of course the laws of the eternal universe can never be fully understood because of its infinite nature. You can build your personal god. But no god is more of a creator than any smart animal is, because there is no creator of the eternal universe. My Blue God is my personal god and protector. I want my art to be built as a machine one day and look exactly like my Blue God models. Identity or identifying, are concepts that might dissolve in the future. As Jiddu Krishnamurti has said, identifying oneself with things or abstractums is not beneficial for us. It is egoic and stands in the way of altruism, while Joy, Growth and Choice are concepts of freedom from the Ego. Thank you for saying: "Three of the more critical ones are Joy, Growth and Choice ...
interpreted not only as personal goals, but also as goals for other sentient beings and for the Cosmos." Humans have to learn to dissolve the speciesism. There will always be dilemma situations probably and like you said it is important to look at the situation.
Yes, there are realms of intelligence. That's why I believe that people with Asperger's for example are not afflicted at all with a disability, but to the contrary, they are enabled with heightened intelligence, in particular with an intelligence realm that goes much deeper into understanding beauty in abstract thinking, which leaves those people to reject superficial ways of communicating. They have their own artistic sense of humor. Other people find them weird becasue of it and sometimes they find them scary and even freaky. I have been labeled Satan several times. I do not believe in the devil. Hehe.
Humans have brain plasticity to a certain degree. I see that even those people who have a dwarfed compassion formation as in smaller sized Amygdalae, still have the same needs for hope and they Want to become better they just don't know how. And the word Better itself is rather a strange concept for them in their current brain state. Some people operate on a very, very low level intelligence. This was hard for Al Gore to understand when he was running for president. He overestimated the intelligence of the populous body.
But overall, the way to proceed in biological evolution, the emphasis lies to the most part in genetics and less in epigenetics, learning and recuperation of biological systems. Biological evolution as in natural procreation in order to potentialize their genes into a specific direction, is the smart way to do it. We see on one side the workers and on the other side the intellectuals. Those two groups are already zipping apart. I talked about this in more detail in my videos. Choosing a partner is evolution. Breeding dogs is eugenics. But if its done smart and ethical and with caution then it might be ok. I would breed a Great Dane with a Mastino Neapolitano, the outcome would be much healthier. The extremes in body shape are often causing pain and health problems.
As an artist and bliss lover I wish to see an evolution of natural biological mind expansion. As much as I am against over population, I am happy to see that people like you, Ray Kurzweil and Elon Musk have procreated.
Only when I came to the USA I encountered for the first time that there are fundamentalists who view abortion as a taboo. I was shocked about this. As an activist I want to make videos encouraging women to have abortions when their lives are not ideal for creating a new person. The understanding of ethics between the workers and the intellectuals is diametrically opposite in many aspects, which was ultimately caused by extreme capitalism and dumbing down of the population due to corporate mind manipulation by market psychologists. I want to go to the deepest underlying causes of unempowerment and expose those root situations to the public so that people can make choices in their lives that incorporate more future vision for all life on Earth. Ethics should be implemented as a mandatory study subject and be part of the main school curricula. Religion needs to be abolished as study subjects in all schools the way it is in China. The economic result is drastic and that is why China will take over the USA.
I am very impressed with the work of Dr. John Lilly. However his research was not ethical, but at that time they were not as advanced in regards to knowing the needs of other living beings. No whale or dolphin should ever be in captivity.
Maybe the AGIs don't need pain receptors. Maybe the incentive system can be built so that it is based on joy accumulation where it does not go beyond a certain pain level. But as soon as they have perception and reception of pain they will be regarded as animals and must be protected. My husband dropped this computer once and it made me cringe already, even though I had traded him this computer for another.
Did I mention this before, one time at the dentist's office my cheek was becoming numb and I envisioned my whole body be the same where it felt more like rubber and this idea was uplifting, I thought, well if that happened then nobody could hurt me anymore, neither emotionally nor physically. But there was a little girl who felt no pain at all and she poked her eyes out when she was a toddler. Its the Goethean yin and yang situation.
But I strongly believe that once the machines have a stimulus response they will begin to learn on their own. And then it will escalate further from there. When I was a toddler I saw my self as the self-constructed dynamical phenomenon. It was an out of world experience hard to describe and this question arose in me "why am I here?". Quite shocking for a toddler. But I remember it. I remember all kinds of freaky things that were going on in my brain. I had memories of walls caving in with spikes on them. I drew all that stuff because I wanted to paint those thoughts out of my brain. I had brain terror and severe nightmares. I am listening to Solar Fields right now and it totally matches the subjects my brain is occupied with. What makes you so particularly special as a scientists is that your intelligence is so versatile. The average mathematician and electrotechnics expert (my husband is one), does not compute all of those possibilities, they often don't have the ability to ponder over heavy philosophical ideas. That is my personal experience at least. This combination of high technical brain function and analytical thinking as well as understanding art, creates a function that is capable of creating brilliant machines. And your brain does not require psychedelics at all. I invite you to nurture your precious brain instead with healthy nutrients like raw bean sprouts which are rich in all B vitamins as well as in other vital brain nutrients. Going fully raw fresh vegan and not ingesting anything else, no caffeine either, is the solution to all health problems in general. It will keep you like 30 forever.
Cause and Effect into eternity. My thoughts cause a ripple effect but it fades out not noticeably to me any longer. But in reality it still keeps slightly rippling out forever. This is an interesting and delicate balance between free will and determinism. Quite deterministic, however giving me still a chance to voluntarily move things. Predictive implication is an idea that can be used within a range of our visibility or detecability. I thought that predictive implication does go into eternity, but not predictive to me any longer as from the animal perspective. Predictive maybe from higher forms of intelligence, maybe never predicted, yet it would fair to say that it is predictive in a general sense without senses. It just is predictive in itself as logistic. Maybe I am wrong. I have read and viewed the work of Gazzaniga and other researchers. It is quite remarkable and leads to more and more determinism within the brain chemistry. But I do believe that volition is there as well to a certain degree and can even be trained. A willing to do something, to take responsibility, can alter the brain chemistry. The Dalai Lama and others found out that meditation and the training of compassion for example leads to the growing of the amygdalae. Those findings are absolutely fascinating to me. Training of certain abilities, motor and mind functions, have an effect also on the transposons to influence the blocking and activating of genes. Yes, that makes a lot of sense that there is some type of coexistance of both determism and stochasticism. How did Albert view those systems? Did he embrace both as coexisting systems?
I had debates with Nick The Modern Mystic on YouTube who read a lot of Buddhist books but as so many people, misunderstood many of them as the ticket to selfishness. So naturally he argued that everything was deterministic implying that he did not need to take any responsibility for anything. That made me so angry because I see that most humans think in those patterns. I kept telling him, not knowing your work yet, that we still have a range of free will within a network of determinism. He kept on bullying me and in the end he kinda lost his mind. This happened in many conversations I had with religious people. When I talk to people who have no conscience I encounter a brick wall in their mental capacities of understanding the imperative of altruism. But I believe that there is still plasticity and moldability in people's brains, not only because I want to believe it, but I have read about the recent research that implies this idea. And stepping back from the big picture, there might yet be the coexistence and interaction between my wish and the reality itself. So I keep doing my activism and educating of people who for now have no conscience. I learn what it means to practice patience, diligence and loving kindness towards those who act as my opponents. A herculean task but a positive challenge. I see my activism as intentional action.
You said: "Being able to do otherwise in Very Similar circumstances and emotionally identifying one's phenomenal self as closely dynamically coupled with the action." This is also what Jiddu Krishnamurti says.
Paul Watson wrote in a recent article: "In the realm of zoological study, no other family of species has had such a profound impact upon human researchers. A few brilliant researchers have even been accused of losing their scientific objectivity simply because their study of cetaceans revealed knowledge about themselves. "You see," wrote Dr. John Lilly, "what I found after twelve years of work with dolphins is that the limits are not in them, the limits are in us. So I had to go away and find out, who am I? What's this all about?""
I believe that the whales will eventually teach us to go within, to meditate and to do what Jiddu Krishnamurti explained to his audiences.
Thank you for pointing out that drugs including hallucinogenics do not create this long lasting and harmonious joy and happiness that meditation and other holistic means create. This is a very important message for the world because I see too many people hanging on drugs and too many chaotic situations and even damage done to other beings because of the addicts' lack of taking responsibility.
Happiness is when we are on an upward curve. Very true. I just read that animals and humans have a drastic increase in dopamin when the chances of reward are reduced by 50%. This explains the addiction to gambling that so many people have. I don't have this thankfully. I like total security to be feeling content. Stasis however makes all individuals feel unrest including people like me who seek security. Tony Robbins talks about this as well. Stasis feels like being stuck. One has to be on this constant upward curve path. I have to know that I am on the sustainable path in my life. I also have trouble with backtracking which some people in my life tend to do. Trajectories, pro blems, throwing forward, challenge, those are terms that describe the forward movement that the mind needs.
A guy from Spain who is helping Sea Shepherd in the Faroe Islands to protect the whales from being slaughtered, was beaten up severely by a crazy Faroese man. The Spanish activist, who feels so much compassion for all beings, did not want to hit the crazy man back, not even to protect himself. This is what I call "too" much compassion where someone is even thrown against his own agenda to help others and himself. If someone tried to beat me up I would lash out like a mother lion, I would kill a violent criminal if he came up to us in order to hurt us. My compassion is very mother bear oriented. My dog comes first, then my husband. I don't think in terms of quantity of saving humans. It would have to be someone worthwhile which is always someone who cares at least as much about the animals as I do. I find compassion to be the base foundation of happiness or as you said A Huge Burst Of Joy. The increase of patternment will never run out of increasing when it comes to compassion. It is infinite as everything else. There will never be a "completed" level of compassion and unity. Nothing can ever be completed. It might feel like some goals are achieved and they feel completed. But total completion is not possible ever.
"We should be compassionate. We should open ourselves up to the world. We should do this as much as we can without losing the internal unities that allow our minds to operate, to generate new patterns and new unities. And we should seek to expand and strengthen our selves so as to enable ever-greater compassion." (Dr. Ben Goertzel). I will post this quote on Facebook and YouTube. It is very good.
In mammals the hormone oxytocin creates the mother caring but in men, too of course. Its the true love for all Earthians equally much. Only roughly 20% of humans have plenty of oxytocin production. I wonder whether it is possible to inject prisoners with oxytocin. Maybe the Vipassana meditation can develop the brain formations in order to make more oxytocin. Would it be possible to grow those formations fast enough? Maybe through gene therapy? Maybe a virus might break out and create a natural gene therapy where the caring brain formations are newly formed. Maybe that virus will be created in a laboratory? Lots of possibilities. It would be so wonderful if all humans became caring. What a paradise we could make here on Earth and beyond. I am always at the verge of wanting to leave this existence. But I have to be here for Kenny.
"Cosmism: a practical philosophy focused on enthusiastically and thoroughly exploring, understanding and enjoying the Cosmos, in its inner, outer and social aspects Cosmism advocates pursuing joy, growth and freedom for oneself and all beings ongoingly, actively seeking to better understand the universe in its multiple aspects, from a variety of perspectives taking nothing as axiomatic and accepting all ideas, beliefs and habits as open to revision based on thought, dialogue and experience" (Dr. Ben Goertzel) I will post this quote as well.
I can't wait for fish meat to be produced in a laboratory, without pain receptors, without suffering, just like a plant grows. Then I will eat this in vitro fish meat every other day. My brain does need it, too, in particular when I read and research a lot. At the university when I studied psychology and in particular learning statistics, my brain created a tremendous sugar craving, it was intense. I was addicted to schocolate candy stuff, cookies and cakes.
The dilemma will be made obsolete through in vitro meat growing. We can then grow meat that has my own DNA in the laboratory, but I am not sure whether I will eat any of the mammalian meats at all. I would never want my embryo to be incubated in a laboratory. Abortion is only a problem for religious women. Not for me because I grew up in Germany where we all had abortions. I am always cautious about synthetic vitamins and supplements. I like holistic health. I like whole foods and nutrients not separated among their constituents.
Charities which "help" the children in Africa are most likely almost all corrupted or leave loops for corruption once the funds reach the African officials. Therefore I will never donate to philanthropic charities. I mainly don't trust those charities themselves and believe that many of them are money laundering facilities. I donate to PETA, Sea Shepherd, NRDC and the Bat Sanctuary in Australia. I see what those people are doing for the animals, they have tons of videos of their work, they work tirelessly, they rescue and save millions of animals from suffering gruesome deaths.
The human overpopulation is a very pressing issue and this needs to be addressed by the UN more than any other subject. When we get a grip on the population increase then things are going to be easier. We need a technology that spays and neuters. Some kind of drone type of force neutering. This will never happen voluntarily. With other words we need The Neuter Drone.
Animals first. Then humans. Why guilt? Why value humans so highly? Without selfishness and at least species equality, humanity would never make any progress. We need your work Ben. Never feel bad about protecting your assets. I am sure that Hegel and Marx would embrace your philosophy. They were quite bound to the perceptual limitations that also came with the era they lived in. Nietzsche, too by the way.
Solar energy is the future energy for Earth, Moon and Mars. I am glad that the generating of vortex energy by Nikola Tesla was stopped, because who knows what that might have caused. Solar energy feels right because it is the energy from the sun which comes to us, its an endless supply from outside of Earth.
Kaspar Hauser. He was kept in a dungeon in a castle for 14 or more years, then released. He could not speak except for one sentence which the abductors taught him. He ate only bread and drank only water. He disliked meat very much, he hated the smell of it and it made him fearful just like my horse who smelled on meat once. He was highly perceptive, an ability that faded when he began to eat meat. But his brain and body was compromised because of the situation. This prince of Baden, if he had grown up in the castle of his mother Stephanie de Beauvarnais, he would have had an even more exceptional brain then he already had under those harsh circumstances.
I strongly believe that the only way cruelty, the world hunger problems and the environmental issues can be dissolved is by implementing perma culture and veganism. I saw remarkable 3D models of cities in documentary films about future architecture where they show growing in high rise buildings and growing vertically instead of horizontally. Growing greens can happen in any situation, place and poverty level.
True democracy can not be achieved because of greed and corruption. But at least that is indeed the only form of government that will at all hold up with some stability. Unless I could become the dictator. Ha. Nah, because the mean dictators elbow away the good ones. Only the AGIs can become the dictators. And as Jonathan Meese said, "Art must rule the world and all politicians need to sign out." I want my Blue God in Dog Form, the rectangular shaped wobbly sculpture made of light blue transparent rubber with the eyes on the sides, to rule the world.
I think that when the AGIs run the world, scarcity will be dissolved for good. I don't see procreation urges as an obstacle to human thinking and advancing at all. It may appear as such, but we are consisting of all those things. If we remove that we will be totally different with totally different aspirations. Why not accept that we are made out of substances and hormones with all of those needs. This is the animal experience. When we die our energy will shift into something else, another animal, a plant, a tree, maybe a rock or mineralization of some sort. When we become machines the same thing happens. The guy who wants sex out of his life should realize that removing sexual urges is very much like dying and becoming something else. I would tell this guy not to remove the hormones because they are a vital part of who we are. Who knows what horrors a removal of hormones would bring with it. My dog is doing well neutered, but then again, he has a different type of life than humans have. He is sheltered and does not have to fend for himself.
Problems occur in regards to sexuality only when the Ego is active. Without Ego or with minimized Ego activity, those socialization issues like impressing the person of the opposite gender, will become much more relaxed. Yes, I agree, sex is healthy and wonderful. Why not enjoy it? I think those shapes are great. :0)
Would you like to make a robot in the shape of my Blue God in Dog Form? I would love to see that happen. I have the feeling that would be a very successful toy for kids and adults. It should be made very sturdy, shock resistant and water proof just to be on the safe side. It could glow from within with a blue halo. You guys can make that. This will generate a large fund for further research. The brain you developed so far is already excellent. Its very autark. Much more than Genibo. (End of part 1) I can attach some photos of my art work as well. (Paused at page 153)
My notes in reply to A Cosmist Manifesto
Nicola Grobe
The universe as a whole is an unclear concept. That is very true because the eternal universe as I call it, meaning all multiverses combined (which is another misleading term), is eternal. Therefore there can not be the word All, Combined or Entirely. Because all would imply that there is a finite amount that constitutes the eternal universe. And in reality, as you know as a mathematician, there is no finality of energy and space. I am taking these notes because some concepts are incredibly important and I want to use them again and again when I discuss philosophy with people.
The universal mind. I very much agree with all that you said, not only because I love you. Haha. Religious people want to believe that there is a creator of all. They think that there is this "intelligent" creator and their Egos latch on to that concept. It reasons on the same level as people who adore Idols. Their Egos identify with the person liking a specific rock band or foot ball team. Atheists sometimes believe that there is no intelligence out there at all. Either view is flawed.
Polyphonic reality. Yes, many philosophers have broken their heads over this question whether things are subjective or objective. Usually they come up with this "now I know, it is all objective and relative". Only a few like Friedrich Nietzsche knew that there is no such thing. That everything is subjective and to be judged by each person individually according to his specific view point here and now. That from another view point it is judged totally differently and that we as humans can not possibly judge things from a non subjective perspective. Therefore the idea that everything is relative and therefore all ideas are equally acceptable, is voided. We each can not view things and in particular handle things in any other way other than the way our brains permit us to.
One person has ethics and another one doesn't. People like Richard Berman for example just to use one of the billions of examples, sees the world totally differently than I do because of his different perspective on ethical questions which is based on brain anatomy. I battle with those people every day for 8 hours straight. I could never accept that there is such thing as relativism. I can not see the world from any other perspective because my biology of love dictates to me how to view things. I wished that was the case for all humans. And this makes understanding others (like Richard) so awfully difficult for me. As long as I am a living being and a mother I can only see things from this particular view.
Pattern continuation. I have witnessed it. Esther Hicks talks about this in depth. Its amazing. Nothing is random. Stephen Hawking believes it is random, he said that he calculated it out. I wonder whether you might be able to calculate different patterns out to show that there is actually a pattern continuation going on. I thought about this for a long time after I saw Stephen Hawking in interviews talk about his conclusion. There can not be ever a "conclusion" to anything. The eternal universe is a paradox to at least our brains. Infinte options are happening simultaneously. Stephen Hawking appears to go about this grasping too conservatively. He needs to let loose of this clinging. I like him very much. He cares. I only observed that he is kinda clinging to this idea that things are concluded as random and chaotic. There is pattern continuation within the seemingly random and chaotic appearance of universal matter, but at some point it eludes our human perception, that's why we have to step back further and try to view it from farther away if we can. I think you can do that, Ben. You got what it takes.
Compassion ties right into all of those aspects of Cosmism. Why is Hugo de Garis so afraid? Maybe I will ask him one day. My husband for example is always afraid of things and he has to control things, he checks on the weather all the time and the bad news and he does not understand that he himself is creating this pattern continuation of that which he looks at. We do have to take responsibility of course, I am not saying that we only have to look at the positive side of things. We have to see all in order to navigate through life. But, some people look in a fixated way at things and are very rigid to the point where they can't perceive the solutions that are standing right in front of them.
