“Mom, you have to fix him!” Three months later, his Lyme test came back negative.

Nobody wanted the dog in the ditch.

Bohdi had been found by a man who did everything he could to track down the previous owner. When he brought the dog in to be neutered, the vet made the diagnosis instead: "No hope, he was very sick. 'Let him live his last days comfortably' was what the three vets, who deemed him the worst case they'd ever seen, were saying." He went to Hulls Haven Border Collie rescue, in need of what they called a forever foster home.

"'Why would you take in a dog who's just going to die?' is what I was asked repeatedly. Well, my family is a team. We all sat down as a family to discuss taking Bohdi in. My children have seen many incredible transformations over the years, and they wanted me to fix him. Even though we knew he had very little time, the least we could do is give him the best last days of his life."

"When we met Bohdi, we were immediately drawn in by his soulful brown eyes. He was dying though. He was weak, lethargic and could only pant continuously. He could barely walk, and just plodded along. No happiness, no tail wagging. Oh how I wished he would wag his tail."

She fed him from every side at once.

Brenda is a holistic health consultant, and today one of the people who answers our consultation calls. She found Nzymes years before Bohdi, while working through her own Lyme disease, and the products became the cornerstone of how she approached it. She put Bohdi on an all-natural program for his immune system with Nzymes as the base: Sprouted Granules, Ox-E Drops and Bac-Pak Plus, alongside a raw diet and other supplements of her own choosing. The decisions about his medications were hers, made with the vets' prognosis in front of her, and she describes the whole program in her own words on Brenda's Corner.

"Day by day, Bohdi got stronger and began to thrive. His panting stopped, and there were no indications of being in pain or duress. We were watching him come to life! He ran, he played… he was alive! His heart was getting a heartbeat, not an individual thump as it had been. Had we truly saved him? He hadn't been expected to live more than days, now it was months later."

"I wanted to have Bohdi retested at three months. It was uncommon to retest so soon, however Bohdi was a special case. We were ecstatic to find out that his Lyme disease was gone! His blood results were all negative now. His heart, although still large, was able to function better, as all the fluids surrounding his organs had dissipated. The vet deemed Bohdi to have 'gotten better,' whereas dogs with his condition are usually just 'managed' until death."

Three years on, a new vet couldn't find the mess.

"At his one-year checkup, the vet said he was hardly able to detect his heart murmur, and that he believed Bohdi to be strong enough to handle surgery. In November of 2015, Bohdi flew through his surgery to be neutered."

"In October of 2017, I took Bohdi to a different vet, one who had no idea of his previous history. During his heart exam, I asked her if it sounded like a mess in there. She said, 'No?' I then told her about the conditions he had suffered from just over three years ago. As she scrolled through the pages of his diagnoses and test results, I couldn't believe how bad it had really been. His heart murmur had been a six! And now? She said if she had to put a number on it, it would be a one. She said that dogs with this condition do not go forward, they only go backwards. We really did fix a broken heart!"

What Bohdi's family used

Sprouted Granules, with Ox-E Drops and Bac-Pak Plus.

Sprouted GranulesIn his food every day: the live-food enzymes his immune system had to work with. Ox-E DropsA few drops a day for immune assistance, alongside Bac-Pak Plus for the gut.

Today the Granules come paired with Antioxidant Treats as the Core Foundation; for a serious tick-borne case we still recommend adding Ox-E Drops and Bac-Pak Plus. Our Lyme disease guide explains why.