Cavandra

ALL Vets can do it, it is only a simple blood test, it gets sent to a Lab in Perth to be tested. Ring your Vet & if they act dumb tell them to find out which Lab it is & what the procedure is before you get there.........trouble is they will try to over quote for it, it is normal pathology, and should be no more than that!

Give her some Rescue Remedy or a shot of Brandy, keep her warm & stop the bleeding (Styptic pen at the chemist). Just pull the nail off & put some Betadine on it, she will likely limp for a few days, just bath it & keep it clean & disinfected, the nail will just grown back in time. Some people like to cover the hole with "liquid bandaids" but I think you wouldnt want to trap infection in there. My girl did this not that long ago, blood everywhere nail completely gone, but I actually had to cut it today, so it didnt take too long to grow back & is normal (some grow back thinner, smaller, shorter than they once were for some reason)

Pestrol indoor Robocan

If anyone would like more reading on understanding Vaccine & the damage they can cause to our dogs by over doing it, I have a page dedicated to the subject on my Website Dr Jean Dodds when spoken to recently by a friend says that 3 yearly is unneccessay also, but is a compromise situation. She would rather see our dogs Titered & only vaccinated when/if the dog ever needs it........and most dogs never need it!

Some can be deadly!

Maybe you should just get one of those electronic pest control devices. Fleas are rampant this year. Have your house & yard professionally sprayed too. Pestrol or Robocan, have been discussed recently on other lists saying they work.

Your Vet is following very old protocols that have been proven to be wrong by the experts in the field along time ago. The reason drug companies have brought out the "new" 3 yearly vaccine is stop everyone from having a hernia over finally realising just how "ripped off" most pet owners have been for a very long time LOL Vaccinations last a lifetime in a dog in most cases. There is absolutley no reason whatsoever to vaccinate a dog annually!!!! They only end up causing your dog harm in one way or another. Dr Jean Dodds is now recommending that after a puppy has had correctly admisnistered puppy shots 8-10 weeks being the first one,followed by another 2, then she recommends the dog never has another vaccine again, Titer tests will prove the dog is immune, and she recommends you titer every other year if you feel inclined not to believe, and re vaccinate only if it ever happens the dogs levels drop for some reason....Some dogs can never get immunity no matter if you jabbed it every month, and many people falsely get around in public thinking their dogs are covered due to having every vaccine under the sun, yet they are not, and never will be immune as the vaccines dont work on some dogs at all. Titer Tests are the only way to prove your dog is immune, and means a thousand times more than your vaccination card, all Training Clubs, Boarding kennels etc have to accept a Titer test result instead of a vaccination card. I cant tell you how much Titers are as Vets can charge whatever they like, as they do for everything now, but it is a simple blood test that goes to pathology in WA, and should not cost more than a vaccination in theory. The more people do this the cheaper they will become also....Most Vets will just look at you blankly if you ask for titers to be done, and really it is a worry that so many Aussie Vets are so behind the rest of the world , I think it is more because they make so much $$$$ in vaccines, it is a HUGE mark up, and they dont want to lose that revenue, as I said that is what the 3 yearly one has been brought out for, so Vets can charge 3 times the amount for it & not be out of pocket LOL.........It is a compromise, far better than annual ones, but still unneccessary for your dog!

Yes Neem is probably best, but like all natural products like essential oils etc, most are no safe to use on pregnant bitches. And they all need to be reapplied many times, nothing lasts longer than a day or half a day really Most economical is to buy a bottle & make it into a spray bottle yourself, Neem wont mix with water so you have to mix it with a bit of shampoo first then fill the bottle with water. One that works but as I say you have to keep reapplying:- 100mls pet comfort oil 15 ml wheatgerm oil 20ml olive oil 50ml grapeseed oil 4 drops cedarwood oil 10 drops pennyroyal oil 5 drops lemongrass oil 5 drops Lavendar oil 4 drops Rosemary oil 4 drops Tea tree oil 1/2 eye dropper of Hyssop tincture You can add 1 teaspoon of this to a rinse water after a bath, wash all bedding & add a teaspoon of this ot the rinse water too. You can apply the oil to the dog anywhere but of course it will make the coat oily! You can put it at teh base of the tail, behind the ears etc. Pennyroyal is a good one for fleas.

Perhaps they taped the tube that side, and when removing the tube & tape the hair came too, or allergic to the surgical tape used????

Not sure why you would complain about the pup being vaccinated at 8 weeks, pups are meant to be done at 8-10 weeks, NOT 6 weeks. You cant avoid Parvo it is potentially everywhere, car tyres, flies, clothing etc etc etc.........Usually it will start at the local "pound/shelters" or sometimes boarding kennels , some kennels are also the local "pound" for eg......... If your dog has been vaccinated correctly & it has immunity there is not a problem, however the only way to know if your dog has immunity is to do a Titer test (blood test), just because a dog has injections, doesnt mean it worked! Usually they dont work as people vaccinate too young for a start. Then over vaccinate by giving it every year unneccessarily making their dog less immune & their immune system stressed & compromised.

Thanks Settlvr...........no wonder I feed BARF ..LOL Scary stuff!

Gosh Its been years since anyone has mentioned Ethoxyquin, surely companies are not syill using it??? I know Eukanuba did/does.......what do they put it on the label as? For those not familiar with it , it is used/was used to preserve dog foods, but it is also used to make RUBBER .......Can cause lots of problems in a dog, auto immune disorders in the main.

