Eye Out of Socket
The eyeballs are tightly anchored in sockets of protective bone, and tension from the eyelids holds them in place. But a blow to the head or a fight with another animal can cause a cat’s or dogs eye to pop out. This is especially common in flat-faced dogs such as pekingese and Shih Tzus because their eye sockets are so shallow. A displaced eyeball looks awful-it usually remains attached and just protrudes, although trauma such as a car accident can force it out so it lies upon the cheek-but it isn’t life-threatening.
Protect the injured eye. An eye that’s out of the socket must be treated by a veterinarian. Before leaving the house, place a gauze pad or lint-free cloth that’s been soaked with lukewarm sterile saline.
BRUSH*BRUSH*BRUSH*
Reduce tartar build up by brushing or wiping the gum line daily. Chewing on raw bones, bully sticks, toys also help reduce tartar build up. Noticing a brown film on your dog or cats teeth? Look in your pets mouth often to prevent gum issues that may cause health issues.
No Quibble with Kibble
If you’e still deciding whether you want to change the way you feed your dogs, don’t worry. There are lots of people out there who, for a variety of reasons, aren’t willing to switch completely to a raw or home-cooked diet. They might be uncomfortable with this new way of feeding, or feel they don’t have the time, money, or the expertise to do it every day. So with that in mind, let’s take a look at simple ways you can improve your dogs nutrition by supplementing his or her current processed diet with fresh foods.
Ground Beef, Beef heart and liver, pork, lamb, chicken, turkey, goat, mackerel sardines or salmon (canned), eggs, whole-milk, cottage cheese, can be feed to you dogs.
Carrot Seed…
Carrot seed is a valuable oil for use in skin care, particularly animals with dry, flaky skin that is sensitive to allergens and prone to infection. The oil is extracted from the seeds of the carrot plant and it smells nothing like carrots themselves. Contrary to popular belief, it is not produced from the seeds of bright orange carrots that you buy in the grocery store. The seed oil has a unique characteristic scent that is warm, nutty, herbal and intensely earthy all at the same time. Some find the scent comforting and pleasing, while others dislike it. Regardless, this is an excellent oil to add to any blend dealing with first aid, healing, scarring or skin conditions.
Healing with Whole Foods……
Whole Foods and Exercise: Highly processed foods such as refined sugars and flours also upset the metabolism. These devitalized foods are deficient in the vitamins, minerals, and enzymes necessary for regulating glandular secretion and proper digestion. Whole foods, therefore, are preferable. Moderate regular exercise is also essential for a smooth flow of blood and energy through the body, and for overcoming the stagnancy of excess weight. Fat and muscle are often shed at an equal rate during weight loss, and exercise helps the body maintain its muscle mass, thereby protecting the heart and other muscles from deterioration.
Before and After
Before and After shots of teeth that were cleaned without Anesthesia.
HOT SPOTS
Cats rarely get hot spots, but dogs, especially thickly furred breeds like golden retrievers and Chow Chows. often develop red, wet sores that make their skin look like raw hamburger. Hot spots, known technically as moist pyotraumatic dermatitis, are caused by a wide range of things. Usually, a bug bite, tiny sore, or scratch in the skin begins to itch, the dog stats licking and chewing, bacteria start to grow, and the sore spreads incredibly fast. It can go from the size of a pinprick to several inches within 30 minutes, and if left untreated, it can grow 20 times larger in a single day. Hot spots look awful, and they may be extremely painful. But they involve only the very top layer of skin and healquickly with first aid.
Trim the fur around the sore. First apply K-Y Jelly to the spot. Once you’ve trimmed the fur, clean the sore. Any water based cleanser is fine, but any antiseptic liquid soap like Betadine Skin Cleanser is best. Make sure to rinse off the cleanser, or the irritation may become worse when the soap scum dries on the skin. Pat area dry. Medicate with an antibacterial spray or cream that dries up the sore, like a 5% benzoyl peroxide product such as Clean & Clear Persa – Gel 5, which is found at drugstores and supermarkets. No ointments or Alcohol on hot spots, because it seals the infection deeper into the skin and is too strong for open wounds and is painful.
Enhancing the Immune System
THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IS A NETWORK OF CELLS AND ORGANS that defends the body against attacks by foreign invaders. The cells communicate with each other through proteins called cytokines to mount a defensive attack. The body is mainly being defended against what are popularly called germs or microbes (bacteria,yeast, protozoan, and viruses). Because the mammalian body provides an ideal environment (warmth and moisture) for many microbes, they tend to multiply easily and rapidly in the body if the immune system has been unable to keep them out or destroy them. symptoms or illness may arise directly from the actions of the pathological organisms, from the immune system activities called upon to fight them, and /or both.
The immune systems is amazingly complex. Every time we solve a problem, two more question arise. The immune system must recognize dozens of different enemies and then produce secretions and “killer” cells to match up with and wipe out each one of them. But it gets even trickier: the immune system must produce this response only when the enemy is present; otherwise, the immune system would be draining energy and building up secretions continuously.
Milk Thistle (Silybum Marianum)
Milk thistle has been used for centuries as an herbal medicine for the treatment of liver disease. The active constituent in milk thistle is silymarin, a mixture of three flavolignans. Silybin is the most biologically active flavonoid in silymarin. Therapeutically, milk thistle acts by protecting liver cells from toxic damage, boosting glutathione concentrations, and regenerating normal liver cells. Milk thistle is also a potent free radical scavenger. In humans, milk thistle has been used clinically for a number of conditions including alcoholic liver diseased, hepatitis, amanita mushroom poisoning, and skin disease. Silymarin has also shown to enhance liver detoxification by by inhibition of Phase I detoxification while enhancing glucuronidation. One of the most important aspects of this herb is that it slows down or even reverses the formation of fibrosis (scar tissue) in the liver. This is my main herbal treatment in liver disease.
Muscle Terminology
Skeletal muscles do not work in isolation. Each muscle is attached to bony processes or sheets of connective tissue. All voluntary muscles are somehow associated with the skeletal system. The muscles to bone attachment at which the muscle begins is called the origin and the site at which it ends is it’s insertion. The origin is usually proximal and attaches to the less moveable bone, while the insertion is distal and attaches to the more moveable bone. Therefore, when a muscle contracts, the insertion moves toward the origin. For example, the deltoid muscle in the shoulder of the humerus. When this muscle contracts, the more move able it’s insertion on the humerus. When this muscle contracts, the more moveable insertion moves toward the origin and pulls the humerus toward the scapula.
Almost all skeletal muscles either originate or insert on the skeleton and many like the deltoid, have both their origin and insertion on bone. Contraction of the deltoid flexes the shoulder. It is the job of another muscle or group of muscles to extend the shoulder or to produce an opposite action. For example, the teres minor is one of the muscles that extends the shoulder. Similarly, abductors and adductors work in opposition of each other. The concept of muscles working to produce movement in opposite directions allows dogs to move their joints in both directions.
