HERB - Dogs
Sandy M Koenig
ravensmk at juno.com
Wed Jun 17 02:51:42 PDT 1998
Yes, I understand pedigree dogs have more health problems. My dogs are
Heinz 57, probably with all 57 breeds. I don't have a problem with my
dogs' skin getting too oily, seems to be just right. Good luck with
yours, anyway. I know it's heartbreaking to see them like that.
Perhaps you could try finding a holistic vet.
Raven
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:21:28 -0400 mermayde at juno.com (Christine A
Seelye-King) writes:
>
>>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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