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- 0:01Hi dog mums and dads and welcome to another episode of the
- 0:04Natural Dog Mum. We're here today with Jenny
- 0:08Goldsby. She is from the Complete Pet
- 0:11Company. Now this lady is somewhat of a
- 0:14Jill of all trades when it comes to natural health for our Papas.
- 0:21She is certified in dog training and behaviour.
- 0:27She also provides nutritional advice and support.
- 0:32And in addition to that, she is also certified in something that
- 0:36is fairly well known overseas, particularly in Europe, but is
- 0:40still sort of becoming known in Australia and that is something
- 0:45called applied Zoo Pharmacognacy.
- 0:48Hopefully I'm saying that right, So stick around and we'll give
- 0:54you all the Goss. Thank you so much for coming on,
- 1:00Jenny, it's lovely to meet you. Thank you for having me.
- 1:05Anytime. I am ABS absolutely dying to get
- 1:10stuck into this because it's an area that, as I mentioned, is
- 1:14really just starting to emerge in Australia, Not a not a stack
- 1:19of people practising it and something that pet owners don't
- 1:23know a whole lot about. I'm still learning myself.
- 1:27So would you like to start us off by telling us what applied
- 1:31zoo pharmacognacy actually is and how that can be used to
- 1:36support your dog's health? Yeah.
- 1:40So I guess we just sort of start from the beginning because zoo
- 1:47pharmacognacy is actually wild animals self selecting.
- 1:54So it zoo pharmacopnacy means animals knowing and and
- 2:03medicinally taking self selecting medicines in the wild
- 2:08to help them when they're not feeling well.
- 2:13So the phrase coined by Caroline Ingraham in the UK is applied
- 2:20zoo pharmacognosine. Now what that actually means is
- 2:25animals that are in captivity. So applied means that we are
- 2:30actually working with those animals rather so than animals
- 2:32actually self selecting themselves.
- 2:36With applied zoopharmacognacy, it means that we're working with
- 2:41nutritional supplements and mainly essential oils,
- 2:45hydraulates and also clays and those types of things.
- 2:50So that's what applied zoopharmacognacy means, which is
- 2:53people get very confused by it. It just means animals that are
- 2:58domesticated are self given the opportunities to be able to self
- 3:02select. Yeah.
- 3:04So can you give us an example of how that would work in practise?
- 3:12Yeah. OK.
- 3:13So it it really is a science and an art.
- 3:17So I think I need to sort of make it quite clear here that a
- 3:21lot of people just seem to think that we can get essential oils,
- 3:25put them down for dogs or other animals and they just sniff the
- 3:30oil. And, you know, that's what we
- 3:32do. You know, we sort of people here
- 3:34that lavender is really good for this or, you know, geranium is
- 3:38good for that. So it is a science.
- 3:41And what we need to do is first of all, be be trained in this
- 3:46area. And it does take a lot of years
- 3:49to do this. So what we're actually doing is
- 3:53we're, you know, depending on the, the animal that I'm working
- 3:56with it, we'd be looking at things like, has the animal been
- 4:01diagnosed with something by the veterinarian?
- 4:04Or is the person just coming to us because the animal has some
- 4:08pain or gut problems or whatever it might be?
- 4:11And then what I'm doing is taking a whole lot of case
- 4:15history on that particular dog or whatever, mainly dogs I work
- 4:20with. And then I sort of go through a
- 4:23sequence of oils, looking at, you know, digestive oils, gut
- 4:28oils, hormonal oils, antibacterial oils, and
- 4:33psychotherapeutic oils. So there's sort of a pattern to
- 4:35what I'm doing. But when I'm offering these oils
- 4:39or supplements, clays or hydraulates, I'm actually
- 4:42looking for signs and signals from the dog to tell me that
- 4:46yes, they're working with that particular component or no,
- 4:50they're not. And so there are a lot of signs
- 4:53that dogs will give us that, yes, they want to stay working
- 4:57with that oil or no, that oil's not quite for them right now.
