Puppy Update

July 19, 2004

gang, I wanted to give thanks again to all those who gave love

prayers and suggestions, both on list and off regarding the puppies

We went for a followup visit to the vet this morning for both pups and

the visit went VERY well.

Friday i was in a panic because the older male pup (Matoh) seemd to

be getting much worse (healing crisis!) where the younger female

(kuma)seemed to be improving and made an appt for them both to be

seen.

Anyway, Saturay morning, i woke up at 4am because the male was

hacking so bad, and got up to let them out. When i called them back

in, the male would not get up, so i let him be. A couple of hours

later and i had to go find him (in the yard) and had to help him up

and walk with him into the house. He was so weak and clearly lost

about 3 to 5 pounds during the previous week. So i decide more

drastic measure might be in order and got a bit more aggressive in

dosing them.

First, earlier in the week i had already switched both puppies to a

half raw supplement to the existing diet. I mixed raw ground chuck

into their puppy food along with shredded carrot, ground orange peels

and either some egg or powdered egg shell.

Then i made a blend of 2 tsp of raw medicinal honey with 1/2 cap of

astragulus/reishi/miatake, 10 drops of echinacea tincture, 10 drops

of GF Seed ext and 5 drops of lobelia, and 1 tblsp of powdered orange

peels and hand fed this to them (they loved it by the way!) before

breakfast and then mid day and then at night.

Also, we added a little broth to their kibble in order to make

it " salty " in hopes of encouraging additonal water intake (to which

we added Willard Water) and that worked too.

Let me just say, that the imporvement i had from Friday morning until

today is miraculous! The vet took both temperatures and didnt even

treat the male saying it looked like he was recovering just fine and

there was no need to put him on anything what we were doing was

working great!

Most of the info i got was from my natural pet remedies book (who

actually even quote Dr Christopher!) and also getting feedback from

those of you experienced with animals... Anyway, i just had to say

thanks again.

Sylvia

July 22, 2004

Hi Sylvia, I've been "off group" for a few days (things really busy!) but I'm so glad to read this now that I'm trying to catch up!!! That is VERY WELL DONE on handling the puppies situations!

Kelli

Sylvia [h10feet] Monday, July 19, 2004 1:22 PMherbal remedies Subject: Herbal Remedies - Puppy Update

gang, I wanted to give thanks again to all those who gave love prayers and suggestions, both on list and off regarding the puppiesWe went for a followup visit to the vet this morning for both pups andthe visit went VERY well.