Compassion is allowing. Resistance is not allowing. Controlling is resistance. Everything has some type of consciousness however simplistic. My computer is alive, but not exactly like I am, but still, it is a form of existence. I treat him well because of that. Everything is cause and effect. When I studied psychology at TU Berlin in 1991 I had to learn statistics and one of the statistics books explained that no matter how dice are thrown, they are Always falling exactly according to the way they had been touched, even by the "random" throwing machine. That thought was an eye opener for me. I realized that nothing is falling or triggered in any random manners. Absolutely nothing moves in a random and chaotic form, everything moves according to the way it had been triggered by something else that predates its movement. For humans it is of course impossible to figure out every single trigger for every single movement or event. It fades out into eternity. But it is eternally causal. Infinite causality.
There will probably not be a specific moment in time in the future where all of the sudden it is declared publicly "we now have the first AGI who can think like us and exist as an autonomous sentient being". The process of AGI development will always be very gradient even if its progression had been drastically accelerated. It fades over into the set goal and exceeds it without a spontaneous now effect. I already see things happening just by watching Google develop. The Open Cog is fantastic. Everything has its risks and people like Kim Yong Un can access that information, but without the open sharing facility things would not speed up as they are. Things need to be accelerated due to the situation on Earth.
Determinism. Yes, patterns are to a large part determining our outcomes. But there is still the space for deliberate and voluntary actions and triggering within the realm of determinism. Dr. Michio Kaku also talked about this in his very good interview with Nikola Danaylov. It is a pattern continuation system that is widely deterministic. Not fully deterministic. The human brains for example are widely predetermined in their actions. But as Jiddu Krishnamurti and Dr. David Bohm have discussed, we can become our own observers and be gradually more and more able to make spontaneous decisions indepently from our brain anatomical determinism.
Society and Culture. Yes, very well observed. Most humans suffer from the inability to break free from social norms. Only a minority listens to their own needs, wishes, creativity, art, etc. Those are what I call empowered. I talk about this all the time in my selfie vids. I am trying to help by informing people about the possibility of each individual freeing himself from the dictation of peer pressure. This subject leads back to the subject Ego development, idolization and religion. And there is no ideal social system available because of limited ethical abilities. I talked to Dr. Kurzweil about this subject and he gave us the quote from Winston Churchill "Democracy is the worst of all political systems except for all the other ones." I had sent him my short story Rain of the Red Ones and complained to him about the unethical brains who often sit in legislative positions. I petitioned to him to build ethical AGIs.
Today I am feeling confident that in 2029 the autonomous artificial brains will have ethics automatically whether it was intended or not. I believe that ethics is part of the IQ range. The corporate conservatives are afraid of this happening because then they can't send out Richard Berman any longer to slander PETA. The AGIs will erase whatever he writes and instead educate the public with real wholesome information on stewardship of all Earthians and planet Earth itself.
Whales and dolphins are even more intelligent than elephants and humans. Dr. Lori Marino, Dr. Rebecca Dunlop and Dr. Jack Kassewitz among several others are in the progress of decoding the language of cetaceans. The ocean language is a 3D image projection through sound and they speak in 3D pictures or rather cyber sculptures. Progressively scientists will be able to communicate with them and then we will enter into another era and maybe the AGIs will help us to speed this development up. We have a lot to learn from the whales. Paul Watson said that he looked into the eye of a Humpback whale and saw high sentience, he saw and felt the message of that whale which was a sadness about the ethical limitation of humanity, but the whale knew that Paul Watson was there to protect him and his family. The whalers ignored this precious interaction between Paul Watson and the whale and they butchered every single one of the Humpback whale family.
Emotions. In order to have emotions I believe that an intelligent brain has to have an incentive system built in as in the fight or flight or pain avoidance and pleasure seeking. Rejection is probably the highest driving force in our society today, it guides people to do some of the most hideous of actions like breast implants, face surgeries, racing cars to impress girls, drug consumption, etc.
Vipassana. S.N. Goenka has developed the Vipassana meditation, you probably heard about it, they were hugely successful in prisons in India and the USA, people were able to dissolve the Ego issues and empower themselves.
Raspberry carob coconut ice cream sounds good. I quit eating chocolate. Trying to become a raw fresh vegan. Not easy though.
Psychedelic drugs. When I was 13 I saw a film in Germany of a girl who took LSD and ended up for good in the psychiatric hospital. I knew that would happen to me as well. So I stayed far away from those substances. Even weed made me feel self conscious. Its already bad enough with my self consciousness, I even have dreams in which I am naked in public which makes me feel very vulnerable.
Novel insights have never been hard to reach for me, I am flooded with them to the point where I feel overwhelmed sometimes. My brain is constantly producing dimethyltryptamine. My whole life is one long LSD Dimethyl "Trip" Amine.
I find the research of Professor Dr. Hinderk Emrich (one of my many former psychiatrists) very interesting in which he found out that there is a discrimination ribbon in the brain which prevents us from perceiving things when those things are not expected. This leads me to hypothesize that we discriminate things out of our perception on a daily basis, some people do this more than others, and other people like me do this much less. This subject fascinates me so much I can't read enough about it. You probably heard about the research of Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran, he examines the same things. Dr. Ramachandran found out that some patients who had a temporary paralysis in one limb developed a subconscious denial about the paralysis. This research made me realize that some people create denial on a much more visceral level than conscious awareness. The wounded deer phenomenon for example. A scared deer will eat grass as if nothing is happening although he is wounded, in order to distract the predator from thinking that he can hunt the deer. Same happens in people with the paralyzed limbs. Same happens with more subtle things as well like psychological hurt. Denial = Ego = Defensemechanism.
Pattern. When I was about 5 years old I stared at my wall paper that had those rough fibers in it, seemingly random, but there were very interesting faces and shapes in those, not visible for others, but for me clearly discernable. I see patterns in all kinds of things like the rug for example. I see faces like ghosts in the blanket that is draped over my recliner. I saw the faces of Nietzsche and Freud in a YouTube video, its an interview of Anais Nin, I saw their faces in the vegetation behind her swimming pool. Amazing. And the figures appear in accordance to a certain situation which often deals with the same context. That is what Esther Hicks is referring to in her presentations. Like when people talk about a specific person and then the person calls them on the phone. This seems to happen way more than random. You probably heard about Dr. Rupert Sheldrake who studied the psychic ability of dogs. Which is something I have always known and observed. Dogs are way more perceptive than humans are. Because of the law of attraction there is no randomness and no objectiveness. My dog Kenny sees ghosts or entities all the time. Great Danes actually were used as ghost busters in the past. Very interesting. My husband saw a ghost one time after I jokingly channeled a woman who had been murdered by her ex. And Paul dismissed it as a "shadow". He saw the shape of a woman sitting on the edge of the bed and he thought it was me, but I had already gone to my own bed downstairs. I was so scared when he said "what's going on?" I said "I am already in my own room". I was scared when I tried to channel her, my fear kicked in. If it was not for the fear I could have done it. But even with the joke video, the energy of her still matched up the energy I produced. I have heard about those things now so many times. I grew up with agnostic parents and grandparents yet I have always been afraid of ghosts. I remember my dad standing in the door shaking his head over my fears "there are no ghosts". But I knew that things were not that static in the world. Today I know that I can talk to all entities and tell them not to visit me, I tell them that I can't handle it. I am never making another channeling video again though.
I like the feeling of being in love because any form of love in particular the one where all of my hormones are involved as well, creates a realm of love and it lets nothing else in. That's why it is so incredibly important for any activist to take breaks and view beautiful things as well.
Of course the laws of the eternal universe can never be fully understood because of its infinite nature. You can build your personal god. But no god is more of a creator than any smart animal is, because there is no creator of the eternal universe. My Blue God is my personal god and protector. I want my art to be built as a machine one day and look exactly like my Blue God models. Identity or identifying, are concepts that might dissolve in the future. As Jiddu Krishnamurti has said, identifying oneself with things or abstractums is not beneficial for us. It is egoic and stands in the way of altruism, while Joy, Growth and Choice are concepts of freedom from the Ego. Thank you for saying: "Three of the more critical ones are Joy, Growth and Choice ...
interpreted not only as personal goals, but also as goals for other sentient beings and for the Cosmos." Humans have to learn to dissolve the speciesism. There will always be dilemma situations probably and like you said it is important to look at the situation.
Yes, there are realms of intelligence. That's why I believe that people with Asperger's for example are not afflicted at all with a disability, but to the contrary, they are enabled with heightened intelligence, in particular with an intelligence realm that goes much deeper into understanding beauty in abstract thinking, which leaves those people to reject superficial ways of communicating. They have their own artistic sense of humor. Other people find them weird becasue of it and sometimes they find them scary and even freaky. I have been labeled Satan several times. I do not believe in the devil. Hehe.
Humans have brain plasticity to a certain degree. I see that even those people who have a dwarfed compassion formation as in smaller sized Amygdalae, still have the same needs for hope and they Want to become better they just don't know how. And the word Better itself is rather a strange concept for them in their current brain state. Some people operate on a very, very low level intelligence. This was hard for Al Gore to understand when he was running for president. He overestimated the intelligence of the populous body.
But overall, the way to proceed in biological evolution, the emphasis lies to the most part in genetics and less in epigenetics, learning and recuperation of biological systems. Biological evolution as in natural procreation in order to potentialize their genes into a specific direction, is the smart way to do it. We see on one side the workers and on the other side the intellectuals. Those two groups are already zipping apart. I talked about this in more detail in my videos. Choosing a partner is evolution. Breeding dogs is eugenics. But if its done smart and ethical and with caution then it might be ok. I would breed a Great Dane with a Mastino Neapolitano, the outcome would be much healthier. The extremes in body shape are often causing pain and health problems.
As an artist and bliss lover I wish to see an evolution of natural biological mind expansion. As much as I am against over population, I am happy to see that people like you, Ray Kurzweil and Elon Musk have procreated.
Only when I came to the USA I encountered for the first time that there are fundamentalists who view abortion as a taboo. I was shocked about this. As an activist I want to make videos encouraging women to have abortions when their lives are not ideal for creating a new person. The understanding of ethics between the workers and the intellectuals is diametrically opposite in many aspects, which was ultimately caused by extreme capitalism and dumbing down of the population due to corporate mind manipulation by market psychologists. I want to go to the deepest underlying causes of unempowerment and expose those root situations to the public so that people can make choices in their lives that incorporate more future vision for all life on Earth. Ethics should be implemented as a mandatory study subject and be part of the main school curricula. Religion needs to be abolished as study subjects in all schools the way it is in China. The economic result is drastic and that is why China will take over the USA.
I am very impressed with the work of Dr. John Lilly. However his research was not ethical, but at that time they were not as advanced in regards to knowing the needs of other living beings. No whale or dolphin should ever be in captivity.
Maybe the AGIs don't need pain receptors. Maybe the incentive system can be built so that it is based on joy accumulation where it does not go beyond a certain pain level. But as soon as they have perception and reception of pain they will be regarded as animals and must be protected. My husband dropped this computer once and it made me cringe already, even though I had traded him this computer for another.
Did I mention this before, one time at the dentist's office my cheek was becoming numb and I envisioned my whole body be the same where it felt more like rubber and this idea was uplifting, I thought, well if that happened then nobody could hurt me anymore, neither emotionally nor physically. But there was a little girl who felt no pain at all and she poked her eyes out when she was a toddler. Its the Goethean yin and yang situation.
But I strongly believe that once the machines have a stimulus response they will begin to learn on their own. And then it will escalate further from there. When I was a toddler I saw my self as the self-constructed dynamical phenomenon. It was an out of world experience hard to describe and this question arose in me "why am I here?". Quite shocking for a toddler. But I remember it. I remember all kinds of freaky things that were going on in my brain. I had memories of walls caving in with spikes on them. I drew all that stuff because I wanted to paint those thoughts out of my brain. I had brain terror and severe nightmares. I am listening to Solar Fields right now and it totally matches the subjects my brain is occupied with. What makes you so particularly special as a scientists is that your intelligence is so versatile. The average mathematician and electrotechnics expert (my husband is one), does not compute all of those possibilities, they often don't have the ability to ponder over heavy philosophical ideas. That is my personal experience at least. This combination of high technical brain function and analytical thinking as well as understanding art, creates a function that is capable of creating brilliant machines. And your brain does not require psychedelics at all. I invite you to nurture your precious brain instead with healthy nutrients like raw bean sprouts which are rich in all B vitamins as well as in other vital brain nutrients. Going fully raw fresh vegan and not ingesting anything else, no caffeine either, is the solution to all health problems in general. It will keep you like 30 forever.
Cause and Effect into eternity. My thoughts cause a ripple effect but it fades out not noticeably to me any longer. But in reality it still keeps slightly rippling out forever. This is an interesting and delicate balance between free will and determinism. Quite deterministic, however giving me still a chance to voluntarily move things. Predictive implication is an idea that can be used within a range of our visibility or detecability. I thought that predictive implication does go into eternity, but not predictive to me any longer as from the animal perspective. Predictive maybe from higher forms of intelligence, maybe never predicted, yet it would fair to say that it is predictive in a general sense without senses. It just is predictive in itself as logistic. Maybe I am wrong. I have read and viewed the work of Gazzaniga and other researchers. It is quite remarkable and leads to more and more determinism within the brain chemistry. But I do believe that volition is there as well to a certain degree and can even be trained. A willing to do something, to take responsibility, can alter the brain chemistry. The Dalai Lama and others found out that meditation and the training of compassion for example leads to the growing of the amygdalae. Those findings are absolutely fascinating to me. Training of certain abilities, motor and mind functions, have an effect also on the transposons to influence the blocking and activating of genes. Yes, that makes a lot of sense that there is some type of coexistance of both determism and stochasticism. How did Albert view those systems? Did he embrace both as coexisting systems?
I had debates with Nick The Modern Mystic on YouTube who read a lot of Buddhist books but as so many people, misunderstood many of them as the ticket to selfishness. So naturally he argued that everything was deterministic implying that he did not need to take any responsibility for anything. That made me so angry because I see that most humans think in those patterns. I kept telling him, not knowing your work yet, that we still have a range of free will within a network of determinism. He kept on bullying me and in the end he kinda lost his mind. This happened in many conversations I had with religious people. When I talk to people who have no conscience I encounter a brick wall in their mental capacities of understanding the imperative of altruism. But I believe that there is still plasticity and moldability in people's brains, not only because I want to believe it, but I have read about the recent research that implies this idea. And stepping back from the big picture, there might yet be the coexistence and interaction between my wish and the reality itself. So I keep doing my activism and educating of people who for now have no conscience. I learn what it means to practice patience, diligence and loving kindness towards those who act as my opponents. A herculean task but a positive challenge. I see my activism as intentional action.
You said: "Being able to do otherwise in Very Similar circumstances and emotionally identifying one's phenomenal self as closely dynamically coupled with the action." This is also what Jiddu Krishnamurti says.
Paul Watson wrote in a recent article: "In the realm of zoological study, no other family of species has had such a profound impact upon human researchers. A few brilliant researchers have even been accused of losing their scientific objectivity simply because their study of cetaceans revealed knowledge about themselves. "You see," wrote Dr. John Lilly, "what I found after twelve years of work with dolphins is that the limits are not in them, the limits are in us. So I had to go away and find out, who am I? What's this all about?""
I believe that the whales will eventually teach us to go within, to meditate and to do what Jiddu Krishnamurti explained to his audiences.
Thank you for pointing out that drugs including hallucinogenics do not create this long lasting and harmonious joy and happiness that meditation and other holistic means create. This is a very important message for the world because I see too many people hanging on drugs and too many chaotic situations and even damage done to other beings because of the addicts' lack of taking responsibility.
Happiness is when we are on an upward curve. Very true. I just read that animals and humans have a drastic increase in dopamin when the chances of reward are reduced by 50%. This explains the addiction to gambling that so many people have. I don't have this thankfully. I like total security to be feeling content. Stasis however makes all individuals feel unrest including people like me who seek security. Tony Robbins talks about this as well. Stasis feels like being stuck. One has to be on this constant upward curve path. I have to know that I am on the sustainable path in my life. I also have trouble with backtracking which some people in my life tend to do. Trajectories, pro blems, throwing forward, challenge, those are terms that describe the forward movement that the mind needs.
A guy from Spain who is helping Sea Shepherd in the Faroe Islands to protect the whales from being slaughtered, was beaten up severely by a crazy Faroese man. The Spanish activist, who feels so much compassion for all beings, did not want to hit the crazy man back, not even to protect himself. This is what I call "too" much compassion where someone is even thrown against his own agenda to help others and himself. If someone tried to beat me up I would lash out like a mother lion, I would kill a violent criminal if he came up to us in order to hurt us. My compassion is very mother bear oriented. My dog comes first, then my husband. I don't think in terms of quantity of saving humans. It would have to be someone worthwhile which is always someone who cares at least as much about the animals as I do. I find compassion to be the base foundation of happiness or as you said A Huge Burst Of Joy. The increase of patternment will never run out of increasing when it comes to compassion. It is infinite as everything else. There will never be a "completed" level of compassion and unity. Nothing can ever be completed. It might feel like some goals are achieved and they feel completed. But total completion is not possible ever.
"We should be compassionate. We should open ourselves up to the world. We should do this as much as we can without losing the internal unities that allow our minds to operate, to generate new patterns and new unities. And we should seek to expand and strengthen our selves so as to enable ever-greater compassion." (Dr. Ben Goertzel). I will post this quote on Facebook and YouTube. It is very good.
In mammals the hormone oxytocin creates the mother caring but in men, too of course. Its the true love for all Earthians equally much. Only roughly 20% of humans have plenty of oxytocin production. I wonder whether it is possible to inject prisoners with oxytocin. Maybe the Vipassana meditation can develop the brain formations in order to make more oxytocin. Would it be possible to grow those formations fast enough? Maybe through gene therapy? Maybe a virus might break out and create a natural gene therapy where the caring brain formations are newly formed. Maybe that virus will be created in a laboratory? Lots of possibilities. It would be so wonderful if all humans became caring. What a paradise we could make here on Earth and beyond. I am always at the verge of wanting to leave this existence. But I have to be here for Kenny.
"Cosmism: a practical philosophy focused on enthusiastically and thoroughly exploring, understanding and enjoying the Cosmos, in its inner, outer and social aspects Cosmism advocates pursuing joy, growth and freedom for oneself and all beings ongoingly, actively seeking to better understand the universe in its multiple aspects, from a variety of perspectives taking nothing as axiomatic and accepting all ideas, beliefs and habits as open to revision based on thought, dialogue and experience" (Dr. Ben Goertzel) I will post this quote as well.
I can't wait for fish meat to be produced in a laboratory, without pain receptors, without suffering, just like a plant grows. Then I will eat this in vitro fish meat every other day. My brain does need it, too, in particular when I read and research a lot. At the university when I studied psychology and in particular learning statistics, my brain created a tremendous sugar craving, it was intense. I was addicted to schocolate candy stuff, cookies and cakes.
The dilemma will be made obsolete through in vitro meat growing. We can then grow meat that has my own DNA in the laboratory, but I am not sure whether I will eat any of the mammalian meats at all. I would never want my embryo to be incubated in a laboratory. Abortion is only a problem for religious women. Not for me because I grew up in Germany where we all had abortions. I am always cautious about synthetic vitamins and supplements. I like holistic health. I like whole foods and nutrients not separated among their constituents.