- 5:01Which is why I'll just sort of say here, it's really important
- 5:04that we never, ever put essential oils on our animals.
- 5:09It's so important, you know, because the example I would give
- 5:13is that I could pull out a bottle of lavender and you could
- 5:17sniff it and say, oh, wow, that that just gives me an A
- 5:21headache. And then I could give it to
- 5:23someone else. And they say, oh, that's
- 5:25beautiful. It's so calming.
- 5:27And then I give it to someone else and it takes them back to a
- 5:29memory that you know of something.
- 5:32So This is why it's so important because in those in a bottle of
- 5:38essential oil, there can be hundreds of constituents.
- 5:41And so the animals actually know what they're looking for in the
- 5:45oil, whereas we we don't know exactly what it is that they're
- 5:51looking for. So we're relying on them for
- 5:53that information. Does that make sense?
- 5:56Yeah, yeah, definitely. So can you give us some examples
- 6:00of some of the ways that the dog would let us know that this is
- 6:06something that they're comfortable with, that they want
- 6:08to keep working with or know this is something that that
- 6:11doesn't suit me or that I'm not comfortable with?
- 6:15Yeah, sure. So first of all, different dogs
- 6:19will work with oils at different distances.
- 6:22So if you're talking about your dolocosyphalics, you know your
- 6:25greyhounds, your long nosed dogs, they tend to work at a, a
- 6:29quite a distance. I've got a greyhound here and
- 6:32she works, you know, she can work anywhere from a a metre or
- 6:35so away. Then you've got your
- 6:39brachycephalics, they'll tend to work a lot closer because you
- 6:44know, they, they'll get the oils right up close to them.
- 6:47And then your mesocephalics, which are, you know, may be
- 6:50working at a, a distance that's a little bit in between those
- 6:54two. But again, it really depends on
- 6:57what's going on with the animal and how much they need the
- 7:00constituent in that bottle. So some of the positive signs
- 7:05that we would look at would be, and there can be many dogs are
- 7:08very different. So some dogs will have quite
- 7:12unique signals. But the main things that we're
- 7:15looking for is breathing. We're looking for eyes, what the
- 7:19eyes are doing. We're looking, you know, they
- 7:22might yawn, they might lick an area, they could point to an
- 7:25area on the body where they would like that oil used
- 7:30topically. They, you know, can mouth, they
- 7:35can actually open their mouth so that they're using the vomal
- 7:38nasal organ rather so than than inhaling it.
- 7:43You know, they they will lie down in sort of the Sphinx
- 7:47position and pop their head between their front legs, which
- 7:50is really a nice positive sign. The ultimate is they flop over
- 7:54onto their side. So we're looking at the whole
- 7:58body. I, I'm really intrigued by dog's
- 8:00ears. I find a lot of dogs will
- 8:02communicate with their ears, letting me know what's positive.
- 8:06And also tails, you know, some dogs, there's quite a few dogs I
- 8:10work with that will flap their tail a few times, you know,
- 8:13which is also a really positive sign.
- 8:15So there can be lots of different ways.
- 8:19I've got a dog that actually walks past the oil and has a
- 8:21sniff and keeps going and then she'll roll on the ground and
- 8:25then she'll come back and have have another sniff.
- 8:28So there is quite a long list of positive signs.
- 8:32Some of them are easy to understand or read and some of
- 8:35them we can miss, which is why I tend to record a lot of my
- 8:41consults so I can go back and have a really good look.
- 8:44Yeah, so now you want to know what the negatives are?
- 8:49Well, it would, it would help to paint a picture, Yes, if you can
- 8:52give. I mean, obviously there's going
- 8:54to be a huge amount of variation because like us, dogs are all
- 8:58individuals, but some of the more common examples.
- 9:04Yeah, so the negatives will be that they'll get up and leave.
- 9:08So this is self selection. We're not holding the dogs
- 9:13there, they're not locked in rooms, we don't make them get on
- 9:17beds or sit on something. They are free to come and go as
- 9:22they please, which is everything that I do.
