Why turn to Homeopathy for Treating Pets & Animals?
The word hippie according to the Australian Oxford Dictionary is “a young person who chooses to live their life in an unconventional way”.
At nearly 40 we no longer consider ourselves young, however we do choose to live our lives differently from the normal (whatever that really is). We guess this classes us in some way as “hippies”, a term we embrace in our path of life. We guess if you are reading this, then you too are in search of “something different” from the normal. Maybe you too embrace the term “hippie”.
For us this was a conscious decision made when our first baby. Jay was born. He was an unsettled baby, due for the most part because of Cathy and her lifetime of hang-ups with her parents. When Jay was three months old it became apparent to everyone around us that Cathy had severe post natal depression. We were pushed to take Cathy to the doctor about this problem and the answer we were told was to take anti-depression medication. We knew Cathy was in a bad place, but we also knew more than anything that if she took drugs while breastfeeding she was feeding drugs to our baby son. Our doctor assured us it was all safe. If he could look us in the eye and with a straight face tell us what we knew was untrue, then we knew we couldn’t trust our health and our family’s health to this system any longer.
We decided right then that we needed to take control of our own health.
Our families found this a bit hard to live with. We had both grown up in very conventional families who immunised their children when it was due, went to the doctor if they were ill and never left the doctors surgery without a script in hand. If their animals were ill, then the vet was called. This is just how it was done.
You know we think we were and are part of the new consciousness. We choose to not get out of bed at some ungodly hour in the morning, to drop our babies in childcare and spend hours a day stuck in traffic to arrive home at night exhausted, to the huge beautiful house with the only time to enjoy it at weekends – a day and a half, maybe two days a week. In our great-grandparents day that house would be big enough to fit five families with 7-12 children.
We make a conscious choice to not consume mass produced food that is covered in artificial fertiliser and poisonous chemicals, we choose to live in an old country house to allow at least one parent to be home at all times with the children, we choose not to immunise our babies with live disease or poisonous carriers, we choose because we can, because we have access to information and reports that allow an informed decision on these crucial matters.
We also choose to use alternative medicines on ourselves and our animals. It was in fact Homoeopathy that carried us out of the depression of ten years ago. This amazing medicine that is so popular in Europe that they have hospitals and farms that are solely run on the miraculous homoeopathic remedies. It is the healing choice of the Royal Family and it has been around for 250 years. Why it has been kept such a secret? - a question I pondered for a long time. I couldn’t come up with an answer so therefore decided to create an awareness of options for the people in my country.
We aim to “be the change we wished to see in the world”.
It is time as 21 Century hippies that we said enough is enough ! – we don’t want your chemicals in our food and we certainly don’t want them in the form of drugs for our families and our animals.
We are farmers, and three years ago we moved to Canungra, in the Gold Coast Hinterland to provide our children with different options for learning and life experiences. Through some unknown force we started providing sheep dog demonstrations at different locations around the city, this led to sheep dog training classes for the unruly city bred working dogs. This in turn led us to create a specialised kit for our trainees who were visiting the vet more regularly than the butcher and were paying thousands of dollars to vets for little things like rashes and stings, hotspots and abscesses. We thought this quite strange as we hadn’t been to the vet in nearly ten years. We were treating all our animals – sheep, cattle, dogs, pregnant and lactating bitches and their pups with homoeopathics.
Now our trainees had real tools to use for everyday problems, saving themselves many dollars, but more importantly lots of time - lots of time that was wasted sitting in the vet clinic waiting and waiting. We were freeing people up and making their animals healthier in the process. We encouraged all our kit owners to treat their friends’ pets. Share and share alike. We aren’t doing what we do to make gross amounts of money. We do what we do to help people to help themselves and their animals.
It grew from there. Their friends wanted kits and they themselves wanted more. Six months ago we decided to create a commercial product to help as many animals owners (caretakers we like to call us) to help their beloved pets. We focussed on making kits that would meet the needs of our potential clients, without giving up what was important to us. We wanted an all Australian made product – all but the bottles are made in Australia. We wanted a product that was kind to the environment – we used soy based inks in the printing and recycled cardboard for the packaging.
The other important thing to us was to provide full backup support. For although we had a great product with detailed instructions we were very aware that the use of homoeopathic medicines is totally different from western medicine, for example lesser dosing, faster acting, very little repeating of remedies. People needed supporting through the learning. We therefore decided every kit should leave us with full email or phone (in emergencies) back up support. Kit owners wouldn’t need our help forever, but they needed our support until they had the knowledge they need to go alone.
It is amazing to know that every kit that leaves us empowers the owner to help all their animals – stock and domestic alike. They will help their friends’ animals and gradually they will make a difference to the general health of animals everywhere with tools that will allow them to treat bites, infections, accidents, fevers, heat stroke, chemical poisoning and much more, as soon as that they notice a problem. Do you know that the most likely thing to kill your pets in the case of an accident? It isn’t their injuries, it is the shock. If you had a tool at your ready disposal to remove that shock immediately the chances of total healing are greatly increased.
Homoeopathic remedies can be used on all animals, including of course humans. They can also be used on plants, in fact any living thing. Homoeopathics is now classed organic for farming in New Zealand and I am sure Australia will be close to follow. There are no chemicals, no harmful side effects, no withholding period for stock, and it creates a true healing by healing from the inside out. In homoeopathy we believe discharges, rashes and the like are wonderful as they are a sign the ‘being’ is healing and ‘pushing out’ any rubbish that has been causing problems. It will work with physical, mental and emotional symptoms in a whole body (wholistic) way.
Skin conditions are a huge problem for many horse and dog owners. Their options to give relief to their animals has been steroids and cortisone treatments that will shorten your animals life span and create further health problems. To have tools that you can use to activate the natural healing processes that should be in place is extremely self empowering. As modern day hippies we like nothing more than being self sufficient. With homoeopathics you can be almost totally self sufficient and save many dollars in the process. The remedies in our kits will last for over 20 years and each bottle contains over 100 doses. They will last you for ages.
Whether you use our remedies or purchase from someone else we urge you to get some books from the library or second hand bookshop and be on the path to greater health for you, your family, and your animals.
In health and happiness,
Eric & Cathy Tighe
Heal with Ease
www.healwithease.com