Old Faithful is our collie. He joined our family when he was about six years old. It took him only a short time before he assumed it was his job to protect Laughing Water and Mr. Blueberry Eyes. He is a sweet dog, but will take on anything he perceives to be a threat to the perfect tranquility of the family. If the neighbor's black lab comes, Old Faithful deftly keeps himself between Blackie and the children. Or the adults, for that matter.
So it was with some anxiety that we discovered that his left eye was rolling back in his head with some unidentifiable pain. The vet put him on antibiotics. He was also diagnosed with a kind of benign tumor on his gums that manifests itself like a severe gingivitis. He is convalescing in the house while the snow piles up outside.
The cost for helping his gums is astronomical, with really not much promise of helping. So we are trying some natural remedies. So far we are using colloidal silver and grape fruit seed extract. Any other ideas out there?
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Hi Nan,
It is so sad to see them getting old. My dog is not even near old. She is about 7 years old but just lately her skin began to peal off in great chunks from spots on her back and her snout. If you touched her she would be in pain. I do not have the money to bring her to the vet so natural remedies has to suffice. I bathed her in borax, vinigar and Grapefruit seed extract and didn't rinse it off. After one particular bath she got really sick, I think, from licking the borax off herself. I felt bad! So now I have just been mixing Grapefruit seed extract with regular cooking oil and rubbing it on her sores. The skin has grown back and the hair is starting to grow in again. I must keep up with the regime. That's the hard part. Best of luck for your dog too.
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