About Pet Health

Invisible, Real and Dangerous Pollution every pet owner needs to know about, before it is too late.

Our beloved pets are our life line to unconditional love and affection. They are our best friends. Imagine when you play and snuggle up to your furry friend. Its not just heart warming, it also has scientifically proven benefits:

  • Pet owners are less likely to suffer from depression than those without pets.
  • People with pets have lower blood pressure in stressful situations than those without pets.
  • Playing with a pet can elevate levels of serotonin and dopamine, which calm and relax.
  • Pet owners have lower triglyceride and cholesterol levels (indicators of heart disease) than those without pets.
  • Heart attack patients with pets survive longer than those without.
  • Pet owners over age 65 make 30 percent fewer visits to their doctors than those without pets.
  • Even watching fish in an aquarium can help reduce muscle tension and pulse rate.

Our furry friends give so much and by fulfilling our basic human need of touch and being in contribution of another precious soul.

Holding, cuddling, and touching a loving animal, changes our lives.




But What About our Best Friends Needs?

Pet ownership also comes with responsibilities. We all want to enjoy a healthy, nurturing relationship with our best friend, and so it becomes important to take care of their needs too.

Food, water, shelter and protection from seen and unseen dangers are a critical part of making sure our pets enjoy as long and healthy life as they can.

There is Invisible, Real and Dangerous Pollution in our modern households that may significantly affect our pets health.

It is Electro-Smog. (aka EMFs - Electro Magnetic Forces and Fields) it is invisible and ever present and they are surrounded by it every day.

Did you know that EMF’s are officially designated as “group 2B carcinogenic substances” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). (REF 1) Low-frequency magnetic fields induce circulating currents within the human body. The strength of these currents depends on the intensity of the outside magnetic field. If sufficiently large, these currents could cause stimulation of nerves and muscles or affect other biological processes, like the immune system thus predisposing animals to get sick more often. Electro Sensitivity and Elecro-Hypersensitivity is a real medical condition and ever present danger.(REF 2).

(REF 1) http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2011/pdfs/pr208_E.pdf

(REF 2) http://emfjournal.com/2010/05/05/electro-sensitivity-and-electro-hypersensitivity-published/

Our exposure is growing as our plug in technology does. According to Dr Robert O. Becker, M.D, (1923 - 2008) regarded as The father of modern electro-medicine, and was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize on his research related to EMFs, he had this to say:

”I have no doubt in my mind that at the present time, the greatest polluting element in the earth’s environment is the proliferation of electromagnetic fields. I consider that to be far greater on a global scale, than warming, and the increase in chemical elements in the environment.” (REF 3)

Dr. David Carpenter, MD and Director of the Institute for Health & the Environment at the University at Albany, believes it is likely that up to 30% of all childhood cancers come from exposure to EMFs. In 1997 the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine correlating powerline frequency EMFs and childhood leukemia. It found a statistically significant increase in childhood cancer in children exposed to magnetic fields in excess of 3 mG. (mG = Magnetic Field Strength)

A committee from the U.S. National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) produce man reports relative to problematic sources of EMFs. There are so many more references but the evidence points to human health hazards in everyday exposures to EMFs, particularly magnetic fields exceeding 2 mG (milligauss) (REF 4)

(REF 4) http://www.ncrppublications.org/index.cfm?fm=Product.Search&k=magnetic&x=0&y=0

Electro sensitivity and Electro hypersensitivity is a real condition for humans – A 43 page book designed primarily for doctors outlines ES, its symptoms and existing medical tests in 16 pages followed by some 800 references to scientific papers relating to this illness. (REF 5) And this is just relating to people.

Imagine what our Dogs, Cats, Birds, Fish and Reptiles experience given their amazing, small and empathic physiology.

(REF 5) http://emfjournal.com/2010/05/05/electro-sensitivity-and-electro-hypersensitivity-published/

We are exposed everywhere in our modern society. Magnetic fields permeate both walls and floors in buildings and are difficult to eliminate. The following list gives some examples of what can cause symptoms:

  • Video Display Terminals, Television, Cell Phones
  • Fluorescent lights, low-energy-, mercury and sodium lamps.
  • In the Kitchen – Electric range, Toaster, refrigerator, electric can openers Refrigerators, freezers, electric cookers, Microwave ovens
  • Office – Computer, WiFi Hubs, Copying- and telefax machines Telephones and answering machines
  • Vacuum cleaners, Hair Dryers, electric shavers, Washing Machine Dryer.
  • Clock radios, lamps with integral or separate transformers, "dimmers" (light regulator), electric blankets
  • Trains, underground trains, buses and cars.
  • Electrical supply cables both indoors and outdoors in the ground, overhead Medium- and High voltage distribution cables, Transformer sub-stations and switchgear
  • Water, gas and district heating pipelines. Due to phase-imbalance, leakage currents in a 4-wire 220V 50 Hz system
  • Data and alarm cables for data networks, fire alarm, burglar alarm, cable-TV

Throughout the ages, Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radio Waves and Micro Waves have been around us every day. Our own bodies create multitudes of micro currents through normal brain and muscle activity.

The modern problem is an accumulation of over exposure, high strength fields and proximity of electro-smog sources. Any plug in or battery operated device creates an ever present source of electro-magnetic waves and fields. Our environment is now over stimulated with EMFs / electro-smog, and of course, our domesticated pets are too. This modern condition of environmental exposure creates cellular “Stress” and imbalance.

(REF 6) http://emfjournal.com/2010/05/05/electro-sensitivity-and-electro-hypersensitivity-published/

The problem with electro smog is that it can create depression in the animals immune system, zap their energy, make them hyper, irritated and more susceptible to a multitude of diseases of a depressed immune system and possibly age faster and dying sooner than necessary.

Pet diseases that can be linked to a polluted electro-smog filled environment are:

  • Upper Respiratory Infections (URIs),
  • Bacterial Infections
  • Viral Infections
  • Allergic Sensitivity
  • Increase of ear infections.

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=107109# http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=107386

When people recognize there is a problem or a risk from using or being around a particular electro-smog device, we can move, turn things off or choose to limit our exposure. Pets can’t, they don’t, they are just here to love us.

As companions, and as part of the family, we want our pets to thrive in good health and be part of us for as long and healthy as they can. By reducing the effect of electromagnetic forces around our pets, we create a healthier home environment for them.

Animals have no voice, no choice, they rely on us for their well being and when we as owners are at risk, so are they.

(REF 7) Dr Connealy M.D. – EMFs: The Dangers of Modern Convenience