HERB - Dogs

[Sandy M Koenig]

I suppose that can be done for fairly short haired dogs as well?

On Fri, 26 Jun 1998 07:10:44 EDT Lughnasa at aol.com writes:
>In a message dated 98-06-16 10:29:18 EDT, you write:
>
>> 
>>  >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
>>  
>    Another thing that helps is yearly shearing.  It kind of weirds 
>them out
>the first time or two, but they love it once they realise how much 
>cooler they
>are.
>
>Kris
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