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Originally Posted by Britster

Nothing wrong with that.

Honestly I'm somewhere in the middle myself in between holistic and traditional medicine and think both have their place. I've been spending a lot of time with a Golden Retriever who was diagnosed with 2 bad types of cancer right before Christmas, he was pretty bad and the regular vet advised putting him down sooner rather than later as the bone cancer is hard on them. The owners wanted to at least TRY something else, these dogs are their babies, so they visited a holisitic vet (who also uses traditional medicine in conjunction when needed)..... anyway here we are April 17th, and he's still doing pretty good, all considering.

They're not going to let him suffer but they, and I, really don't feel it's his time quite yet. They immediately began giving him some of these Chinese medicines that the vet recommended, getting acupuncture, etc etc, along with the traditional meds and pain meds etc, but anyway, they swear this is some kind of miracle drug they give him. It perks him right up. At this point they know his time is limited so they're kind of just doing whatever works right now (fighting the blood cancer and bone cancer), but she thinks about all of this missed good time they would've had with him if they had put him down like originally recommended. And maybe it's just pure luck or coincidence but meh, I'm a believer in a lot of different things and I don't think you can or should completely write anything off.

I just took the article as kind of funny because you see a lot of people blindly posting things on FB, etc, and usually from well intentioned animal lovers that are just clueless or ignorant. The PETA posts crack me up the most, and people think if you're an animal lover, you HAVE to be a huge peta supporter.

Yes I do believe there is a use for traditional too. . . I am so glad that your friends are having good luck for their baby. Guildenstern died of small cell lymphoma. So I can relate. . . It is true that some follow blindly. Best thing is read something . . . Then do more research about it. . . See what is right for you.

I send good thoughts to your friends Golden. May he have a longer life and little suffering. . .