I've got the recommendations ordered 
I'm hoping I can find accurate dosing information online.
I'm hoping I can find accurate dosing information online.
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Dog with chronic ear issues?
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I didn't even think of looking into essential oils. I'll have to look into that too. And long John with his foot is another good example
Being in animal rescue, I've seen animals come back from unbelievable conditions.We grew up super poor, my family had to shoot our pets when they got sick if they were suffering. It's something I could never do now unless I had no other option. For $150 I can bring them to the vet, in a quiet room, and have them pass away in their sleep with me holding them, then bring them home in a beautiful cremation box. I much prefer that method when life stops being fun for them, I'm a softy.
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The description was exaggerated due to emotion, and the photos look atrocious but were actually of the dog when it was first collected, not today. Hence the misunderstanding.
There is enormous satisfaction in taking a very sick animal and getting it back to health - if you largely did the work yourself and it is your own achievement. On the other hand, if the path to health is through paying massive amounts of money for a vet to heal it, there is little pleasure but only stress over where the money is coming from. We are designed to want to nurture life, ourselves, and to find it one of the most rewarding achievements possible. I'll put a lot of time into nursing sick animals, but would generally put down an animal before incurring massive vet bills over it.
I must be weird, as I love treating flyblown sheep. I find it fascinating to see that there are maggots hiding under that wool somewhere, pour on insecticide, and watch as hundreds of the things emerge from nowhere and wriggle all over the place trying to escape - it's a mystery where they all came from. This is supposed to be one of the worst jobs on the farm but it's actually a lot of fun if you look at it the right way. And if you catch it early enough, the sheep can come from looking atrocious and make a dramatic recovery.
I found some spots of fly last week on some ewes I was cleaning up for sale, so I crutched all my ewes over the past few days to find every other case and treat it before it got bad. It's incredibly satisfying knowing how many I found, and knowing I caught it all early enough to save those animals from a lot of distress.
There is. It's always amazing to me how so many of the dogs overcome such terrible circumstances and still are so happy.
Understandable, especially in a farming situation. Still, there's plenty worse things I could spend money on than my dog. I don't have any other addictions, lol
Yuk, that reminds me, I used to hate getting those bot flies out of my cats. I have a weak stomach but when it comes to pets, I'll just do what it takes to get them well but I really don't like it. Glad you're able to get some satisfaction out of it at least.
There are two exceptions to this.
1. When the price of the animal outweighs the cost of the vet bill (eg, the bull).
2. When the vet visit is a learning experience.
An example of #2. We had a cow that was sick and we didn't know what was causing the symptoms it had. We called the vet to come out to hopefully cure it, but if not, teach us what the problem was so we would know what to look out for in the future. As it turns out, this cow had an incurable disease that was terminal, and so it had to be shot. 6 months later Samuel saw another cow going downhill with the exact same symptoms. He spent no time or money on trying to cure it, knowing exactly what the problem was, and so shot that one too.
Now we know, we've learned, we're better farmers and better at animal husbandry. That was worth the vet bill.
I would hate trying to get anything out of a cat! They're nice when healthy but when doing something like that they'd be a scratching, biting, hissing ball of fury. I don't even like working on dogs. Sheep are far easier because they're stoic, you can do anything with them and they try to pretend not to feel it because a prey animal cannot show weakness.
We had a horrible Siamese cat as a barn cat (only thing it was good for) and it had a hideous case of fleas and ticks. I will post pictures if I can find them. Steve wanted to shoot it and I did too but the kids wanted it 'saved'.
Macy trapped it, fed it a generous dish of Bailey's Irish Cream to sedate it and then we gave it a flea dip and removed the ticks.
Now that is a very helpful tip to file away in the memory! Did it work well?
It must have.
The only thing worse than a feral cat would be a drunk, feral cat.
But get them drunk enough…….
Humans are more important to God than animals, and God loves and created animals. But people are his special creation, the apex of his creation, created to walk and communicate with God. Animals were not and can't be saved, redeemed, etc. As far as we know, they just die and return to dust and natural elements. So comparing the treatment of animals to the treatment of people is kind of a bad comparison.. The point is there is a lower bar about when to save an animal as opposed to when to save a human. I wouldn't go into great debt to save an animal. I would go into debt to save a family member, if that's what it took.
Pets are part of our family.
Totally disagree in a sense. I was always the kind of child who believed that animals should go to heaven and cockroaches to hell. Honestly earth would be far more compelling and heaven would be terribly depressing if it lacked cows, horses, birds, bunnies, dogs, etc. But as blasphemous as that sounds, that's how I feel.
Besides animals too can be good or can be bad, so although they don't walk in communion with God in the way people do, they still are able to reason and make choices, though not on the same level.
I have never gone into debt to save an animal, but I won't consider someone else as just a fool (unless it was going to cost them their home rather than a temporary loss of luxury) for doing so as long as it's not affecting their close family, children, or relationship with their spouse.
I understand that the bar is lower in the treatment of animals, but I can't help it. I'm not a country person, and I'm not one of those city people who believe in putting down every stray. I do view pets and livestock differently. At least theoretically, but I have a hard time putting it into practice now that I own chickens and meat rabbits.
That makes a lot more sense. Still although I raise animals now, I have a hard time with the idea of putting them down unless I can tell that the pain is too much. Even then my one baby bunny with the eye issue was in pain enough I thought it might be better if she died, but God was willing and he blessed her so that she healed relatively quickly and I am grateful.
I might think it's extreme, but I only thought that it was a culture difference rather than a fault. It's a foreign enough idea to me naturally that I wouldn't outright say it is wrong.
This is exactly what I said. I said I wouldn't go into great debt to save an animal. The implication being that it was affecting my family, children, or home by going into such debt, taking money away from taking care of my family.
I would go into debt to save a wife, even if it meant causing temporary hardship and decrease my ability to take care of the home.
It did and the (redacted) cat loved it!
Once it was feeling mellow and not acting like a chainsaw we gave it a bath with the same flea shampoo we use on the dogs and the occasional chickens we take in. The chickens we take in often have chicken lice and mites and a bath in flea dip takes care of that. At this point it's just a rule that new chickens get a bath.
The cats usually don't need a bath but this one was ill and it wasn't going to get any better until the ticks and fleas were gone. It lived with us like four or five years and then disappeared one time. No idea what happened to it.
Maybe they will be there. I don't know that the Bible really says one way or another.
But either way, I guarantee you will not be depressed in heaven. You will be praising and glorifying God forever and have a new body. You won't be depressed and God will give you everything you need.
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He does love animals. Very much and cares for them. I didn't want to give the impression he doesn't. He just loves humans more. So much so that he sent His Son to die for them.God loves the animals too and that's why they occasional eat us.
