I actually don't know the answer to any of that. I know his blood work was fine though, you're right about that.Any rhythm?
Malaria has periodic fever. It could be something like that.
And now you will tell us blood work is fine.
Do dogs have C-reactive protein? Elevation is sign of inflammation.
If nothing else works during diagnosis, I would take drop of blood and put directly under miscroscope directly after taking blood.
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I don't know how good it is. I just know seeing bacteria or parasites in blood isn't goodm
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C-reactive protein is part of standard blood test. It should be there.
I say to throw everything you can at it that is off-the-shelf and affordable. Ivermectin or abamectin (similar and may be more available), coconut oil on the skin, iodine spray in the ears, every herbal and mineral supplement that you can think of - but don't go broke over it, just do all the things you can afford to do. Set a timeframe to see if it is working - say a month. If it's not improving and is still in pain, shoot it - it's just not humane to leave a dog in constant suffering when there is no end in sight.
Speaking as a farmer, please take that as me trying to be practical and helpful in my own way.
Speaking as a farmer, please take that as me trying to be practical and helpful in my own way.
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... if you have livestock, you'll have deadstock.
I'd suspect the dog is reacting to all the roundup residue in the grain/corn in most dog food. We have a 14 year old son who was breaking out with welts/blisters all over the back of his hand. He figured out on his own it was the fig bars from Costco. He reacted tge same to eating marshmallows....gmo sugar beets? The food may be non gmo....but unless it is ORGANIC the grain is sprayed right before harvest.
I also broke out with what I called "blister rash" that resembled poison ivy rash....from eating non organic corn (in livestock feed).
It took me years to figure it out. No issues anymore.
Feeding a dog roadkill is healthier by far.
I also broke out with what I called "blister rash" that resembled poison ivy rash....from eating non organic corn (in livestock feed).
It took me years to figure it out. No issues anymore.
Feeding a dog roadkill is healthier by far.
My vet advised I switch to something without chicken. Lamb or salmon flavor kibble with no red dye or grain. He's been on it for around 6 months and it didn't help. So now I feed him freshpet along with the kibble because at least he likes the taste. What do you feed your dogs?
He's not really "suffering." I was frustrated when I made the post, so it may have appeared more drastic than it is. He has flare-ups. Typically every vet treatment helps "some." But nothing is clearing the problem up. There has to be a reason for it.
Roadkill, rabbits, skinny cows from the livestock auction that no one wants to buy, the neighbor's horses.
Seriously, an internationally known trainer had his training stables close. He shot horses that needed to be put down so there was no toxic anesthetic in the meat. Our boys worked for him cleaning stalls and feeding... and he is from a ranching family with common sense.
Another neighbor had a 17 year old horse with a massive bladder stone and didnt want to afford the surgery. She donated him for the purpose and we put him down calmly and humanely. Another neighbor had a horse colic badly and he put her down. He wanted some of the meat himself...but had out guys process it. He only wanted the choice cuts....our dogs got rmthe rest.
We sometimes buy regular dog food too. Active dog formula with neat as a first ingredient and a high fat content.
I forgot to add, prior to us keeping him, when he was a puppy he was ran over and both his back legs were broken. He has a metal plate in one leg. I asked the vet if this could be an allergy due to the metal in his body and she said it's rare but it's still a possibility.
Oh wow, I didn't think you were serious when you said that at first, lol. I guess it makes sense though. I always cooked for my dogs- chicken, chicken broth and eggs. I didn't realize until recently that most dogs have an allergy to poultry. My last dog was 17 years old though so I guess it didn't bother him.
Feed him just white rice for a couple of weeks. There's absolutely nothing in that for him to react to. If it clears up while he's on rice, he's reacting to something in his food. Then put him back onto real food one by one to find out which he starts reacting to.
We feed our farm dogs a mixture of cheap dog biscuits, raw mutton (old or sick ewes that needed to be put down), and offal (we don't tend to get around to cooking liver, kidney etc so the dogs get most of that when we kill animals for the house). House dogs get cheap dog biscuits, table scraps and boiled mutton (less smelly in the house). But raw is healthier, and simpler. If you do want to feed them poultry, remember dogs can crunch up raw bird bones, but if you cook it you have to remove the bones as they become splintery, so if you just feed it raw you're giving them double the food value for a fraction of the work.
If you go to your local saleyards they're bound to have some small pens where they put the random sheep or goats that had to be removed from the main lines for one reason or another. Most people are paying full price for a pen of 100 animals, you go along and pay a fraction of that for the one that got injured on the truck, or the skinny one that jumped in and wasn't supposed to be there in the first place. Feed that to your dogs. Make sure you give them the offal also, very nutritious. Wild dogs etc will eat the offal out of their kill before they even start on the meat, they know that's the best part.
