HERB - Dogs

[Lyn Greaves]

Try the AKC web site.  I don't know the addy, but a friend of mine (whose
mother breeds pugs) might be able to help.  Try her at lmegan at bellsouth.net
Lyn Greaves
Lady Rosamund d'Alwareton
     OM, OTerp, OSalamander
Thorny Rose
-----Original Message-----
From: Christine A Seelye-King <mermayde at juno.com>
To: herbalist at Ansteorra.ORG <herbalist at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 10:32 AM
Subject: HERB - Dogs


>
>>DR. PITCAIRN'S COMPLETE GUIDE TO NATURAL HEALTH FOR DOGS AND CATS
> using Dog Chow or Pedigree mixed with "human" food, plus
>vegetable oil supplements, chicken skin, hamburger grease. >
>
>It is a good book, I have it and some others.  I have tried the oil
>additive diet, and the results are she gets extremely oily skin, but no
>relief.  She gets so oily that she is almost slick to touch.  (Yuck) I
>finally took her off of the lamb and rice diet for this reason, and the
>fact that our pit-beagle was putting on way too much weight due to
>cross-bowl feeding.
> And it's not just skin.  She has a chronic problem with her ears,
>which I can eventually clear up with salicyllic acid liquid.  She also
>gets eye gunk when that's flaring up, but that is pretty easy to see the
>connection, and when the ears are better, so are the eyes.  I have
>learned that these are genetic problems inherited from one of the
>original 8 sharpeis used for breeding in the United States.  One of the 8
>had what was described as "an excruciating skin disease",  which seems
>pretty well descriptive of the problem Jester faces.  (She was a
>foundling, someone saw her sitting at at bus stop in Macon, Ga, and
>brought her to Fool's War to find her a home. )  She is a sweet dog, and
>very smart, and it just hurts our hearts to see her suffer during the
>summertime so.  She's about 5 1/2, and this stuff gets worse every year.
>Anybody else have any suggestions?
> Yours in service to the Canine Americans in my household,
> Christianna
>
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