- 9:26You know, even in my consults with behaviour, it's all about
- 9:29freedom of choice. And so a sign would be that they
- 9:34would get up and leave the room. But it may also be that they
- 9:38just wanna go out and have a wee and a drink of water and process
- 9:42that particular oil and then they might come back and start
- 9:45working again. So that's where you've, you
- 9:48know, the little bit of sort of science and observation comes
- 9:51into that. The other one would be, which is
- 9:54quite obvious is they will get up and actually turn around and
- 9:57lie down and put their back to you, which is a very, very, very
- 10:00clear sign that I've finished working with that particular oil
- 10:04or the session is finished right now.
- 10:06I don't want to do this anymore. I've had my, I've had my take,
- 10:10and I'm ready to now process those particular oils.
- 10:15So what are some of the benefits to the dogs, not just their
- 10:20physical health, but their emotional and mental health in
- 10:24taking this approach? Absolutely everything, anything
- 10:31and everything. So, you know, I can work with
- 10:34dogs with physical problems. Obviously that would be anything
- 10:39from, you know, gut issues through to illnesses, but I also
- 10:45work a lot with dogs that have a lot of emotional issues.
- 10:51So that could be dogs that are reactive, dogs that are lashing
- 10:57out, dogs that are withdrawn, dogs that have post traumatic
- 11:01stress disorder. It, it, it can be any ailment at
- 11:07all. Because I'll give you an
- 11:09example. Rose essential oil can have like
- 11:12over 300 constituents in a bottle, right?
- 11:16So what is that dog actually working with?
- 11:20So a lot of the time it could be physical or it could be
- 11:25emotional and it can, it can become quite confusing too.
- 11:31In actual fact, this little greyhound behind me, Gracie Mae,
- 11:34is a really good example of that.
- 11:35When she came to live with me, she had physical issues, but she
- 11:40also had a lot of emotional issues.
- 11:42And me being a human, thought that I knew best, you know, what
- 11:46she would need first. So I started to work with her
- 11:51with emotional oils and she was just like no, no, no, no, not
- 11:59interested, not interested. And I thought, wow, this is not
- 12:01going very well. I'm going to make a great
- 12:03practitioner. And and then I started to work
- 12:07with the physical oils and she was yes, yes, yes, yes, I want
- 12:11to work with those physical oils.
- 12:13So it was a case of the physical pain that Gracie was in needed
- 12:20to be dealt with first by her before she could then start to
- 12:23delve into all the emotional history that was going on.
- 12:28So it it absolutely anything, these are medicines, they're not
- 12:35nice smelling oils. These are medicines, they're to
- 12:38be taken very seriously. The oils that practitioners use
- 12:44are extremely pure and 80, I think it's around 89% of
- 12:51essential oils worldwide, worldwide are adulterated.
- 12:56So we need to be extremely careful what oils we are using,
- 13:00which is why now I have my own essential oil brand Healed by
- 13:04choice. You know, you can't just pull an
- 13:08oil off a shelf and, and offer it because you've got to make
- 13:12sure that they're fresh and pure.
- 13:17Yeah. Absolutely.
- 13:20So for those of us who were still learning about this
- 13:26process and this technique, what are some of the benefits to the
- 13:31dog or giving them the giving them this level of choice rather
- 13:36than just saying, OK, this is the diagnosis.
- 13:40I know that these oils or these herbs, you know, da da, da, da,
- 13:44da, this is what we're going to do.
- 13:45So what? What are the benefits for the
- 13:48doll in allowing them to be involved in that selection
- 13:51process? Exactly what you said.
- 13:56I mean we can only see what we can see, whereas the animal
- 14:01instinctively knows what they need.
- 14:04So, you know, for example, if I'm somewhere and I see a dog
- 14:09digging in the dirt and eating dirt, then there is a reason for
- 14:13that. And that can be that certain
- 14:18compounds in the soil can be antibacterial when they're
- 14:24eating grass. They could be eating grass for a
- 14:27number of reasons. It tastes good, like there's
- 14:30nothing better than fresh grass after the rain.
