How I Heal Dogs with Cancer — What the Pet Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know

What Is Cancer? Why Do Our Companion Animals Get It? — And How I Heal It

Over the last 15 years, I have been deeply involved in dog and cat rescue, and through rescue, I have witnessed firsthand the epidemic of cancer in our companion animals. To me, this is unacceptable, and so more than a decade ago, I set out to find the reasons our companions are getting cancer and how to heal those dogs and cats that have cancer. Here is what I have learned along the way, and the exact steps we take with every rescue to take them from terminal cancer back to pristine health, running and playing like puppies!

Cancer is not a random strike of bad luck. Its causes are known and therefore, its causes can be removed.
Cancer is not an outside invader. It’s a metabolic process – created by the body, for the benefit of the body, due to toxic conditions being provided to the body. Correct those conditions, and the body can heal itself.
Cancer is not a mysterious curse falling on some “unlucky” animals while others are spared. Cancer is a disease that is built with every meal fed. What goes into your dog’s food bowl is the primary cause, and most importantly, correcting that input allows the body to heal.

Rewriting what you think you know about Cancer

The medical industry calls Cancer its own disease, but in reality, Cancer is the seventh stage of disease. This is critical to understanding why medicine fails to heal where nature succeeds. There is in fact, only ONE disease – toxemia/toxicosis – a toxic condition of the cells whereby the cellular waste is unable to be removed from the body as designed, resulting in ever-growing cellular distress. In simple terms, the body becomes dirty, the areas around the cells become dirty, and this dirtiness impairs the functions of the cells, resulting in reduced and impaired cellular function.

You can think of disease like a hoarder’s house. Each day they bring in just one or two items, but because nothing ever leaves, as time passes, the rooms become filled. Over time, the mess grows until the person can barely move around their home. The ability to function becomes impaired. The more the mess grows, the fewer rooms you can access until finally the house starts to fall down under the weight of all the mess.

Our body, and our pets’ bodies, are just like that hoarder’s house. Each meal, each day, more waste is being built up that the body cannot easily remove because the food is not correct for their physiology.

Cancer is the body’s emergency defense. It is the body’s best attempt to survive under chronic disease conditions — conditions created when the body is overwhelmed with cellular waste, toxins, and poisons faster than it can repair and clean itself.

To understand cancer and to heal cancer, we have to set aside the false, mechanical view of the body put forth by the medical industry. Our pets are not machines where parts can be swapped out, cut off, or replaced. They are living organisms.

Every cell communicates, and every system is connected. When the body is sick, the entire body is affected, from head to toe. Cutting a chunk of the body out does not correct the systemic, head-to-toe sickness.

To solve any problem, we must first remove the cause, not the body parts.

Cancer arises because the body has been burdened beyond its ability to clean itself. Cancer is the symptom, not the cause, of disease. When we try to treat symptoms, we leave the causes in place. Cutting out a tumor, amputating a limb, burning the body with radiation, or poisoning the body with chemotherapy does nothing to address the reason the body created cancer in the first place. Adding more poison to an already poisoned body can never lead to a return to health.

The only true way to heal cancer is to correct the conditions that have forced the body to create these pockets of waste, and “rogue” cells that we call tumors.

Why Do Our Dogs Get Cancer?

Diet is the primary cause of all disease, including cancer, and unfortunately, our beloved companion animals have been the victims of an industry that is more focused on profits than health. As a result, the average commercial dog food is highly disease-causing, and feeding it to our pets day after day results in the body having no choice but to exist in a state of chronic disease. Those conditions grow more and more destructive the longer the body is subjected to them. The longer our dogs are eating kibble, canned foods, and other cooked foods, the more the cellular waste builds, and the more malfunctions the body must endure.

In addition to the disease-causing foods our companion animals are subjected to, they are also born into a toxic inheritance of the generations before them. Every animal is the sum total of the choices made by its parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents. If your dog’s mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother were all fed kibble or canned foods, they are carrying the toxic load of each generation. This is also why we see human babies and young children with cancers in modern times, a disease that just 100 years ago was extremely rare. (Today, we estimate about 1 in 285 children in the U.S. will be diagnosed before age 20; in the early 1900s, it was <1 case per 10,000 children)

If we think of health like a rechargeable battery, some animals are born with 100% capacity, while others are born with only 60% or even 40%, depending on the health of their mother at the time of conception. They inherit not only the physical structures of their parents but also the weaknesses — weaker organs, weaker elimination systems, weaker resistance.

