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Lucky (a whippet-x) was the only dog we got that had puppy vacs and one year's booster, because we got him from Holly Hedge Sanctuary (http://www.hollyhedge.org.uk/) 1997 (approx.) They told us that Lucky (we kept his name) was a juvenile delinquent. He was then about one-and-a-half years old. He had already been given two homes and both had taken him back. We were third time lucky!
Yes, he had lots of issues. When a dog is scared of everything that moves - even a leaf blowing across the road in the wind - you know you've got a lot of work on your hands to sort things out. In those days I didn't even know about homeopathy.
When we took him to have his first booster, within three months of it, he began to lose all his fur on his front leg and it was spreading rapidly up towards his body. We took him to see John Hoare, a homeopathic vet who was then at Hanham. Within two weeks the fur was growing back. I was so impressed that I started studying homeopathy and am now studying with the BIH towards my Diploma and Pract.certificates.
In those days I thought homeopathy was a form of herbalism, and I just wasn't interested. All that, however, changed one day in 1998 with the TV programme World in Action, in which Catherine O'Driscoll (http://www.canine-health-concern.org.uk/) exposed the fraud of the vaccination industry.
On that programme I heard for the first time about homeopathy via Chris Day, a homeopathic vet. So when Lucky suffered his vaccinosis issue I didn't hesitate contacting a homeopathic vet and, because of the wonderful response, have been studying it myself ever since.
Incidentally, he's developed into a wonderful dog. He's full of confidence - a little too much at times - but loves life to the full, enjoying going out with my husband weekends to his classic car shows and with us on holidays every year in Devon or Dorset. He's now aged nearly 13 and hasn't needed a vet since.