Charities which "help" the children in Africa are most likely almost all corrupted or leave loops for corruption once the funds reach the African officials. Therefore I will never donate to philanthropic charities. I mainly don't trust those charities themselves and believe that many of them are money laundering facilities. I donate to PETA, Sea Shepherd, NRDC and the Bat Sanctuary in Australia. I see what those people are doing for the animals, they have tons of videos of their work, they work tirelessly, they rescue and save millions of animals from suffering gruesome deaths.
The human overpopulation is a very pressing issue and this needs to be addressed by the UN more than any other subject. When we get a grip on the population increase then things are going to be easier. We need a technology that spays and neuters. Some kind of drone type of force neutering. This will never happen voluntarily. With other words we need The Neuter Drone.
Animals first. Then humans. Why guilt? Why value humans so highly? Without selfishness and at least species equality, humanity would never make any progress. We need your work Ben. Never feel bad about protecting your assets. I am sure that Hegel and Marx would embrace your philosophy. They were quite bound to the perceptual limitations that also came with the era they lived in. Nietzsche, too by the way.
Solar energy is the future energy for Earth, Moon and Mars. I am glad that the generating of vortex energy by Nikola Tesla was stopped, because who knows what that might have caused. Solar energy feels right because it is the energy from the sun which comes to us, its an endless supply from outside of Earth.
Kaspar Hauser. He was kept in a dungeon in a castle for 14 or more years, then released. He could not speak except for one sentence which the abductors taught him. He ate only bread and drank only water. He disliked meat very much, he hated the smell of it and it made him fearful just like my horse who smelled on meat once. He was highly perceptive, an ability that faded when he began to eat meat. But his brain and body was compromised because of the situation. This prince of Baden, if he had grown up in the castle of his mother Stephanie de Beauvarnais, he would have had an even more exceptional brain then he already had under those harsh circumstances.
I strongly believe that the only way cruelty, the world hunger problems and the environmental issues can be dissolved is by implementing perma culture and veganism. I saw remarkable 3D models of cities in documentary films about future architecture where they show growing in high rise buildings and growing vertically instead of horizontally. Growing greens can happen in any situation, place and poverty level.
True democracy can not be achieved because of greed and corruption. But at least that is indeed the only form of government that will at all hold up with some stability. Unless I could become the dictator. Ha. Nah, because the mean dictators elbow away the good ones. Only the AGIs can become the dictators. And as Jonathan Meese said, "Art must rule the world and all politicians need to sign out." I want my Blue God in Dog Form, the rectangular shaped wobbly sculpture made of light blue transparent rubber with the eyes on the sides, to rule the world.
I think that when the AGIs run the world, scarcity will be dissolved for good. I don't see procreation urges as an obstacle to human thinking and advancing at all. It may appear as such, but we are consisting of all those things. If we remove that we will be totally different with totally different aspirations. Why not accept that we are made out of substances and hormones with all of those needs. This is the animal experience. When we die our energy will shift into something else, another animal, a plant, a tree, maybe a rock or mineralization of some sort. When we become machines the same thing happens. The guy who wants sex out of his life should realize that removing sexual urges is very much like dying and becoming something else. I would tell this guy not to remove the hormones because they are a vital part of who we are. Who knows what horrors a removal of hormones would bring with it. My dog is doing well neutered, but then again, he has a different type of life than humans have. He is sheltered and does not have to fend for himself.
Problems occur in regards to sexuality only when the Ego is active. Without Ego or with minimized Ego activity, those socialization issues like impressing the person of the opposite gender, will become much more relaxed. Yes, I agree, sex is healthy and wonderful. Why not enjoy it? I think those shapes are great. :0)
Would you like to make a robot in the shape of my Blue God in Dog Form? I would love to see that happen. I have the feeling that would be a very successful toy for kids and adults. It should be made very sturdy, shock resistant and water proof just to be on the safe side. It could glow from within with a blue halo. You guys can make that. This will generate a large fund for further research. The brain you developed so far is already excellent. Its very autark. Much more than Genibo. (End of part 1) I can attach some photos of my art work as well. (Paused at page 153)
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Active Sonar
By Nicola Grobe
Active sonar is a loudspeaker device which the US Navy uses to detect submarines in the world's oceans. The devices send out a sound as loud as 240 decibels, the same volume as a dynamite blast. It reaches thousands of miles far in every direction in the ocean. Water is an acoustic medium and tests have shown that loud sound can travel from Russia to the Gulf of Mexico and from Heard Island, Australia to Coos Bay, Oregon.
Even 100 miles away from the source, the active sonar has a volume of 160 decibels, loud enough to cause permanent hearing damage in humans. Particularly ocean mammals like whales and dolphins are affected by this sound. When ocean mammals get into the peripheral range of the sound, the active sonar causes them to become disoriented to the degree that they swim into the wrong direction, lose contact to other whales, and it can cause them to wash on shore and die from dehydration. The active sonar sound has the same frequency as the sonar which the whales use to communicate with one another. Their communication is very important for their survival. The whales’ and dolphins' systems are overwhelmed with high volume sounds. Whales experience high stress, hearing loss, reproductive impairments, immune dysfunctions and mental debilitation, if they are exposed to active sonar even in the peripheral range of the sound source.
If the whales are closer to the sound source, they become very scared and rise up to the surface too fast, which causes decompression sickness. Nitrogen in their internal tissue expands and causes injuries to their organs. If they are yet in closer proximity to the active sonar sound source then the sound will cause severe hemorrhage in their organs, particularly in their ear drums and lungs. The blood vessels in their ear drums and lungs burst and cause the animals to bleed to death internally.
Throughout the years the US Navy has conducted active sonar tests in different parts of the world's oceans and everywhere they tested these devices, whales from different species were found dead. Post mortem examinations revealed that the whales had hemorrhaging in ears and lungs.
Against protests, court decisions, and even against environmental laws, the US Navy continues to test active sonar in the oceans. In 2002 a judge pointed out that the Bush administration’s permit for the use of LFA Sonar, which is one of the most lethal types of the active sonar systems, violates a number of federal laws including the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act. The judge also agreed that science clearly demonstrates "the possibility, indeed probability, of irreparable injury" to ocean mammals, if LFA Sonar would be deployed widely.
After one initial court ruling in favor of the environmental organizations, the US Navy was not allowed to test the LFA Sonar system during the whales’ migration periods, the test range was reduced to less than 1% of the originally approved range, and tests were narrowed down to the eastern seaboard of Asia, including China, Korea, Japan, and the Philippines, an area of about 1.5 million square miles, and the tests were not permitted within the 30 to 60 miles coastline range.
But all restrictions become invalid in times of war. War is the loop hole for the weapon manufacturing industry. Bush and Cheney gave the US Navy a permit to use their sonar systems in 75% of the world’s oceans.
A vast dying of sea animals would have a huge impact and domino effect on our ecosystems in the ocean as well as on land. Damage to the eco systems would imply damage to all life on Earth including humans.
The US Navy has been constantly seeking exemptions from the laws they are breaking. They have now modified the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other laws so that they can deploy and test active sonar and other technologies more widely. The Defense Department is becoming exempt from provisions of the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. The Supreme Court keeps on ruling in favor of the US Navy even though the opposition has scientific proof of active sonar's lethal effects on whales.
Bill Clinton and Al Gore had outlawed active sonar during their administration. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama and Joe Biden have given the US Navy permission to deploy and test those destructive active sonar devices. Today the US Navy is even testing the active sonar and other lethal weapons and devices in the Pacific ocean in the socalled North West Training Range. Numerous objections and protests have taken place in court rooms and in written form. But no matter how many people have pleaded with the US Navy and the US government not to deploy and test the destructive devices, the US government allows the use of active sonar and several other highly damaging technologies.
Active sonar is unnecessary and extremely cruel. It can be replaced by satellites, which detect submarines even more accurately, but without doing harm to ocean life. It is important that every person who cares about the whales, the dolphins, all ocean life and the environment, sends letters to President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, senators, governors and congress people to urge them to speak out against the deployment and testing of the active sonar and other destructive devices.
Active sonar and the other life damaging technologies have to be completely outlawed worldwide by the entire International community. This Earth belongs to all of us. Let us protect all life on Earth.
Information sources:
nrdc.org; greenpeaceusa.org; The research paper "Sounding the Depths" written by a panel of international marine biologists warning about the effects of active sonar and under water mining operations, on marine mammals. This research paper is free to download.
By Nicola Grobe
Active sonar is a loudspeaker device which the US Navy uses to detect submarines in the world's oceans. The devices send out a sound as loud as 240 decibels, the same volume as a dynamite blast. It reaches thousands of miles far in every direction in the ocean. Water is an acoustic medium and tests have shown that loud sound can travel from Russia to the Gulf of Mexico and from Heard Island, Australia to Coos Bay, Oregon.
Even 100 miles away from the source, the active sonar has a volume of 160 decibels, loud enough to cause permanent hearing damage in humans. Particularly ocean mammals like whales and dolphins are affected by this sound. When ocean mammals get into the peripheral range of the sound, the active sonar causes them to become disoriented to the degree that they swim into the wrong direction, lose contact to other whales, and it can cause them to wash on shore and die from dehydration. The active sonar sound has the same frequency as the sonar which the whales use to communicate with one another. Their communication is very important for their survival. The whales’ and dolphins' systems are overwhelmed with high volume sounds. Whales experience high stress, hearing loss, reproductive impairments, immune dysfunctions and mental debilitation, if they are exposed to active sonar even in the peripheral range of the sound source.
If the whales are closer to the sound source, they become very scared and rise up to the surface too fast, which causes decompression sickness. Nitrogen in their internal tissue expands and causes injuries to their organs. If they are yet in closer proximity to the active sonar sound source then the sound will cause severe hemorrhage in their organs, particularly in their ear drums and lungs. The blood vessels in their ear drums and lungs burst and cause the animals to bleed to death internally.
Throughout the years the US Navy has conducted active sonar tests in different parts of the world's oceans and everywhere they tested these devices, whales from different species were found dead. Post mortem examinations revealed that the whales had hemorrhaging in ears and lungs.
Against protests, court decisions, and even against environmental laws, the US Navy continues to test active sonar in the oceans. In 2002 a judge pointed out that the Bush administration’s permit for the use of LFA Sonar, which is one of the most lethal types of the active sonar systems, violates a number of federal laws including the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act. The judge also agreed that science clearly demonstrates "the possibility, indeed probability, of irreparable injury" to ocean mammals, if LFA Sonar would be deployed widely.
After one initial court ruling in favor of the environmental organizations, the US Navy was not allowed to test the LFA Sonar system during the whales’ migration periods, the test range was reduced to less than 1% of the originally approved range, and tests were narrowed down to the eastern seaboard of Asia, including China, Korea, Japan, and the Philippines, an area of about 1.5 million square miles, and the tests were not permitted within the 30 to 60 miles coastline range.
But all restrictions become invalid in times of war. War is the loop hole for the weapon manufacturing industry. Bush and Cheney gave the US Navy a permit to use their sonar systems in 75% of the world’s oceans.
A vast dying of sea animals would have a huge impact and domino effect on our ecosystems in the ocean as well as on land. Damage to the eco systems would imply damage to all life on Earth including humans.
The US Navy has been constantly seeking exemptions from the laws they are breaking. They have now modified the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other laws so that they can deploy and test active sonar and other technologies more widely. The Defense Department is becoming exempt from provisions of the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. The Supreme Court keeps on ruling in favor of the US Navy even though the opposition has scientific proof of active sonar's lethal effects on whales.
Bill Clinton and Al Gore had outlawed active sonar during their administration. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama and Joe Biden have given the US Navy permission to deploy and test those destructive active sonar devices. Today the US Navy is even testing the active sonar and other lethal weapons and devices in the Pacific ocean in the socalled North West Training Range. Numerous objections and protests have taken place in court rooms and in written form. But no matter how many people have pleaded with the US Navy and the US government not to deploy and test the destructive devices, the US government allows the use of active sonar and several other highly damaging technologies.
Active sonar is unnecessary and extremely cruel. It can be replaced by satellites, which detect submarines even more accurately, but without doing harm to ocean life. It is important that every person who cares about the whales, the dolphins, all ocean life and the environment, sends letters to President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, senators, governors and congress people to urge them to speak out against the deployment and testing of the active sonar and other destructive devices.
Active sonar and the other life damaging technologies have to be completely outlawed worldwide by the entire International community. This Earth belongs to all of us. Let us protect all life on Earth.
Information sources:
nrdc.org; greenpeaceusa.org; The research paper "Sounding the Depths" written by a panel of international marine biologists warning about the effects of active sonar and under water mining operations, on marine mammals. This research paper is free to download.
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Animal Holistic Health Care
Animal Holistic Health Care
Nicola Grobe
Prologue
On July 7, 2012, a panel of prominent International neuroscientists, cognitive neuroscientists, neuropharmacologists, neurophysiologists, neuroanatomists and computational neuroscientists gathered at the University of Cambridge, U.K. to reassess the neurobiological substrates of conscious experience and related behaviors in animals and humans and they signed their Declaration on Consciousness at the Francis Crick Memorial Conference of Consciousness in Human and Non Human Animals in the presence of Dr. Stephen Hawking.
They found that, although non human animals as well as developmentally impaired humans have problems to communicate brain processes to others, the neural substrates of emotions do not appear to be confined to cortical structures. The same subcortical neural networks aroused during affective states in humans are also critically important for generating emotional behaviors in animals. Artificial arousal of the same brain regions generates corresponding behavior and feeling states in both animals and humans. Instinctual emotional behaviors in animals and humans can bypass the neo cortical processing stages and still function well on their own. Instincts are indeed part of our decision making processes as well as part of our emotions as well as part of our cognitive functions. Instincts are therefore not just robotically mechanistic behavior motivators as believed in the 50s. Subcortical function as observed in animals with much less neo cortex mass applies not only to the automatic nervous system functions like sleep, eating, drinking, fight and flight, but also to some decision making like in nursing infants. These observations lead scientists to conclude that those primal survival mechanisms (and not only those for the survival of one individual but also for the survival of the other as in caretaking) have already existed in animals like early cephalopod mollusks like octopus and other prevertebrate animals. Octopus are much more evolved today with very large brains and complex decision making. Octopus evolved parallel to the animals on land. Birds also developed parallel to mammals while never leaving the bird- or premammal stage of evolutionary development. Therefore some birds have developed more complex brains with larger neo cortices, as seen in African Grey Parrots who are able to learn sign language like primates. Magpie birds who are related to Jays, Crows and Zebra Finches have neuronal sleep patterns including REM sleep similar to those in mammals. Magpies show complex social conduct like self recognition in mirrors equal to elephants, dolphins, whales and primates. Self recognition is a sign of higher cognitive understanding.
The International panel of scientists gathered at The University of Cambridge came to this unanimous conclusion:
"We declare the following: The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that nonhuman animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Nonhuman animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates."
Every person who has ever lived with animals would have already noticed for millennia that the nonhuman land animals are just like humans, they feel the same way, they act very much like them and they communicate similarly through a universal body language, the one that humans also have always used (throughout their pre homo sapiens stages as well). Whales and dolphins have developed a much more complex language than the human languages. According to recent research Humpback whales are more evolved than humans. They have higher cognitive functions and higher ethical understanding than humans have. Dr. Jack Kassewitz is currently developing a bridge language system in order to learn the whale language and be able to communicate back to the whales. When they will be able to understand much of what the whales and dolphins are saying then humans can learn from the cetaceans.
Dogs, pigs and horses for example also have this ability to love unconditionally and help each other as well as help other species.
Hierarchical human systems throughout history have ordered animals under humans out of greed. The animals were not able to defend themselves against their enslavement. The same hierarchical power systems then utilized superstition and religion to manipulate the populous body and to facilitate their self made hierarchies further and dictate them to society.
Most human societies today have surpassed those stone age states of social development. Today we have the opportunity to make further progress by acknowledging that the matters on Earth are not only the matters of the humans but instead they are the matters of all Earthians. This Declaration on Consciousness can therefore be seen as an official stage setting for the new era of love and kindness for all living beings equally.
Animal Holistic Health Care
Animals and humans can heal old wounds through a loving environment, through being understood, being respected, through never being left alone for any length of time, and through loving care. Dogs who had been abused and were rescued by loving persons will heal their physical and emotional wounds through unconditional love. It is very important to be extremely patient when rescuing dogs who are hiding somewhere. Always stay with them or near them until they begin to trust you more and accept food and water. Then you can gently put a leash on them and lead them to the hospital, shelter or your home so that they can begin the healing process.
I highly recommend to people to rescue a dog, cat or other animal from a shelter, because all of those homeless animals are desperately waiting for a good person to bring them home, protect and love them. Many of the animals in shelters are euthanized in order for the shelter staff to take in more suffering animals. A painfree death is better than suffering, this is a very critical priority. But we can rescue the dogs on death row from having their lives ended too soon. If all humans adopted dogs from shelters then the euthanasia of healthy dogs waiting for a home would not be necessary any longer. I recommend to have not more than 4 dogs or 4 cats at home because too many animals in a home is overwhelming for the animals as well as for the caregivers. It depends on the size of the home and on whether you have employees to help you. If you got a large house and a staff then you can adopt more animals if you like. Important is that the animals are happy and healthy. Wild animals belong into the wild places or sanctuaries which are very large territories of hundreds of acres.
Dogs evolved from wolves around 100 000 years ago according to current scientific data. Neanderthals became extinct somewhere around 32 000 years ago according to the latest discoveries of Neanderthal bones found in Europe and Asia. It is likely that both, the Cro Magnon from Africa and the Neanderthal from Europe had a symbiotic relationship with wolves through hunting together, sharing food together, and nursing puppies and babies together. Human babies have been nursed by wolves and wolf babies have been nursed by humans.
Dogs in warmhearted households have nothing to fear today and out of this ideal situation grows the Buddha nature, their signature character, the infinite love they have for us humans and all other animals. Therefore hierarchy is disappearing among dogs. My dog Kenny for example willingly shared his food with Carmen who was rescued in Mexico, and Carmen shared the food with him. It touched me deeply when I watched them eat together.
Horses in the wild places are happy and they should be left alone. Horses who live with loving humans have it good, too and probably even better because they are totally protected. Horses need 10 acres of land at least when they are a group of up to 5. If they are more than 5 then they need much more land to graze and roam on. All animals (dogs, wolves, coyotes, foxes, cats, horses, cows, pigs, goats, sheep, rats, guinea pigs, hamsters, ground animals, rabbits, birds, even reptiles and fish and many more) need to be together with other animals all the time. Every animal should have a friend or friends to socialize with and it does not matter if the friends are other species.