- 14:34It tastes yummy. I tend to munch on it as well.
- 14:37But it can also be to help with parasites.
- 14:41Depending on how the grass goes in and which end it comes out
- 14:46will tell you exactly what's going on.
- 14:48Is it a gut thing? Is it a, you know, a parasitic
- 14:52thing? So they, by allowing them to be
- 14:59able to choose, and we should always give animals choice.
- 15:02I mean, what gives us humans the right to make decisions for
- 15:06them? So by allowing them the choice
- 15:10to do this, we allow them to make themselves better.
- 15:16So for example, if I have somebody that comes to me that
- 15:21has a dog that keeps getting ear infections or has an ear
- 15:25infection, I'm not looking at the ear infection.
- 15:28So that's not where I go. You know, I'm not going to start
- 15:31sticking things in the air and, and, you know, saying do this or
- 15:35do that. What I would do is then go, OK,
- 15:39well, the ear is connected to organs in the body.
- 15:42And so therefore I start there with the oils, looking at what's
- 15:48going on internally in the gut, in the microbiome.
- 15:53You know what, what is the, the bacteria overload in the gut.
- 15:58And therefore the dog starts to choose oils and build up a
- 16:01picture for me so I can see exactly what's going on.
- 16:06Rather say the worrying about the ear because the ear is not
- 16:09the problem. Interesting.
- 16:12So in in doing that, in self selecting, they're also helping
- 16:18to provide you with a clearer picture absolutely where the
- 16:22source of the problem is. Absolutely, Absolutely.
- 16:27Yeah. It's sort of like another
- 16:30example I give people to help them understand is when you're
- 16:33not feeling well, when you've got a cold or something like
- 16:36that, you might crave oranges, right?
- 16:40And so you will eat oranges and eat oranges.
- 16:43And, you know, you send your, your partner, your friend off to
- 16:46buy a kilo bag of oranges because that's all you want to
- 16:50eat, you know, And then when you start to feel better, your body
- 16:55says you don't need oranges anymore.
- 16:57And so therefore what happens is someone presents you with an
- 17:00orange and you go, Oh, no, I couldn't eat that.
- 17:03And it's simply because your body is saying what you need,
- 17:07when you need it, how much you need, and now you don't need it
- 17:11anymore. So you know, there's a, there's
- 17:14a system that works with that. It's, you know, it's, it's
- 17:19animals that will self select on things that would normally be
- 17:25something that they wouldn't take.
- 17:26But when they're not, well, they're looking for those
- 17:29particular medicines in that particular plant, yeah.
- 17:35Interesting. So how how did you get started?
- 17:38What what led you to to working in this field?
- 17:44Oh wow. OK, well we'd have to go back a
- 17:47very long way because my background is I.
- 17:53I guess my whole thing started like everybody else's.
- 17:58You know, I had a, a real problem dog.
- 18:00There's a story on the website, you can read about it.
- 18:02But you know, I had a problem dog or what I thought was a
- 18:06problem dog. And I went to trainer after
- 18:08trainer after trainer and I did all things that I shouldn't have
- 18:12done. And I knew instinctively that
- 18:14wasn't right. So I started on this journey of
- 18:17learning more about what dogs are, how they communicate, you
- 18:21know, nutrition and why that's important because this
- 18:24particular dog had skin problems as well.
- 18:28You know, you keep pumping these same things into them that
- 18:31people tell you that you should. And I wasn't seeing any
- 18:34benefits. And, you know, all of this sort
- 18:37of drew a picture for me that the behavioural problems are
- 18:39connected to the nutritional problems and there's so much
- 18:43more going on. So it's a very big picture.
- 18:46I had a dear friend of mine, Eileen McClain, who had a
- 18:51business called Natural Animal Care, and she was an amazing
- 18:54homoeopath. And I worked alongside Eileen
- 18:57for a number of years and she taught me amazing things about
- 19:01homoeopathy. And sadly Eileen passed away.
- 19:06But I was so grateful that that sort of took me on this journey
- 19:12of holistic medicine, I guess you would call it.
