(excerpts from “Beating Arthritis and Beating Osteoporosis” by Dr Rex E. Newnham) 

Animals also develop arthritis and this is often associated with ageing. But the older animal, in common with the older person, eats less of everything and this means that when a certain mineral is a limiting factor in it’s well-being, insufficient amounts of that mineral is being taken in and the disease can develop. Too much fertiliser will tend to reduce the level of trace minerals in all food. Horses, dogs, cattle, sheep and deer all get arthritis when on a poor diet and they have all been cured with boron supplements. 

Veterinarians believe that arthritis in sheep is the result of an Erysipelas infection. It is more likely that the Erysipelas bacteria proliferate in the sheep that are receiving poor nutrition, because of an impaired immune system, and this in turn is the cause of the arthritis. All these animals tend to respond to the recommended mineral supplement. Normally when an animal starts to limp with arthritis or from injury the owner very quickly sends it to the butcher, before it becomes seriously lame. This eating of meat from less than healthy animals does not help us to good health. 

Sometimes a third of all lambs in a season will develop arthritis. Older cattle, horses and dogs that have worked hard for some years develop arthritis and this is easily corrected, by using the same method as recommended for humans.