I've been asked how I give Kali the apricot seeds, so I'm putting that info on this page. Please be sure to read up on apricot seeds and laetrille - I put more info on THIS PAGE.
While I have heard of some dogs eating the seeds, and I've been able to get Kali to eat a couple of seeds herself, it's WAY easier, faster and more efficient for me to just blend them in a blender, then mix it with manuka honey (which I wrote about on this page... it's loaded with health benefits and also helps with fungating tumors).
Keep in mind that it's probably best to START SLOW. The first day, I just gave her one seed. The next day it was 1 1/2 seeds (I started out crushing them with a mortar and pestle). The next day I think it was 3, and then 6. If it's too much at once, your dog will likely throw them up as a gift for going too fast (ask me how I know this, lol). Now I just blend them with a blender and give 1 tsp in the AM, 1 in the evening (more details below how I do this).
This is the type I bought (a one pound bag)
https://amzn.to/4p0Sq83
I decided to shoot for giving Kali 12 seeds a day, based on a review I read, where a woman said she gave her labrador seeds in the morning, and 6 at night. You can see the review
HERE, and more on
THIS PAGE (if you scroll down). I should mention, the seeds can be different sizes and I don't know how big those were. I noticed when I got my recent order of seeds, they seemed to be quite a bit smaller than the last batch, but hopefully it doesn't matter since the bag was still a pound.
Yesterday I blended half the bag I just ordered.
When I first made it in a blender, I put a week's worth into this small jar, but it's easier to blend a little more than that at a time. Note: I don't know this for sure but I know certain seeds, like flax and chia seeds, can start to go rancid or lose their potency once you blend them. That's why I didn't blend the whole bag at once, but I think it's probably OK to do a 2 week batch at a time. Might be best to keep this in the fridge.
This is what it looks like up close after I blend it in a nutribullet or Vitamix. Half a bag of seeds fits pretty nicely in a half gallon sized ziploc bag. I might switch to a jar when I can find one the right size.
Now that I've got the seeds blended, I can just measure the same exact amount at every feeding. I estimated that six seeds come out to about one rounded teaspoon. I've been giving her one spoonful in the morning (mixed with manuka honey and astragalus root powder), and she gets another feeding at night.
I put a spoonful of the apricot seed in a small bowl or dish, and blend it with about a teaspoon of manuka honey, some astragalus powder I blended myself (or you could order it from Amazon), and then I add a little water (maybe a teaspoon) to make it like a paste that's like the consistency of a dip. Then, I just grab pieces of rotisserie chicken and feed it to her like that. And she WOOFS IT DOWN.
It looks like this after it's blended up. I can't remember if I'd added the astragalus powder in this batch but it doesn't look much different. One reason I started giving it to her like this is, the apricot powder and astragalus were kind of clogging the syringe I use to give Kali her other nightly supplements, so it's easier to just give these to "chunkier" supplements as a dipping sauce, and she seems to love it. Probably loves the chicken more than the sauce, but she still has a big smile when she eats it, so I'll keep doing it.
There were times when I was swamped and missed the AM dose, and just added it to the PM dose (so, 2 rounded teaspoons) and she didn't show any negative reaction. Your dog may be different, though, so whenever you increase a dose, it's best to GO SLOW.
DON'T MAKE THIS MISTAKE
I recently had an instance where I pushed it a little too far, and gave her too much, and she threw it up. I took this risk after hearing Jason Vale had instructed a guy to give them to his shepherd even if he throws them up, so I figured, if I give too much to Kali, she'll throw it up... and she DID. Her mouth started watering about 45 minutes later and next thing you know... BLECH.... right in my car. She sure showed me not to do that again!! She was fine, but that was a good lesson, it made her uncomfortable and it was a lot of chicken and supplements wasted. So please learn from my mistakes and don't do that. This is a picture of the amount I gave her. You can see the honey on the bottom, the astragalus powder in the middle, and two heaping tablespoons on the sides. I think she MIGHT be able to tolerate this much at some point in the future, but it was jus way too much at once.
I turned to Chat GPT to try to calculate how many apricot seeds are in a 1 pound bag, and I think the answer was around 450 to 500. If I'm giving 12 seeds a day, that means one bag should last about 40 days. That's cheaper than other things I've been using.
Hope this helps! If you find that this is helping your dog, please feel free to share your story with me via the "contact me" section on the top right side of the blog.