- 19:16And essential oils have been in my life for probably, gosh, I
- 19:20don't know, 15-16 years. I've been sort of dabbling
- 19:24around with essential oils myself.
- 19:27And then I just wanted to look more into why animals, why we
- 19:36need to give animals choice and how these issues of illness that
- 19:42we see in dogs can be blamed on nutrition.
- 19:46But it goes a lot deeper than that.
- 19:49And so emotional states of dogs has a has a massive play in that
- 19:56and pain as well. You know, 80% of dogs are
- 19:59suffering in pain. It's huge.
- 20:03And so essential oils then sort of led me on this journey to
- 20:07find out more from Caroline Ingraham.
- 20:10So I'm like you, I guess I started investigating it and I
- 20:14needed to know more. But I also then learned very
- 20:17quickly that this is not something you mess around with.
- 20:20It is a science. And there's a lot, a lot to
- 20:24learn, a lot to learn. So that sort of sent me on a
- 20:28journey to go, OK, well, everything I do is about, you
- 20:32know, behaviour, nutrition, anatomy, because I make
- 20:36harnesses as well that are anatomically correct.
- 20:41Long leads, the DIY mix. And so he'll, by choice,
- 20:47Nature's Pharmacy just sort of, you can't have one without the
- 20:50other. All of those things are so
- 20:53important to have a happy, well balanced animal in homeostasis.
- 20:59Yeah. Absolutely.
- 21:02So now that we're on the subject, do you want to walk us
- 21:05through what you're doing through the Complete Pet Company
- 21:11and your products? I know you.
- 21:13I know you're covering a number of areas.
- 21:15Nutrition is a big one. Yeah, so that same, that same
- 21:23dog, Simba the Dane that I was talking about before with
- 21:27behaviour problems, as we call them, and skin problems.
- 21:32I that's when I started to look into nutrition.
- 21:35So we're going back 30 years at that.
- 21:40And I sort of started to think to myself, you know, this can't
- 21:43be that difficult because the, the body is a motor, just like a
- 21:49car. And if you put good fuel, good
- 21:51water service it regularly, it functions quite well.
- 21:56So I started to look at what what a dog is.
- 21:59It's a carnivore. What does it eat?
- 22:03And then that was back in the day before we had Google, you
- 22:06know, we only had books and then library books and common sense.
- 22:11And so I started to, you know, do a little bit of research and
- 22:15play around a bit. And that led me to having seven
- 22:19extremely healthy dogs. And people in the neighbourhood
- 22:23started to ask me, wow, you know, what are you feeding your
- 22:26dogs? Which led me to start creating
- 22:29the complete meal. I started in my bathtub at home
- 22:34and built a company where I manufactured tonnes of a
- 22:42complete meal and sent that throughout Australia and helped
- 22:47customers. Then I opened my first shop in
- 22:492009, along with that Cane complete Canine communications,
- 22:54so I was studying and learning about behaviour as well.
- 22:58That sent me travelling overseas for years and years, studying
- 23:02with professionals over there, looking at different ways of
- 23:06working with dogs because in Europe they're definitely ahead
- 23:11of the game very much than we are here in Australia.
- 23:15And that sent me on a journey to learn about language, canine
- 23:20language, which I studied with Turod Rugas, the as
- 23:24International Dog Trainers Education.
- 23:27And I spent two years learning about calming signals and the
- 23:30language of dogs, which is a whole different topic.
- 23:34And that sort of led me on to anatomy, which is why I then
- 23:38created my harness. And then at the beginning of
- 23:41January, I decided that I wanted to close my shop for a number of
- 23:47reasons, mainly because things were just getting so tough.
- 23:51I didn't want to renew my my rent, to be honest.
- 23:54And I just felt, you know, the the market has been smothered
- 23:59with raw dog foods and when you produce something that is so
- 24:05high quality and I am so passionate about the rights of
- 24:09animals, where my meat came from, where my ingredients came
- 24:13from, everything was Australian. My packaging, my tape, my
- 24:17labels, everything was Australian.
