-=> PETER COGGON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

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 PC> Hello Wayne.,

 -=> Quoting Wayne Chirnside to Peter Coggon <=-

 PC>  A posting here dexamethasone was mentioned

 WC> I should mention I used HALF the dosage prescribed as I found that
 WC> sufficient and I broke that half dosage into two doses per day.

 PC> I haven't seen the dog's medical staff, as yet to determine which
 PC> might work for him.

 PC> non-steroid METACAM.  37mg first time, then ease back
 PC> to his level, which is about 20mg on his food.

 PC> As he is now.   I had some skin disease, I think he
 PC> picked up last year swimming in the lake.   No more
 PC> swimming there.

 WC> I'd have tried some bleach say 3 -4 ounces to a tub full of water.
 WC> I've cleared several fungal infections on myself as well as other
 WC> skin rashes this way dead in their tracks.

 PC> I still have not checked my notes where I got the formula right
 PC> what worked for him.  Saw some really dumb ones like gasoline.

 PC> I'll have to see, if anyone I checked with mentioned bleach.

 WC> Never used it on the dog however as he'd never had a skin rash.

 PC> Wasn't a rash.  It was a fungus, and rot and his hair was disappearing
 PC> at an alarming rate.   I only really got on it, when my wife went
 PC> on vacation and I had lots of time to really get at it.

Well I used to work installing cable T.V., not the house drops but the initial
Saint Petersburg trunk coax sweating up a storm.

I got fungal infections, bleach in the bath water took it right out,
on several occassions it cropped up.

 PC> Skin rashs are easy.   I can not remember him having it too....but
 PC> with this fungus, I noted neighbours too were plagued and I gave
 PC> them my forumla and it seems to have cleared them up...One neighbour
 PC> however seems to not to care, his dog is almost bald.

 WC> I used Iams for less active dogs to acheive the same result, beef
 WC> flavor only. Spanky wouldn't touch the lamb flavor.

 PC> I make my own.   We have enough left over chicken and rice to get this,
 PC> and if I need to change then burger mixed with rice also works.   I am
 PC> not sure if mine will touch lamb, never tried.  He is now into
 PC> veggies so I give him a good dose there cooking them and keeping the
 PC> liquid as a covering, as he seems to like it.

 WC> You say Rottie Staffordshire mix?
   >
 WC> Here's a real health tip for teeth that absolutely eliminated my
 WC> British Staffordshire Bull Terrier's dental cleaning requirements
 WC> passed along to me by another owner of large dogs.

 PC> Have not got that problem.   His teeth are good to go as the vet says.
 PC> I think it is because like you I don't feed him that mush in a can.
 PC> And he gets things that clean his teeth that he enjoys.

 WC> I'd purchase at least ten pounds of turkey necks from the meat market
 WC> each month for the last 5 - 6 years of my Pit's life feeding them to
 WC> him raw after defrosting overnight in the fridge compartment rather
 WC> than freezer having been individually frozen in those cheap
 WC> fold over sandwich bags.
   >
 WC> Oh yeah, I cut them in half as well.
   >
 WC> It's important you do not cook them as that embrittles the cartilage
 WC> and can cause damage and poses no health threat to large dogs as
 WC> all dogs are immune to salmanella
   >
 WC> Spanky's teeth were near pearly white in just about a month and boy
 WC> did  he look forward to those as treats.
   >
 WC> Prior to this I was looking at an expensive vet dental bill for
 WC> a teeth cleaning but this was way cheaper, more effective
 WC> due to an enzyme in turkey cleaning off all that brown plaque.

 PC> Hmmm...interesting but no ... I'll pass......his teeth are white
 PC> enough for his age. After all he has been thru he is lucky to reach
 PC> this age.

 WC> It's not a red meat so it doesn't raise the level of aggression red
 WC> meat  might have done with a Pit Bull.
   >
 WC> Boy he'd rip through them in under three minutes every time!
   >
 WC> And it's obvious he could count as I served them every two days
 WC> and he knew that and didn't bother me for one on alternate days.
   >
 WC> Some days I teased him just a bit for a short while
 WC> and he'd invariably look from me to the refrigerator and back
 WC> several times over and at that he knew it was a game because in this
 WC> case he didn't give me that hey retard, catch on look I mentioned in a
 WC> previous post.

 PC> Aaah red meat.   I don't even see him chew it.   Gone in seconds.

Yeah well on occassions I'd eat steak I'd toss him a bite or two, I'd swear
it vanished before he got to it.

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