For dogs, this problem is worsened by:

Severe inbreeding (purebred dogs come from an extremely narrow genetic pool).
Generational misfeeding (most dogs have been raised for decades on dry kibble and cooked foods).

Dry kibble is one of the most damaging products to the canine body. It is extremely dehydrating, clogging the lymphatic system – the body’s sewer system, which is responsible for carrying away waste, poisons, and damaged cells.

When the lymphatic system becomes dehydrated, this thick, lipid-based fluid cannot efficiently flow. The sewer system becomes clogged, and the elimination of toxic materials stagnates. The body, having no way to eliminate the waste externally, in desperation, walls it off. This is how a tumor is formed – intentionally, by self-healing, self-cleaning, intelligently created body. The tumor is a walled-off space holding the toxic debris to protect the surrounding cells from damage.

Cancer is simply a pileup of waste, dead cells, and toxicity that the body has been unable to eliminate fast enough. It’s like a hoarder’s house slowly filling up with junk, until the structure begins to collapse. The problem is, if we don’t stop the input of toxic materials from building up by correcting the diet, then eventually the number of cells inside the tumor will be greater than those outside, and the function of the organ in which the tumor resides becomes impaired and eventually fails.

So while the tumor is created intelligently and is the solution the body has put in place to the disease conditions present, it is a step to minimize the damage of the toxic buildup, not the solution to the toxic buildup. If the body is not able to remove that material soon, the body will begin to malfunction and eventually fail.

How I Heal Cancer in My Rescues

Over the past 15 years, it has been my privilege to rescue senior dogs with chronic and terminal disease conditions. 138 dogs and counting have come through my home, all with chronic disease conditions – cancer, seizures, dementia, heart murmurs, kidney disease, obesity, and many other conditions. For each one, we return them to the natural, biologically appropriate foods, and over time, all of their conditions heal. Not just heal, but these dogs return to pristine health, the cancer expels itself, the seizures stop, the heart repairs, the dementia fades, and they return to running around like puppies again. Our 17 to 19-year-old dogs run circles around the puppies at the dog park. As we correct their diet, we give the body the fuel it requires to make the repairs necessary. There are healing processes that we must follow along the way. We must allow time for rest and time for healing. We must not suppress the healing symptoms, like medicine does. If we allow the body’s own intelligently designed processes to work as designed, then we see a complete reversal of all disease. Not only the cancer, but all the little symptoms they had along the way that built up to the cancer.

Healing cancer is not about attacking the tumor. The tumor is not the problem; it is the body’s created solution. Healing cancer is not about fighting the body, but working with the body. Healing cancer is not about applying various poisons to the tumor to try to shrink the tumor – it’s about removing the burden and giving the body the energy it requires to clean house itself.

Here’s how I do it:

1️ Stop the Poison
The first and most urgent step is to stop feeding disease.
That means:

Throw away all kibble (there is no good kibble — it’s all carcinogenic).
Stop all cooked, processed, dehydrated, or unnatural foods.

We cannot heal if we are still pouring poison in. Fast your dog for a minimum of 24 hours to allow the kibble, canned, or cooked foods time to exit, then move on to step 2.

2️ Feed the Natural Diet
For cancer cases, I start dogs on 100% fruit — yes, 100% fruit — for 30 to 90 days.
Why?

Fruit naturally makes up around 60% of all wild canids’ diets. It is severely lacking in our dogs that are fed commercial dog foods. To maintain health, they need at least 50-60% fruit across their lifespan, so if they have been missing it, now is the time to make up for lost time. To learn more about how Canid species eat in the wild, see “Evidence that Canids Eat Fruit in the Wild”
Fruit is hydrating. Their body is dehydrated and needs a jumpstart to get the lymphatic system hydrated so the waste can start moving out.
Fruit clears out constipation. Cooked foods, canned foods, and most especially kibble are highly constipating, which means the bowels are backed up with years of old waste. As we feed fruit, this waste gets rehydrated and sloughs off the walls of the digestive tract, so the body can finally eliminate it, and stop being poisoned by it.
Fruit is easy to digest. Fruit requires very little energy for digestion, but provides lots of sugar – the fuel source for every single cell in the body. When the body digests fruit, it uses less energy than it is provided. This means that there is extra energy left over for healing processes.
Fruit provides clean, easy energy that frees up the body’s resources for healing. The body has a limited supply of energy each day. That energy can either go into digestion or it can be used for cleaning and repair. Right now, we want that extra energy going to healing and repair.

