In March 2003, Sasquatch developed a huge lump on the right side of his chest. It seemed to appear overnight.

He had been in a fight with the neighbor’s dog and beaten down the gate on the front porch recently, but not within 72 hours of the lump’s appearance.

Frightened for his health and angry with myself for not noticing something SO large sooner, I headed to a vet he’d never seen before.

The vet took one look at the lump, asked his age and said it was bad. No tests or anything, I just figured that the doc had been around long enough to know what it was and that I probably didn’t have a lot of money to spend on pet medical ills. In tears, I took Sas home with his painkillers to await his end.

When I got home, I decided to do some Internet research on holistic treatments for cancer in dogs. What I seemed to find consistently was high-fat, high-protein, low-carb diets had seemed to work best. Lots of meats and vegetables, especially broccoli, were recommended and so, with MANY prayers, I set out to create a special dog stew that he could eat to make his final days as bearable as possible.

Following is the final recipe that I came up with. For whatever reasons, as soon as I started to feed him a steady diet of this stew, the lump started to go away immediately and was completely gone in a week. Before this diet, he had cloudy patches on his eyes and those seem to have vanished as well.

A number of possibilities exist:

1) The vet misdiagnosed him (maybe it was just a sprain)

2) The stew actually has some medicinal value

(My daughter says she’s heard of similar diets with similar curative results).

No matter which is the case, Sas remains on the dog stew diet and continues to do well. I don’t want to take any chances.

If you have a dog, or know of anyone who does, who is ill, perhaps this stew will help them too and so I share my recipe.

INGREDIENTS

	3 lbs. Chicken Legs		2 Cans Green Beans
	2-6 oz. Cans of Tuna in Oil		2 Cans Stewed Tomatoes
	2 lbs. Ground Turkey (4 if no hot dogs)		2 Cans Kidney Beans – Optional
	2 lbs. Hot Dogs

	4 Cups of Rice		2 lbs. Raw Carrots
	6 Eggs		1 Bunch Raw Broccoli
	Fish Oil Capsules and/or Glucosamine Chondroitin

1. Cook chicken, in just enough water to cover it, until it falls off of the bone. Once cooked, cool, clean from bones, shred and add to stew WITH liquid.

2. Brown ground turkey.

3. Follow instructions on bag of rice to cook it.

4. Shred broccoli and carrots.

5. Open all canned vegetables and puree with eggs, tuna (include oil) and hot dogs in a blender.

6. Combine all ingredients in a 12-16 quart stockpot and cook over medium heat until raw vegetables are cooked. Stir frequently and say LOTS of prayers as suit you.

7. Remove from heat. Immediately put stew in single serving (based upon size of your dog), quart, half gallon, or other-sized containers. When cooled, place one Fish Oil capsule per half gallon in the containers (cooking the Fish Oil destroys its properties), store in freezer.

Sas is now an eleven-year- old, slowing down, 70+ pound German Shepherd Dog and I stopped feeding him the stew as he seemed to be doing OK. Over the last year I have noticed him having trouble walking. Sometimes his front leg gives him trouble, sometimes it's his back legs. I have not had him to a vet but he has all of the symptoms of Canine Myelopathy which means that most likely he will eventually lose the use of his rear legs completely. I am currently looking for a wheelchair for him for when this day comes. For now, I am starting him back on the dog stew (12-16 ounces per day) mixed with Ultra Dog Food (supposedly a 'better' dog food). I can only hope and pray that this works for him (along with the exercise in the form of walks every other day as prescribed). The recipe above makes 21-22, 24 ounce packages of dog stew which will last Sas about 1.5 months (unless I feel the need to increase the serving size). I remove enough food for the next day from the freezer the night before I need it, so it’s room temperature for him and keeps as long as possible. I am also currently giving Sas one Baby Aspirin, 1000 MG Glucosamine and a Senior dog vitamin each day.

I hope and pray that it can help other canines as it appears to have helped Sas. Please email any questions to me from the contact link on the Home page.

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