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Hospice for Animals: 'Bout Time!!

8/30/2021

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End of life care is an area of veterinary care long neglected! I have  been dismayed by the premature termination of our animals' lives when they start to go downhill. We can and must do better. They can enjoy life even with a terminal illness, just as we humans can! 

My friend and mentor, Gail Pope,  of BrightHaven (brighthaven.org) has a saying: "Living well through the last breath". And indeed, our animals can! Gail, founder of BrightHaven, has been doing animal hospice for over thirty years, and has seen almost all of the animals in her care through dignified, pain-free natural deaths. Euthanasia has a place, but is not necessary in most cases.

I have seen many animals through a natural death, though not for nearly as long.  As with humans, the animals almost always shut down, go into a coma state, and pass easily.

Introducing Animal Hospice Group! (www.animalhospicegroup.com) TAKE A LOOK!!  Gail has teamed up with three other great  teachers to create a course in end of life care: palliative care and hospice! It is an extensive series on on-line lectures, with reading material and discussion groups. Just wonderful!! And it fills such a huge void in animal care! Tell your friends! And a great deal of the subject matter concerns ways in which to assuage vets' and human caretakers' fear of death. Grief counseling is included in the extensive curriculum. I have completed the course work, passed the exams, and am now a CAHP: a Certified Animal Hospice Practitioner. 
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Death is not painful. Some conditions can be painful, as with humans, but not death itself.  


 At the end of the course, students become certified to guide folks through end of life care of their animals. I have guided three friends when they chose a natural death for their animals, a cat and a dog, and they were grateful, and happy to be with their animals until their natural end.

Again, TAKE A LOOK: animalhospicegroup.com. You'll be glad you did!!

With love,
Cynthia
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10/29/2024 01:54:17 pm

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    ​The founder of Bee Holistic, Cynthia Burke, has been caring for cats most of her life, volunteering with such groups as the wonderful Animal Balance, and Fix Our Ferals, now Animal Fix Clinic. In 2009 her own non-profit was formed..

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