Once the cancer begins to recede, I shift to a maintenance plan: 5 days of fruit, 1 day of meat, and continue until full recovery. Typically, we do 60 to 90 days of all fruit and then assess their progress. If the tumor or accompanying symptoms have not made a big improvement, then we will continue on with the fruit meals or utilize fasting to help the body correct the issues faster. For more information on the power of fasting to heal, please read Dr Shelton’s book on Fasting, The Hygienic System – Vol. 3 – Fasting and Sunbathing – particularly Chapter 2 on fasting Animals. You can also find more information about fasting as well as feeding naturally in our Facebook Support Group: The Natural Dog Diet with TheRawKey.com

3️ Rest and Don’t Interfere

By far, the hardest part of healing is allowing the body to rest and allowing the healing symptoms to progress uninterrupted. Medicine has taught us our entire lives that every healing symptom the body creates is a disease that requires poisons, salves, or supplements to suppress. When we are tired, instead of resting, we stimulate ourselves with coffee, tea, chocolate, soda, or salt. When we get a cold or a flu, a body cleaning event, we turn to OTC cold medications, herbal remedies, or other toxic substances to stop the cleaning. Medicine tells us we are being attacked by invaders, and we must kill those invaders with some manner of poison in order to recover. This goes against biological science and falls squarely in the court of marketing. In reality, these colds and flus are the body’s cleaning and healing processes at work. They are expulsion symptoms – the body pushing waste out. The body has intelligently designed processes to push waste out on a regular and consistent basis, as needed, as disease conditions are built. Rashes, itchy skin, dry skin, eye discharge, runny nose, these are all essential cleaning processes that our body creates when the disease conditions build up. We can avoid them entirely by not making our bodies dirty in the first place, but if we stray from our natural foods, then the body is forced to create these cleaning events along the way. Medicine teaches us to fear them and to suppress them because medicine is a for-profit business that only remains in profit if you, or your companion animal, remains chronically ill.

As your dog is healing, they will experience what we call a healing event or healing crisis. During this period, there will be fatigue, lack of appetite, and a range of detox symptoms, or expulsion symptoms, which are the body’s cleansing itself. These symptoms must be allowed to proceed uninterrupted because they are the only way the body can rid itself of the mess that led to the tumor being forced to be created in the first place. It is therefore very important for you, as their caretaker, to learn about the body-created healing processes, so that you are not fearful and do not turn to suppressants when these healing processes begin. Here are some articles to help you better understand these healing processes:

What is Fatigue?

The Medical Label of Infection

The Hardest Thing to Do is Nothing

4 Continuing education
Surgery does not heal cancer, but it does do major and often irreversible damage to the lymphatic system required for the body to maintain health and remove disease. Chemotherapy is a known carcinogen – a cancer-causing chemical. You cannot ever heal a poisoned body by adding carcinogenic poisons.

The healing processes that we follow to heal our animals, not only of cancer, but of all other conditions of disease, are based on the science of health, called Natural Hygiene, or Life Science, and they are based upon the science of the Terrain Model of disease. Natural hygiene follows several basic truths:

Violating the laws of life cannot undo the damage of a previous violation. You cannot poison a poisoned body back to health.
The body was intelligently created and follows intelligent processes. These processes are not mistakes requiring poisons to correct. They are biological requirements, requiring only that we not interfere and that we heed their warning.
Acute disease is not an enemy at war with the body. It is not something to be expelled, subdued, opposed, destroyed, conquered, cured, or killed, since it is not a “thing” or “an entity” at all. Rather, acute disease is an action, a process, a remedial effort to be cooperated with.

We do not heal by doing things that would create disease in a healthy animal. We heal only by removing causes and allowing the body to repair itself.

The body eliminates cancer because it no longer needs it – not because we attack it. If we wish to address the cancer, we must remove the conditions that led to disease being created and instead replace them with the requirements of health. Health is the natural state when we live in line with Nature.

To continue learning about why the body creates disease, what the purpose of disease is, and how it is reversed, please read:

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