HERB - Dogs
Sandy M Koenig
ravensmk at juno.com
Fri Jun 26 17:54:13 PDT 1998
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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