People who have horses can build horse groups by sharing their meadows with other horse owners. Two or more horse owners can bring their horses to the same meadow so that the horses can be living as a family. It is very efficient to allow the horses to graze on one meadow while the other meadows are recovering and growing new grass. That way the horses can be brought to a fresh meadow with new and high grass after the last meadow had been grazed short. Horses are herd animals and highly social. They like to be together with other horses. They like to eat together, run together and they like to groom each other. Ask your neighbors with horses if they would like to form a horse community. If you can't find anyone else who has a horse, you can ask someone with other herd animals like cows, goats, sheep or pigs to let them graze together with your horse. It will make your horse feel so much better to have another animal to socialize with and it will make the pig, cow, sheep or goat feel good to be brought to your horse who is a new friend for them. No animal should ever be lonely. All animals need friends.
Guinea pigs living in the wild places in South America are very nervous because of hawks and other predators hunting them. Guinea pigs move forward in very abrupt, jerky, jolted movements, they are terrified when they leave their underground caves. Are they happy? I don't think so. Happier than in a laboratory for certain. But not happy like they should be. Every being on Earth deserves to be happy. I had 3 guinea pigs at different times, each living with me in my bedroom when I still lived with my parents. I spent a lot of time with each guinea pig, kissing them, cuddling them, and letting them sleep next to me under the blanket which they loved, that gave them the feeling of a cave. Each guinea pig would make happy sounds when sitting on my chest, or in bed next to me, they would chirp like a bird, they would whistle, they would sing to me songs of love. And my guinea pigs did not move in jerky movements. Instead they walked curiously around the room and sometimes they would jump out of happiness. They were totally relaxed, they grew up with love and knew nothing else. That is the paradise which I am talking about. Every being on Earth or in the eternal universe deserves to live in a paradise free from fear, receiving unconditional love and lots of gentle physical touch.
Guinea pigs need regular nail trimming. Take the Guinea pig to the veterinarian for nail trimming and learn how to trim the nails yourself as well. Black nails don't show where the blood vessels begin. You have to be very careful and cut only a very short piece from the top of the nail. The same applies to dogs' toenails. Some dogs are scared of having their toenails clipped. We sit with our dog, one holds him by the collar and gently pets him and gently talks to him while the other person trims the nails with a nail clipper for dogs, always paying close attention to the blood vessels inside the toenails and not to cut into the capillaries or nerve endings. I recommend to always cut only the very tip of the toenail off with the right size nail clipper according to the size of the toenails.
The best material for the pets’ living territory and litter box is dried and finely shredded and soft greenery material like tree twigs and leaves from your garden. You can ask an arborist (tree specialist), if you can have shredded greenery material for free, or you can trade him something for it, or pay a small amount. The arborist has a shredding machine. I recommend this material from people's gardens, because it has not been treated with any chemicals.
Rabbits and guinea pigs are vegan and love to eat carrots, lettuce, apples, alfalfa hay and pellets, pears, raw cucumbers, parsley, rhubarb, horseradish, etc. They like to have a tree branch to chew on, a salt stone and a fresh water bottle with a drinking tube. Have a water bowl for your pet as well just in case the drinking tube of the bottle is clogged. Pets should never be given sweets, meat or dairy products, because it can make them sick. Rabbits learn quite fast to use a litter box as a toilet. Guinea pigs and rats can not be potty trained. Build them a large territory to live in. But also let them out on the lawn sometimes during the summer time and only during the day when its warm and safe. Give them a place where there is the option for shade as well. It is not healthy for them to be exposed to sun light for too long, they should always be able to retreat to an area that is protected from the sun. Generally have them live in the warm and safe house with you.
If you want to buy a dog, please do not buy the dog from a pet store, because pet stores get their dogs from puppy mills, where they are bred and raised under inhumane conditions. Puppy mills only care about money and not about their dogs. Puppy mill dogs have to live in unsanitary surroundings, are fed poorly, are never handled or petted, and they have insufficient room to move around. A lot of the dogs from puppy mills are neurotic and traumatized and their mother dogs are kept in small cages. A puppy mill is like a factory farm where animals are treated more like merchandise than living animals.
You can rescue an animal from an animal shelter which is always the best solution. If you buy a dog from a breeder then make sure that he has only a few dogs living in his home. Make sure that the breeder gives the mother dogs several years of recovery time after each litter and that he does not breed them more than 3 times during her life time. Let the breeder show you the parents, so you can judge for yourself how their offspring will most likely act and look like. Choose only kindhearted and mellow dog families. Talk to the breeder on the phone. The breeders who are not in a rush and who are patient and who answer all of your questions with a warm, welcoming and friendly voice and who don't use the words "sir" or "maam" are the better breeders. Drive to the breeder with your car in order to pick up your puppy. I recommend Not to have the puppy flown in by air plane in a box because it terrifies the dogs and it is cruel. Many dogs have been physically and emotionally injured through being transported in air planes. Some of them have died. Therefore it should be outlawed to transport dogs in air plane cargo areas. Instead the air lines should have specific flights with dogs where the dogs can be together with the human passengers in the passenger areas and where they have large grass planters as dog toilets, where they have water and food for them and where they can be petted during the flight so that they don't have to be afraid.
For travelling in general I don’t recommend bringing pets along in commercial air planes. Small pets can be transported in the passenger areas, but even this is very stressful for the animals. I highly advise people to not confine animals in cages or crates for any length of time. Cages cause trauma.
Adjust your travelling to your pet’s needs. As long as you have animals which depend on you like dogs in particular, choose pet safe travelling like travelling by car, RV, yacht, private air plane or helicopter. Some kennels and pet hotels can be very stressful, traumatic, and can spread diseases. Therefore if you for some reason can not bring the animal along, I highly recommend close relatives or very good friends who love your animals, to baby sit for them.
To transport your small animal, you can use a cardboard carrier made for cats or a soft baglike cat carrier. When you transport any animal, large or small, in a car, truck, SUV, or RV, make sure the temperature in your vehicle does not exceed 85 degrees Fahrenheit. Animals are a lot more sensitive to heat than people are. They can overheat easily. Install a digital thermometer in your vehicle and monitor the temperature. Leave at least 2 windows half open for ventilation. Have a water bowl filled with water accessible for your animal. Make sure that the pet does not wait too long for you in your vehicle. I don’t recommend letting your dog wait for more than 1 hour while shopping. Avoid bringing your dog along in the car during excessively hot temperatures.
I know someone whose dog was once stolen while he was shopping. The people cut open the mosquito screen of the motorhome window and pulled his dog out. He was looking for the dog and someone told him where the dog was, he went to their door and kicked against it, two children opened the door and his dog was tied to a butcher table. He saved his dog in the nick of time. Because of those risks it is better to travel with another human who can stay with the animals in the RV or car while one is shopping. Those cultures who still to this modern day and age eat dogs, need to abandon this habit right away. This is the same as eating humans. I personally find eating mammals in general abhorrent because I deeply care about all beings. I also care about birds, reptiles and amphibians. No animal should suffer in order to be put on someone's dish. I like what Dr. Schulze says "Don't eat anything that has a face", and face means any organism that has at least a mouth opening. Dr. Schulze points out that eating animal proteins is dangerous for our health because it can clog up the arteries and cause heart attacks.
All animals need exercise just like humans. They need to be able to run, stretch out, play and have fresh air. Dogs like to hike for miles in nature. Make sure your pet has pure water to drink at all times on walks and at home. Water sources are sometimes polluted with chemicals. That’s why it is important to run the water through a good water filter. Allowing the animals to sleep as much as they want to is important for their health. Animals who sleep more live much longer. Same applies to humans.
It is important to keep your home, your pet’s litter box, bed, etc., clean and sanitary. I recommend natural cleaners and detergents. Cleaning agents containing chlorine bleach, ammonia or other sythetic solvents are toxic for pets, humans and the environment. Chlorine pollutes the groundwater and the ocean and kills any kind of living cell including skin cells. Ammonia and other synthetic solvents can break open cell walls in living organisms.
Health food stores and some regular grocery stores offer alternative and safe bleach made with oxygen based ingredients, sodium bicarbonate, salts and enzymes. Dishwashing liquids, toilet cleaners, bath tub cleaners, and laundry detergents which contain only plant based, biodegradable cleaning agents are safe for your pet and your children, they are safe for the environment and they smell good.
All pesticides are hazardous. I strongly recommend to everyone to Never buy any kind of pesticide whether it is a home or gardening product or flee and tick repellent. Pesticides encompass several different chemical categories: Herbicides (used to kills weeds), insecticides (used to kill insects), fungicides (used to control molds and fungi), and rodenticides (used to kill rodents). All pesticides including flea collars and liquid flea and tick repelling agents are toxic and can cause serious life threatening illnesses in animals and humans.
Recent scientific studies involving laboratory animals show that many pesticides damage the developing brain and nervous system. Scientists have discovered that some pesticides have the ability to mimic or compete with those hormones involved with development and functioning. Pesticides affect the hypothalamic catecholamine systems, which are the pathways critical for the control of movement (nigrostriatal dopaminergic systems) and for complex cognitive functions (mesocorticolimbic dopaminergic systems). Neurodegenerative dysfunctions caused by pesticides and associated with these systems include Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia and attention deficit disorder, ADD.
The insect repelling agent DEET, which is very common on the market today, has been proven to be toxic and unsafe to use. The Pesticide Information Project of Cornell University, Michigan State University, Oregon State University, and University of California at Davis, reports that laboratory rats killed by DEET (N,N-diethyl-3-methyl-benzamide or N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide) with applied dosages in the LD50 range showed lacrimation, chromodacryorrhea, depression, prostration, tremors, and asphyxial convulsions. Respiratory failure usually preceded cardiac failure.
Laboratory rabbits died from an intravenous dosage of 75 mg/kg. Animals topically exposed to DEET have developed dermal and ocular reactions including erythema, desquamation and scarring in rabbits and profuse sweating, irritation and exfoliation in horses. Ocular application of either diluted (30 or 40 percent DEET) or undiluted DEET in rabbits has produced edema, eye infection, pus and clouding in the eyes.
Soldiers who applied solutions containing 50% to 75% DEET on to their skin, reported large painful blisters and permanent scarring of skin at the crease of the elbow. DEET causes a variety of reactions in humans including rashes, irritation of skin/mucous membranes, and encephalopathy. A 3 year old girl developed encephalopathy after exposure to a solution containing 15% DEET, sprayed on her bedding every night for 2 weeks. Symptoms of encephalopathy caused by DEET are agitation, weakness, disorientation, ataxia, seizures, coma, and in three cases resulted in death. Autopsies conducted on two fatalities indicated edema of the brain, with one case presenting necrotic lesions in the cerebellum and spinal cord and an enlarged liver accompanied by microscopic changes.
Exposure to DEET has also caused psychosis characterized by aggressive behavior, delusions and hyperactivity in human adults. DEET in laboratory animals’ systems affects the reproductive organs, it increases mutation in offspring, causes organ toxicity, and increases the risk of tumor growth. Studies by oncologists Dr. Lennart Hardell and Mikail Eriksson of Sweden have determined clear links between the herbicide glyphosate to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma cancer. Glyphosate is commonly known as >Roundup<. A recent study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute revealed that dog owners who treat their lawns with weed killers containing 2,4-D, double and triple the probability of their pet to develop cancer. Glyphosate has therefore been taken off the market and made illegal to use in many European countries including Germany.
It is illegal in California and Oregon to burn trash items like plastics, metals, and hazardous waste. Open burning of garbage poses health risks to those exposed to the smoke. It especially affects animals and humans with sensitive respiratory systems, as well as children and the elderly. In the short term, exposure to smoke can cause headaches, nausea, and rashes. Over time, it can increase the risk of developing heart disease. Some of the pollutants contained in the smoke from burning of garbage can include Dioxins, Furans, Arsenic, Mercury, PCBs, Lead, Carbon monoxide, Nitrogen oxides, Sulphur oxides, and Hydrochloric acid. Many of those listed chemicals are being released through burning of plastics, metals and hazardous waste including wood and tree materials which had been treated with pesticides like glyphosate and other highly carcinogenic toxins.
It is not necessary to treat bark beatle infestations with glyphosate injections or other applications. The treatment will not prevent bark beatle infestations from being reduced. Burning of wood treated with glyphosate will not eliminate the problems and instead will increase them through spreading mold spores and other pathogens from the infected trees as well as contaminating the air even further with toxic chemicals and affect not only plants but also animal and human health. The drastic pesticide increase since 1950 has created an increase of cancers including testicular cancer by over 300 percent. (Cancer Research UK, and other websites around the world).
What causes the insect infestations, fungus and other infections in trees and other plants? A healthy tree or other plant has a highly functioning immune system and it can defend itself against any type of pathogen or insect. The problem occurs when the tree or other plant is permanently exposed to environmental pollutants like automobile exhaust from gasoline, coal burning, radiation, and toxic dust particles and gases. Over time, ususally over long term exposure for decades, certain plant species will become overwhelmed with the permanent exposure to toxic air and their immune systems will not be able to keep up with the defense against the toxins. When that happens the plant will not be able to keep itself free from mold and fungus infections. When the fungus spreads inside of the plant then the plant will not be able to defend itself against parasitic invasions like bark beetles and other pest insects. This is the last stage of a plant's immune dysfunction. Much has to happen before this takes place. When a plant is very sick its visible for us humans but then its often too late for the plant or even the entire plant species. For example Port Orford Cedar trees have been infected along the entire North West coast. Many plant species do not have the genetic disposition to handle pollution.
What can be done about this problem of plants dying from illness? Each person can do their part to reduce the risks of trees and other plants dying. Driving less, bicycling more, walking more when possible, more passengers in one car to get from A to B, local shopping, local business, trading more like trading work for food or services, less energy consumption, clean energy use, electric motorvehicle use, no trash burning at any time and any place, recycling, composting, no use of pesticides nor chemical fertilizers, making your own healthy soil from compost, less material consumption, less packaging, reusing items, buying eco friendly products, using only plant based soaps for household, only plant based shampoos, no glitter items because they end up in the ocean and inside of ocean animals causing them health problems, no bleach use, natural hair conditioners only, plant based hair coloring only, growing plants that are native to local area, growing different plant species side by side with others to ensure healthy diversity and a reduced risk of infestations, less meat comsumption because life stock animals are a major cause of pollution, vegetarian food is great and vegan food is the best and the healthiest, use of recycled paper and cardboard, use of cloth shopping bags instead of paper and plastic bags, never cutting trees because each tree ensures the health of the air and eco system, plants are natural air detoxifyers but they are overwhelmed when exposed to too many toxins for too long.
There are alternative insect repelling agents like herbal flee collars and other safe products on the market which you can find in health food stores and sometimes in regular grocery stores. Many herbs repel flees, ticks and mosquitoes. Among the most popular ones are Rosemary, Clove, Peppermint, Citronella, Eucalyptus, Sage, and Cedar. Make sure that you read the ingredients on the product container and buy products which contain only plant based ingredients.
Gardening is possible without pesticides. A variety of plants cultivated side by side balance the soil. Marigold and tomato planted in between your plants help to repel insects. Ladybugs eat small invasive insects. A blend of water, biodegradable soap, hot peppers like cayenne, garlic, onions, olive oil, marigold, vinegar, whole grain flour, peppermint leaves- or oil and tomato sprinkled on the plants and soil repels insects and snails. This blend can be diluted with up to 80% water. Build a compost area and let the worms transform decomposable material into rich soil for your plants. This healthy soil will boost your plants’ immune system. Your plants will be much stronger to fend off insects and molds. The key for a healthy garden and healthy animals living in the garden is a balanced eco system. To balance the flora and fauna we have to keep everything the way nature works by itself without mixing in synthetic particles of any kind. Any time artificial things have been applied to natural systems, problems have occurred in some form or another and that's why it is critical to leave systems free from anything unnatural whether its your garden, your dog or yourself.
People who have septic tanks will never have to hire a sewer pump service when they allow the worms in the septic tank to stay healthy. The worms decompose everything biodegradable in the septic tank in a short time. Never use chlorine bleach on anything, never bleach hair with conventional hair coloring or bleach, never use ammonia solvents, never use anything that is toxic for life forms. Live healthy and without drugs of any sort if possible. Use alternative hair coloring solutions like Henna which comes in all colors. Use chamomille, sodium bicarbonate and hydrogenperoxide for bleaching hair, those are safer chemicals. But I recommend not to bleach hair, its still hard on the worm-, hair- and skin cells. Henna is the safest. Use plant perfumes instead of synthetic chemical perfumes. Use fluoride free herbal toothpaste like the one made by Weleda. You can buy them on the Internet. Wash dogs with sodium bicarbonate dissolved in water. For a gallon of water all is needed are about 5 tea spoons of sodium bicarbonate powder mixed into the water. Shower dog with warm water, pour the solution on whole dog, gently massage into fur, then rinse.
Going green, clean and holistic is the solution. Problems are only solved through lots of researching on the Internet, in libraries, or schools. There is always a safe solution out there which does not harm any life form. I recommend reading herbology books to learn about the vast abundance of locally and wild growing plants which offer not only remedies to everything but real solid medical healing solutions, gardening solutions, and life style solutions.
There are two dog breeds which are unhealthy: The Basset Hound and the English Bulldog. The Basset Hound has back problems because of the long and heavy back. The English Bulldog has breathing difficulties because of the set back nose. I don't recommend supporting the breeding of these 2 breeds. There are rescue organizations for specific breeds which can tell you where you can adopt the dog of your choice.
In general I don't recommend buying dogs from breeders because this supports the cycle of continued breeding of unhealthy breeds, overpopulation and too much suffering. If at all, breeding Great Danes with Mastino Neapolitanos would make the set back muzzle longer in Mastinos and it would shorten the long legs of the Great Danes. The outcome will certainly be a healthier and sturdier dog.
I highly recommend that a female dog does not give birth more than 3 times in her life time and that she has several years in between the litters. Animal saftey comes first. Business second. Breeding animals should never be regarded as an income producing business. It should be viewed as art and beauty instead. I always recommend for the animals to have real sex with their partner and not to be inseminated through in vitro sperm. Animals have feelings and needs just like humans have and we have the responsibility to make sure that they live their lives happily and wholesomely. Only people who have lots of time should at all consider breeding dogs or other animals. When you have a busy schedule you should absolutely spay and neuter your pets. Pets are happy when they are spayed and neutered. Their sexual desires will be dissolved and they will not suffer nor run off needing a mate.
If you have a puppy and want to potty train him, take him to a lawn or garden frequently and praise him with gentle words, petting and treats when he made poopoo or pipi. If he made inside the house, don't punish him. Don't talk harshly to him, do not put his nose into his eliminations (this old school technique does not work), and do not hit him, don't do any form of physical and psychological punishment. All that scares him very much and can traumatize him. Dogs know when someone says mean things, they are very sensitive to bad energies and it makes them depressed just like it makes humans depressed. Take him outside quickly without being mad. Walk around with him whether he goes or not and bring the droppings (which he had made in the house) outside so that he can learn where the poop is supposed to be. Praise him every time he eliminates outside. Always wait a while until he made pee or poo outside and to make sure that he is finished before going back into the house. Then he will learn that he can make pee and poo only outside, he will learn to wait until walking into the garden and he will not need to go so soon again once he is back in the house. It's good to walk the puppy around the garden or park about every hour. This is often not easy if you are working. You can take turns with your friends or family to walk the puppy outdoors. If you are alone, make sure you don't have anything else to do so you can really concentrate on giving your puppy the training she or he needs. It may take a couple of weeks.
