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...ruins, and almost 100 police, soldiers and civilians dead, among them the republic's Interior Ministry leadership. Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed for years that the war in Chechnya was over; last week, a new front opened up in Ingushetia. Until 2002 Ingushetia's President, Afghanistan war vet Ruslan Aushev, kept his republic out of the Chechen crossfire. He was sympathetic to the Chechens, even offering guerrillas medical treatment. He refused to send Ingush paramilitary police to Chechnya. In April, though, Aushev was replaced at Moscow's instigation by a former Russian Federal Security Service general, Murat Zyazikov...
...that would eventually take over his life. Heading several veterinary practices in western Sydney, he noticed that the mouths of most of his cat and dog patients were in terrible shape - full of blood, pus and loose teeth. Periodontal disease was not a term he could recall hearing at vet school. He knew that many people, including vets, thought the natural state of cats' and dogs' mouths was repulsive. But something told Lonsdale that what he was seeing needed investigating...
...gnawing on raw, meaty bones cleaned the teeth and kept the problem at bay." Lonsdale suspected that periodontal disease wasn't merely unpleasant for the animals; rather it was infecting other bodily systems and causing some of the illnesses for which Fido and Fluffy were being brought to the vet in the first place...
...Lonsdale's urging, western Sydney breeder Leah Ryan switched her 10 to 20 collies from processed food to mainly meaty bones 17 years ago. The change, she says, slashed her vet bills from $A1,000 a month to zip: "I've not had a sick dog since." Lonsdale says a natural diet slightly increases the life span of most breeds of cat and dog, but more significant is the improvement to their quality of life. "Instead of being miserable they'll be healthy, then fall off the perch abruptly...
Lonsdale, who set out his theory in a self-published 2001 book, Raw Meaty Bones, gives the impression he could discuss pet food all day. "He's obsessive because he's been made a figure of fun," says a friend and former vet. "Being tiresome doesn't make him wrong." Lonsdale believes his ideas could have implications for human medicine: if this diet can reverse illness in animals, he says, "we should be finding out what the factors are" and seeing if they can be applied to people. No one expects the A.V.A. expulsion to do anything but embolden...