Cat Healing Eating Bones- Can I learn from my cat?
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I have 3 cats, all male. The oldest one at 8, is neutered. The other two, Bimbap-3, and Tabby, 2 yo, have to be separated when inside the house, as they are so territorial and when they fight, it is like a fight to the death, as each doesn't want to give in, even when so scarred.
Tabby is always the aggressor. All are feral, but Tabby is stocky and muscular and naturally wary, even of me, even though I got him as a week old kitty, fed him on milk and weaned him off it; and the spots on his back likely point to his wild roots.
All the fights he's had with Bim he's won, except the last. Bim ends up with many wounds, and I had to wipe or spray his bloody wounds with urea solution. The last one Bim one by submission. Bim had bulked up to match Tab for this encounter, and he has refined his martial arts technique. He had his front incisors locked on Bim's neck, and Bim stood frozen, afraid any move will worsen the wounds on his neck.
I could not break up this fight without a stick on hand. Previous attempts have my hands and ankles bitten deep or gnashed. I just waited it out to be resolved in short time.
As a result, Bim lost his appetite and was lackluster as he felt the effects of the deep bites into his neck. I tried to give him homeopathic remedies, but it was impossible to get him to take them either as sugar pills or dissolved solutions thru a plastic pp pipette. He was too strong and his claws and bite were to be avoided.
Over the next 2 days, his condition deteriorated as he began to excrete mucus from his mouth and his right eye was always filled with wet booger. He had difficulty drinking water and even with soft food and broth he had difficulty chewing and swallowing.
But then something amazing happened. As he just then struggled with meat sauce and small pieces of pulled chicken meat, he stole a drumstick sized bone from my plate as I watched him mash and chew that bone until it was no more.
Then we proceeded to finish off the meat sauce and the pieces of pulled chicken he earlier struggled with eating. Then, I became hopeful he would heal- even without taking any medicine, with only the urea solution applied to his wounds being my contribution to his healing.
After a night where his sleep was aided by the diffusion of peppermint oil to the room we were in, he woke up to a slight improvement in his condition. This was confirmation of his healing and in the next few days his disposition kept improving. Now, he is back to his old annoying nature.
I had thought about why cats have good teeth. Perhaps it's because they naturally eat bone. I once had a cat, Mr. Big, he died at 6 years, and he didn't have good teeth, and I blame myself for feeding him canned food back when I knew squat about nutrition. I started to think that his poor teeth and health was from lack of calcium - but not just calcium but bone calcium, especially hydroxyapatite.
The past 3 years, I have not been to a dentist. The COVID hoax made me devise a way to avoid going to my dentist, out of a necessity to avoid my dentist requiring patients to take COVID testing with each visit. Lucky for me, I was ready for the moment.
I had already lost 5 teeth from having recurrence of periodontal infection, and I had become disappointed that my biological dentist, as wholistic and naturopathic as dentists come, was unable to keep me from losing more teeth. After some research, I incorporated many ideas to form my own protocol to keep my teeth from getting chronically infected and become extraction-prone.
A part of this protocol was to use Dr. Manhart's oral mouthwash and his special toothbrush. Both his mouthwash and toothbrush contain a calcium and zinc ingredient. Together with using water pressure irrigator and a final 2nd mouthwash with SSKI (supersaturated potassium iodine) as a nightly routine, I was successful in keeping my mouth free from chronic periodontal infection. So I no longer had oral health problems. I don't even needed the twice yearly routine of oral prophylaxis.
All this time, I kept wondering what this special calcium containing substance Dr. Manhart has in his mouthwash and toothbrush. Then a thread came up at RPF about a toothpaste that contains hydroxyapatite and how effective this toothpaste was for oral care. And I recalled that hydroxyapatite was the calcium that is formed in our bones as well as the skeletal structure in animals.
So, as I observed how effective chewing the chicken bone was in Tabby's healing, I am more intrigued as to the use of hydroxyapatite as a calcium supplement or food for our health. I have been taking eggshell regularly as a supplement, apart from milk and cooked green leaves as part of my nutrition lifestyle.
I looked up hydroxyapatite, and this article is one I came across that further dwelves into my interest in hydroxyapatite as a calcium supplement:
https://examine.com/supplements/hydroxyapatite/
Do you have any more insights, experiences, to add to this subject? Would very much appreciated your thoughts.