If the dog is older or was already trained for a while, but made in the house again, just repeat the gentle training by taking her outside and showing her where she is supposed to go. Female puppies generally learn housetraining faster than male puppies. Be always patient and systematic in this loving housetraining. Every day spent with your puppy going out every hour will be worth the effort. Your puppy will have learned and he will be thankful to you that you were so patient with him. Some breeds learn faster than others.
Find out what breed works best for your circumstances. Allow the dog the time she needs to learn. We trained a deaf dog and the training time was much longer than it would be with normal hearing dogs. When dogs have no hearing we have to communicate with them through sign language which also has to be taught at the same time which makes a whole lot more learning material. Deaf dogs are also more scared than hearing dogs.
We noticed that Kenny was more frightened of the dark outside in the garden each time after receiving a vaccination. We know that vaccinations contain mercury which is the second most toxic substance on the planet. Statistics show that there might likely be a connection between mercury intake and autism. Mercury is a component of amalgam dental fillings and pharma medication. (I always request the white mercury free composite fillings). Vaccines can contain: Ethylmercury which is a component in the preservative Thimerosal, this is the most toxic substance in vaccines; Aluminum; MSG which stands for Monosodium Glutamate; 2-phenoxy-ethanol. All of those chemicals are unsafe for use. Mercury causes neurodegenerative diseases. Aluminum can cause Alzheimer's Disease. MSG is processed free glutamic acid which can damage the intestinal lining of animals and people who are gluten intolerant. 2-phenoxy-ethanol has caused cell mutation in laboratory animals and led to reproductive dysfunctions.
Someone has to be there with the puppy all the time to train him and be there as the human surrogate mother. Puppies must never be left alone, not even for a short time just like human babies. Dogs need your company at all times and suffer when you leave them alone. It is like having human babies, and the dogs never mature in the way humans do. It is a big responsibility to bring a dog into one's life. Make sure that this form of motherhood will be compatible with your life style, work, housing, travels, or plans for the future.
Dogs, cats and all other house pets must always live with you inside your home, because they are social beings just like humans and they need to be close to you. Pets need to be kept warm in the winter time. Short haired animals need the home extra warm. Check their ears, if the ears are cold they need a warmer room temperature. Cover them with a blanket at night. Give your rabbit, cat or dog a warm, padded and soft bed to sleep on. The bed needs to be large so that the animal can stretch out. Puppies need to sleep about 95% of the day time and all of the night time. Allow dogs to have a safe, quiet and shaded room and soft bed to sleep in at all times. Give them much space, time and privacy and don't disturb their sleep because the sleep is the foundation of their health. Same applies to animals and humans.
Dogs in particular like to sleep near you. The closer you are physically to your dog the better the dog feels. According to statistical evaluations done in recent years by different scientific studies, humans who sleep in bed with their dogs are much healthier than those who don't sleep with dogs. (This is often misunderstood and that is why I have to clarify this information: Sleeping in bed with another living being does not mean sex. It only means physical closeness for well being.)
In the article >The Power of Petting< on the website TheCatSite.com, Brad Kollus writes: "Dr. Johannes Odendaal, Research Professor of the Life Sciences Research Institute, and author of Pets and Our Mental Health, along with his colleagues conducted experiments taking blood from humans and dogs, both while the person petted the dog and before. They measured the change in several neurochemcials found in the brain including; Dopamine, Oxytocin, Prolactin, Beta-endorphin, and Norepinehrine all of which directly influence such feelings and emotions of exhilaration, positive excitement, pleasurable experiences, social bonding, sense of well-being and contentment, and feelings of comfort and security. In addition, they measured another chemical, Cortisol, which increases during stress and can have a negative effect upon the immune system, leaving the body open the illnesses. Their results were amazing. They found statistically significant increases in all the positive brain chemicals, in both the human and the dog, while the person petted the dog, as well as a decrease in the chemical Cortisol. Would petting a cat reveal the same results? "The answer is yes. In the context of petting a cat where blood pressure decreases, it is expected that the same neurochemical changes in the brain would have taken place - not because of the decreased blood pressure, but as part of the complex physiological processes taking place during positive interaction," said Dr. Odendaal."
In a paper written by Coppola, Grandin and Enns about >Human interaction and cortisol: Can human contact reduce stress for shelter dogs?<, on March 30, 2006, at the Department of Animal Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA, the scientists are stating: "Animal shelters are an extremely stressful environment for a dog, most specifically due to social isolation and novel surroundings. The stress response of dogs housed in this environment may be alleviated through human interaction shortly after arrival. During their second day in a public animal shelter, adult stray dogs were either engaged in a human contact session or not. The session involved taking the dog into an outdoor enclosure, playing with the dog, grooming, petting and reviewing basic obedience commands. Each dog interacted with a human for approximately 45 min. Salivary cortisol levels were examined from each dog on their 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 9th day of housing. Animals that engaged in a human contact session had lower cortisol levels on day 3 than animals that did not. Breed type, sex and age did not have an effect on cortisol levels on any day measured. A human interaction session can be beneficial to both animal welfare and adoption procedures. The current study not only utilized the human contact session as a treatment to reduce stress but also as a resource for individual temperament/personality information that could be later used to facilitate compatible adoptions. Human interaction may be an effective means of reducing the cortisol response of dogs in the aversive shelter environment."
All animals love to be petted and cuddled. Gentle touch is absolutely crucial for the survival of all animals. Always pet them gently, never pat or scratch them hard and never drum on them. Teach your children to be very gentle with the animals. Don't allow your children to be rough with them.
Research has proven that mammal babies can die without the mother's touch and embrace. Harry Harlow conducted unethical studies with Rhesus monkeys in the 50s and 60s in which many monkey babies died because of isolation. All animals get very depressed if they are deprived of adequate social interaction.
"Dogs (like people) are social animals, yet more than 200,000 dogs live empty lives chained or tethered outdoors. Tied-up outside, dogs become lonely, bored, and anxious, and they can develop aggressive behaviors. Bring a dog inside (or help a chained dog in your neighborhood) and you’ll keep everyone safer." (Humane Society of the United States).
Allow animals to take their time to explore their surroundings and let them interact with other animals. Animals are very sensitive and can become easily frightened by people fighting or shouting. Speak gently with animals and around them.
The same applies to police dogs. Police dogs who have been petted, socialized, never punished, and who live always with their caregivers in their homes are not afraid, have higher intelligence, are not dangerous, have more courage, and are functioning better in their profession as police dogs. All animals should be used only for services which they enjoy doing, they should never be forced to do something which they are afraid of and which puts them at risk or makes them aggressive. Scientific research has come to the conclusion today that service dogs of all sorts including police dogs are doing much better when they have been loved and cared for their entire lives living inside the house with people. Dogs should never be working in war zones nor in detention camps anywhere around the planet. The training of dogs for intimidating prisoners of war is unethical for the dogs and humans involved. The artist Fernando Botero was so shocked and sad when he saw the photos taken by a journalist in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in which they used dogs to scare the prisoners during interrogations, that he made a series of large wall size paintings of those images that he saw in the photos in order to bring this information to the public and shed light onto those atrocities.
I mentioned in my prologue that whales and dolphins are highly intelligent animals, many of them are more intelligent than the most intelligent human. Their language is more complex than any language on land. Dolphins and whales should never live in swimming pools of any size and they should never be held captive in any type of pool neither an artificial pool nor a natural pool or lagoon. Dolphins and whales need to swim with high speed each day for hundreds of miles in the wide ocean in order to stay healthy physically and mentally. Capturing them is extremely cruel and each person can help them by Not supporting amusement parks where they are held captive and made to perform for audiences. Many of the animals have become crazy and depressed to the point where they committed suicide or killed trainers out of total despair.
Marine mammals need to be allowed to sleep without being disturbed by spectators with their cameras. We have seen people go way too close to the sea lions when they are sleeping on the docks. We have seen people throw things at them. I heard today that a dolphin died after people lifted him out of the water for their own amusement. This is extreme cruelty. People need to know that marine mammals are not fish, they are mammals who give birth and nurse just like dogs, wolves, humans and horses. Dolphins are highly sensitive animals, they can go into a shock state where they stop breathing. Never do anything like that to dolphins. They should be left in peace. And when a dolphin comes up to us that is a huge honor and we should treat her with utmost respect, gentle care and love.
If you see a marine mammal with a fishing net band embedded in her neck you can call the Marine Mammal Centers and ask them to rescue the animal.
Please spay and neuter your cats and dogs. Every animal species has their own age limit for spaying and neutering. Check on Google to find the information about what the ideal age is to neuter or spay your animal. They have to be healthy and have normal weight to have surgeries done.
Any surgery on animals is traumatic. Please do not have your dog's or cat's ears, tails or dewclaws (thumbs) cut off. Surgery causes a shock to the animal's system. It is cruel. Cosmetic surgery on animals is against the law in several countries. It has been against the law in Germany for many years. Dog shows world wide do not require ear and tail cropping any longer because of the countries which don't accept it and because of the activism for the animals. Ethics comes before fashion.
If dogs and cats breed out of control their kittens and puppies end up on the streets hungry, neglected, full of parasites, dirty, lonely and sick. They fill the animal shelters where veterinarians have to give them lethal injections because they can not accommodate so many stray, neglected and lost cats and dogs. Spaying female dogs reduces stress and discomfort, eliminates the risk of uterine cancer, and greatly reduces the risk of mammary cancer. Neutering male dogs decreases their urge to roam and fight, and it prevents prostrate enlargements, prostrate cancer, and testicular cancer. I recommend sitting with the pet at the veterianary clinic during and after surgery to make sure that the animal feels safe.
Sterilizations are more dangerous for small pets than for larger ones, so it would be better to avoid the operations for hamsters, mice, guinea pigs, rabbits, and other small pets except for rats. Pet rats can interbreed with wild rats and that causes overpopulation of rats. So it might be a good idea to spay and neuter rats. In general its great to let vegan pets live together with others of their own gender. If you get 2 rabbits, make sure they are both either female or both male to prevent them from having babies, because they can multiply fast and then it becomes a problem for the animals and the caretakers. Animals are happier and healthier when they are not crowded. The best is to keep a rabbit and a guinea pig in the same territory regardless of their gender because they can not interbreed and they make good friends. Rats can be a bit aggressive and rape guinea pigs, I have seen it, so rats and guinea pigs are not good together. Hamsters might be better suited for living with rats but its good to monitor them to see how they are getting along. If the rat is too rambunctious then its better to separate them. I recommend to never buy a pet for your child for Christmas for example if the kid thinks its just a toy to play with. The child has to be willing to take good care of the animal whether its a dog, rabbit or rat for example. Mothers and fathers have to adopt the animal into their households not as their kid's toy but as a family member and equal to their own child. Adopting animals is just like adopting another human being. They have the same feelings, needs and nervous systems.
Always train your animal gently. When you walk your dog, always speak gently to her and keep the leash shorter when other dogs approach or people with children, or when you and your dog cross a street. Always make sure no car is coming. Keep yourself between your dog and the street to protect her when you walk her on the side walk. Train your dog to walk steadily next to you through short intermittent and gentle tugging on the leash to get the dog's attention. Quick tugs on the leash is better communication than long and hard pulling. Short tugging on the leash is less harsh on the neck and alerts the dog to stop when she is pulling fast or wants to wander off. Have a little slack in the leash for the dog to know that he is walking well and always praise him with gentle words when he is doing what you asked him to do. Giving dog treats when they are walking well also makes the dogs feel better and it makes them more motivated.
Dogs don't understand why a person is mad at them. They will have a "guilty" look on their faces because they are worried about the person being mad at them and not because they know that they did something wrong. All they know is that the situation they are in has caused the person to be angry before, so they are worried that they will be punished. Never ever beat or yell at your dogs. They don't understand what you want from them. Teach your dog through gentle and motivating techniques like with a treat or gentle words and gentle petting. Never laugh about your dog and never ridicule your dog. Dogs can feel it when they are being ridiculed. Always respect your dogs, always love them and always be kind to them. Anyone who develops a negative attitude or is overwhelmed with the situation should right away give the dog to someone who really wants to live with a dog, or give the dog to the local animal shelter. Living with dogs requires a full commitment, infinite love and patience.
Choke chain collars of any kind are cruel, because they poke into dogs’ necks. I don't recommend collars with inside nor outside spikes. Outside beads that are rounded are ok. Good dog collars are either harnesses which go around the chest and also head harnesses which prevent the dog from pulling. The pulling pressure would be on top of the muzzle and it works like the halter for a horse without a mouth piece. I use only halters without a mouth piece for horses because its not necessary for the horse to have a metal piece in his mouth. The halter or harness which fits snug but loose enough to be comfortable, is perfect by itself for communication with the horse. In general for dog neck collars I recommend very wide collars. All collars have to fit loosely enough to be comfortable. Four fingers should fit easily under the collar or harness. I recommend collars, harnesses, halters and leashes made out of nylon material or nylon coated with an imitation leather. This material is strong, lasts for a long time and is not made from animal skins.
Remote training collars which use electric shocks traumatize the dogs’ neck areas. Dogs can develop a high sensitivity in the neck areas and a light touch on their necks can make them twitch heavily.
There are remote training collars which only use sound and vibrations. Those are ok and its worth trying to teach the dogs with those collars if you are going to the beach and letting your dogs run loose. That way they can learn to come back when you wave them towards you.
Buy snacks designed for the pet you have. The American Veterinary Medical Association states that chocolate and Xylitol are toxic for dogs. Canine ingestion of Xylitol, a sweetener found in certain sugar free chewing gums, candies, baked goods and other products, promotes the release of insulin and causes hypoglycemia, also called sugar crash. The ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center cautions animal owners that Xylitol can cause serious and even life threatening problems for pets. According to Dr. Eric Dunayer, veterinarian and toxicologist for the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center, dogs ingesting Xylitol develop a fairly sudden drop in blood sugar resulting in depression, loss of coordination and seizures. Liver damage has been linked with Xylitol. Even small doses of Xylitol have caused health problems in dogs. Please keep candy, gum or other foods containing Xylitol as well as all other toxic substances out of the reach of pets. Candy and raisins can also cause illness in dogs. White sugar and white flour is unhealthy for animals and people. Be careful during the Halloween time because of candy and parties. Tell your children not to give animals candy or cookies.
Buy dry dog food in pellet form containing vegetables, fish, chicken and turkey. It is healthier than canned dog food. Canned food causes tartar sediments on your dog's teeth and sometimes digestive problems. Be careful when you choose your dog food in general because most cheap dog food contains mainly genetically modified corn and the meat in most dry dog foods consists mainly of animal byproducts as well as meat and bonemeal which come from the slaughter industry. It may also come from rendering plants where dead animals like euthanized pets, dead wild animals, and road kill are being recycled into different products.
BSE, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also called mad cow disease, is caused by animals eating meat products made out of animals which also have been fed animal meat products in a perpetuated cycle. Cows are vegan animals and they are given pellets made out of dead animals which is particularly dangerous because cows have not evolved to digest meat properly. This cycle of rendered animal protein ingestion produced a protein called Prion which docks onto the molecules of neurons causing the neurons to become dysfunctional and eventually necrotic. The Prion protein destroys the animals' brains and the animals begin to fall over and can not walk any longer which causes severe suffering. This disease can affect all mammals including humans. Its imperative to read the list of ingredients on the label of the dog food bags. If it says meat byproducts or meat and bonemeal one should not buy it.
Dogs need calcium, vitamin D, the amino acids L-carnitine and taurine, vitamin A, and cats also need arachidonic acid. Make sure and buy only dog and cat food which is safe for your pet and which had not been tested through cruel animal metabolic tests. Check out the Anti Iams Campaign by PETA. Iams, Eukanuba and Menu Foods conduct cruel metabolic tests on dogs and cats in laboratories which are also totally unnecessary.
Safe dry dog food contains only natural ingredients and no bonemeal or meat byproducts, no wheat gluten, no corn, no GMO products, no chemicals, no artificial coloring, no artificial flavors and no artificial vitamins. Safe dog food contains lots of vegetables like carrots, peas, potatoes, whole grains and generally whole foods. Some dogs have sensitive digestive systems and require probiotics which can be added to the food. Some dog foods already contain probiotics like yoghurt or fermented soy products with live acidophilus, bifidus and other probiotic good bacteria. Those are the bacteria which are naturally in our digestive systems and which help to digest the food. PETA has a list of safe and ethical dog food brands available on their website.
In addition to healthy dry dog food you can grind up raw carrots, beets, apples or use the pulp from juicers to mix into your dog’s food. You can add cooked rice, millet, quinoa and many other grains. Rye, barley and wheat contain gluten. Not all dogs and humans are gluten intolerant, but gluten intolerant dogs and humans should avoid any grains to be safe, because factories processing rye, barley and wheat can't avoid those particles from entering into the products of other grains.
Raw organic garlic heals all kinds of health problems that's why it is called Russian Penicillin. Garlic can be eaten every day like every other food. It is important to buy organically grown produce because it is pure and grown without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Farmers markets offer a lot of organic food for a reasonable price. Raw organic vegetables are good for all animals including humans. Kenny eats Purina One Sensitive Systems and Nutrish by Rachael Ray (which are gluten free). Those foods are perfect for dogs with celiac disease which is a severe gluten intolerance. Celiac is a dangerous disease if the dog or human continued to eat gluten products. They can't eat the smallest crumb of gluten, because it can tear off the intestinal lining and cause internal bleeding.
For celiac or gluten intolerant dogs I recommend dental sticks to chew on for teeth cleaning which does not contain any type of gluten grain.
All animals including humans, are unhappy and can get sick in cages, crates, kennels, prisons, isolated rooms and other confinements. Build them a large territory in your house. But also let them out on the lawn sometimes. They all like to roam free in house and garden as often as possible. Animals should never be chained or tied on ropes or chains. Chained dogs (and other chained animals) are often unable to reach shelter, food and water and can become aggressive out of fear, hunger, thirst, frustration and loneliness.
It is now illegal to chain dogs in California for longer than 3 hours in a 24 hour time span. In a wonderful group effort together with many activists we helped to bring this proposition to Arnold Schwarzenegger and he signed it into law. We succeeded with a similar new bill for Oregon signed by Governor John Kitzhaber. Signing petitions (on the Internet) and writing letters to legislators helps very much to bring those urgent requests to the politicians.
Someone we met had a coyote puppy who was badly traumatized probably because her mother was shot by a hunter. The person kept many of her animals in small crates where they could barely turn around themselves. The coyote puppy, a wild animal not used to being caged at all, became crazy and began to bite her own legs and slashed herself up so that the person had to have her euthanized. All animals suffer when living in narrow confinement and particularly wild animals suffer. When an animal feels like he has no way out of a traumatic situation he begins to hurt himself. Its an act of total despair. Unethical scientific studies done on monkeys have shown that when a monkey is being shocked with electricity in certain areas of the floor he will escape and go to those areas where there is no shock given. When all areas give out shocks the monkey begins to bite himself. This behavior has been observed in many different situations in laboratories as well as in other places where the animals, and in some occasions humans as well, have become so unempowered and afraid that they began to hurt themselves. Animals and humans should never ever be living in narrow confinement. There are always solutions out there which avoid such suffering.