Thank you for the ideas
He didn't, those photos were from when we first got him. It was dermatitis, but it very much looked like mange. I refused to bring him around our other dog until we got him to the vet because I thought it was mange as well. He's all healed up now
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Dear lord, you’ve shot more horses than I’ve ridden!
Not me personally. Our sons have. I didn't even mention the mean old mule mare we got once. The owner had just had it with her....shot her....then he loaded her into a trailer with a tractor.
Europe has fine horses, in part BECAUSE they eat them. Good use for injured and mean ones. Horses in America are a bit like cows in india.
I wonder why a life of a particular species is valued so differently then another?
Oooh, more likely the fig bars are contaminated with fig leaves.
Severe phytophotodermatitis from fig sap: a little known phenomenon - PMC
A 46-year-old arborist with no medical history presented to the emergency department with a confluent blistering, erythematous, non-pruritic, painful rash covering both arms circumferentially and the back of his neck. He sought medical advice as his ...
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Speaking as a rancher I would agree with Samuel here. It seems insensitive to city folks but I guess being around critters for a living is a different perspective.
One of the measures of our compassion is to realize our limits when it comes to helping in any situation. There are some things that we are powerless to help with. In these cases we minimize the suffering and at the very least we need to make sure we are not prolonging the suffering.
Close to home for me I have seen two people I love die from cancer. While I would have dearly treasured an extra day with either Christie or Steve I am not so selfish that I would have denied them their peace even that one more day. Both of them were in horrible pain at their end and even the morphine wasn't helping very much with Steve.
Sometimes we pray for healing and sometimes we pray for mercy.
In any case we should always pray for and seek God's Will and then pray for and seek the wisdom to accept it.
Hugs.
Personally, I think putting down a dog for periodical ear issues is a little extreme. I mean it's a pet and has been getting better overall.
I guess I always just put myself in that position, and I think I probably would have been put down years ago due to my health.
Rashes and infections can be weird to deal with. I don't feel like there is generally an end all be all solution. Everything is so dependent on the circumstances.
I guess here are a couple examples of times I had to deal with crazy rashes and infections and what worked:
A couple years ago this rash I periodically have had on my face for many years, got extremely bad. It was depressing and it hurt, it peeled, it was oily, it itched, and there was just nothing I could do. I tried everything. Turns out it was from a soap allergy, but because my dairy allergy had flared as well my body just wasn't handling anything. I had to stop eating dairy, stop using soap, and apply hydrogen peroxide and when that dried put a mixture of coconut and oregano oil on my face. After six months of just doing that, and not even rinsing my face with water, my skin got very smooth and clean. I even had people (who hadn't seen me in a year) tell me that my skin looked better than it ever had before and asked what I did.
Now I don't know what kind of essential oils can be used on dogs and what can't. But it might be worth it to try something like that. And it's good to back out of different foods that might cause him to have other issues and allow for the flare ups.
I also at one point had a baby bunny who was prone to getting eye infections. While I had to leave for a trip, she happened to get an infection. When I came home I started treating it right away, but at some point her body started reacting not just poorly but adversely to any medication, neosporin, and just anything to help her eye. And it got insanely bad. So I prayed for her, and my mom suggested I just wash her eye with only water. So for a few weeks I did just that twice a day and it finally got better.
I don't know if either of these examples could be helpful but anything is worth a try for a few weeks.
I guess I always just put myself in that position, and I think I probably would have been put down years ago due to my health.
Rashes and infections can be weird to deal with. I don't feel like there is generally an end all be all solution. Everything is so dependent on the circumstances.
I guess here are a couple examples of times I had to deal with crazy rashes and infections and what worked:
A couple years ago this rash I periodically have had on my face for many years, got extremely bad. It was depressing and it hurt, it peeled, it was oily, it itched, and there was just nothing I could do. I tried everything. Turns out it was from a soap allergy, but because my dairy allergy had flared as well my body just wasn't handling anything. I had to stop eating dairy, stop using soap, and apply hydrogen peroxide and when that dried put a mixture of coconut and oregano oil on my face. After six months of just doing that, and not even rinsing my face with water, my skin got very smooth and clean. I even had people (who hadn't seen me in a year) tell me that my skin looked better than it ever had before and asked what I did.
Now I don't know what kind of essential oils can be used on dogs and what can't. But it might be worth it to try something like that. And it's good to back out of different foods that might cause him to have other issues and allow for the flare ups.
I also at one point had a baby bunny who was prone to getting eye infections. While I had to leave for a trip, she happened to get an infection. When I came home I started treating it right away, but at some point her body started reacting not just poorly but adversely to any medication, neosporin, and just anything to help her eye. And it got insanely bad. So I prayed for her, and my mom suggested I just wash her eye with only water. So for a few weeks I did just that twice a day and it finally got better.
I don't know if either of these examples could be helpful but anything is worth a try for a few weeks.