Homeopathy itself, being enery related and not chemical related, is independent of metabolism or physiology and is not species specific. Arnica will work for a bee hit by a car, a plant you walk on, a llama who tripped over a log and fell, and for your own bashed knee, for example.
However when it comes to chronic cases, it is another matter to accurately assess the case in order to select a remedy.
Species behavior matters and varies - as you suggested with suntan lizzie. Even dogs and cats have opposite language
- ears flat is a friendly dog but an aggressive cat. Lying on their back is the cat's most well defended position - all 18 claws and four kickboxing karate chopping legs at the ready along with the jaws - but for a dog it is a submissive position.
A big difference is nutrition. Omnivores like mice rats and people have some thigns in comon bu they do nto apply to carnivores like dogs, cats and ferret- nor to herbivores. MOST human-fed animals are gettig the wrong diet and it is causing illness not fixable by remedy - so that matters to understand well per species..
All else is also per species.
They are prone to different diseases, have different organ function, different metabolic issues, different structural issues, may come in large groups all ill together, neding different techniques etc.
SO while the homeopathy uses the same principles it needs a lot of additional knowledge by species.
Dosing also is not uniform, apart from size of dose which is easy to vary. Dosing a wild cheetah is not a case of here, pussy pussy... a feral cat is not much easier... And dosing a large herd of cattle with foot and mouth or even just ringworm, needs some handy procedures in place of individual dosing. So does an outbreak of infectious illness in a shelter, kennel or aviary.It helps to have a "bag of tricks" - procedures, techniques, etc - ready to use.
Yes.
eg "Disinclination to do housework" = lack of self grooming......MAYbe!
Cats usually stop grooming becasue they are dehydrated. It takes a lot of saliva to groom a cat. They also get sicker if they do not groom as it is also their way of cooling down - evaporation cooling after gooming. After all cat skin has no sweat glands.
It is different with elephants. They groom by rolling in sand, no hydration issues with that grooming method.
Compare:
Sulph types do not stop grooming, they just never start:-)
One relies on the owner to know the individual features. But the vethom has to know what questions to ask to elicit the information or it will not be brought out - and also what to ask regarding species tendencies.
A dog trying to climb a tree could be a bit nuts, or a keen hunter, or being chased by a larger predator or just trying to keep up with a cat companion.
Often the owner is unaware of the species features, and the vethom has to be sure to get what tghe animal actually did and NOT what the owner says they did.
Example:
Owner: "This cat is very aggressive. She bares her teeth and growls and screams at my other cat"
Vethom will know from training, that the noisy cat in an altercation is the one being bullied - the victim, not the aggressor. That will matter for remedy selection.
It is also important to be able to interpret lab tests for each species. That will tell you what the animal can not tell you. For example:
A human will tell you if they have kidney pain or malfunction symptoms. A cat owner not so. But lab tests will give you wht is happening to the kidneys. In cats you'd look for high amylase, in dogs for high creatinine. High amylase in dogs might indicate pancreas issues, but that is not so in cats. So you need to understand the metabolism, and how to read it in tests. (Believe me the vets no longer know how adn do not try, it is now the pathoogtist's job and they do not look at combinations or ratios of tests. It is up to the vethom.)
With or without a believable diagnosis, a vethom needs to know what is going on inside the animal.
It is all involved but very interesting work.
Determining ICT, if you can, is a huge help.
For example:
German shepherd with cushings syndrome is sleeping out in the bitter cold all night (by choice), refusing covers, then comes in and shivers with cold all morning/day.
She is a Kali-carb ICT type. They get the worst hot flashes with the least raised glucose. So her cold seeking at night is from hot flashes not constitutional tendency to cold sleeping places. She actually feels the cold a lot. Her glucose was high every night from cushings aggravated by a big meal with carbs at night. What she needed was insulin for glucose control, a no-carb supper, and an indoor bed to sleep warmly minus glucose induced hot flashes or immune system challenging cold - NOT a remedy including seeking cold sleeping places
...........as part of her vethom recommendations.
The understanding of what is happening interrnally is relevant to figuring that out.
Namaste,
Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
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