Never use glue traps or poison bait for wild rats, mice or other small mammals. Glue traps are extremely cruel and the animals die slowly. I also don't recommend any type of poison like rodenticides because it causes a dangerous pollution chain reaction in the environment where scavenger animals like your own dog and other pet animals as well as wild animals eat the poisoned rats. Dogs have died from eating poisoned rats and poisoned bait. The poison also enters into the watersheds where it poisons aquatic life and other life forms and ends up in our own drinking water as well. Never use any type of poison, pesticide, chemical fertilizer, or other artificial spray or solvent. There are such excellent plant based formulae on the market which work better for everything and are safe for your animals' and your health.
For trapping animals like rats, mice and squirrels I recommend Haveaheart live traps, they have them in different sizes. We already trapped several rats and one large rat like animal, I believe that it is a Squirrel Rat because she ate only hazelnuts and other vegetarian food. She had been collecting hazelnuts from a nearby hazelnut tree and stored all of the hazelnuts in Paul's bicycle paraphernalia storage container. Paul always drove the animals to a nice place where there is a water source and much nature. They are always grateful to be alive and often looked at Paul with an amazed look on their faces before running off. It's recommended to bring the animal into a natural surrounding that has freshwater creeks or lakes, about 4 or 5 miles away from your house.
Take your animal to the veterinarian for physical examinations about once a year to make sure that the animal is healthy. When the animal is sick, consult the veterinarian immediately and ask for holistic medicine first. For joint pain and arthritis I recommend Glucosamine, Chondroitin, and MSM. Glucosamine worked best for our dog Samantha. The dog supplements were not strong enough since we have Great Danes but the human supplements worked and they are cheaper than the dog supplements. Cranberry, Echinacea, Uva Ursi Leaf, Juniper Berry, Horsetail Herb, Burdock Root, Corn Silk, Parsley Root and other herbs heal bladder infections. Those have to be taken for 4 weeks every day 3 times a day. In general, those herbs can also be good as preventive medicine in lower doses.
For joint pain, arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, overactive immune function I recommend the following holistic remedies:
Diatomaceous Earth Clay (one table spoon a day is good for overall health also as a preventive medicine). Calcium Bentonite is good as supplement (one table spoon a day), this makes very good tooth paste which is all natural for gentle teeth cleaning. Blackberry leaves, Raspberry leaves, Salmonberry leaves, Blueberry leaves, Cherry leaves, Burdock leaves are all highly potent and safe substances for inflamed joints and pain. Crushed flax seeds (only for constipation), Turmeric, Black pepper leaves, ginger, nettles to make tea with (contains vitamin B complex for strong bones), licorice/ anise/ fennel (in very small amounts), English Laurel, Bay Laurel (they are also anticarcinogenic, sedative and heal ear aches), Feverfew, Butterfly Bush also called Buddleia Officinalis (also strengthens mucous membranes and heals lung problems), Hydrangea (also heals diabetes, eczema and multiple sclerosis), Ivy leaves (the berries are toxic). Ivy also heals gallbladder, liver, spleen and kidneys, it heals tuberculosis, headaches and tinnitus. It is antifungal and gets rid of parasites. Yoga is great and gentle stretching of body is great for arthritis, lots of walking every day, and pure water available at all times. For liver, gallbladder and detox I recommend making tea from Oregon Grape, Milk Thistle, Daisy and Dandelion.
The dosis depends on the size of the dog or cat. A Great Dane would need the human dosis, half the size dog would need about half as much and small dogs need about a quarter of it. When the dog has pus coming out of the urinary tract but is able to urinate normally without problems he might have a bladder infection which can be healed with the herbs. If the dog squats down to urinate but stops again and again then the infection might be severe and I recommend for him to see a veterinarian right away. Only people who have read a lot about herbology might try to treat serious infections with the plants. There are powerful plants which heal bladder infections. I recommend for all people to study those plants thoroughly on the Internet or at universities in order to know which plant to harvest or buy, and which dosis to administer.
Bladder infections, flus, pneumonia and arthritis can be prevented by keeping the individuals warm and having warm and soft beds or couches available for them at all times. We cover Kenny with fleece blankets when its below 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Optimal room temperature for short haired dogs and cats would be around 80 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit and not lower than 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
A great supplier of nutrition and supplements is Dr. Richard Schulze, his website is herbdoc.com. He makes Superfood which comes in pills or powder. Dr. Schulze's dogs catch the Superfood tablets in the air and eat them while other dogs might not like them, but you can wrap the tablets into a treat. Halo dog food might have pill server treats which have a pouch for pills.
If the animal is in much pain he would need pain medicine as well as diagnostic and medical treatment. There are plants growing in every region which are strongly analgesic.
In case of severe illness, and if the medicine does not work any longer, it is better to have the veterinarian euthanize the animal. It is much better than suffering. Many animals need this help from us because a lot of illnesses and old age cause prolonged living in pain. Never attempt to euthanize the animal yourself. We heard horrible reports about dogs surviving being shot and suffering horrendously. If the animals have to be euthanized, please always bring them to the veterinarian to let the veterinarian administer the IV and chemical safely. Always ask for the human anesthesia before all surgeries and also before euthanasia. Human anesthesia protects the animal from feeling any pain. Other drugs may only immobilize the animal, but they can still feel pain. Ask the veterinarian if you can be there with your animal. It is very important for your animal that you are there next to him. I recommend holding your pet firmly during the entire euthanasia procedure to make her or him feel safe. Every person I know who had their arms around the animal lying on the floor with him during euthanasia, knew it was the right thing to do.
If you have an albino dog for example who is deaf or has vision problems, or if you have any animal who is disabled, and you and your family are unable to take care of him or her, please do not abandon the animal and do not kill him or her. There are several incidents of people who shot their dogs who were found later on still alive and suffering, and dogs who have been starved in garages or alone in the wild who have been found and rescued. Many animals have not been rescued. All of them suffered horribly. Bring the animal to the next animal shelter because they can try to adopt the animal out to someone who has the time and experience to take care of a disabled animal. If they can not find a person who can adopt the animal then the people at the animal shelter or rescue organization will have a veterinarian safely euthanize the animal free from pain and fear.
If you see a person killing, torturing or neglecting an animal, please call PETA at 757-622-7382, HSUS, ASPCA, or 911 immediately. If you see animals suffering like farm animals in confinement for example or if you see cruelty to animals promoted on the internet, please send PETA an email to report the situation, you can find their email addresses at PETA’s web site: peta.org and their web pages >action center< and >online cruelty<.
Nicola Grobe
Prologue
On July 7, 2012, a panel of prominent International neuroscientists, cognitive neuroscientists, neuropharmacologists, neurophysiologists, neuroanatomists and computational neuroscientists gathered at the University of Cambridge, U.K. to reassess the neurobiological substrates of conscious experience and related behaviors in animals and humans and they signed their Declaration on Consciousness at the Francis Crick Memorial Conference of Consciousness in Human and Non Human Animals in the presence of Dr. Stephen Hawking.
They found that, although non human animals as well as developmentally impaired humans have problems to communicate brain processes to others, the neural substrates of emotions do not appear to be confined to cortical structures. The same subcortical neural networks aroused during affective states in humans are also critically important for generating emotional behaviors in animals. Artificial arousal of the same brain regions generates corresponding behavior and feeling states in both animals and humans. Instinctual emotional behaviors in animals and humans can bypass the neo cortical processing stages and still function well on their own. Instincts are indeed part of our decision making processes as well as part of our emotions as well as part of our cognitive functions. Instincts are therefore not just robotically mechanistic behavior motivators as believed in the 50s. Subcortical function as observed in animals with much less neo cortex mass applies not only to the automatic nervous system functions like sleep, eating, drinking, fight and flight, but also to some decision making like in nursing infants. These observations lead scientists to conclude that those primal survival mechanisms (and not only those for the survival of one individual but also for the survival of the other as in caretaking) have already existed in animals like early cephalopod mollusks like octopus and other prevertebrate animals. Octopus are much more evolved today with very large brains and complex decision making. Octopus evolved parallel to the animals on land. Birds also developed parallel to mammals while never leaving the bird- or premammal stage of evolutionary development. Therefore some birds have developed more complex brains with larger neo cortices, as seen in African Grey Parrots who are able to learn sign language like primates. Magpie birds who are related to Jays, Crows and Zebra Finches have neuronal sleep patterns including REM sleep similar to those in mammals. Magpies show complex social conduct like self recognition in mirrors equal to elephants, dolphins, whales and primates. Self recognition is a sign of higher cognitive understanding.
The International panel of scientists gathered at The University of Cambridge came to this unanimous conclusion:
"We declare the following: The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that nonhuman animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Nonhuman animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates."
Every person who has ever lived with animals would have already noticed for millennia that the nonhuman land animals are just like humans, they feel the same way, they act very much like them and they communicate similarly through a universal body language, the one that humans also have always used (throughout their pre homo sapiens stages as well). Whales and dolphins have developed a much more complex language than the human languages. According to recent research Humpback whales are more evolved than humans. They have higher cognitive functions and higher ethical understanding than humans have. Dr. Jack Kassewitz is currently developing a bridge language system in order to learn the whale language and be able to communicate back to the whales. When they will be able to understand much of what the whales and dolphins are saying then humans can learn from the cetaceans.
Dogs, pigs and horses for example also have this ability to love unconditionally and help each other as well as help other species.
Hierarchical human systems throughout history have ordered animals under humans out of greed. The animals were not able to defend themselves against their enslavement. The same hierarchical power systems then utilized superstition and religion to manipulate the populous body and to facilitate their self made hierarchies further and dictate them to society.
Most human societies today have surpassed those stone age states of social development. Today we have the opportunity to make further progress by acknowledging that the matters on Earth are not only the matters of the humans but instead they are the matters of all Earthians. This Declaration on Consciousness can therefore be seen as an official stage setting for the new era of love and kindness for all living beings equally.
Animal Holistic Health Care
Animals and humans can heal old wounds through a loving environment, through being understood, being respected, through never being left alone for any length of time, and through loving care. Dogs who had been abused and were rescued by loving persons will heal their physical and emotional wounds through unconditional love. It is very important to be extremely patient when rescuing dogs who are hiding somewhere. Always stay with them or near them until they begin to trust you more and accept food and water. Then you can gently put a leash on them and lead them to the hospital, shelter or your home so that they can begin the healing process.
I highly recommend to people to rescue a dog, cat or other animal from a shelter, because all of those homeless animals are desperately waiting for a good person to bring them home, protect and love them. Many of the animals in shelters are euthanized in order for the shelter staff to take in more suffering animals. A painfree death is better than suffering, this is a very critical priority. But we can rescue the dogs on death row from having their lives ended too soon. If all humans adopted dogs from shelters then the euthanasia of healthy dogs waiting for a home would not be necessary any longer. I recommend to have not more than 4 dogs or 4 cats at home because too many animals in a home is overwhelming for the animals as well as for the caregivers. It depends on the size of the home and on whether you have employees to help you. If you got a large house and a staff then you can adopt more animals if you like. Important is that the animals are happy and healthy. Wild animals belong into the wild places or sanctuaries which are very large territories of hundreds of acres.
Dogs evolved from wolves around 100 000 years ago according to current scientific data. Neanderthals became extinct somewhere around 32 000 years ago according to the latest discoveries of Neanderthal bones found in Europe and Asia. It is likely that both, the Cro Magnon from Africa and the Neanderthal from Europe had a symbiotic relationship with wolves through hunting together, sharing food together, and nursing puppies and babies together. Human babies have been nursed by wolves and wolf babies have been nursed by humans.
Dogs in warmhearted households have nothing to fear today and out of this ideal situation grows the Buddha nature, their signature character, the infinite love they have for us humans and all other animals. Therefore hierarchy is disappearing among dogs. My dog Kenny for example willingly shared his food with Carmen who was rescued in Mexico, and Carmen shared the food with him. It touched me deeply when I watched them eat together.
Horses in the wild places are happy and they should be left alone. Horses who live with loving humans have it good, too and probably even better because they are totally protected. Horses need 10 acres of land at least when they are a group of up to 5. If they are more than 5 then they need much more land to graze and roam on. All animals (dogs, wolves, coyotes, foxes, cats, horses, cows, pigs, goats, sheep, rats, guinea pigs, hamsters, ground animals, rabbits, birds, even reptiles and fish and many more) need to be together with other animals all the time. Every animal should have a friend or friends to socialize with and it does not matter if the friends are other species.
People who have horses can build horse groups by sharing their meadows with other horse owners. Two or more horse owners can bring their horses to the same meadow so that the horses can be living as a family. It is very efficient to allow the horses to graze on one meadow while the other meadows are recovering and growing new grass. That way the horses can be brought to a fresh meadow with new and high grass after the last meadow had been grazed short. Horses are herd animals and highly social. They like to be together with other horses. They like to eat together, run together and they like to groom each other. Ask your neighbors with horses if they would like to form a horse community. If you can't find anyone else who has a horse, you can ask someone with other herd animals like cows, goats, sheep or pigs to let them graze together with your horse. It will make your horse feel so much better to have another animal to socialize with and it will make the pig, cow, sheep or goat feel good to be brought to your horse who is a new friend for them. No animal should ever be lonely. All animals need friends.
Guinea pigs living in the wild places in South America are very nervous because of hawks and other predators hunting them. Guinea pigs move forward in very abrupt, jerky, jolted movements, they are terrified when they leave their underground caves. Are they happy? I don't think so. Happier than in a laboratory for certain. But not happy like they should be. Every being on Earth deserves to be happy. I had 3 guinea pigs at different times, each living with me in my bedroom when I still lived with my parents. I spent a lot of time with each guinea pig, kissing them, cuddling them, and letting them sleep next to me under the blanket which they loved, that gave them the feeling of a cave. Each guinea pig would make happy sounds when sitting on my chest, or in bed next to me, they would chirp like a bird, they would whistle, they would sing to me songs of love. And my guinea pigs did not move in jerky movements. Instead they walked curiously around the room and sometimes they would jump out of happiness. They were totally relaxed, they grew up with love and knew nothing else. That is the paradise which I am talking about. Every being on Earth or in the eternal universe deserves to live in a paradise free from fear, receiving unconditional love and lots of gentle physical touch.
Guinea pigs need regular nail trimming. Take the Guinea pig to the veterinarian for nail trimming and learn how to trim the nails yourself as well. Black nails don't show where the blood vessels begin. You have to be very careful and cut only a very short piece from the top of the nail. The same applies to dogs' toenails. Some dogs are scared of having their toenails clipped. We sit with our dog, one holds him by the collar and gently pets him and gently talks to him while the other person trims the nails with a nail clipper for dogs, always paying close attention to the blood vessels inside the toenails and not to cut into the capillaries or nerve endings. I recommend to always cut only the very tip of the toenail off with the right size nail clipper according to the size of the toenails.
The best material for the pets’ living territory and litter box is dried and finely shredded and soft greenery material like tree twigs and leaves from your garden. You can ask an arborist (tree specialist), if you can have shredded greenery material for free, or you can trade him something for it, or pay a small amount. The arborist has a shredding machine. I recommend this material from people's gardens, because it has not been treated with any chemicals.
Rabbits and guinea pigs are vegan and love to eat carrots, lettuce, apples, alfalfa hay and pellets, pears, raw cucumbers, parsley, rhubarb, horseradish, etc. They like to have a tree branch to chew on, a salt stone and a fresh water bottle with a drinking tube. Have a water bowl for your pet as well just in case the drinking tube of the bottle is clogged. Pets should never be given sweets, meat or dairy products, because it can make them sick. Rabbits learn quite fast to use a litter box as a toilet. Guinea pigs and rats can not be potty trained. Build them a large territory to live in. But also let them out on the lawn sometimes during the summer time and only during the day when its warm and safe. Give them a place where there is the option for shade as well. It is not healthy for them to be exposed to sun light for too long, they should always be able to retreat to an area that is protected from the sun. Generally have them live in the warm and safe house with you.
If you want to buy a dog, please do not buy the dog from a pet store, because pet stores get their dogs from puppy mills, where they are bred and raised under inhumane conditions. Puppy mills only care about money and not about their dogs. Puppy mill dogs have to live in unsanitary surroundings, are fed poorly, are never handled or petted, and they have insufficient room to move around. A lot of the dogs from puppy mills are neurotic and traumatized and their mother dogs are kept in small cages. A puppy mill is like a factory farm where animals are treated more like merchandise than living animals.
You can rescue an animal from an animal shelter which is always the best solution. If you buy a dog from a breeder then make sure that he has only a few dogs living in his home. Make sure that the breeder gives the mother dogs several years of recovery time after each litter and that he does not breed them more than 3 times during her life time. Let the breeder show you the parents, so you can judge for yourself how their offspring will most likely act and look like. Choose only kindhearted and mellow dog families. Talk to the breeder on the phone. The breeders who are not in a rush and who are patient and who answer all of your questions with a warm, welcoming and friendly voice and who don't use the words "sir" or "maam" are the better breeders. Drive to the breeder with your car in order to pick up your puppy. I recommend Not to have the puppy flown in by air plane in a box because it terrifies the dogs and it is cruel. Many dogs have been physically and emotionally injured through being transported in air planes. Some of them have died. Therefore it should be outlawed to transport dogs in air plane cargo areas. Instead the air lines should have specific flights with dogs where the dogs can be together with the human passengers in the passenger areas and where they have large grass planters as dog toilets, where they have water and food for them and where they can be petted during the flight so that they don't have to be afraid.
For travelling in general I don’t recommend bringing pets along in commercial air planes. Small pets can be transported in the passenger areas, but even this is very stressful for the animals. I highly advise people to not confine animals in cages or crates for any length of time. Cages cause trauma.
Adjust your travelling to your pet’s needs. As long as you have animals which depend on you like dogs in particular, choose pet safe travelling like travelling by car, RV, yacht, private air plane or helicopter. Some kennels and pet hotels can be very stressful, traumatic, and can spread diseases. Therefore if you for some reason can not bring the animal along, I highly recommend close relatives or very good friends who love your animals, to baby sit for them.
To transport your small animal, you can use a cardboard carrier made for cats or a soft baglike cat carrier. When you transport any animal, large or small, in a car, truck, SUV, or RV, make sure the temperature in your vehicle does not exceed 85 degrees Fahrenheit. Animals are a lot more sensitive to heat than people are. They can overheat easily. Install a digital thermometer in your vehicle and monitor the temperature. Leave at least 2 windows half open for ventilation. Have a water bowl filled with water accessible for your animal. Make sure that the pet does not wait too long for you in your vehicle. I don’t recommend letting your dog wait for more than 1 hour while shopping. Avoid bringing your dog along in the car during excessively hot temperatures.
I know someone whose dog was once stolen while he was shopping. The people cut open the mosquito screen of the motorhome window and pulled his dog out. He was looking for the dog and someone told him where the dog was, he went to their door and kicked against it, two children opened the door and his dog was tied to a butcher table. He saved his dog in the nick of time. Because of those risks it is better to travel with another human who can stay with the animals in the RV or car while one is shopping. Those cultures who still to this modern day and age eat dogs, need to abandon this habit right away. This is the same as eating humans. I personally find eating mammals in general abhorrent because I deeply care about all beings. I also care about birds, reptiles and amphibians. No animal should suffer in order to be put on someone's dish. I like what Dr. Schulze says "Don't eat anything that has a face", and face means any organism that has at least a mouth opening. Dr. Schulze points out that eating animal proteins is dangerous for our health because it can clog up the arteries and cause heart attacks.