- 24:20I just decided it was time for me to sort of move back to my
- 24:24roots. So I closed the shop down and I
- 24:27now work online and I still sell all natural products as I did
- 24:33with the Complete Pet Company. And I also created a couple of
- 24:37years ago a powdered formula called the Complete Meal DIY
- 24:42Mix. And in that is everything that I
- 24:46put into my complete meal raw food apart from the meat.
- 24:49So I can send that anywhere in Australia and you just add that
- 24:53to meat. It's not a Topper.
- 24:56A lot of people are into these toppers, not quite sure what
- 24:59toppers are, but it's not a Topper.
- 25:02It is actually a nutritional mix that has all the vitamins and
- 25:07minerals and nutrients in it, including awful.
- 25:13So it's got everything in there and you just add it to your meat
- 25:16and you've got a raw food. So that's what I'm doing now.
- 25:20And you know, just covering all those bases of, of everything
- 25:24natural and healed by choice. Nature's Pharmacy Applied Zoo.
- 25:28Pharmacognacy fits in there well.
- 25:31Yeah, lovely. And you're doing your consults
- 25:34and you do some courses on different topics as well.
- 25:40I do, yes. I'll be running a lot more
- 25:42courses now that I don't have the shop, but I am actually
- 25:47running one in I think the beginning of August and it it's
- 25:52actually called, I have to look at my notes here because I'm
- 25:54still writing it, where 2 Worlds Collide.
- 25:58And that particular course is going to be about canine
- 26:02behaviour and applied zoopharmacognosy and how those
- 26:06two work together. So it'll be a day of canine
- 26:10behaviour and a canine and then a day of applied
- 26:13zoopharmacognosy. It will be on Zoom and extremely
- 26:17interactive. My courses are really casual.
- 26:20We have a lot of fun. I'm very interested in where
- 26:23people are up to, you know, in their lives with dogs and those
- 26:27types of things. So that will be the next course.
- 26:31I also have, I run courses on Discover the Dog Within, which
- 26:35is pretty intense. You know, I go all right into
- 26:40where dogs come from, why they look the way they do, all about
- 26:43language, all those types of things.
- 26:46So yeah. Amazing.
- 26:50So for anyone who wants to have a look at your products, have a
- 26:53look at your courses, get in touch with you, where is the
- 26:57best place? Online to find you Yep, if you
- 27:01go to completepet.com dot AU that's my website, you'll find
- 27:07absolutely everything there. There's a different tab for
- 27:12everything. I'm still updating it from my
- 27:14physical shop to online, but you'll see my courses services.
- 27:20There's some ebooks there that you can buy, which are, you
- 27:24know, nice little cheap ebooks. You can also subscribe to my
- 27:28newsletter and get a free ebook as well.
- 27:31And then I send out information about the courses and what I'm
- 27:35actually doing. So complete pet.com dot AU.
- 27:39Of course, you can also follow me on social media, Instagram
- 27:44and Facebook. And that's just the complete pet
- 27:47company. I'm not that difficult to find,
- 27:49I don't think. Amazing.
- 27:53Thank you so, so much for spending the time with us today.
- 27:56It's it's such a fascinating subject.
- 28:00You could you could talk about it for hours and hours, couldn't
- 28:03you? Well, I could, yeah.
- 28:06I love it. I love all of it.
- 28:07I love how it all works together.
- 28:10And yeah, applied to Pharma Cognosy I guess in Australia is
- 28:16probably to most people quite new, but it, it, it, it really
- 28:22is an incredible modality, absolutely incredible.
- 28:26But you know, there are things that you need to learn.
- 28:30And the other thing is too, Sherry, I do do online consults
- 28:34with Applied Zoo Pharmacognosy, but they have to, yeah, there's
- 28:39a little kit that I have, they're tiny little bottles and
- 28:43I send that out and that way you've got a basic kit to work
- 28:47with. And I can do that online as well
- 28:49for people that are not, you know, close by.
- 28:53Fantastic.