NATURAL, WHOLISTIC CARE
FOR YOUR COMPANION ANIMAL
Natural, Holistic Care for Your Companion Animal celebrates the art of natural animal health, the truth of animal nature and the love of the human-animal bond. These classes / workshops / seminars contain a wide variety of animal industry expert’s advice, and current scientific research to help share the passion of an alternative approach to the care of our animals. Learn to care for your companion animals naturally with insights and wisdom from the world's leading animal experts in their field.
d Begin to learn the best ways for your animals to become healthy – and to stay healthy.
d Increase your awareness of how diet, exercise, and stress play a significant role in your animal’s health.
d Become informed. Recognize unnecessary drugs, and
vaccinations.
d Learn how to enhance your relationship with your best
friend.
Course Curriculum
subject to change
1 Introduction to alternative approaches for your animals’ health & well-being.
- What is holistic?
- Disease: a different perspective.
- The Difference between Chronic and Acute disease.
- The Vital Force
- What is Hygiene Management?
2 Dysbiosis - The Importance of Normal Gut Function and Nutrition – The Foundation of great health.
-Carnivores, Herbivores, Omnivores. Adaptations and the main food source of the species.
- Proteins, Carbohydrates, Fats, Vitamins, Minerals, Water
- So what is really in your pet’s food?
- Whole Food Nutrition
-Quality is paramount, Diversity is Key 
- Exercise
3 Nature’s Cornucopia: The many alternative therapies available to benefit your animal.
- More on Hygiene
- Energy Medicine
- Healing Touch
- Acupuncture
- Chiropractic
- Massage
- Homeopathy
4 Getting to the Heart of the Matter.
- Heartworm, Flea’s, Tapeworms…OH MY! .............NOT!
Parasites are not an issue in a healthy animal.
5 Vaccinations. A Shot in the Dark?
- Introduction & History
- The Immune Response
- Types of Vaccines
- Vaccines & Immune Suppression
- Vaccine Ingredients
- Adverse Reactions
- Polyvalent Vaccines
- Stress, Environment & Immune Function
- Vaccinosis
Sarcomas 
Auto-immune dis.
IBD - Titers
- Infectious Disease
- Canine Rabies Virus
- Are Vaccines Harmless?
- Holistic Options & Perspectives.
- “Holistic”-minded Vaccination Protocols
- Nosodes: An alternative to Vaccination?
- Don’t want to give vaccines at all? But what if my animals get sick?
- How do you know the vaccine worked?
- Vaccination strategies for maximizing effectiveness of Immune Sys. and minimizing adverse side-effects.
Jean Dodd. DVM
Glen Dupree. DVM
6 Communication: The key to a healthy relationship.
7 7 Dances with Companion Animals. Closing the gap and celebrating the Human – Animal Bond.
- The Dance
- Culture Shock
- Leadership & Responsibility
- Mark of a successful, healthy relationship
- “See us; look in our eyes, there is somebody in here.”
- How do animals communicate?
- The Gap 
- Grace
- Who are these magnificent beings anyway?
- Walking together, finding the way.
- The souls and spiritual lives of animals.
Webinars and Classes are 1.5 to 2 hours in length, offered once to twice a week for 5- 7 weeks.
Terms generally start in Sept, Novermber, January, April, but subject to change.
Workshops (6 - 8 hrs in length) are available outside the Jackson Area.
Workshops can be tailored to specific needs.
Two hour seminars are also offered on particular subjects:
What is Holistic? (Including A Different perspective on Disease, Hygiene Management, The importance of Bacteria and Normal Gut Function)
Homeopathy
Flower Essences
Vaccination - A Shot in the Dark?
Parasitism. (Including Heartworm)
Nutrition
The Human-Animal Bond