All animals need exercise just like humans. They need to be able to run, stretch out, play and have fresh air. Dogs like to hike for miles in nature. Make sure your pet has pure water to drink at all times on walks and at home. Water sources are sometimes polluted with chemicals. That’s why it is important to run the water through a good water filter. Allowing the animals to sleep as much as they want to is important for their health. Animals who sleep more live much longer. Same applies to humans.
It is important to keep your home, your pet’s litter box, bed, etc., clean and sanitary. I recommend natural cleaners and detergents. Cleaning agents containing chlorine bleach, ammonia or other sythetic solvents are toxic for pets, humans and the environment. Chlorine pollutes the groundwater and the ocean and kills any kind of living cell including skin cells. Ammonia and other synthetic solvents can break open cell walls in living organisms.
Health food stores and some regular grocery stores offer alternative and safe bleach made with oxygen based ingredients, sodium bicarbonate, salts and enzymes. Dishwashing liquids, toilet cleaners, bath tub cleaners, and laundry detergents which contain only plant based, biodegradable cleaning agents are safe for your pet and your children, they are safe for the environment and they smell good.
All pesticides are hazardous. I strongly recommend to everyone to Never buy any kind of pesticide whether it is a home or gardening product or flee and tick repellent. Pesticides encompass several different chemical categories: Herbicides (used to kills weeds), insecticides (used to kill insects), fungicides (used to control molds and fungi), and rodenticides (used to kill rodents). All pesticides including flea collars and liquid flea and tick repelling agents are toxic and can cause serious life threatening illnesses in animals and humans.
Recent scientific studies involving laboratory animals show that many pesticides damage the developing brain and nervous system. Scientists have discovered that some pesticides have the ability to mimic or compete with those hormones involved with development and functioning. Pesticides affect the hypothalamic catecholamine systems, which are the pathways critical for the control of movement (nigrostriatal dopaminergic systems) and for complex cognitive functions (mesocorticolimbic dopaminergic systems). Neurodegenerative dysfunctions caused by pesticides and associated with these systems include Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia and attention deficit disorder, ADD.
The insect repelling agent DEET, which is very common on the market today, has been proven to be toxic and unsafe to use. The Pesticide Information Project of Cornell University, Michigan State University, Oregon State University, and University of California at Davis, reports that laboratory rats killed by DEET (N,N-diethyl-3-methyl-benzamide or N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide) with applied dosages in the LD50 range showed lacrimation, chromodacryorrhea, depression, prostration, tremors, and asphyxial convulsions. Respiratory failure usually preceded cardiac failure.
Laboratory rabbits died from an intravenous dosage of 75 mg/kg. Animals topically exposed to DEET have developed dermal and ocular reactions including erythema, desquamation and scarring in rabbits and profuse sweating, irritation and exfoliation in horses. Ocular application of either diluted (30 or 40 percent DEET) or undiluted DEET in rabbits has produced edema, eye infection, pus and clouding in the eyes.
Soldiers who applied solutions containing 50% to 75% DEET on to their skin, reported large painful blisters and permanent scarring of skin at the crease of the elbow. DEET causes a variety of reactions in humans including rashes, irritation of skin/mucous membranes, and encephalopathy. A 3 year old girl developed encephalopathy after exposure to a solution containing 15% DEET, sprayed on her bedding every night for 2 weeks. Symptoms of encephalopathy caused by DEET are agitation, weakness, disorientation, ataxia, seizures, coma, and in three cases resulted in death. Autopsies conducted on two fatalities indicated edema of the brain, with one case presenting necrotic lesions in the cerebellum and spinal cord and an enlarged liver accompanied by microscopic changes.
Exposure to DEET has also caused psychosis characterized by aggressive behavior, delusions and hyperactivity in human adults. DEET in laboratory animals’ systems affects the reproductive organs, it increases mutation in offspring, causes organ toxicity, and increases the risk of tumor growth. Studies by oncologists Dr. Lennart Hardell and Mikail Eriksson of Sweden have determined clear links between the herbicide glyphosate to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma cancer. Glyphosate is commonly known as >Roundup<. A recent study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute revealed that dog owners who treat their lawns with weed killers containing 2,4-D, double and triple the probability of their pet to develop cancer. Glyphosate has therefore been taken off the market and made illegal to use in many European countries including Germany.
It is illegal in California and Oregon to burn trash items like plastics, metals, and hazardous waste. Open burning of garbage poses health risks to those exposed to the smoke. It especially affects animals and humans with sensitive respiratory systems, as well as children and the elderly. In the short term, exposure to smoke can cause headaches, nausea, and rashes. Over time, it can increase the risk of developing heart disease. Some of the pollutants contained in the smoke from burning of garbage can include Dioxins, Furans, Arsenic, Mercury, PCBs, Lead, Carbon monoxide, Nitrogen oxides, Sulphur oxides, and Hydrochloric acid. Many of those listed chemicals are being released through burning of plastics, metals and hazardous waste including wood and tree materials which had been treated with pesticides like glyphosate and other highly carcinogenic toxins.
It is not necessary to treat bark beatle infestations with glyphosate injections or other applications. The treatment will not prevent bark beatle infestations from being reduced. Burning of wood treated with glyphosate will not eliminate the problems and instead will increase them through spreading mold spores and other pathogens from the infected trees as well as contaminating the air even further with toxic chemicals and affect not only plants but also animal and human health. The drastic pesticide increase since 1950 has created an increase of cancers including testicular cancer by over 300 percent. (Cancer Research UK, and other websites around the world).
What causes the insect infestations, fungus and other infections in trees and other plants? A healthy tree or other plant has a highly functioning immune system and it can defend itself against any type of pathogen or insect. The problem occurs when the tree or other plant is permanently exposed to environmental pollutants like automobile exhaust from gasoline, coal burning, radiation, and toxic dust particles and gases. Over time, ususally over long term exposure for decades, certain plant species will become overwhelmed with the permanent exposure to toxic air and their immune systems will not be able to keep up with the defense against the toxins. When that happens the plant will not be able to keep itself free from mold and fungus infections. When the fungus spreads inside of the plant then the plant will not be able to defend itself against parasitic invasions like bark beetles and other pest insects. This is the last stage of a plant's immune dysfunction. Much has to happen before this takes place. When a plant is very sick its visible for us humans but then its often too late for the plant or even the entire plant species. For example Port Orford Cedar trees have been infected along the entire North West coast. Many plant species do not have the genetic disposition to handle pollution.
What can be done about this problem of plants dying from illness? Each person can do their part to reduce the risks of trees and other plants dying. Driving less, bicycling more, walking more when possible, more passengers in one car to get from A to B, local shopping, local business, trading more like trading work for food or services, less energy consumption, clean energy use, electric motorvehicle use, no trash burning at any time and any place, recycling, composting, no use of pesticides nor chemical fertilizers, making your own healthy soil from compost, less material consumption, less packaging, reusing items, buying eco friendly products, using only plant based soaps for household, only plant based shampoos, no glitter items because they end up in the ocean and inside of ocean animals causing them health problems, no bleach use, natural hair conditioners only, plant based hair coloring only, growing plants that are native to local area, growing different plant species side by side with others to ensure healthy diversity and a reduced risk of infestations, less meat comsumption because life stock animals are a major cause of pollution, vegetarian food is great and vegan food is the best and the healthiest, use of recycled paper and cardboard, use of cloth shopping bags instead of paper and plastic bags, never cutting trees because each tree ensures the health of the air and eco system, plants are natural air detoxifyers but they are overwhelmed when exposed to too many toxins for too long.
There are alternative insect repelling agents like herbal flee collars and other safe products on the market which you can find in health food stores and sometimes in regular grocery stores. Many herbs repel flees, ticks and mosquitoes. Among the most popular ones are Rosemary, Clove, Peppermint, Citronella, Eucalyptus, Sage, and Cedar. Make sure that you read the ingredients on the product container and buy products which contain only plant based ingredients.
Gardening is possible without pesticides. A variety of plants cultivated side by side balance the soil. Marigold and tomato planted in between your plants help to repel insects. Ladybugs eat small invasive insects. A blend of water, biodegradable soap, hot peppers like cayenne, garlic, onions, olive oil, marigold, vinegar, whole grain flour, peppermint leaves- or oil and tomato sprinkled on the plants and soil repels insects and snails. This blend can be diluted with up to 80% water. Build a compost area and let the worms transform decomposable material into rich soil for your plants. This healthy soil will boost your plants’ immune system. Your plants will be much stronger to fend off insects and molds. The key for a healthy garden and healthy animals living in the garden is a balanced eco system. To balance the flora and fauna we have to keep everything the way nature works by itself without mixing in synthetic particles of any kind. Any time artificial things have been applied to natural systems, problems have occurred in some form or another and that's why it is critical to leave systems free from anything unnatural whether its your garden, your dog or yourself.
People who have septic tanks will never have to hire a sewer pump service when they allow the worms in the septic tank to stay healthy. The worms decompose everything biodegradable in the septic tank in a short time. Never use chlorine bleach on anything, never bleach hair with conventional hair coloring or bleach, never use ammonia solvents, never use anything that is toxic for life forms. Live healthy and without drugs of any sort if possible. Use alternative hair coloring solutions like Henna which comes in all colors. Use chamomille, sodium bicarbonate and hydrogenperoxide for bleaching hair, those are safer chemicals. But I recommend not to bleach hair, its still hard on the worm-, hair- and skin cells. Henna is the safest. Use plant perfumes instead of synthetic chemical perfumes. Use fluoride free herbal toothpaste like the one made by Weleda. You can buy them on the Internet. Wash dogs with sodium bicarbonate dissolved in water. For a gallon of water all is needed are about 5 tea spoons of sodium bicarbonate powder mixed into the water. Shower dog with warm water, pour the solution on whole dog, gently massage into fur, then rinse.
Going green, clean and holistic is the solution. Problems are only solved through lots of researching on the Internet, in libraries, or schools. There is always a safe solution out there which does not harm any life form. I recommend reading herbology books to learn about the vast abundance of locally and wild growing plants which offer not only remedies to everything but real solid medical healing solutions, gardening solutions, and life style solutions.
There are two dog breeds which are unhealthy: The Basset Hound and the English Bulldog. The Basset Hound has back problems because of the long and heavy back. The English Bulldog has breathing difficulties because of the set back nose. I don't recommend supporting the breeding of these 2 breeds. There are rescue organizations for specific breeds which can tell you where you can adopt the dog of your choice.
In general I don't recommend buying dogs from breeders because this supports the cycle of continued breeding of unhealthy breeds, overpopulation and too much suffering. If at all, breeding Great Danes with Mastino Neapolitanos would make the set back muzzle longer in Mastinos and it would shorten the long legs of the Great Danes. The outcome will certainly be a healthier and sturdier dog.
I highly recommend that a female dog does not give birth more than 3 times in her life time and that she has several years in between the litters. Animal saftey comes first. Business second. Breeding animals should never be regarded as an income producing business. It should be viewed as art and beauty instead. I always recommend for the animals to have real sex with their partner and not to be inseminated through in vitro sperm. Animals have feelings and needs just like humans have and we have the responsibility to make sure that they live their lives happily and wholesomely. Only people who have lots of time should at all consider breeding dogs or other animals. When you have a busy schedule you should absolutely spay and neuter your pets. Pets are happy when they are spayed and neutered. Their sexual desires will be dissolved and they will not suffer nor run off needing a mate.
If you have a puppy and want to potty train him, take him to a lawn or garden frequently and praise him with gentle words, petting and treats when he made poopoo or pipi. If he made inside the house, don't punish him. Don't talk harshly to him, do not put his nose into his eliminations (this old school technique does not work), and do not hit him, don't do any form of physical and psychological punishment. All that scares him very much and can traumatize him. Dogs know when someone says mean things, they are very sensitive to bad energies and it makes them depressed just like it makes humans depressed. Take him outside quickly without being mad. Walk around with him whether he goes or not and bring the droppings (which he had made in the house) outside so that he can learn where the poop is supposed to be. Praise him every time he eliminates outside. Always wait a while until he made pee or poo outside and to make sure that he is finished before going back into the house. Then he will learn that he can make pee and poo only outside, he will learn to wait until walking into the garden and he will not need to go so soon again once he is back in the house. It's good to walk the puppy around the garden or park about every hour. This is often not easy if you are working. You can take turns with your friends or family to walk the puppy outdoors. If you are alone, make sure you don't have anything else to do so you can really concentrate on giving your puppy the training she or he needs. It may take a couple of weeks.
If the dog is older or was already trained for a while, but made in the house again, just repeat the gentle training by taking her outside and showing her where she is supposed to go. Female puppies generally learn housetraining faster than male puppies. Be always patient and systematic in this loving housetraining. Every day spent with your puppy going out every hour will be worth the effort. Your puppy will have learned and he will be thankful to you that you were so patient with him. Some breeds learn faster than others.
Find out what breed works best for your circumstances. Allow the dog the time she needs to learn. We trained a deaf dog and the training time was much longer than it would be with normal hearing dogs. When dogs have no hearing we have to communicate with them through sign language which also has to be taught at the same time which makes a whole lot more learning material. Deaf dogs are also more scared than hearing dogs.
We noticed that Kenny was more frightened of the dark outside in the garden each time after receiving a vaccination. We know that vaccinations contain mercury which is the second most toxic substance on the planet. Statistics show that there might likely be a connection between mercury intake and autism. Mercury is a component of amalgam dental fillings and pharma medication. (I always request the white mercury free composite fillings). Vaccines can contain: Ethylmercury which is a component in the preservative Thimerosal, this is the most toxic substance in vaccines; Aluminum; MSG which stands for Monosodium Glutamate; 2-phenoxy-ethanol. All of those chemicals are unsafe for use. Mercury causes neurodegenerative diseases. Aluminum can cause Alzheimer's Disease. MSG is processed free glutamic acid which can damage the intestinal lining of animals and people who are gluten intolerant. 2-phenoxy-ethanol has caused cell mutation in laboratory animals and led to reproductive dysfunctions.
Someone has to be there with the puppy all the time to train him and be there as the human surrogate mother. Puppies must never be left alone, not even for a short time just like human babies. Dogs need your company at all times and suffer when you leave them alone. It is like having human babies, and the dogs never mature in the way humans do. It is a big responsibility to bring a dog into one's life. Make sure that this form of motherhood will be compatible with your life style, work, housing, travels, or plans for the future.
Dogs, cats and all other house pets must always live with you inside your home, because they are social beings just like humans and they need to be close to you. Pets need to be kept warm in the winter time. Short haired animals need the home extra warm. Check their ears, if the ears are cold they need a warmer room temperature. Cover them with a blanket at night. Give your rabbit, cat or dog a warm, padded and soft bed to sleep on. The bed needs to be large so that the animal can stretch out. Puppies need to sleep about 95% of the day time and all of the night time. Allow dogs to have a safe, quiet and shaded room and soft bed to sleep in at all times. Give them much space, time and privacy and don't disturb their sleep because the sleep is the foundation of their health. Same applies to animals and humans.
Dogs in particular like to sleep near you. The closer you are physically to your dog the better the dog feels. According to statistical evaluations done in recent years by different scientific studies, humans who sleep in bed with their dogs are much healthier than those who don't sleep with dogs. (This is often misunderstood and that is why I have to clarify this information: Sleeping in bed with another living being does not mean sex. It only means physical closeness for well being.)
In the article >The Power of Petting< on the website TheCatSite.com, Brad Kollus writes: "Dr. Johannes Odendaal, Research Professor of the Life Sciences Research Institute, and author of Pets and Our Mental Health, along with his colleagues conducted experiments taking blood from humans and dogs, both while the person petted the dog and before. They measured the change in several neurochemcials found in the brain including; Dopamine, Oxytocin, Prolactin, Beta-endorphin, and Norepinehrine all of which directly influence such feelings and emotions of exhilaration, positive excitement, pleasurable experiences, social bonding, sense of well-being and contentment, and feelings of comfort and security. In addition, they measured another chemical, Cortisol, which increases during stress and can have a negative effect upon the immune system, leaving the body open the illnesses. Their results were amazing. They found statistically significant increases in all the positive brain chemicals, in both the human and the dog, while the person petted the dog, as well as a decrease in the chemical Cortisol. Would petting a cat reveal the same results? "The answer is yes. In the context of petting a cat where blood pressure decreases, it is expected that the same neurochemical changes in the brain would have taken place - not because of the decreased blood pressure, but as part of the complex physiological processes taking place during positive interaction," said Dr. Odendaal."
In a paper written by Coppola, Grandin and Enns about >Human interaction and cortisol: Can human contact reduce stress for shelter dogs?<, on March 30, 2006, at the Department of Animal Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA, the scientists are stating: "Animal shelters are an extremely stressful environment for a dog, most specifically due to social isolation and novel surroundings. The stress response of dogs housed in this environment may be alleviated through human interaction shortly after arrival. During their second day in a public animal shelter, adult stray dogs were either engaged in a human contact session or not. The session involved taking the dog into an outdoor enclosure, playing with the dog, grooming, petting and reviewing basic obedience commands. Each dog interacted with a human for approximately 45 min. Salivary cortisol levels were examined from each dog on their 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 9th day of housing. Animals that engaged in a human contact session had lower cortisol levels on day 3 than animals that did not. Breed type, sex and age did not have an effect on cortisol levels on any day measured. A human interaction session can be beneficial to both animal welfare and adoption procedures. The current study not only utilized the human contact session as a treatment to reduce stress but also as a resource for individual temperament/personality information that could be later used to facilitate compatible adoptions. Human interaction may be an effective means of reducing the cortisol response of dogs in the aversive shelter environment."
All animals love to be petted and cuddled. Gentle touch is absolutely crucial for the survival of all animals. Always pet them gently, never pat or scratch them hard and never drum on them. Teach your children to be very gentle with the animals. Don't allow your children to be rough with them.
Research has proven that mammal babies can die without the mother's touch and embrace. Harry Harlow conducted unethical studies with Rhesus monkeys in the 50s and 60s in which many monkey babies died because of isolation. All animals get very depressed if they are deprived of adequate social interaction.
"Dogs (like people) are social animals, yet more than 200,000 dogs live empty lives chained or tethered outdoors. Tied-up outside, dogs become lonely, bored, and anxious, and they can develop aggressive behaviors. Bring a dog inside (or help a chained dog in your neighborhood) and you’ll keep everyone safer." (Humane Society of the United States).
Allow animals to take their time to explore their surroundings and let them interact with other animals. Animals are very sensitive and can become easily frightened by people fighting or shouting. Speak gently with animals and around them.
