Shock to the System: The Facts About Animal Vaccination, Pet Food And How to Keep Your Pets Healthy [Paperback]

Catherine M. O'Driscoll (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 30, 2005

Over-vaccinating combined with stress, poor nutrition, and other factors is putting our companion animals at risk for serious diseases including auto-immune disorders, cancer or even death. In this well researched book, you will discover how typical vaccination protocols and environmental and genetic factors may be combining to turn your dog, cat, or horse into a ticking time-bomb of health problems, and how you can improve your pet’s health and longevity. Bringing together research from around the world, Shock to the System explains the physiology of stress, the role of genetics and nutrition and the health risks to our companion animals from over-vaccination. It also suggests sound solutions to keeping your pet healthy. Find out: · Why many of the health problems we see in pets today are caused by a combination of factors-including over-vaccination, stress and diet · How to decide which vaccinations are necessary to protect your pet's health without endangering it · How to time vaccinations so that they don't overburden your pet's immune system · About new, less frequent vaccination schedules that many vets are now using · How to minimize stress in your pet's life-and maybe your own!

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Dogwise (October 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1929242298
• ISBN-13: 978-1929242290
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #316,708 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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29 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Are we over vaccinating our pets? Yes!, May 2, 2006

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Tami M. Hawes "tamikat" (Hillsboro, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shock to the System: The Facts About Animal Vaccination, Pet Food And How to Keep Your Pets Healthy (Paperback)

Catherine goes into details with research from vets on the effects of vaccinations on our pets. Do they need annual vaccinations or are they causing our pets to become ill? Are vaccinations a moneymaker? Yes, pets should be examined yearly to insure good health, but vaccinations should not be the reason for this yearly health check. Catherine also encourages the reader to do more research on their own.

Catherine talks about food and stress and their effect on your animal's health. Catherine used to feed exclusively a raw diet, but has since modified that stance to allow that it can be too much 'energy' for some animals and that a cooked or prepared diet may be more appropriate. Rare for those who have made the conversion to admit that it may not be the 'best' for all dogs.

Shock to the System will make you think - not a bad thing!

I'm looking forward to her visit in May 2006 on CSDogBookReview and learning more from her.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT!!, August 29, 2007

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J. Fulkerson "ReoDane" (So. Indiana, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shock to the System: The Facts About Animal Vaccination, Pet Food And How to Keep Your Pets Healthy (Paperback)

A very eye opening book for those that truly care about your pets. If more people would read this there would be alot less pets going to the vet every month for allergies, etc..
A MUST READ!!!!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The researchers SHOULD BE INDEPENDENT from big money, April 6, 2008

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cuda (Kennewick, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shock to the System: The Facts About Animal Vaccination, Pet Food And How to Keep Your Pets Healthy (Paperback)

This is not the first book of this type I have read about vaccines, how awful pet food really is and alternative ways to keep your pet healthy. This book is very informative and has articles that relate to what I have found in other books by different authors, so there is a real problem in the pet food industry as well as with the vaccines and drug industry. Driscoll even gets into historical psychological facts about humans to show a correlation between human and animal side affect from drugs, vaccines, poor food and that modern medicine is not what it is cracked up to be. I have seen first hand what modern medicine can do to cats. I rescue, break up colonies and adopt them out. I have seen Revolution give cats seizures after only a couple day, high fevers for now reason appear after about two weeks for no reason. One of my cats has a burn from where I put the Revolution. This is a pesticide, I knew this, but I am having a really bad time with ear mites and was at my wits end. I have not used conventional anything on my cats in eight years and regret even this time. Revolution is a suppose to be safe and the conventional vet I bought it from thought I was a fool for waiting so long to use it. My cats are indoor only, but the rescues pose a problem sometimes and with all black cats I missed the ear mites in one. I pay very close attention to my cats and this is why I caught the problems. Most people put Revolution and their cat or dog and send them out the door. And, especially a cat, if it does not come home for a few big days no big deal. They have no idea the animal could have been suffering badly. I a dog they will probably run it to the vet and no one will suspect the Revolution is the culprit because the drug company says it is safe. Vioxx was said to be safe and how many other drugs are now under the gun for being not safe. Please get Dr. Pitcairn's book Naturally Healing for Dogs and Cats. Start with this and learn all you can about how to better the life of your dog and cat.