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Laura Kasner's avatar

Dr. Will - love you dear healer. I have shared your stacks widely.

What a delightful and heartwarming read.

If any of our three cats fall ill, I hope I can pay for a telemedicine appointment with you. I don’t trust any of my local vets. Anyone who hasn’t figured out that it’s the same playbook with animals as it is with humans is kidding themselves. We must demand better from our veterinarians. We need to start challenging them!

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Jennifer Beebe's avatar

💯‼️

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Jeff Johnson's avatar

Simply awesome! May his tribe increase.

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

🙏💕

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

He’s great and I started following his advice a few months ago. I loved reading more about his personal journey. Thanks for featuring him today.

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Vee's avatar

This is beautiful! What a perfect way to kick off the subscriber spotlight with this superstar. Three cheers for Dr. Will and Jenna McCarthy!

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Roberta Stack's avatar

Loved this! Thank

You! I never gave my animals drugs or vaccines, healthy to the end ❤️. No health issues and they lived long healthy lives.

Vets figured out how to make more money doing what people doctors do, More shots, more interventions. Hard to find alternative vets these days.

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Dana Ullman, MPH, CCH's avatar

Homeopathy IS for the birds...and for all of the animals and humans and all living things!

Bless Will Falconer (with a name like that, he is obviously "pro-bird!"

And bless Jenna for acknowledging his deep wisdom and his funny bones.

For anyone who wants to explore more info about homeopathy (and real healing), consider exploring my Substack.

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Janet's avatar

If I still had my cats, I would be so onto Will. Sadly, I probably contributed to their early deaths, although I quit their jabs early on. The crushed pill idea is genius!! Continued success, Dr. Falconer. I will bookmark your info.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Double scoop of FaNgiRLiNg going on over here! I’ve been following both of you for some time. Delighted to see you two in cahoots.

Dr.Will, you recently saved my dog, Bougie from having a rabies shot. On your advice, I found a local semi-holistic (more like slightly holistic) vet to pull titers. Bougie’s titers we’re HIGH and would’ve been off the charts had I given the shot. I’m now looking into the rabies “law”.

I’m ever so grateful.

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Will Falconer, DVM's avatar

KC, there’s an article on my site that’ll save you multi bucks once you understand titers and what they really reveal. “The Fallacy of Titer Testing” Any readers getting annual titers, please read that. http:/VitalAnimal.com

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Thank you. I’ll look for it. I appreciate it.

*BABIES nor PETS nor LIVESTOCK are born pharmaceutically deficient!

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Will Falconer, DVM's avatar

Back to my laptop, so here's the link: http://vitalanimal.com/fallacy-of-titer-tests/

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Laura Kasner's avatar

Will - I just read on your site about vaccinations being the cause of inflammatory bowel disease. Our cat was diagnosed with that shortly after we adopted her from a shelter. We were able to get it until control after thousands of dollars, although from time to time she would have a bout of it. Sadly she died two years ago after falling ill - her liver was involved. She died a week after presenting with symptoms. She was only 11. 😢

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Will Falconer, DVM's avatar

I'm so sorry, Laura. Liver disease -- was it a fatty liver or did they denote it?

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CriticalThinker's avatar

Just yesterday I shared my recent experience: In the last 12 yrs or so, noticed a change in vets. A vet I'd trusted for decades - suddenly all this pressure for many s h o t z - even a change in vet's demeanor. We have 2 rescue pups. The "new" one was abandoned on someone's farm and I went and got her. My "free" dog cost about $500 after the vet's protocol of visits, follow up visits and a list of s h o t z. 💔 After decades with that vet I changed and have now been to 2 new vets in pursuit of a caring vet not just processing through a line, like our human docs have become. I can see it was all the pressure exerted from p h a r m a getting multiple s h o t z to be "required". Then dog boarding or day out places changed all about the same time. No full schedule of s h o t z including Bordetella every 6 mos 😳 no admission! Guess what? Now people can't afford the care required and are releasing them or taking to shelters. This has not been good for anyone but the p h a r m a producers. 💰

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The Real Mary Rose's avatar

Love this!!!

I also absolutely LOVE my vet in Colorado, who I had only consulted by phone. His name is Dr. McCluggage, and he is brilliant. With only supplements that he concocted and mailed me, my two little elderly Jack Chi's who had suffered seizures their entire lives and had been on phenobarbitol (until it nearly killed one of them) were cured of the seizures in 6 months. He also cured leaky gut and gallstones.

When I shared this info with my alopathic vets they were not even interested in hearing more. Because like doctors, they make bank and keep their clinics open by pushing vaccines, surgeries and unneeded procedures.

One of my Jack Chi's passed away in January at the age of 15.5 and the other one is gonna hopefully make it to 16 (they were litter mates) even with congestive heart failure (I hope).

In any case, Dr. McCluggage was also an allopathic vet so he is aware of all of their practices... once I told him that our vet wanted to operate on my little guy to remove the gall stones. There was a big sigh on the other end of the phone and then he said, "Have you ever heard of a dog dying from gallstones?"

He's also funny.

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Noel Spangler's avatar

Love this Q&A. Dr. Falconer seems like the perfect vet -- knowledgable, humane, with a sense of humor. They just don't have docs like this is NYC where I live!

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Hugh Petersen's avatar

He’s totally right about vaccines. When your pet is due for a vaccine have your vet do a titer and change vets if your vet won’t do one. I could go on and on about this as both my step daughter and I have vaccine injured dogs. Stop the rabies shot after the one at one year no matter what your state law is.

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Jan's avatar

So thankful that this is finally being talked about. I was lucky enough to find a holistic vet in LA 20 years ago. He did not believe in vaccines and brought our rescue dog back from the brink. He had been overdosed on the rabies vaccine, courtesy of the shelter we got him from. Chihuahuas received the same dose as a Great Danes. He had severe liver damage as a result but spent many happy years in our loving care. He could only tolerate Venison, potatoes and duck. Our vet educated his clients on proper nutrition and no vaccines for pets. Thankyou for sharing this Jenna❤️

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

Yay for you and so glad you found it interesting! :)

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Candace Lynn Talmadge's avatar

So encouraging to know our furry friends are also getting real healing, not just drugs or surgery or both. Thank you, Dr. Falconer, and thanks to Jenna for introducing him to us.

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John Wright's avatar

Awesome Will! It's great to hear you are promoting health for our furry friends (and maybe some that aren't furry?).

A few pet discoveries I found in caring for my cats: feed them purified water (just like you drink yourself); feed them "wet" food not dry "kibbles"; consider giving them an "Earthing" pad to sleep on.

Now for my personal problem (after my wife passed away when my cats passed away I haven't had the heart to get another): my neighbor's cat is VERY insistent in coming into my home and hanging out. If I try and block him from coming in he will actually bite and swipe at me! Dang cat thinks he lives here!

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Hugh Petersen's avatar

When a vet tells you that a disease like Addison’s or an affliction like seizures appears at a certain age (like 4) take a look at the vaccine schedule. Many appear at the same age a vaccine, especially rabies, is scheduled to be given. It’s not a coincidence!

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