Do you know the cause of your dogs epilepsy problem? things that can cause seizures are vaccines, especially the annual heartworm vaccine. If your dog has been having annual vaccine like this perhaps you can detox your dog & see a Holistic Vet to advise you of diet,supplements & how to detox all the chemicals from your dogs system. Perhaps you will have no more seizures & a healthy liver

Grains & cereals, rice, pasta all cereals can cause itching, and is in most commercial dog foods. Change your water to purified not tap water. Give Kelp & apple cider vinegar every day. Is she desexed? if not could be hormonal. Give Evening Primrose oil & Fish oil capsules twice a day Build up of annual vaccine can cause allergy symptoms, usually starts about age 4-5. Holistic Vet is the way to go IMO

Perhaps that is what the law suit was all about then in that case.

Vaccines dont work on many dogs, and owners take them out in public all the time presuming they are "covered" but often it is not the case at all. Over vaccination of a dog is very harmful, and I wouldnt advise giving it. I am quite sure your Vet will disagree however, as most wont admit how dangerous vaccines can be & the long term problems they can cause. The only way to know if Vaccinations work on your dogs is to have it titer tested (blood test), if it has no immunity it is hardly worth vaccinating at all, as on some dogs they simply dont work . Same as puppy shots, until the dog has had a vaccination on an adult immune system they really arent covered, alot of vaccinated pups get Parvo as they were given their injections too young (6 weeks of age is common, yet VERY wrong)...........a friends Rotti is dead from Parvo a few months back, he was 11 months old having had 6,12 & 16 week C5's.......

BARF is owned by Billinghurst, it is trademarked and we are not exactly allowed to call a raw diet "Barf"...He has sued or was sueing someone many years ago over his name being used to describe a raw diet, I never heard the outcome of it.

It has been a number of years now, Billinghurst brought them out to the American market first, and now they are available here too. I dont use them, and couldnt afford them even if I wanted to feed them, very expensive! My dogs get 60% bones like chicken carcas, wings, necks (chick, turkey, lamb), mine get a mush meal once or twice a week I spose, but I very much feed to what he originally advocated before "selling out" & contradicting himself in these "balanced patties"..........Balance over time (time being approx 10 days)

Up to 2 weeks

I am not sure why a blue eye would have 50% chance of going blind?? There are few (VERY rare) Liver coloured Cavaliers in the world & they have blue eyes, but dont go blind. One of my first ponies had blue eyes, and he was alot of things but he wasnt blind! Siberian Huskies can have blue eye/s also. I know a baby puppy due to injury the eye was removed (about 8 wks old), and she was as happy as larry, is completely normal in every way, and another born with cataracts in both eyes, is slightly wary of new things, but otherwise no one would know he was almost blind, and he is very active & playful, and never hurts himself etc. Dogs least important sense is sight, smell is far more important to them. Excuse my ignornace, but was is an AB? and has this pup got demodex running up between his eyes? looks like it from the pics all the hair is seperated like there is a skin itch thing going on............

Yes Ive used them for many years without any problem . I buy Large dog & break them into quarters to do 4 small dogs from 1 tablet. Valuheart is scored into 4 which is a bonus.

I dont wash my own show dogs in a Hydrobath, they dont even get pet bathed in one, a far better job is done in the laundry tub if you ask me! I think alot of salons wash the small /mediums/youngsters in a tub/bath rather than a hydrobath, a Salon I was in washed all the large breeds in a hydrobath, soaped them up big time then transferred them to a human bath for rinsing & conditioning/protein treatments etc...........If I was in a salon now I doubt I would use my Hydrobath, but I am forced to being Mobile.

Yes Hormones are not used in Australia, it was banned years ago, so cant compare to American stats on chicken really.

I feed about 60% of their diet RMB, being chicken necks, occassionally turkey necks, chicken carcas/backs, lamb necks or whatever small bones i can find. I cant feed a whole animal to mine as they are too small a dog & would get fat. But I have heard of people buying feeder mice to feed their dogs, but I am not "into " that LOL Mine get offal like chicken livers/giblets, lamb hearts, brains or whatever I can get, they have that a couple of times a week, sardines/mackeral maybe once a week. an egg maybe evey week to 10 days, mine get very little in the way of fruit & veg as I dont consider it important at all. I do like using herbs though as dogs will crop the herbs/alfalfa etc as they go along I feed human grade meats.........apart from chicken mince which my butcher does for me at the end of the week & grinds whole carcasses for me., I also have a standard order through my butcher of chicken necks each week that come straight from the factory & are very fresh......... I use supplements as I see fit, when they need something extra for a reason, things like yoghurt, yakult, cottage cheese I use occassionally when they are cheap, mashed pumpkin for upsets tummys, flax seed oil a coupel of times a week I suppose, kelp, ACV.........There is nothing scientific about the way I feed I just feed as I feel inclined, I have no schedule of days they get this or that, they are all in peak condition.

trichinosis is a food bourne bacteria that comes from roundworms in the animal (pig, cow etc) This bacteria is killed through cooking before eating or freezing the meat for 3 weeks before eating raw. I freeze ALL my meat & bones before feeding them to my dogs, not just pork. I rarely feed it as it is too fatty & can be too rich for them , even dried pigs trotters etc can set their tummy's off