Peecycled batteries, low blood sugar, and a right dogs dinner!

In my quest to inform the world about urine therapy, I found today that Shazzie the Managing Director of Detox your world, actually will be covering it in her new book on ecstatic beings. Love her work, so I can’t wait for this next installment to come out.

Anyway the other daft bit of information I want to impart, is the tech news has gone wild over urine driven batteries. Yes they did take the piss, and that is to be expected, but they can be powered by fluids and that includes urine. The website has a link to the full article.

Currently reading about Low Blood Sugar by Martin L Budd, which I didn’t realise could cause so many symptoms. Up to one in five people can suffer from hypoglycaemia, which is a lot, potentially with symptoms that are similar to stress at times. To top this off it affects the adrenal glands, which can put those who are already stressed and not getting a nutritionally balanced diet, in an even worse position, causing further anxiety. By not eating the right foods, which you don’t tend to do when you are stressed, it makes the whole blood sugar imbalance even worse. I can now understand why people start to overeat, because the body is trying to rebalance itself. With so many of us living and working in a way which is so stressful, people are probably suffering from this and not even realising it. We need to change our lifestyles to a more calming one, with less consuming, and more being, wouldn’t that be nice?

The dogs are both stalking me waiting for their dinner to cool down, now making your own pets dinners is far easier than you can imagine. It is also far healthier, they eat stacks of veggies, seeds, and some grains, and different meats each day. It has no additives or any other rubbish in it that some manufacturer thinks is a good idea, and it hasn’t been sat around for months on a shelf. The dogs both love dinner, last night was lentils, with beef, and parsnips, and the bowls are clean. Today on the menu is left over bacon, potatoes, veggies from the juicing we did earlier, this is a great way to use them up, so they don’t get wasted, with their favourite, pearl barley. They love pearl barley, it is cooked so that they get stacks of water with it as a gravy, with the obligatory fish oil, nearly the healthiest dogs in town. Now raw dogs would be that but neither will give it the time of day! I am hoping Pottenger’s Cats doesn’t come true!

Dogs dinner…

Pet care is something that has become another part of our life that has changed. We already fed our dog pretty much a natural dog food, which we bought, but in the past few months we have been making our own.

What started by accident due to running out, has now become something we do every couple of days, and is actually far less time consuming than we thought it would be, and no more expensive. Our dog really does love it, and it has given us a wider range of foods to give her, as well as an understanding of what is working well for her.

What works well interestingly enough is Thai Red Curry, who would of thought it, really! The stronger the taste the better, we did worry at first about the after affects but none, so she now has it on a regular basis. Along with a variety of foods with herbs, and spices all mixed in.

After reading a range of pet care books and learning about the absolute rubbish in commercial dog food, it is clear that we can feed our dog far better than any manufacturer can. When I first got this dog it was a number of years since I’d had one, and I was shocked at what I read on the ingredients of dog food, and did search out a good manufacturer of natural dog foods. But on the way I realised how natural doesn’t mean natural, and manufacturers can add that word to almost anything they make, and often many of the more ‘interesting’ ingredients are labeled under an agreed additive food, so being totally unclear. Also it made me think about how pet owners had become conditioned to think that they couldn’t make their own food for their pet, it had to be something you bought. No one really thinks of dog or cat food as TV dinners or convenience food, but in reality that’s what it is, and equally unhealthy for them. We automatically think that to feed our dog or cat we have to buy food which is specially prepared for them, and has labels on it saying how it fulfills all of their dietary needs, when in reality that isn’t the case. In fact just look at the long term affects of pet health which is deteriorating just as quickly as our own is, could this be down to the way we are feeding our pets?

Our dog now has a small amount of raw meat, cooked vegetables, fish oil uncooked, and a mixture of grains, for instance millet, quinoa, buckwheat, and the odd load of lentils. I would give her more raw foods but she doesn’t like them. I can’t highlight enough how much our dog loves it, and its all just cooked up together, she gets a bit of raw meat separate a few times a week. D