The same applies to police dogs. Police dogs who have been petted, socialized, never punished, and who live always with their caregivers in their homes are not afraid, have higher intelligence, are not dangerous, have more courage, and are functioning better in their profession as police dogs. All animals should be used only for services which they enjoy doing, they should never be forced to do something which they are afraid of and which puts them at risk or makes them aggressive. Scientific research has come to the conclusion today that service dogs of all sorts including police dogs are doing much better when they have been loved and cared for their entire lives living inside the house with people. Dogs should never be working in war zones nor in detention camps anywhere around the planet. The training of dogs for intimidating prisoners of war is unethical for the dogs and humans involved. The artist Fernando Botero was so shocked and sad when he saw the photos taken by a journalist in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in which they used dogs to scare the prisoners during interrogations, that he made a series of large wall size paintings of those images that he saw in the photos in order to bring this information to the public and shed light onto those atrocities.
I mentioned in my prologue that whales and dolphins are highly intelligent animals, many of them are more intelligent than the most intelligent human. Their language is more complex than any language on land. Dolphins and whales should never live in swimming pools of any size and they should never be held captive in any type of pool neither an artificial pool nor a natural pool or lagoon. Dolphins and whales need to swim with high speed each day for hundreds of miles in the wide ocean in order to stay healthy physically and mentally. Capturing them is extremely cruel and each person can help them by Not supporting amusement parks where they are held captive and made to perform for audiences. Many of the animals have become crazy and depressed to the point where they committed suicide or killed trainers out of total despair.
Marine mammals need to be allowed to sleep without being disturbed by spectators with their cameras. We have seen people go way too close to the sea lions when they are sleeping on the docks. We have seen people throw things at them. I heard today that a dolphin died after people lifted him out of the water for their own amusement. This is extreme cruelty. People need to know that marine mammals are not fish, they are mammals who give birth and nurse just like dogs, wolves, humans and horses. Dolphins are highly sensitive animals, they can go into a shock state where they stop breathing. Never do anything like that to dolphins. They should be left in peace. And when a dolphin comes up to us that is a huge honor and we should treat her with utmost respect, gentle care and love.
If you see a marine mammal with a fishing net band embedded in her neck you can call the Marine Mammal Centers and ask them to rescue the animal.
Please spay and neuter your cats and dogs. Every animal species has their own age limit for spaying and neutering. Check on Google to find the information about what the ideal age is to neuter or spay your animal. They have to be healthy and have normal weight to have surgeries done.
Any surgery on animals is traumatic. Please do not have your dog's or cat's ears, tails or dewclaws (thumbs) cut off. Surgery causes a shock to the animal's system. It is cruel. Cosmetic surgery on animals is against the law in several countries. It has been against the law in Germany for many years. Dog shows world wide do not require ear and tail cropping any longer because of the countries which don't accept it and because of the activism for the animals. Ethics comes before fashion.
If dogs and cats breed out of control their kittens and puppies end up on the streets hungry, neglected, full of parasites, dirty, lonely and sick. They fill the animal shelters where veterinarians have to give them lethal injections because they can not accommodate so many stray, neglected and lost cats and dogs. Spaying female dogs reduces stress and discomfort, eliminates the risk of uterine cancer, and greatly reduces the risk of mammary cancer. Neutering male dogs decreases their urge to roam and fight, and it prevents prostrate enlargements, prostrate cancer, and testicular cancer. I recommend sitting with the pet at the veterianary clinic during and after surgery to make sure that the animal feels safe.
Sterilizations are more dangerous for small pets than for larger ones, so it would be better to avoid the operations for hamsters, mice, guinea pigs, rabbits, and other small pets except for rats. Pet rats can interbreed with wild rats and that causes overpopulation of rats. So it might be a good idea to spay and neuter rats. In general its great to let vegan pets live together with others of their own gender. If you get 2 rabbits, make sure they are both either female or both male to prevent them from having babies, because they can multiply fast and then it becomes a problem for the animals and the caretakers. Animals are happier and healthier when they are not crowded. The best is to keep a rabbit and a guinea pig in the same territory regardless of their gender because they can not interbreed and they make good friends. Rats can be a bit aggressive and rape guinea pigs, I have seen it, so rats and guinea pigs are not good together. Hamsters might be better suited for living with rats but its good to monitor them to see how they are getting along. If the rat is too rambunctious then its better to separate them. I recommend to never buy a pet for your child for Christmas for example if the kid thinks its just a toy to play with. The child has to be willing to take good care of the animal whether its a dog, rabbit or rat for example. Mothers and fathers have to adopt the animal into their households not as their kid's toy but as a family member and equal to their own child. Adopting animals is just like adopting another human being. They have the same feelings, needs and nervous systems.
Always train your animal gently. When you walk your dog, always speak gently to her and keep the leash shorter when other dogs approach or people with children, or when you and your dog cross a street. Always make sure no car is coming. Keep yourself between your dog and the street to protect her when you walk her on the side walk. Train your dog to walk steadily next to you through short intermittent and gentle tugging on the leash to get the dog's attention. Quick tugs on the leash is better communication than long and hard pulling. Short tugging on the leash is less harsh on the neck and alerts the dog to stop when she is pulling fast or wants to wander off. Have a little slack in the leash for the dog to know that he is walking well and always praise him with gentle words when he is doing what you asked him to do. Giving dog treats when they are walking well also makes the dogs feel better and it makes them more motivated.
Dogs don't understand why a person is mad at them. They will have a "guilty" look on their faces because they are worried about the person being mad at them and not because they know that they did something wrong. All they know is that the situation they are in has caused the person to be angry before, so they are worried that they will be punished. Never ever beat or yell at your dogs. They don't understand what you want from them. Teach your dog through gentle and motivating techniques like with a treat or gentle words and gentle petting. Never laugh about your dog and never ridicule your dog. Dogs can feel it when they are being ridiculed. Always respect your dogs, always love them and always be kind to them. Anyone who develops a negative attitude or is overwhelmed with the situation should right away give the dog to someone who really wants to live with a dog, or give the dog to the local animal shelter. Living with dogs requires a full commitment, infinite love and patience.
Choke chain collars of any kind are cruel, because they poke into dogs’ necks. I don't recommend collars with inside nor outside spikes. Outside beads that are rounded are ok. Good dog collars are either harnesses which go around the chest and also head harnesses which prevent the dog from pulling. The pulling pressure would be on top of the muzzle and it works like the halter for a horse without a mouth piece. I use only halters without a mouth piece for horses because its not necessary for the horse to have a metal piece in his mouth. The halter or harness which fits snug but loose enough to be comfortable, is perfect by itself for communication with the horse. In general for dog neck collars I recommend very wide collars. All collars have to fit loosely enough to be comfortable. Four fingers should fit easily under the collar or harness. I recommend collars, harnesses, halters and leashes made out of nylon material or nylon coated with an imitation leather. This material is strong, lasts for a long time and is not made from animal skins.
Remote training collars which use electric shocks traumatize the dogs’ neck areas. Dogs can develop a high sensitivity in the neck areas and a light touch on their necks can make them twitch heavily.
There are remote training collars which only use sound and vibrations. Those are ok and its worth trying to teach the dogs with those collars if you are going to the beach and letting your dogs run loose. That way they can learn to come back when you wave them towards you.
Buy snacks designed for the pet you have. The American Veterinary Medical Association states that chocolate and Xylitol are toxic for dogs. Canine ingestion of Xylitol, a sweetener found in certain sugar free chewing gums, candies, baked goods and other products, promotes the release of insulin and causes hypoglycemia, also called sugar crash. The ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center cautions animal owners that Xylitol can cause serious and even life threatening problems for pets. According to Dr. Eric Dunayer, veterinarian and toxicologist for the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center, dogs ingesting Xylitol develop a fairly sudden drop in blood sugar resulting in depression, loss of coordination and seizures. Liver damage has been linked with Xylitol. Even small doses of Xylitol have caused health problems in dogs. Please keep candy, gum or other foods containing Xylitol as well as all other toxic substances out of the reach of pets. Candy and raisins can also cause illness in dogs. White sugar and white flour is unhealthy for animals and people. Be careful during the Halloween time because of candy and parties. Tell your children not to give animals candy or cookies.
Buy dry dog food in pellet form containing vegetables, fish, chicken and turkey. It is healthier than canned dog food. Canned food causes tartar sediments on your dog's teeth and sometimes digestive problems. Be careful when you choose your dog food in general because most cheap dog food contains mainly genetically modified corn and the meat in most dry dog foods consists mainly of animal byproducts as well as meat and bonemeal which come from the slaughter industry. It may also come from rendering plants where dead animals like euthanized pets, dead wild animals, and road kill are being recycled into different products.
BSE, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also called mad cow disease, is caused by animals eating meat products made out of animals which also have been fed animal meat products in a perpetuated cycle. Cows are vegan animals and they are given pellets made out of dead animals which is particularly dangerous because cows have not evolved to digest meat properly. This cycle of rendered animal protein ingestion produced a protein called Prion which docks onto the molecules of neurons causing the neurons to become dysfunctional and eventually necrotic. The Prion protein destroys the animals' brains and the animals begin to fall over and can not walk any longer which causes severe suffering. This disease can affect all mammals including humans. Its imperative to read the list of ingredients on the label of the dog food bags. If it says meat byproducts or meat and bonemeal one should not buy it.
Dogs need calcium, vitamin D, the amino acids L-carnitine and taurine, vitamin A, and cats also need arachidonic acid. Make sure and buy only dog and cat food which is safe for your pet and which had not been tested through cruel animal metabolic tests. Check out the Anti Iams Campaign by PETA. Iams, Eukanuba and Menu Foods conduct cruel metabolic tests on dogs and cats in laboratories which are also totally unnecessary.
Safe dry dog food contains only natural ingredients and no bonemeal or meat byproducts, no wheat gluten, no corn, no GMO products, no chemicals, no artificial coloring, no artificial flavors and no artificial vitamins. Safe dog food contains lots of vegetables like carrots, peas, potatoes, whole grains and generally whole foods. Some dogs have sensitive digestive systems and require probiotics which can be added to the food. Some dog foods already contain probiotics like yoghurt or fermented soy products with live acidophilus, bifidus and other probiotic good bacteria. Those are the bacteria which are naturally in our digestive systems and which help to digest the food. PETA has a list of safe and ethical dog food brands available on their website.
In addition to healthy dry dog food you can grind up raw carrots, beets, apples or use the pulp from juicers to mix into your dog’s food. You can add cooked rice, millet, quinoa and many other grains. Rye, barley and wheat contain gluten. Not all dogs and humans are gluten intolerant, but gluten intolerant dogs and humans should avoid any grains to be safe, because factories processing rye, barley and wheat can't avoid those particles from entering into the products of other grains.
Raw organic garlic heals all kinds of health problems that's why it is called Russian Penicillin. Garlic can be eaten every day like every other food. It is important to buy organically grown produce because it is pure and grown without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Farmers markets offer a lot of organic food for a reasonable price. Raw organic vegetables are good for all animals including humans. Kenny eats Purina One Sensitive Systems and Nutrish by Rachael Ray (which are gluten free). Those foods are perfect for dogs with celiac disease which is a severe gluten intolerance. Celiac is a dangerous disease if the dog or human continued to eat gluten products. They can't eat the smallest crumb of gluten, because it can tear off the intestinal lining and cause internal bleeding.
For celiac or gluten intolerant dogs I recommend dental sticks to chew on for teeth cleaning which does not contain any type of gluten grain.
All animals including humans, are unhappy and can get sick in cages, crates, kennels, prisons, isolated rooms and other confinements. Build them a large territory in your house. But also let them out on the lawn sometimes. They all like to roam free in house and garden as often as possible. Animals should never be chained or tied on ropes or chains. Chained dogs (and other chained animals) are often unable to reach shelter, food and water and can become aggressive out of fear, hunger, thirst, frustration and loneliness.
It is now illegal to chain dogs in California for longer than 3 hours in a 24 hour time span. In a wonderful group effort together with many activists we helped to bring this proposition to Arnold Schwarzenegger and he signed it into law. We succeeded with a similar new bill for Oregon signed by Governor John Kitzhaber. Signing petitions (on the Internet) and writing letters to legislators helps very much to bring those urgent requests to the politicians.
Someone we met had a coyote puppy who was badly traumatized probably because her mother was shot by a hunter. The person kept many of her animals in small crates where they could barely turn around themselves. The coyote puppy, a wild animal not used to being caged at all, became crazy and began to bite her own legs and slashed herself up so that the person had to have her euthanized. All animals suffer when living in narrow confinement and particularly wild animals suffer. When an animal feels like he has no way out of a traumatic situation he begins to hurt himself. Its an act of total despair. Unethical scientific studies done on monkeys have shown that when a monkey is being shocked with electricity in certain areas of the floor he will escape and go to those areas where there is no shock given. When all areas give out shocks the monkey begins to bite himself. This behavior has been observed in many different situations in laboratories as well as in other places where the animals, and in some occasions humans as well, have become so unempowered and afraid that they began to hurt themselves. Animals and humans should never ever be living in narrow confinement. There are always solutions out there which avoid such suffering.
Never use glue traps or poison bait for wild rats, mice or other small mammals. Glue traps are extremely cruel and the animals die slowly. I also don't recommend any type of poison like rodenticides because it causes a dangerous pollution chain reaction in the environment where scavenger animals like your own dog and other pet animals as well as wild animals eat the poisoned rats. Dogs have died from eating poisoned rats and poisoned bait. The poison also enters into the watersheds where it poisons aquatic life and other life forms and ends up in our own drinking water as well. Never use any type of poison, pesticide, chemical fertilizer, or other artificial spray or solvent. There are such excellent plant based formulae on the market which work better for everything and are safe for your animals' and your health.
For trapping animals like rats, mice and squirrels I recommend Haveaheart live traps, they have them in different sizes. We already trapped several rats and one large rat like animal, I believe that it is a Squirrel Rat because she ate only hazelnuts and other vegetarian food. She had been collecting hazelnuts from a nearby hazelnut tree and stored all of the hazelnuts in Paul's bicycle paraphernalia storage container. Paul always drove the animals to a nice place where there is a water source and much nature. They are always grateful to be alive and often looked at Paul with an amazed look on their faces before running off. It's recommended to bring the animal into a natural surrounding that has freshwater creeks or lakes, about 4 or 5 miles away from your house.
Take your animal to the veterinarian for physical examinations about once a year to make sure that the animal is healthy. When the animal is sick, consult the veterinarian immediately and ask for holistic medicine first. For joint pain and arthritis I recommend Glucosamine, Chondroitin, and MSM. Glucosamine worked best for our dog Samantha. The dog supplements were not strong enough since we have Great Danes but the human supplements worked and they are cheaper than the dog supplements. Cranberry, Echinacea, Uva Ursi Leaf, Juniper Berry, Horsetail Herb, Burdock Root, Corn Silk, Parsley Root and other herbs heal bladder infections. Those have to be taken for 4 weeks every day 3 times a day. In general, those herbs can also be good as preventive medicine in lower doses.
For joint pain, arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, overactive immune function I recommend the following holistic remedies:
Diatomaceous Earth Clay (one table spoon a day is good for overall health also as a preventive medicine). Calcium Bentonite is good as supplement (one table spoon a day), this makes very good tooth paste which is all natural for gentle teeth cleaning. Blackberry leaves, Raspberry leaves, Salmonberry leaves, Blueberry leaves, Cherry leaves, Burdock leaves are all highly potent and safe substances for inflamed joints and pain. Crushed flax seeds (only for constipation), Turmeric, Black pepper leaves, ginger, nettles to make tea with (contains vitamin B complex for strong bones), licorice/ anise/ fennel (in very small amounts), English Laurel, Bay Laurel (they are also anticarcinogenic, sedative and heal ear aches), Feverfew, Butterfly Bush also called Buddleia Officinalis (also strengthens mucous membranes and heals lung problems), Hydrangea (also heals diabetes, eczema and multiple sclerosis), Ivy leaves (the berries are toxic). Ivy also heals gallbladder, liver, spleen and kidneys, it heals tuberculosis, headaches and tinnitus. It is antifungal and gets rid of parasites. Yoga is great and gentle stretching of body is great for arthritis, lots of walking every day, and pure water available at all times. For liver, gallbladder and detox I recommend making tea from Oregon Grape, Milk Thistle, Daisy and Dandelion.
The dosis depends on the size of the dog or cat. A Great Dane would need the human dosis, half the size dog would need about half as much and small dogs need about a quarter of it. When the dog has pus coming out of the urinary tract but is able to urinate normally without problems he might have a bladder infection which can be healed with the herbs. If the dog squats down to urinate but stops again and again then the infection might be severe and I recommend for him to see a veterinarian right away. Only people who have read a lot about herbology might try to treat serious infections with the plants. There are powerful plants which heal bladder infections. I recommend for all people to study those plants thoroughly on the Internet or at universities in order to know which plant to harvest or buy, and which dosis to administer.
Bladder infections, flus, pneumonia and arthritis can be prevented by keeping the individuals warm and having warm and soft beds or couches available for them at all times. We cover Kenny with fleece blankets when its below 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Optimal room temperature for short haired dogs and cats would be around 80 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit and not lower than 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
A great supplier of nutrition and supplements is Dr. Richard Schulze, his website is herbdoc.com. He makes Superfood which comes in pills or powder. Dr. Schulze's dogs catch the Superfood tablets in the air and eat them while other dogs might not like them, but you can wrap the tablets into a treat. Halo dog food might have pill server treats which have a pouch for pills.
If the animal is in much pain he would need pain medicine as well as diagnostic and medical treatment. There are plants growing in every region which are strongly analgesic.
In case of severe illness, and if the medicine does not work any longer, it is better to have the veterinarian euthanize the animal. It is much better than suffering. Many animals need this help from us because a lot of illnesses and old age cause prolonged living in pain. Never attempt to euthanize the animal yourself. We heard horrible reports about dogs surviving being shot and suffering horrendously. If the animals have to be euthanized, please always bring them to the veterinarian to let the veterinarian administer the IV and chemical safely. Always ask for the human anesthesia before all surgeries and also before euthanasia. Human anesthesia protects the animal from feeling any pain. Other drugs may only immobilize the animal, but they can still feel pain. Ask the veterinarian if you can be there with your animal. It is very important for your animal that you are there next to him. I recommend holding your pet firmly during the entire euthanasia procedure to make her or him feel safe. Every person I know who had their arms around the animal lying on the floor with him during euthanasia, knew it was the right thing to do.
If you have an albino dog for example who is deaf or has vision problems, or if you have any animal who is disabled, and you and your family are unable to take care of him or her, please do not abandon the animal and do not kill him or her. There are several incidents of people who shot their dogs who were found later on still alive and suffering, and dogs who have been starved in garages or alone in the wild who have been found and rescued. Many animals have not been rescued. All of them suffered horribly. Bring the animal to the next animal shelter because they can try to adopt the animal out to someone who has the time and experience to take care of a disabled animal. If they can not find a person who can adopt the animal then the people at the animal shelter or rescue organization will have a veterinarian safely euthanize the animal free from pain and fear.
If you see a person killing, torturing or neglecting an animal, please call PETA at 757-622-7382, HSUS, ASPCA, or 911 immediately. If you see animals suffering like farm animals in confinement for example or if you see cruelty to animals promoted on the internet, please send PETA an email to report the situation, you can find their email addresses at PETA’s web site: peta.org and their web pages >action center< and >online cruelty<.
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