ANIMAL BODY MIND SPIRIT
Nicola Richardson, Animal Healer
Love Your Animal, Heal Your Animal
Cars, and the roads are covered with chemicals. Oil, antifreeze, salt, brine, and so on. All this goes into our animals’ systems via smell and touch, which they are not designed to process.
It is poisonous to their systems.
It is interesting so many people have their dog to sit on the curb at traffic lights. I imagine the thought is a good dog sits beside their owner. My goal for my animals is to keep them as far away as possible from all traffic fumes, and the potential chemicals coming from the cars, and the roadway until it is time to cross.
I also always keep them standing, never sitting, so they have less contact with the surface, as I assume all curbside pavement is also covered in chemicals. The salt on the sidewalks is very toxic in Canada. They are safer this way, too, if you have to move quickly. Of course, this all depends on where you live with regards to exposure.
In some countries we have lived in, I could literally feel the exhaust, and smog on my animal’s coats after a walk. I would come home, and wipe them down daily with a slightly soapy wet rag to get as much residue off them as possible. Of course, they would be bathed more often too, with a non-toxic, non-scented, castile soap.
As far as my work goes, there is no such thing as “pet friendly” salt on the market. The chemicals and ingredients are immediately and directly absorbed by the paws and sit in the body creating chronic dis-ease. It takes quite a lot of energy work to clear them, and this is assuming I am indeed catching them all as usually I have no idea what the product is.
Lack of Transparency
If you cannot find the ingredients easily online of the product and the ingredients are not on the bag, then I suggest you do not use this product. This applies to a lot of the big chain stores.
Marketing Does Not Mean “Truth”
The word “safe” is marketed until proven otherwise. The companies are banking on the fact the pet owner will never make them accountable for their product and the damage it may cause. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the pet owner to do their homework.
If the product is dissolving ice, it is dangerous for your animal to be anywhere near it. Period.
Chemicals Do Not Dissolve and Just Go Away
What people may not understand, is that the chemicals stay throughout the summer on the pavement. They do not neutralize or evaporate. The chemicals are sitting there. All wildlife, pets, children, adult humans will be absorbing these chemicals continually if in bare feet.
And for those who wear their shoes inside the house, they will be transferred all over the floors in the interior of the house. Just like pesticides are.
From my perspective, these chemicals in these products should be tested for within bloodwork for those living in the colder climates where any dis-ease is present especially the dogs and cats who are out in the neighbourhoods.
2026 April, Looking at Some Products on the Market
As I am finding calcium chloride heavily in a few of my clients, I am looking at four products currently on the market. I am asking the dowsing system the following question.
“On a scale of 1, 10, with 10 being highly toxic, how toxic is this product for an animal to step on in bare paws/hoofs with one application on a driveway?”
Therefore, this means – nothing is safe if the companies wish to provide something that melts ice. This is a list of ingredients in the following products tested above marketed as SAFE for the animals, our pets and wildlife. One product even says on their website that it is ingestible? Which is insane.
About The Ingredients
Most the ingredients listed below are descriptions. The companies are not transparent with what is in their product at all with trade secrets being used as well to hide ingredients. Therefore, as pet owners and carers of animals, we have no idea what the toxic exposure really is.
Therefore, muscle-testing, and or dowsing connecting to source energy provides transparency. All the products I looked at and tested are extremely toxic, but the marketing is very strong to promote otherwise.
Product 1 | Thaw
Product 2 | Ice Melter
Product 3 | Ice Melter
Product 4 | Ice Melter
Wiping Feet is Not Enough
https://www.aspca.org/news/keeping-pets-safe-during-winter-dangers-ice-melts?
Articles like the one above, Keeping Pets Safe During Winter: The Danger of Ice Melts, are helpful but are not telling pet owners that if your animal has walked on any of these products, then the chemicals have already been absorbed by the body via the feet and are in the animal’s organs doing damage.
Some cities have so much pavement it is alarming how little grass, and nature has been left behind for the animals to smell, and utilize. From my perspective, this places an enormous amount of stress on their joints, and ligaments as they are designed for the soft earth, yielding surfaces, not concrete.
Pet owners are in shoes, so we do not understand the impact of walking barefoot constantly on these surfaces. Ideally, it is best for their joints, and ligaments to keep them off pavement period. I imagine walking on these hard surfaces amplify any joint pain, especially if their entire walk is on pavement of any kind.
Please try, and walk your beautiful animal on dirt as much as possible so the animal receives the earth’s energies, grounding them to their home, the planet as so designed.
Please reach out. It would be an honour to help. If of an urgent nature, please call 604.896.1517 to discuss, thank you.
