> 05-06-05  06:49, Wayne Chirnside told Cindy Haglund
 > about HELLO!?

 >  How do, Wayne?

 >  ->  WC> As a Staffordshire Bull Terrier his coat requires little
 >  ->  WC> attention and he always looks good.
 >  ->  WC> Getting a bit grey though in the face.

 >  ->  My dogs coats are good too. Just keep them clean and groomed. The
 >  -> garlic can't hurt is what I meant but I was thinkinga bout this more
 >  -> and wond if it's the brewer's yeast that's actually what brings out
 >  -> the luster in the coat.

 >  WC> Clean?
 >  WC> I used to bathe the dog every week or so, now it's more like six
 >  WC> months. House dog, he never gets noticably dirty and I've heard
 >  WC> stripping a dog's body oils can cause skin irritations - conditions.

 > I recall hearing something about an acidic, or baseous
 > soap. (50% chance of guessing right here, but...) We
 > use an acidic formula to dislodge our baseous sweat,
 > (Or vise versa) where other mammals are the opposite.
 > Likewise, our sweat can wreck havoc on all but wool
 > fibre rugs for the same reason. It's the fluctuating
 > change of states in a dogs skin, and on most carpeting
 > that speed up their demise. Of course, I might have
 > heard total crap, so...

I don't know anything about the soap; if I bathe my dog, I use the same
SoftSoap that I use for myself.  In dilute solutions, it kills fleas on
contact, I discovered.  When dogs and cats ingest hair, they can't digest
it. They either throw it up, or pass it through, unchanged by the acidity
and alkalinity of the digestive tract, so perhaps the pH of the sweat is
not the issue, but an appropriate pH that agrees with the skin. Dogs and
cats sweat very little, in any event, which is why they pant when hot.

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